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Pro-reunification candidate Tufan Erhurman was on Sunday elected as Turkish Cypriot leader, unseating pro-two-state solution incumbent Ersin Tatar and winning a record number of votes in an unprecedented landslide victory. ...

Sunday will see Turkish Cypriots head to the polls to elect a leader for the 14th time overall, and for the ninth time since northern Cyprus’ unilateral declaration of independence ...

A well-known Limassol businessman was shot on Friday morning and died on the motorway on the way to hospital. The man, identified as 49-year-old Stavros Demosthenous, was most well-known for ...

The energy ministers of Cyprus and Greece reiterated on Thursday their commitment to work together to bring to fruition the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), in a move de-escalating the apparent ...

Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas on Wednesday said he had informed top European officials of the government’s “clear disagreement” with the idea of Turkey joining the EU’s Security Action ...

Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides on Tuesday stuck to his guns, voicing serious reservations about the planned reform of the attorney-general’s office, even as a visiting European Commissioner lent his support ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos on Monday outlined the government’s plans for next year’s state budget at a meeting of the House finance committee, telling it the government aims ...

With increased defence spending recently announced, the Cyprus military has acquired some impressive weapons systems, provoking a reaction – if perfunctory – from Turkey. The choice of weapons almost inevitably mirrors the ...

Talk of slander and mounting political tension surrounded the Alma movement on Friday, as its leader – the former auditor-general – Odysseas Michaelides and former University of Cyprus rector Constantinos Christofides lashed ...

Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas signed an agreement on Thursday to cease fire and free Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, in the first phase of U....

The government is to begin introducing artificial intelligence into the civil service to “support civil servants in their work”, Research Deputy Minister Nicodemos Damianou said after Wednesday’s cabinet meeting. ...

A longstanding difference over the issue of when expenses should be paid forms the core of the dispute between Cyprus’ energy regulator and the project promoter for the Great Sea ...

A debate in parliament about a controversial law regulating public gatherings quickly turned chaotic on Monday, as politicians also bickered about last week’s pro-Palestinian protest while also arguing about ...

In recent interviews Mike Wirth, Chevron’s CEO, detailed the company’s priorities and plans for the foreseeable future. He said “so long as the world is using oil and ...

The story of Solea dam, while not exactly a huge scandal, is deeply frustrating, especially in the wake of last week’s audit office report laying out the water situation (...

Protesters rallied on Friday evening outside the presidential palace and the foreign ministry in Nicosia, denouncing Israel’s blockade of the Global Sumud Flotilla carrying aid to Gaza and the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides marked the 65th anniversary of Cyprus’ independence on Wednesday with a televised address that balanced optimism on renewed peace efforts with an emphasis on economic strength, reforms ...

Many dams in Cyprus are “old and in need of immediate reassessment and maintenance”, according to a report on the state of the management of the island’s water resources ...

Former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides poured more fuel on the fire on Monday, claiming that in 2019 then-president Nicos Anastasiades took it upon himself to handle any issues with the LNG project ...

Chicanery or sheer stupidity – the question some MPs posed this week as to how Cyprus got tangled in the whole LNG farrago in awarding the contract to the Chinese-led consortium. ...

Cyprus has found “sizeable quantities” of natural gas in blocks Pegasus and Glaucus, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou told the Cyprus Mail on Friday, following an earlier announcement by the president ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “pointed the finger to others, for crimes Turkey itself commits every single day,” President Nikos Christodoulides told the UN general assembly on Wednesday, in essence ...

The liquefied natural gas terminal at Vasiliko will be completed, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou promised on Tuesday. Addressing the House energy committee, he said the project “is feasible, should be ...

MPs on Monday voiced astonishment at the red tape and procedural rigmarole in the civil service hampering the sharing of information regarding sexual harassment complaints made against a senior official ...