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The Cyprus government and the Turkish Cypriot leadership are in a furious row over a decision by tour operator Tui to stop daytrips to the north, with leader Ersin Tatar ...

Up to 100,000 people could be evacuated from Lebanon through Cyprus, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Tuesday, with the government preparing for “all possible scenarios”. “It will not be an ...

The government will propose professor Costas Kadis for Cyprus’ EU commissioner, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Monday. Kadis’ experience from serving the Republic of Cyprus in various posts, as ...

As we get closer to critical decision-making deadlines, there is no end to debates about the viability and future of the Great Sea Interconnector. But sadly, often these are not ...

From the very outset, Cyprus’ flagship waste treatment facility at Pentakomo was beset by official indifference and negligence, says its former manager The “state-of-the-art” municipal waste treatment facility at Pentakomo ...

Hundreds of delivery drivers staged a peaceful protest in Limassol on Friday morning, expressing deep concern over what they describe as a frightening surge in violent attacks against them. Around 300 ...

A 25-year-old Israeli national was remanded in court on Thursday over an ongoing investigation for misusing Greek Cypriot property in the north. He was arrested a day earlier at Paphos ...

A total of 20 arrests have been made in the last two and a half months of people caught stealing unguarded items belonging to beachgoers at Finikoudes beach. The latest arrests ...

This is the second part of an account of the experiences of the 19-year-old National Guardsman, Kratinos Pyliotis who served as a sergeant at an artillery unit in Athalassa, in 1974. ...

This is the story of three sisters, forced abroad by an invasion that coloured the rest of their lives and left them haunted by the memories echoing down 50 years. In ...

Official figures compiled during the 2021 census show that Cyprus’ population is ageing. Exactly 17.2 per cent of people living in the Republic of Cyprus, a little over one in six, is ...

Residents living in the buffer zone have decried the 14km fence stretching across the Green Line, calling it useless, as Deputy Minister of Migration Nicholas Ioannides visited the site on ...

‘I shed tears of joy with my coach, my wife, and my child‘ Cypriot dinghy sailor Pavlos Kontides won a silver medal at the Olympic Games on Wednesday, finishing second ...

Germany was preparing to evacuate thousands of its nationals from Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East via Cyprus on Tuesday, amid concerns over an escalation of the conflict between ...

Earlier this week, the fear that journalists could be jailed for what they wrote was very real and Thursday’s decision to review the proposed ‘fake news’ bill has only ...

The government on Friday took a tough line against accusations from the UN that it was carrying out migrant pushbacks within the buffer zone, calling the statements unhelpful in resolving ...

Cyprus is continuing pushbacks, it emerged on Thursday, even attempting to send migrants who arrived by sea into the buffer zone. The issue surfaced when Unficyp confirmed to the Cyprus ...

The three-month-old child who died in Nicosia general hospital appears to have been “left to its fate” and was in a terrible state, with signs of malnutrition and likely insect ...

The government will invite two tenders in a bid to complete the LNG project, one for remaining construction work on the jetty at the land-based facilities at Vasiliko, the other ...

Govt: We are ready to aid with Lebanon evacuation By Tom Cleaver The government is ready to help with a possible impending evacuation of Lebanon, deputy spokesman Yiannis Antoniou said ...

Countless women never had children, never married, many were ‘shipped off’ abroad for an abortion or to send the secret far away to a different country It took close to ...

Last week the government and trade unions inked an agreement granting civil servants and public-sector workers a 1.5 per cent salary bump. The move raised eyebrows, given that only recently the ...

A total of 25 migrants have been forcibly removed from territories of the Republic and taken to the buffer zone against their will, while being denied access to asylum procedures, the ...

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) on Thursday said it opened an investigation into Cyprus’ contentious Vasiliko liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal on suspicion of procurement fraud, misappropriation ...