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Arrests expected after gang of more than 10 storms Strovolos home and attacks three men

Police are expected to make arrests on Sunday following a violent robbery in Strovolos, where more than 10 people forced their way into a house, attacked three young men...
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Inside Erdogan’s soft power machine: How Turkey uses TV, schools and religion to spread its influence

The European Commission's latest report on Turkey paints a picture of a country moving towards an increasingly religious and nationalist model of education, while Ankara is building an extensive...
Politics

Holguin warns Cyprus peace efforts face ‘enormous damage’ if latest UN initiative fails

UN Secretary-General's Personal Envoy María Ángela Holguín has warned that another failed attempt to restart Cyprus peace negotiations could cause "enormous damage" to efforts to resolve the decades-long dispute. In...
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Inside Cyprus’s occupied north: How a university boom fuels exploitation and human trafficking

Thousands of foreign students, migrant workers and asylum seekers living in the occupied north of Cyprus face exploitation, trafficking and gaps in legal protection, according to a new study...

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School violence on the rise as Cyprus education ministry admits support services need more staff

Cyprus's Education Ministry has acknowledged that services responsible for preventing and tackling violence and delinquent behaviour in schools need more staff, as reports and official data point to a...

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Politics

Cyprus moves to block Sinirlioglu’s UN bid as diplomatic record raises questions – First vote ends in setback

The Republic of Cyprus has launched an international diplomatic campaign to prevent Turkish official Feridun Sinirlioğlu from becoming the next United Nations Secretary-General, with Nicosia raising objections to his...

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Democracy always finds a way to correct itself

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Another one for Karavostasi

Aristos Michaelides

Cyprus push for the last mile hinges on Ankara

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Economy

Fitch upgrade confirms Cyprus economy’s resilience, Christodoulides says

President Nikos Christodoulides welcomed Fitch’s upgrade of Cyprus’s credit rating to ‘A’ from ‘A-’, with a stable outlook, saying in a written statement that it came a few weeks...
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John Cleese: ‘A perfect person isn’t funny’

The pompous, self-destructive hotelier Basil Fawlty. The flustered barrister Archie Leach. The civil servant from the Ministry of Silly Walks. The customer who insists the parrot he has just...

Living in Cyprus

Living in Cyprus

Student grant applications for Greek and repatriated students open Wednesday

Online applications for 2025-2026 student grants for the families of Greek students and repatriated Cypriot students open on Wednesday, 4 November, at 10am and close on Monday, 30 November,...

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Op-eds

America votes: The price of eggs and the fate of a presidency

by Euripides L. Evriviades* Donald Trump was not on the ballot in Tuesday's US congressional midterm elections. But he urged his supporters to vote as though he were. And they...
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Intellectually closed, not intellectually incapable

By Dina-Perla Portnaar* When political convictions lose sight of their moral limits, the extremes can marginalise the political middle. Those far-end political communities foster beliefs strong enough to sustain collective...
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Enosis, independence, self-government and the Cypriot anti-colonial movement

By Antonis Pastellopoulos, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Cyprus In the Republic of Cyprus, the dominant narrative surrounding the British colonial period presents enosis, the union of Cyprus with Greece, as...

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Building collapses in downtown Sao Paulo

An aerial photograph shows firefighters searching for possible victims after a four-story building collapsed in the Bras neighborhood of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 06 November 2026. According to the Fire Department, 35 people were inside the building when it collapsed; 27 were rescued, and eight...