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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 ...

Israeli property developer Simon Mistriel Aykut has formally requested to be transferred to Israel to serve the remainder of his five-year prison sentence imposed by a Cypriot court, with Israeli ...

Former president of the Republic, George Vassiliou died overnight at the age of 94, his family said in a social media post on Wednesday. Vassiliou had been hospitalised since January 6 in ...

Former minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis and Charalambos Charalambous – the president’s former chief of staff – may have been deliberately lured by individuals posing as prospective investors, media reports suggested on Tuesday. ...

Monday marked an important milestone for the National Guard, said force chief Lieutenant General Emmanuel Theodorou, as it demonstrated that Cyprus can produce technologically advanced defence systems capable of competing ...

President Nikos Christodoulides’ chief of staff Charalambos Charalambous on Monday announced his resignation from the post after a video which alleged that he had engaged in campaign finance lawbreaking to ...

As the government grapples with the fallout from ‘Videogate’ – a clip purportedly showing how in 2023 President Nikos Christodoulides and associates accepted cash from donors to bypass election campaign spending caps– ...

In a counterattack after being accused of breaking the law over presidential campaign finances, President Nikos Christodoulides stressed on Friday he would allow no one to accuse him of corruption ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday pressed allies for ironclad security guarantees against any renewed Russian attack while also seeking progress on EU membership talks and tougher sanctions on Moscow. ...