Politics

Christodoulides says UK bases’ colonial legacy must end

President Nikos Christodoulides has called for an end to what he described as the colonial legacy of Britain’s Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus, in an interview with The Observer...
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Groups urge Cyprus to leave Eurovision unless Israel is barred

BDS Cyprus and 10 other organisations have called on state broadcaster CyBC to withdraw from Eurovision 2027 unless Israel’s public broadcaster KAN is banned, and to push for a...
Sports

Wrestling ring goes up in a Strovolos school hall on Saturday

A secondary school hall in Strovolos will be turned into a professional wrestling ring on Saturday, decades after a 1938 bout in Nicosia was advertised with extra train services...
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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Man arrested with 2,000 packs of contraband cigarettes in Larnaca

Police arrested a 30-year-old man in Larnaca district on Friday after finding 2,000 packs of contraband cigarettes and 54 kilograms of hand-rolling tobacco in his car. Officers from the Directorate...
Politics

Cyprus tells UN Turkish pipeline surveys violate its sovereignty

Cyprus has told the United Nations that Turkish seabed surveys for a planned natural gas pipeline between Turkey and the occupied north violate its sovereignty, in a letter to...
Economy

Turkey challenges Greek notice for Crete-Cyprus cable survey

Turkey issued a counter-Navtex on Friday claiming that part of the area covered by a Greek Navtex, published hours earlier for seabed surveys for the Great Sea Interconnector electricity...
Economy

Fitch upgrades Cyprus to ‘A’, citing rapid debt reduction

Fitch upgraded Cyprus’s long-term credit rating to ‘A’ from ‘A-’ on Friday and changed the outlook to stable from positive, the Finance Ministry said. The agency based its decision mainly...
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Health Ministry seeks law change to staff new ambulance service

The Health Ministry has tabled a bill to exempt from a legal cap the secondment of more than 80 State Health Services Organisation (SHSO) staff needed for the new...
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Prostate cancer patient urges men to get checked before symptoms

Agapios Chiratos, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer at 61, is urging men to be screened even if they have no symptoms, saying early diagnosis and treatment allowed him...
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Audit Office asks why presidential commissioner was given police guard

The Audit Office has written to police asking what criteria were used to approve a police guard in September for Marios Hartsiotis, the Commissioner of the Presidency, Phileleftheros understands. The...
Economy

Health minister acknowledges cases of GHS overuse as budget rises

Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides acknowledged cases of overuse in the General Health System (GHS) as he presented his ministry’s 2027 budget of 1.492 billion euros to the House Finance...
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Archbishopric seeks permit to renovate Faneromeni school for university

The Archbishopric has applied for planning permission to renovate the Faneromeni school building in Nicosia’s walled city and create a public square behind it, about five and a half...
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Ministry to seek fourth extension for juvenile prison law

The Ministry of Justice and Public Order will ask parliament to extend, for a fourth time, the deadline for a 2021 law requiring a separate juvenile prison, as the...
Politics

DIKO sticks with Christodoulides as DISY alliance recedes

Officials and members of the Democratic Party (DIKO) see continued cooperation with President Nikos Christodoulides’s government as the party’s safest and most stable option ahead of the presidential elections,...
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Cyprus pays €5,000 over ban on Muslim wedding dancers

Cyprus has paid 5,000 euros in compensation to settle a European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) case brought by a Larnaca man over a law that prevented him from...
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