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Proposals to ensure refugees ‘not trapped on the third floor’

Proposals to resume elevator installations in refugee housing complexes have been put back on the agenda of the House refugee committee with the aim of submitting a bill to the plenum for approval, MPs on the committee said on Tuesday. Committee chairman Nikos Kettiros insisted that the government could act on this matter immediately if […]

18.11.2025 17:31

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Gender equality still meets resistance, says human rights commissioner

The historically unequal power relations between men and women not only continue to exist, but any attempt to dismantle them is met with resistance from “leadership interests”, human rights commissioner and ombudswoman Maria Stylianou Lottides said on Tuesday. Lottides was commenting on a remark by high school teaching union Oelmek president Demetris Taliadoros, who said […]

18.11.2025 17:28

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Cyprus Marine Club hosts networking event

The Cyprus Marine Club gathered more than 100 maritime professionals for its latest networking event, ‘From Sea to Sushi – Celebrating Seafaring and Flavour’, held at Gazebo Mare. The evening mixed professional updates with an interactive culinary session, offering what the Club described as a blend of learning, engagement and informal discussion.  In the absence of the […]

18.11.2025 17:02

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Man remanded for attempted murder

A 22-year-old man arrested on Monday in connection with the attempted murder of a 47-year-old businessman in July was remanded for eight days on Tuesday. The suspect faces six charges, including attempted murder, conspiracy to commit a felony, theft, receiving stolen goods, illegal possession, and transportation of a firearm and explosives. His lawyer did not […]

18.11.2025 17:00

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Cloudflare outage easing after impacting thousands of internet users

A global outage at web-infrastructure firm Cloudflare NET.N began to ease on Tuesday after preventing thousands from accessing major internet platforms, including X and ChatGPT. Cloudflare, whose network handles around a fifth of web traffic, said it started to investigate the internal service degradation around 6:40 a.m. ET. It has deployed a fix but some […]

18.11.2025 16:58

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Germany and Netherlands qualify for World Cup

Four-time World Cup champion Germany finally secured their place in the 2026 edition with a 6-0 rout over Slovakia on Monday. It will be Germany’s 21st appearance in the World Cup, with the only two editions the country has missed being the inaugural 1930 World Cup it didn’t enter and the 1950 tournament it was […]

18.11.2025 10:40

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World Cup ticket holders can get priority visa appointments

A meeting between FIFA President Gianni Infantino and U.S. President Donald Trump has resulted in FIFA World Cup ticket-holders receiving prioritized visa interviews, according to FIFA. Monday’s announcement outlined a new FIFA Priority Appointment Scheduling System (FIFA PASS), aimed at making the process for acquiring visas for the tournament as smooth as possible, and hopefully […]

18.11.2025 10:34

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Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers steps back after Epstein communications released

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said on Monday he will step back from all public commitments, days after President Donald Trumpordered the Justice Department to investigate his and other prominent Democrats’ ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Summers, a former president of Harvard University, where he is a professor, told the university’s student […]

18.11.2025 10:26

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One child a day sexually abused in Cyprus, #20ForYou campaign launched

In 2024 alone, there were 483 reports of sexual abuse of children in Cyprus. This means one new case every 20 hours and these are just the children who found the courage to speak, the child commissioner’s office said on Tuesday. To mark the European day for the protection of children against sexual exploitation and […]

18.11.2025 10:24

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Morea Residences: coastal villas where life actually feels good

Morea by INEX is a gated community of 30 private villas – classic Mediterranean design, modern engineering, smart home systems, private pools, green areas a clubhouse and the most beautiful beach within walking distance. You can live here full-time or keep it as a rental. There are places where life simply works better. In Cyprus, […]

18.11.2025 10:00

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Audit Office requests suspension of staff member

The Audit Office on Tuesday requested that Athena Demetriou, former deputy director of the central prisons, be suspended. Demetriou is currently employed at the Audit Office. She is included in the indictment of the case concerning the confidential documents from the prisons found in the home of a chief warden, in the framework of investigations […]

18.11.2025 09:35

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Pedestrian run over by car in Aglandjia

A woman was hit by a car on Tuesday morning in Aglandjia, Nicosia. The police said the woman, who was walking in the area when she was run over, was taken by ambulance to hospital. The police cordoned off the area and are continuing investigations.

