James Morphakis

Police in Larnaca arrested a 34-year-old domestic worker on Saturday morning on suspicion of sending €42,000 belonging to her 81-year-old employer abroad through money transfer companies. The case was reported to ...

President Nikos Christodoulides began a personal pilgrimage to Mount Athos on Saturday morning and is expected back in Cyprus on Sunday. He was received by the Holy Community in Karyes, ...

Motorcyclists accounted for 38 per cent and young people for 26 per cent of all road deaths in Cyprus between 2021 and 2025, Transport Minister Evi Tsolaki said on Saturday. Tsolaki, who chairs the ...

Cyprus and Greece have challenged Turkey’s candidate for UN secretary-general, Feridun Sinirlioglu, as he pledged “impartiality” without addressing most of their questions directly. Cyprus’ ambassador to the UN, Maria ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has played down the row over the Greece-Cyprus electricity cable surveys, as the French research vessel Abeille Marengo prepares to sail from Heraklion. Asked by ...

Local authorities in Tylliria have warned of organised protests if a new crossing point is agreed without first opening one at Kokkina, after reports that a crossing at Kambos is ...

UN envoy Maria Angela Holguin has postponed meetings with the displaced municipalities of Famagusta and Morphou that were due on Saturday and will now see them on Tuesday, as preparations ...

Boycott-Divest-Sanction (BDS) Cyprus and 10 other activist organisations have called on CyBC to withdraw from Eurovision unless Israel’s public broadcaster (KAN) is barred. in an open letter issued on Saturday, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has said Cyprus seeks to resolve the status of Britain’s bases on the island and that the British government “has not ruled out discussing” the matter. ...

Police arrested four people on Friday night during overnight operations, with offences including theft, illegal residence in the Republic and drink-driving. Officers stopped 613 vehicles and booked 102 for speeding, with eight ...

The French research vessel Abeille Marengo is set to sail from Heraklion to begin seabed surveys for the electricity cable between Greece and Cyprus. The Marengo is due to head ...

A 30-year-old man was arrested in Larnaca on Friday after police found 2,000 packs of contraband cigarettes and 54 kilograms of hand-rolling tobacco in his car. Officers stopped his vehicle at about 5.20...

The archbishopric has applied for planning permission to renovate the old Phaneromeni school building in the old walls of Nicosia, some five and a half years after agreeing that the ...

Police have urged motorists to avoid the historic centre of Nicosia on Saturday, when Apoel holds a day of events for the club’s centenary, with road closures possible along ...

Cyprus has informed the United Nations that Turkish research vessels are carrying out seabed surveys in its waters for a planned natural gas pipeline to the occupied north. The letter, ...

Temperatures in Cyprus will fall below the seasonal average on Sunday and Monday, bringing cold days and nights, weather forecaster Andreas Chrysanthou confirmed on Saturday. Daytime temperatures will drop by ...

Cyprus will launch a four-year strategy to attract foreign investors and skilled workers, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Friday, as the government sought to deepen its relationship with the ...

Talks aimed at bringing about a resumption of negotiations in earnest towards the solution of the Cyprus problem are at a “crucially critical point”, presidential press office director Victor Papadopoulos ...

Five defendants accused in connection with the seizure of more than 230kg of drugs in Nicosia in February pleaded not guilty to all 30 charges before the Nicosia criminal court on ...

Cyprus remains one of four EU states under migratory pressure, the European Commission said on Friday, even though irregular border crossings fell by 34 per cent in the year. The Commission’...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Friday, days before a trilateral meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides and UN envoy Maria Angela Holguin. The foreign ...

Six unions on Friday suspended a 48-hour strike at state hospitals planned for November 10 and 11, after the board of the state health services organisation (Okypy) approved a draft renewal of ...

A flight from Prague to Cyprus landed safely on Friday after a bomb threat, with all passengers unharmed, as a week of false alarms continued to disrupt air traffic across ...

Three in four Greek Cypriots will accept or tolerate a bizonal, bicommunal federation, according to University of Cyprus research, the first time on record that the figure has exceeded acceptance ...