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State hospital doctors will be going on a 48-hour strike at the end of the month, Pasyki union announced on Wednesday after another failed attempt to clinch a deal with ...

Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades on Tuesday promised that the highway connecting Paphos and Polis Chrysochous will be ready within the next three years, as local residents questioned the viability of ...

Friction flared up in parliament on Monday after the head of the anti-corruption authority declined to commit specifically to investigating former president Nikos Anastasiades in relation to the ‘golden passports’ ...

Sunday’s storms left parts of Cyprus reeling, leaving a fire, tornado, hail, landslides and closed roads in their wake. The public had been cautioned there was an orange weather ...

Shooting up across the island, solar farms are raking it in, boasting profit margins that would make John D Rockefeller go green with envy. The public has noticed, and so ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met in person in Budapest ahead of the European Political Community’s summit in the Hungarian capital on Thursday. Christodoulides and ...

Costas Kadis, Cyprus’ commissioner-designate, sailed through Wednesday’s confirmation hearing at the Fisheries and Oceans Committee (PECH) in the European Parliament in Brussels and secured its backing for the job, ...

The absence of proper infrastructure in Cyprus makes home births too risky, the nurses and midwives association (Pasynm) warned on Tuesday, as it urged the public to report concerning instances ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday announced a €50 million tranche of measures aimed at tackling the “national challenge” Cyprus is facing with its ‘alarming demographic problem’, where fertility rates have dropped ...

Farmers call for more environmentally unfriendly desalination plants to meet domestic consumers’ needs As the drought continues to rapidly shrink water levels in the reservoirs, farmers face ever increasing water ...

The messages sent by Wednesday’s meeting at the White House between President Nikos Christodoulides and US President Joe Biden underscored an upgraded role for Cyprus, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis ...

Deputy Migration Minister Nicholas Ioannides on Thursday said a group of migrants stranded in the buffer zone will be “relocated in the next two to three weeks.” His statements suggested ...

United States President Joe Biden on Wednesday said he remains optimistic about the prospect of a solution to the Cyprus problem, following a meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides at the ...

Officials on Tuesday reiterated there currently exists no practical way to bring down energy costs, which have a knock-on effect on the prices of goods, as one MP warned that ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday heralded his invitation to meet with US President Joe Biden at the White House, attributing it to Cyprus’ strengthening “regional and international footprint”. Christodoulides is ...

It has been over two-and-a-half years since ExxonMobil last drilled in Cyprus’ EEZ, but the company is about to come back. In an interview earlier this month the minister of ...

With surveillance cameras becoming all the more prominent, police have had to increasingly rely on the public and cameras installed outside private properties to help them gather evidence in a ...

Worsening traffic congestion and measures to address it dominated Friday’s House finance committee meeting, where Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades presented his ministry’s €780 million budget for 2025. MPs pressed Vafeades ...

Fraud investigations into a €46 million waste treatment project have shifted to Brussels but seem to be going nowhere, as the EU, which funded the project, remains uncertain about who is ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos heralded on Wednesday what he described “an important day for the bilateral relations with the United States” during talks for the first strategic dialogue between the ...

A deal regarding the delivery of the floating storage and re-gasification unit (Fsru) that is part of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) project at Vasiliko has been reached by the ...

The police control systems at airports and all checkpoints in Cyprus have been restored after the country was targeted by six cyberattacks over the weekend, allegedly linked to hacker group ‘...

This week saw the verbal jousting between the government and opposition party Akel over the issue of affordable housing return, with each side cherry-picking data from the latest Eurostat survey. ...

After much anticipation, Chairwoman of the House human rights committee, Irene Charalambidou, presented a bill on euthanasia on Friday, setting the stage for what is expected to be a heated ...