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Latest poll sees Christodoulides take on former auditor in run for president

President Nikos Christodoulides and former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides are the likeliest to run for president in the 2028 elections, a new poll published on Monday showed.Asked who they think ...
Cyprus Mail on MSN8h

Senegal’s Khassim Diagne poised to be UN’s new special representative in Cyprus

Senegalese diplomat Khassim Diagne has been put forward as the United Nations’ new special representative in Cyprus, the Cyprus Mail understands.Diplomatic sources informed the Cyprus Mail that Diagne ...
Cyprus Mail on MSN4d

ATF to report back to Christodoulides on August 18

The team of experts from the United States’ Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) who are carrying out an investigation into the cause of and circumstances surrounding the wildfire ...
Cyprus Mail on MSN3d

Pachyammos village council demands crossing point in Kokkina

The Pachyammos village council on Sunday demanded that President Nikos Christodoulides set as “a matter of highest priority” the opening of a crossing point into the Turkish Cypriot exclave of Kokkina ...
Cyprus Mail on MSN10d

Tatar ‘insulted’ by Christodoulides calling arrest of five in north an act of piracy

President Nikos Christodoulides “insulted” the Turkish Cypriots with his statements over the detention of five Greek Cypriots in the north, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said on Sunday.In a ...
Cyprus Mail on MSN9d

Disy tells Christodoulides to explain why closing crossing points is ‘detrimental’

Disy on Monday called on President Nikos Christodoulides to “explain to society why it is impossible and detrimental to the nation to talk about closing crossing points” after some had called for this ...
Cyprus Mail on MSN9d

Christodoulides raises issue of arrested Greek Cypriots in final Stewart meeting

President Nikos Christodoulides raised the issue of the five Greek Cypriots who remain in custody in the north after having been arrested last month during his final meeting with outgoing United ...
Cyprus Mail on MSN7d

Parliament accepts some of Christodoulides’ changes to multiple pensions law

Parliament on Tuesday accepted some of the amendments President Nikos Christodoulides had made to new bills regulating the pensions of future state officials.Christodoulides had sent six of the bills, ...
Cyprus Mail on MSN3d

‘Terrorism’ on one side, ‘fascism’ on the other – property arrest saga rolls on

FEW things in the recent history of the Cyprus problem have been able to generate such explosive language and visceral reactions from the leaders of the island’s two sides as the arrests made in ...
Cyprus Mail on MSN16d

Christodoulides’ apology ‘not enough’, Annita says

President Nikos Christodoulides’ televised apology for the government’s response to the wildfires which tore through the Limassol district and killed two people last week was “not enough”, House ...
Cyprus Mail on MSN14d

Christodoulides sends state officials’ pension reform bills back to parliament

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday backed, in principle, the new laws passed by parliament to regulate multiple pensions for state officials.However, following advice from the legal service, ...
Cyprus Mail on MSN20d

Christodoulides cancels meeting with

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday cancelled his planned meeting with Egypt’s Petroleum Minister Karim Badawi in light of a deadly wildfire which was raging in the Limassol district on ...