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Excess mortality rates stood at 19 per cent above the expected average in Cyprus for December 2022, according to data released by Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, on Friday. The death ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Thursday said his time in politics has come to a close after 10 years, and he would not be vying for Disy’s leadership position. “I’...

President-elect Nikos Christodoulides met on Wednesday morning with Disy leader Averof Neophytou at the former’s political office with both saying it was time to turn the page on the ...

Disy’s Harris Georgiades on Tuesday said he will run for the party leader, amid speculation on what the future of the party would hold. Georgiades is currently Disy’s ...

By Andria Kades and Jonathan Shkurko A day after Nikos Christodoulides emerged as Cyprus’ elected president, the horse trading over cabinet members appeared to be in full swing. Christodoulides insists ...

Cyprus on Sunday voted Nikos Christodoulides as the eighth President of the Republic, as a declaration ceremony at Eleftheria Stadium rocked to cheers of his name, applause and loud music. ...

Sour Disy split and suprise first-round Mavroyiannis victory set the stage Betrayal, backroom dirty dealing, threats and political upsets – Sunday’s second round of the presidential election has it all. ...

The two presidential candidates, independent Nikos Christodoulides and Akel-backed Andreas Mavroyiannis battled it out in a final debate on CyBC TV on Friday night. The debate started with each candidate ...

Hope is dwindling for the group of Turkish Cypriots trapped under the rubble of the Isias hotel in Adiyaman, Turkey, who are yet to be recovered, the north’s ‘education ...

Cyprus to send rescue team after Turkey accepts By Nikolaos Prakas and Jonathan Shkurko Two of the teachers with the dozens of Turkish Cypriot children were found dead on Wednesday ...

Disy leader Averof Neophytou met the two remaining candidates on Monday as the party continued to deliberate on its course in the presidential election following Neophytou’s exclusion from the ...

The number of presidential hopefuls was whittled down to two on Sunday leaving Nikos Christodoulides and Andreas Mavroyiannis to battle it out in the runoff next week. The results are ...

The trial for David Hunter, 75, resumed on Friday with an expert witness testifying that Hunter was in no state to give statements to police after he killed his wife, due ...

Another €35 million is being allocated in subsidies for people to upgrade their homes to be more energy efficient following the success of the previous round of grants which clocked up ...

Transparency has become a buzzword in the upcoming presidential elections – but some of the candidates are failing to adhere to it fully, while others are simply going for the stony ...

Akel-backed presidential candidate Andreas Mavroyiannis on Tuesday accused his rival Nikos Christodoulides of stealing one of his ideas – for the third time. Mavroyiannis suggested old habits die hard where Christodoulides ...

The state must proceed with immediate installation of a centralised renewable energy (RES) storage system to prevent blackouts from becoming commonplace, wind energy association secretary Christos Tsingis said on Monday. ...

The inauguration of the VLPG consortium’s LPG terminal at Vasiliko is not only a boost to the island’s energy hub but was the final step in removing oil ...

As foreign minister, Nikos Christodoulides put at risk the lifting of the US arms embargo with a ‘humanitarian’ accord that would have allowed Russian military vessels to dock at Cypriot ...

Cyprus on Friday delivered a demarche to the UN over statements attributed to Unficyp chief Colin Stewart blaming the Greek Cypriot side for the inaction on the Cyprus problem. A ...

Cyprus came to a standstill on Thursday as thousands of workers across all sectors went on a three-hour islandwide strike over an impasse between the government and unions on full ...

A general strike being held around the island on Thursday is set to affect travellers as airlines operating at Larnaca and Paphos airports are scrambling to reschedule flights. The strike ...

Police on Monday rejected claims of “amateur handling” of anti-riot operations during violent incidents on Sunday during the memorial for Eoka leader Grivas Digenis in Limassol. Five people were remanded ...

An investigation team to identify those involved has been set up by the Limassol police after stones and Molotov cocktails were thrown on Sunday as fighting broke out in the ...