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Nurses call for neonatal ICU in Limassol, say overcrowding poses risk at...
NURSES union PASYNO called on Tuesday for the creation of an intensive care unit for premature babies in Limassol as the one at the Makarios Hospital in Nicosia is often overcrowded posing risks to...
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Household debt remains high
Cypriot households and non-financial corporations continued to be highly indebted, collectively owing some 358 per cent of the island’s gross domestic product in September 2015, a Central Bank of...
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‘No timeframes’ but aim is to reach solution in 2016 if possible,...
The aim is to resolve the island’s division as soon as possible, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday, but he reiterated the Greek Cypriot side’s position that no timeframes must be set on the...
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May to replace Cameron Wednesday as pro-Brexit rival quits UK PM race (Update 3)
By Elizabeth Piper and Mark Trevelyan Interior minister Theresa May will become Britain’s prime minister on Wednesday, with the task of steering its withdrawal from the European Union, after rival...
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Cyprus requests increase in flight frequencies with Israel
Transport minister Marios Demetriades has raised the issue of flight frequencies increase with Israel due to increased demand by airline companies. The issue was raised during a meeting between...
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House sets €1m ceiling on election campaign spending
Presidential candidates may each spend up to €1 million on their election campaigns, under a law passed by the House on Thursday. A government bill amending the law governing the election of President...
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Turkish forces fight to crush coup remnants after Erdogan returns (Update 4)
Turkish forces loyal to President Tayyip Erdogan largely crushed an attempted military coup on Saturday after crowds answered his call to take to the streets in support of the government and dozens of...
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Nearly 20,000 Turkish officials suspended or detained
By Humeyra Pamuk and Ercan Gurses Turkey purged its police on Monday after rounding up thousands of soldiers in the wake of a failed military coup, and said it could reconsider its friendship with the...
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Heightened activity on security, gas, Cyprob
THE president’s upcoming visit to Israel this weekend, the foreign minister’s trip to Athens before that, and peace talks on the island delving into the crucial aspects of security and guarantees, all...
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Gunmen kill eight in Munich shopping mall, shooters on the run, city in...
By Joern Poltz and Jens Hack Gunmen attacked a busy mall in the German city of Munich on Friday evening, killing at least eight people and sending shoppers running for their lives from what police said...
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Iranian gunman kills nine in Munich shopping mall (Updated)
An 18-year-old German-Iranian gunman who apparently acted alone opened fire near a busy shopping mall in Munich on Friday evening, killing at least nine people in the third attack on civilians in...
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Noose tightens in Vgenopoulos case
DISGRACED former Central Bank Governor Christodoulos Christodoulou was Friday charged with new offences stemming from a one-million-euro upfront fee for ten years’ advisory services paid into the...
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Turkish Cypriots fear delayed impact of coup in the north
‘There is a real risk of a witch hunt as the uninformed point fingers without really knowing what is going on’ CONCERN, relief, and a state of anxious watchfulness have dominated in the north to...
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Vgenopoulos slams leaks about home search
Embattled Greek financier Andreas Vgenopoulos on Monday said investigations against him “under the rule of law” are welcome, but once more lambasted unlawful leaks to media outlets, which appear to...
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Phedonos lashes out at antiquities head, refuses to retract allegations of...
By Bejay Browne and Evie Andreou Paphos Mayor Phedonas Phedonos on Monday lashed out at the head of the antiquities department for reporting him to the Attorney-general’s office over allegations he...
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Two attackers ‘neutralised’, one hostage killed in France church attack
French police “neutralised” two men armed with blades who had taken several people hostage in a church in northern France on Tuesday, the police said. A police source said that one of the hostages had...
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ExxonMobil, ENI, Total, Delek and Statoil among 3rd round bidders
By Stelios Orphanides Energy minister Yiorgos Lakkotrypis said that Cyprus received three bids for block 10 in its exclusive economic zone, one from a consortium consisting of the U.S. energy giant...
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State will pay full damages to Mari fireman’s family
The government on Wednesday decided to pay the full amount of damages awarded to the family of a fireman killed during a munitions blast in 2011, despite an appeal filed by the Legal Service. The...
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Limassol triple murder trial continues amid tight security
THE trial of 31-year-old Christakis Thoma, accused of killing three people in a frenzied knife attack in Limassol’s busy Anexartisias area last November, continued under tight security on Wednesday...
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Archbishop threatens tit-for-tat if Christians banned from north
THE head of the Church of Cyprus, Archbishop Chrysostomos, said on Wednesday that Muslims living in the occupied north should forget pilgrimages to the Hala Sultan Tekke in Larnaca, if Christians in...
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