Jonathan Shkurko

Amathountos bishop Nicolaos announced his candidacy for Paphos bishop on Tuesday, saying that although he was hesitant at first, he could not say no after “the sincere efforts” by those ...

For the second day in a row, police urged businesses to pay extra attention to their online accounts and transactions after releasing a statement regarding a Limassol-based company finding out ...

Newly elected President Nikos Christodoulides will be invested by the House of Representatives, as stipulated by Article 42 of the Cypriot constitution, on February 28 at 11.30am. On that day, in front ...

Three Turkish Cypriots, two men and one woman, were arrested in Greece while attempting to cross the Greek-Turkish border with weapons, it emerged on Monday. According to a statement released ...

Foreign leaders and state officials on Monday continued sending congratulations to president-elect Nikos Christodoulides with French President Emmanuel Macron even doing so in Greek. “Dear Nikos Christodoulides, congratulations for your ...

Almost 30 per cent of voters abstained in the runoff presidential election on Sunday, with a total of 405,086 people casting a vote. That figure represents 72.2 of those eligible to vote, a ...

A police officer had to the perform the Heimlich manoeuvre on a man working at a voting station in Limassol on Sunday, after noticing he had started to choke while ...

At the age of 102, Argyri Achilleos is the oldest voter in Cyprus, the Cyprus News Agency said on Sunday after she voted in the Paphos district. A resident of Tala, ...

Archbishop Georgios III said that regardless of the outcome of the election, the people of Cyprus need to come together and support the new president from Monday. “As I said ...

The second round of voting in the presidential elections went smoothly and no issues were reported, with the exception of one voter caught trying to take a picture of his ...

Bars, cafés and restaurants around Cyprus were 60 per cent full on Sunday, according to the president of the recreation centres association (Osika) Neophytos Thrasyvoulou, who said the higher turnout ...

Voting day on Sunday was marred by some bad blood between President Nicos Anastasiades and Katie Clerides, daughter of Disy founder Glafcos Clerides, who had previously urged the party to ...

Party leaders across Cyprus’ political spectrum turned up at polling stations around the country to cast their preference in the runoff of the presidential elections on Sunday. At the end ...

The Larnaca tourism board (Etap) on Thursday said several initiatives aimed at putting the village of Ayios Theodoros on the tourism map are underway. Recently, the village was named the ...

Family members of national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou, whose lifeless body was found under a bridge in Alassa back in 2005, have instructed their lawyers to initiate criminal proceedings against the state, ...

Cyprus to send rescue team after Turkey accepts By Nikolaos Prakas and Jonathan Shkurko Two of the teachers with the dozens of Turkish Cypriot children were found dead on Wednesday ...

The met office has issued an orange weather warning from 10pm on Wednesday to 7am on Thursday, warning of extremely low temperatures on the mountains. The minimum temperature in the ...

Due to the severe accumulation of snow, police closed the mountain roads of Troodos and Machaira and limited the traffic on the mountain roads of Limassol and Paphos to four-wheel-drive ...

The Paphos district court issued a five-day remand against a 27 year-woman and a 25-year-old man, accused of being behind a string of kiosk robberies and break-ins. According to Paphos police ...

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela on Tuesday signed a memorandum of cooperation with China aimed at improving the quality of healthcare and medical services through the exchange of information, knowledge and ...

The Limassol district court issued an eight-day remand against two people on Tuesday after police found 35 kilograms of cannabis at their house and storeroom. The two people, a 27-year-old and ...

The Nicosia municipality on Tuesday said that the partial collapse of a wall inside a building on Arsinoe street in old Nicosia has to be addressed by the Guardian of ...

Diko president Nicholas Papadoupoulos on Tuesday said he was open working with Disy, after the outgoing ruling party’s candidate did not make it to the runoff election on Sunday. ...

The devastating earthquake in Turkey is also affecting the area around Cyprus, head of Greece’s organisation for anti-seismic planning Efthymios Lekkas said on Tuesday. The Cyprian arc includes the ...