18.11.2025 09:21

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Louvana’s Secret Concerts return

Are you up for a music experience where you don’t know which artists you are seeing or even where the concert’s taking place? Louvana Records’ secret concerts are back and travelling to a secret location in Kourion Municipality this time as the municipality and Kourion 2030 present this year’s edition. On November 26 and 27, […]

18.11.2025 09:20

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Oelmek chief Taliadoros stands by ‘sexist remark’

Oelmek president Demetris Taliadoros said he would not be retracting a remark he made about Education Minister Athena Michaelidou, construed as “sexist”, despite his union’s plea for him to apologise. Taliadoros had said “a woman turned up fifty years later to change the plan”, referring to the government’s teacher evaluation plan that is set to […]

18.11.2025 08:45

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Car overturns on motorway, two injured

A car overturned on the Nicosia-Limassol motorway on Monday night, near the Latsia weighing station. The police said two cars crashed on the motorway at around 8pm and one of them overturned. Both drivers were taken to hospital.

18.11.2025 08:13

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Fire threatens homes in Goudi

A fire in Goudi village, in the Paphos district, threatened homes on Monday night. The fire broke out in reed beds and thus spread rapidly, placing two nearby houses in danger. It was placed under control after midnight, having burned two hectares of wild vegetation, trees and electricity pylons, according to Philenews. Firefighters from the […]

18.11.2025 08:09

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Central Bank of Cyprus balance sheet totals €30.49 billion

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC), part of the Eurosystem, released its summary balance sheet this week, which showed that the institution’s total assets and liabilities stood at €30.49 billion at the end of October 2025. The CBC’s total assets were primarily driven by claims within the Eurosystem, which reached €20.24 bn. The second largest […]

18.11.2025 07:40

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Cyprus Business Now: tourism, vehicles, legal migrants, real estate

Cyprus recorded a strong rise in both tourist arrivals and resident returns in October 2025, underscoring a robust rebound in travel activity. According to the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat), tourist arrivals reached 537,744 during this time, up 17.1 per cent from the 459,106 recorded in October 2024. For January to October 2025, total arrivals amounted to 4,142,534, compared with 3,727,196 in the same period […]

18.11.2025 07:30

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Mainly fine weather, temperatures going up till Friday

Mainly fine weather can be expected on Tuesday with clouds forming locally and temperatures reaching 25C inland and along the coast, and 14C in the highest mountains. Winds will be a northeast to southeast gentle to moderate breeze of 3 to 4 Beaufort and locally fresh up to 5 Beaufort, over moderate to rough seas. […]

18.11.2025 07:17

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Cyprus Seeds hails renewed backing from The Hellenic Initiative

Cyprus Seeds has announced the renewed commitment of The Hellenic Initiative, marking the seventh consecutive year of support from the organisation that helped establish and sustain the programme’s mission. The Hellenic Initiative is a global non-profit organisation that mobilises the Greek and Cypriot diaspora to support economic development, entrepreneurship, and crisis relief in Greece and […]

18.11.2025 07:00

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IMEC deepens Greece-India cooperation as ports position for new trade routes

The shipping sector’s transition must strengthen education, skills, and human capital, leaving no one behind, said International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) secretary general Thomas Kazakos, as Greece and India boost cooperation under IMEC. The relationship between the two countries is gaining strategic weight at a moment of major reorganisation in global shipping. IMEC, which aims […]

18.11.2025 06:30

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NBG backs Cyprus entrepreneurship competition

The National Bank of Greece (NBG) in Cyprus announced this week that it is joining forces with the University of Cyprus to support the Cyprus Entrepreneurship Competition (CyEC) 2025 through its NBG Business Seeds programme. According to the announcement, the bank’s move is part of its “long-standing commitment to enhancing innovative and extroverted entrepreneurship in […]

18.11.2025 06:00

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Our View: Teacher unions must not be allowed to block evaluation reform

President Nikos Christodoulides avoided any involvement in the ongoing dispute between his government and teaching unions, leaving Education Minister Athena Michaelidou to take the heat, but on Monday, with unions announcing work stoppages, he took a stand. Educational reform and in particular the introduction of the new evaluation system for public school teachers must go […]

18.11.2025 04:20

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Kenan Ayaz observatory calls for his immediate release from prison

The observatory in the case of Kurdish activist Kenan Ayaz on Monday once again called for his release from the central prison, arguing that the criminal offenses he was convicted of Germany did not constitute criminal offenses in the Republic of Cyprus. “He was held in Turkish prisons without trial and any evidence of a […]

17.11.2025 23:10

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