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Arriving back in Cyprus on Sunday night, President Nikos Christodoulides fired the police chief and the deputy director of prisons. The move follows the escape last week – and subsequent arrest ...

Cyprus’ exposure to the public over its handling of migrants has not been flattering. Accusations over pushbacks, violence and unhygienic living conditions have been documented in numerous reports from organisations ...

The convict with a life sentence who managed to slip away from police is armed, unlikely to give himself in and has a plan to travel to Colombia via the ...

Dozens of US troops have been deployed to Cyprus to prepare for possible evacuations of American citizens from Lebanon, it was reported on Thursday. The troops add to a growing ...

The government on Wednesday said it was at its highest level of preparedness for evacuations from the region, as Britain announced 700 troops were being deployed to Cyprus to help UK ...

House audit chairman and Diko MP Zacharias Koulias’widely broadcast plans to appoint a new auditor-general when he is acting President of the Republic later this week were brought to ...

It’s an early morning mid-week and Polis is springing to life at the leisurely, humane pace which makes the region so appealing for a certain calibre of visitor and ...

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is still open to investing in the electricity interconnector project between Cyprus and Greece, its Vice President Kyriacos Kakouris said on Friday. He stressed the ...

Legal experts weighed in on Thursday over the decision to fire Odysseas Michaelides as auditor-general, calling it a landmark case that will inevitably be discussed for years. Lawyer Achilleas Emilianides ...

Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides was fired on Wednesday following a Supreme Constitutional Court decision, as he called the outcome a “black day for Cyprus.” In a unanimous ruling, a panel of ...

The government on Tuesday green-lit Cyprus’ participation in the Great Sea Interconnector – the commercial name for the mooted subsea electricity cable linking the island to Crete. The decision was announced ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday said the Cyprus Football Association (CFA) should take responsibility over the violence which unfolded ahead of an Ael-Apollon match and not try to hide behind ...

On the day all schools were back in operation this week – Monday – I rode on Nicosia’s Park and Ride bus service one year after it launched operations between the ...

Demetrios Bestitzanos is a doctor, specifically an internist. A few years ago, around the time he turned 50, he decided to relocate from Athens – where he’d been studying and working ...

Cyprus needs to implement better health vulnerability checks on incoming migrants, resolve issues related to unaccompanied minors and clear its backlog of asylum claims, the EU’s migration ‘czar’ said ...

Turkey on Thursday condemned this week’s signing of a roadmap to boost two-way defence co-operation between the United States and the Republic of Cyprus. The US steps, including last ...

US sanctions imposed on entities and individuals in Cyprus are not targeting the country but oligarchs and arms traders that enable Russia to continue waging its war in Ukraine, US ...

Police groups on Tuesday condemned allegations of sexist behaviour within the force towards female contract workers. The matter had been discussed during Monday’s House human rights committee, which was ...

Parties and deputies tabled 11 different bills at the House finance committee on Monday, all aimed at regulating the payment of multiple pensions to state officials. Of those bills, two were ...

The island’s water security and the escalating water crisis in the southern Mediterranean have featured prominently of late with the specter of desertification looming large after a summer of ...

Amid myriad tragedies that plagued Greek Cypriots after the Turkish invasion of 1974, the lies and false hopes that were meted out to the families of the Missing have left scars ...

Cyprus should take the opportunity for the interconnector project or it will be left behind to burn mazut and struggle with its green transition, US ambassador to Cyprus Julie Fisher ...

The auditor-general’s office has no idea how many funds in Covid benefits were handed out to ineligible applicants from 2021 to 2022, with the real number possibly being many times more ...

The government on Tuesday was forced to deny media reports it has taken any final decisions hidden from the public eye regarding funding for the controversial electricity interconnector project. “No ...