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Justice Minister Costas Fitiris has said authorities are focusing their efforts on dismantling the leadership of organised crime groups, stressing that law enforcement knows who they are and is applying ...

The government’s GMI (Guaranteed Minimum Income) scheme provides financial support to around 17,000 families, and some 22,000 people in total. One common criticism, though, is that the scheme acts as a ...

The cabinet approved legislation on Friday allowing the monitoring of telephone conversations, under strict oversight, to enable the police and intelligence services to employ phone tapping in their arsenal against ...

The government is in the process of returning €67 million in funding for the LNG terminal in Vasiliko to the European Commission, the energy minister said on Tuesday, also telling MPs ...

Questions over selective scrutiny within the justice system intensified on Monday, as lawyer Simos Angelides publicly lambasted the police’s handling of social media personality Annie Alexui’s allegations, contrasting ...

In the Cypriot space, have social media influencers come into their own, setting the agenda for political discourse? Yes and no, say experts we spoke to. But there’s no ...

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected dismissed judge Doria Varoshiotou’s appeal against her ouster in a five-to-three ruling, upholding the judicial council’s decision to relieve her of her ...

The government envisions making Cyprus resilient and robust both domestically and overseas, President Nikos Christodoulides said Thursday in his annual ‘state of the union’ address. In the speech, broadcast on ...

Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos and Lefkoniko mayor Pieris Gypsiotis have been placed on mandatory leave pending the outcome of criminal investigations, the interior ministry confirmed on Wednesday. The suspension, in ...

Infamous sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had complained that using Cyprus to avoid tax is both “silly” and “dangerous” in an email, according to the latest batch of the Epstein Files, ...

Nicosia municipality is pressing ahead with a €28 million regeneration programme aimed at transforming the old city, mayor Charalambos Prountzos said on Monday. A grant agreement signed in December covers additional ...

While many British citizens who are also citizens of Cyprus and other countries have expressed fears regarding the “new” requirement for them to have and produce a valid British passport ...

Desalination, first introduced in 1997, now supplies around 70 per cent of the island’s drinking water

Cyprus wishes to be “as close as possible to the core” of the European Union, foreign ministry spokesman Theodoros Gotsis said on Friday, amid talks between ministers from other member ...

The interior ministry said on Friday it is examining whether the circumstances of an ongoing police investigation into Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos could trigger statutory procedures placing him on leave. ...

The House institutions committee concluded its review on Wednesday of the framework governing the post service activities of former officials amid criticism over the government’s refusal to disclose donor ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin on Tuesday lamented that “not much progress” had been achieved on confidence-building measures between the island’s two sides since her previous visit to ...

Police have launched an investigation into claims made online over the last few days about the alleged battering of Louisa Andreou, wife of Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos, however both have ...

Nicosia this week walked back its initial enthusiasm at having been invited to US President Donald Trump’s so-called Board of Peace, perhaps coming to realise it was not the ...

Unity is the European Union’s greatest strength and “only by acting together, across institutions and across member states, can we translate unity into action”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on ...

More than 600 Cypriot nationals living abroad have expressed interest in returning to work in Cyprus under a government incentive plan, MPs athe the House finance committee heard on Monday. The ...

New details have emerged about the events leading up to Saturday’s violent brawl and gunshots fired outside Larnaca police headquarters, with police issuing four arrest warrants in connection with ...

Hundreds of people attended the state funeral of George Vassiliou, the former president who passed away on Tuesday at the age of 94 at the Ayia Sofia cathedral in the Nicosia ...

The death of a Russian embassy employee found hanged in his office in Nicosia on Monday has intensified international scrutiny, as investigative outlets and foreign media publish extensive links to ...