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A revised proposal for the allocation of water for irrigation purposes will be submitted to cabinet on Wednesday by Agriculture Minister Christos Senekis, taking into account the current hydrological situation and water infrastructure projects. Speaking before the House agriculture committee on Tuesday, Senekis said the revised proposal was based both on the picture emerging from […]
A special education teacher told Nicosia district court on Tuesday that Stylianos Constantinou, who died by suicide in September 2019 at the age of 14, had told her as a young child that he intended to kill his father. The witness testified for the prosecution in an ongoing court case examining possible responsibility for the […]
A portrait can look noticeably different from the face you saw in the mirror only minutes earlier. That does not always mean the camera “got it wrong.” Lens distance changes perspective, phone processing can sharpen fine detail, HDR can redistribute contrast, and directional light can make one part of the face appear more prominent than […]
Cyprus will pay €25 million towards the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) once a Navtex is issued for the resumption of survey work, President Nikos Christodoulides said in an interview on Plus TV, revealing an agreement reached with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. “We reached an agreement with the Greek Prime Minister. I don’t know if […]
Diko member of the European Parliament Costas Mavrides has called for the International Criminal Court to intervene on the Cyprus problem, accusing Turkey of “war crimes and crimes against humanity” on the island. “The International Criminal Court deals with war crimes and crimes against humanity. Two such crimes have been taking place for years on […]
Education Minister Athena Michaelidou on Tuesday called for dialogue before a planned classroom walkout on Wednesday called for by the national students’ coordinating committee (Psem). The Psem protest is timed to coincide with a meeting of the House education committee. They cited unresolved issues including delayed air conditioning installations as well as heavy exam workloads […]
The 390 kilograms of ketamine seized in Limassol amounts to approximately 790,000 doses, drugs squad (Ykan) chief Christos Andreou said on Tuesday. Andreou said the operation began after information was evaluated and acted upon by the agency, initially leading to the discovery of 127 kilograms of the substance. Following further information, a second quantity of 263.5 kilograms was located […]
Little hands in the soil, freshly collected eggs, grapes picked straight from the vines and canvases decorated with wildflowers and herbs from the Minthis landscape. This year, Minthis became a place of discovery for some very special visitors, as Pafilia welcomed the children of its team members for its annual Bring Your Child to Work […]
The UN refugee agency said on Tuesday that over 100,000 people have been internally displaced by the renewed Yemen conflict and thousands more have fled by sea to Djibouti. “Humanitarian access remains a major challenge. Insecurity, damaged roads, telecommunications disruptions and movement restrictions are affecting operations,” UNHCR said in a statement. Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis have […]
Police confirmed on Tuesday the formation of an investigative team to work alongside independent criminal investigators, with seven officers assigned to the Mafia State case. The team will support the work of five independent criminal investigators appointed to probe potential criminal offences identified by the anti-corruption authority. The authority’s investigation, which ran for more than […]
Demetra Holdings Plc repurchased 3,099 of its own shares on the Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) on September 14, 2026, as part of an ongoing share buyback programme. According to an announcement on Tuesday, the investment company acquired the equity at a uniform price of €1.40 per share through the Cyprus Investment and Securities Corporation Ltd […]
Attorney-General George Savvides issued a direct rebuttal on Tuesday to the anti-corruption authority’s claim that his deputy, Savvas Angelides, had always fallen within the scope of the spy van investigation, challenging the authority to make its own letter public in full. The anti-corruption authority’s statement had in turn disputed an account given earlier by Savvides. […]
The German tourist who drowned in a swimming pool in Paralimni last month has been identified through tributes posted online as Riccardo Staudt, a 22-year-old adult content creator known to his audience as ‘Noah Segsy’. Staudt was pulled unconscious from the pool of an apartment complex in the Famagusta district on the evening of August […]
A Greek firefighting team undergoing training on the island joined efforts to tackle a blaze in Arsos, marking its first real mission in Cyprus, the fire service said on Tuesday. The Greeks arrived under the EU Civil Protection Mechanism’s Prepositioning 2026 programme. The 21-member Greek team is based at the Platania forestry station. Before the […]
Two years ago, a man in Cyprus lost a quarter of a million euros in a cryptocurrency scam. In the same year, another handed more than €100,000 to an online investment fraud. And here’s the thing. These men were not elderly, vulnerable or foolish – the first was 49, the second 26. They were ordinary […]
