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Covid does not explain more people dying each year The week-by-week mortality figures – all-cause deaths – supplied to Eurostat for 2022 are now complete, though it’s important to note that the ...

The bodies of two Cypriot students killed in the fatal train collision near Larissa, Greece will be repatriated on Sunday, the foreign ministry announced on Saturday. According to the permanent ...

A three-day mourning period was announced on Friday after the bodies of the two missing Cypriots aboard a train that crashed in Tempi, Greece were identified. 23-year-old student Kyprianos Papaioannou ...

In an extraordinary plenary session hurriedly convened on Thursday, the House passed a law extending by another two months a reduction on fuel tax – a matter that should have been ...

Two Cypriot nationals were on board one of the two trains that collided in Larissa, northern Greece on Tuesday night, killing at least 36 people and injuring dozens of others. The ...

Nikos Christodoulides was officially sworn in on Tuesday as the eighth president of the Republic in a short ceremony held at the House of Representatives. Arriving at parliament shortly after 11...

By Nikolaos Prakas and Andria Kades President-elect Nikos Christodoulides officially announced his new cabinet on Monday, after lengthy speculation and horse-trading over who would be given top posts in the ...

The composition of the new cabinet will be announced as planned, president-elect Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday at a memorial service for Eoka fighter Grigoris Afxentiou at Machairas monastery. He ...

In the race to go green, the public could end up facing long-term debt and restrictions on their freedom of movement By Jean Christou From Wednesday Cyprus will have a ...

Just days before the end of the Anastasiades administration, two of his ministers publicly disagreed Friday on the compensatory measures for landowners connected to the Akamas local plan with Agriculture ...

President-elect Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday he did not hear anything he didn’t expect to from Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar after the two met earlier in the day. ...

Cabinet on Wednesday decided to postpone implementing the Akamas local development plan for another six months, as part of efforts to find ways of fulfilling all the goals it sets ...

Current Disy leader Averof Neophytou on Tuesday bowed out of the race for the next party leader on Tuesday, in what has narrowed down to a face-off between House President ...

House president Annita Demetriou may throw her hat in the running for Disy’s upcoming leadership elections, it emerged on Monday as the deadline for submitting candidacies edged ever closer. ...

Newly-elected President Nikos Christodoulides will do everything possible to achieve some kind of result during his informal meeting next week with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, he said on Sunday. ...

Government has earmarked funds to stabilise the landslide that has caused houses to crumble, but there is still no decision over compensating the owners The government is about to pay €33 ...

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 ...