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The transport ministry announced on Monday 40 Intercity buses will undergo technical inspections, after revelations that problematic buses were repeatedly put on the road. Head of the public transport unit Andreas ...

On December 21, 1963 intercommunal violence broke out between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. Sixty years later we are still paying the price A newly formed Republic of Cyprus was ripped apart 60 years ...

A bus driver working for Intercity buses has sustained injuries to his legs after a car drove into him earlier this week. The accident, however, has brought to light an ...

School bullying is on the rise in Cyprus with 25 per cent of students reporting being targeted, amid growing concerns from the education ministry on the phenomenon which is leaving children ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday he would visit Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, if he was invited, amid a swirling media storm that such an invite had already been made. “...

The government on Tuesday sought to downplay the notion that it supports a clause in an EU bill currently under discussion that would allow European governments to spy on the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides met with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Monday evening at an event a Ledra Palace hosted by the UN peacekeeping mission in Cyprus (Unficyp), in what ...

Israel helped Cyprus foil an Iranian-ordered attack against Israelis and Jews on the island, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Sunday, as Cypriot authorities remained tight-lipped citing ...

A ten-year legal battle was won by the expats, but nothing has changed Residents of Aphrodite Hills and Ha Potami, nestled within the scenic Kouklia village in the Paphos district, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides heralded the bundle of bills voted into law in parliament tackling foreclosures on Friday, saying it marked “a milestone for the fiscal stability and financial outlook of ...

President Nikos Christodoulides should return to the state over €18,000 he should not have received in paid leave, and come clean as to how much of the almost €40,000 he used in ...

Cypriot children displayed below average competencies in the 2022 report of the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa). Pisa surveys 15-year-old children in mathematics, reading and science, and grades them based ...

By Andria Kades and Elias Hazou Cyprus urgently needs to upgrade its electricity grid to enable further penetration of renewables, helping drive down the cost of power, the energy regulator ...

By Andria Kades and Iole Damaskinos Schools and commuters descended into chaos on Monday, after more than 500 buses were taken out of service amid fears they were not safe for ...

Many families are surviving on less than the hunger threshold of €557 a month A growing number of Turkish Cypriots live below the poverty threshold, while the income inequality between the ...

The government and Chevron have agreed on the terms for developing the ‘Aphrodite’ gas field in block 12 of Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ), the energy ministry announced on Friday. Negotiations ...

By Jonathan Shkurko and Nikolaos Prakas The audit service and the presidential palace were sparring again on Thursday, after the former released special report saying use of service vehicles to ...

The audit service and the presidential palace got into a row on Wednesday after reports indicated that an announcement is due to be issued on President Nikos Christodoulides’ overtime hours ...

The first humanitarian aid packages for Gaza will arrive in Cyprus on Wednesday and will be sent to the besieged strip within days, the government said on Tuesday. A team ...

The interior ministry on Monday presented the House finance committee with a budget more than 10 per cent higher than the year before, with its main focuses on housing policies, dealing ...

Akel members have approved four changes to the party’s structure aimed at modernising the party. With the relevant motions having been approved by a majority of the more than 1,000 ...

The armed wing of Hamas said it had decided to delay Saturday’s scheduled second round of hostage releases until Israel committed to allowing aid trucks to enter northern Gaza. ...

Hamas fighters released 24 hostages on Friday during the first day of the war’s first truce, the Red Cross said, including Israeli women and children and Thai farm workers. In ...

Significant legal and staffing challenges are slowing down the creation of a deputy ministry for migration, which has been deemed an important move for Cyprus given the huge uptick in ...