Nikolaos Prakas

Two more Griffon vultures have been found dead from electrocution on the power distribution network in Cyprus, NGO Birdlife has announced. The latest fatalities bring the number of vultures killed ...

Monks embroiled in the Osiou Avakoum monastery scandal on Friday requested that their trial at the Holy Synod be postponed. The monks appeared in the ecclesiastical court on Friday morning ...

Cyprus has evaluated as positive the unofficial EU foreign affairs council meeting with Turkey’s participation, the government spokesman said on Friday. Speaking to CyBC, Konstantinos Letymbiotis said Nicosia was ...

Former president Nicos Anastasiades’ decision to make four contract advisers permanent civil service employees has set a precedent that more former advisers are seeking to benefit from, it emerged on ...

A report published on Thursday revealed that an email from the deputy tourism ministry sparked panic within the tourism company TUI. The incident drew heavy criticism from MPs, who accused ...

Lawyer Efstathios Efstathiou has objected to participating in the ecclesiastical trial against two monks, his clients, involved in the Osiou Avakoum monastery scandal, it emerged on Thursday. Efstathiou, who is ...

The government on Wednesday denied it had failed to report all the advisers and their duties, amid reports that a list of 31 advisers to the presidential palace and ministries was ...

Designated users of Turkish Cypriot properties on Mackenzie beach, Larnaca protested outside the interior ministry on Wednesday over plans by the government to sign contracts with people subletting their properties. ...

Communities in the Vasiliko area are outraged over the environment department’s approval for the construction of an asphalt plant in their area, it was reported on Wednesday. The plant, ...

The Antiquities Department announced on Wednesday the completion of the first phase of the 2024 excavations for the ‘Palaepaphos Urban Landscape Project’ (PULP), led by the Archaeological Research Unit of the ...

Around 20,000 hunters went out on Sunday, the first day of the pheasant hunting season, game fund spokesman Petros Anayiotos said on Tuesday. He added that hunters are meant to register ...

Police are investigating two more complaints against the two archimandrites embroiled in the infamous Osiou Avakoum monastery scandal, police spokesman Christos Andreou said on Tuesday. He said authorities are investigating ...

Deputy government spokesman Yiannis Antoniou said on Monday that President Nikos Christodoulides has already responded positively to plans afoot to hold a three-way meeting on the Cyprus problem. Antoniou said ...

A group claiming to be the owners of Turkish Cypriot properties on Mackenzie beach, Larnaca on Monday expressed frustration with the interior ministry over being excluded from processes to sign ...

The Cyprus government and the Turkish Cypriot leadership are in a furious row over a decision by tour operator Tui to stop daytrips to the north, with leader Ersin Tatar ...

A British tourist was found dead in his hotel in Ayia Napa, police said on Wednesday. The tourist, 30, was found unconscious in his hotel room on Tuesday night, and was ...

Cyprus will be participating in Junior Eurovision 2024 with 11-year-old Maria Pissarides, it was announced on Wednesday. The contest will be taking place in Madrid on November 16, 2024. According to an announcement ...

Closing statements will be made in Kurdish activist Kenan Ayaz’s trial in Hamburg, Germany on September 2, it emerged on Tuesday. According to a statement from the Kenan Ayaz Observatory, ...

A 21-year-old man died on Tuesday after being involved in a traffic accident in Dasaki Achnas the previous evening. The man named as Neofytos Constanti died after a crash that ...

Cyprus received 29.9 applications from first-time asylum seekers for every 100,000 people in May 2024 compared to its population, according to data published by Eurostat on Tuesday. The drop in first-time asylum applications ...

Turkey’s participation in the unofficial EU foreign affairs council meeting on August 29 was based on the decisions made in a recent EU Council report, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said ...

The game fund issued a fine of more than €20,000 on Monday, after an individual was found trying to ensnare protected moufflon to sell. According to the game fund, a fine ...

Damage to a central well caused irrigation water to leak onto beaches in Limassol, it was announced on Monday. According to the Limassol district self-governance organisation (Eoa), the incident that ...

A Georgian woman was arrested in the north, after it was found she was wanted by Interpol, the Turkish Cypriot press have reported. The woman, Shehriban Toptal, is wanted for ...