Cyprus

Cyprus remains dangerously unprepared for wildfires, Charalambos Theopemptou, chair of the House environment committee warned on Wednesday. Speaking after Tuesday’s high-level parliamentary session, Theopemptou said the country had failed ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an application by Monk Nectarios to cancel a court order that allowed authorities to seize evidence from the Monastery of Saint Abvakoum. The order, ...

By Eleni Philippou The much-anticipated new law on the operation of swimming pools – the Swimming Pools Law of 2025 – was passed in July 2025 with the aim of making swimming pools safer, ...

Two Cypriot antiquities returned by the Art of Eternity Gallery in New York to be repatriated to the island were handed over to the government at a ceremony at the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday said he was satisfied with what he has seen so far in terms of implementing decisions taken to support those affected by the Limassol fires. ...

Five people have been charged after a violent fight broke out in broad daylight on Paphos street in Limassol, police said on Wednesday. The incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon and ...

A 22-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday night in connection with the reported theft of a beachgoer’s bag at Finikoudes beach in Larnaca, police said on Wednesday. The incident ...

The fire service was called on to rescue a teenage boy who had climbed up a tree on Tuesday afteroon but could not get back down, spokesman Andreas Kettis said ...

A 28-year-old man was arrested in Famagusta after illegal drugs were found at his home and is expected to appear in court on Wednesday, police said. The operation was carried ...

Cyprus is expected to face a sharp rise in temperatures from Friday, as a warm air mass moves in, pushing heat levels significantly above the seasonal average. The latest weather ...

By Mary Michaelides When my garden began transitioning into a succulent haven, I decided to remove the automatic watering system. I wanted the flexibility to water the succulents less frequently ...

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat, who served in post between 2005 and 2010, on Tuesday expressed surprise at the ongoing detention of five Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday told outgoing United Nations special representative in Cyprus Colin Stewart that “your job description does not allow you to make such a statement”. ...

Parliament for the second time passed a set of bills which will make it mandatory for nursery schools to call children’s parents or guardians in the event that they ...

Police chief Themistos Arnaoutis on Tuesday said he has “no evidence” that the wildfire which tore through the Limassol district and killed two people last month was started “maliciously”. Addressing ...

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, ...

Bus drivers in Larnaca on Tuesday evening rejected a proposal of new terms presented to them by the labour ministry, with their indefinite strike as such set to continue. Drivers ...

There can be “no tolerance for arbitrary detentions”, European parliament president Roberta Metsola’s spokesman Juri Laas said on Monday in response to the arrest and continued remand of five ...

Commercial properties and holiday homes linked to Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) were built despite lacking the proper permits, the audit office said in a report published on Tuesday. One case ...

Morphou’s Greek Cypriot mayor-in-exile Victor Hadjiavraam on Tuesday said he felt “obliged to express my deepest indignation” at the government’s decision to build the new road connecting Nicosia ...

A specialised US federal team will arrive in Cyprus on Wednesday night to assist in the investigation and evaluation of the deadly wildfires that ravaged mountainous Limassol last month, assistant ...

Fire chief Nikos Longinos on Tuesday defended his actions during the wildfire which tore through the Limassol district and killed two people last month, saying he could not go above ...

Limassol district court on Tuesday remanded seven people in police custody for eight days in connection with the suspected beating and kidnapping of two Syrian nationals over the weekend. They ...

Cyprus is among the three EU countries with the lowest recorded number of deaths by drowning in 2022, Eurostat said on Tuesday. With summer in full swing, “swimming pools and beaches ...