Tom Cleaver

A car caught fire in Limassol on Friday night. According to the fire brigade, the car had been parked in the city’s Omonia neighbourhood and caught fire shortly before 9...

A moped caught fire in Limassol shortly before midnight on Friday and suffered “extensive damage” as a result. The moped had been parked in an open area in the city ...

A lorry, a trailer and a car were destroyed by a fire which broke out in an industrial area near Paphos on Saturday morning. Police said they were informed of ...

A car and various other items which had been reported stolen in recent days were found in what the police on Sunday described as a “fenced area” in Larnaca, with ...

A 25-year-old man was arrested in Nicosia as part of a police operation aimed at stamping out the dealing of drugs, the police said on Saturday. The man was arrested ...

Saturday’s weather will be mostly clear across most of the island, though clouds are expected to gather from time to time in some parts. Temperatures are set to rise ...

The rollout of smart electricity meters is continuing across Cyprus in January, with the electricity authority (EAC) on Friday announcing the list of neighbourhoods which are to have smart meters ...

Hospitals across Cyprus were between 85 and 90 per cent full during the holiday period, with that figure set to rise over the coming days in the aftermath of festive gatherings, state ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Friday held a telephone conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Sybiha, with the pair discussing both the ongoing war in Ukraine and the country’s ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Friday called for dialogue and said he had contacted the United Nations in the aftermath of an incident in the buffer zone earlier in ...

A car caught fire shortly before midnight on Thursday in Yeroskipou, Paphos, fire brigade spokesman Andreas Kettis said on Friday. The fire brigade was informed of the fire at 11.57pm, ...

Police on Friday said they have launched an investigation after shots were fired at a hotel in Limassol on Thursday evening. The incident occurred shortly after 6pm, with the police ...

A 45-year-old man and a 33-year-old woman from Paphos were both arrested after seven stolen laptops, seven stolen mobile phones, and other stolen goods were found in their apartment, the ...

A water tank weighing a tonne and a half fell on a parked car as high winds hit Cyprus on Thursday. The tank fell off the top of a block ...

The first baby to be born in Cyprus in 2026 was born in Limassol at 2.25am on New Year’s Day. The baby is a girl and was born at a ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Thursday evening said he had contacted his Swiss counterpart Ignazio Cassis to offer his condolences in the aftermath of a fire at a bar in ...

A controversial deal signed between the north’s ruling coalition and Turkish telecommunications company Turk Telekom which will see Turkish Cypriot taxpayers expend €110 million for the provision of fibreoptic internet ...

President Nikos Christodoulides held a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday evening – the first international call held upon Cyprus’ assumption of the Council of the European Union’...

Friday’s weather is expected to be cloudy but no rain is expected to fall, with temperatures set to rise to 13 degrees Celsius inland, 15 degrees Celsius on the coasts, and ...

The state of cemeteries in Cyprus is “not very encouraging”, the bicommunal technical committee on cultural heritage’s Turkish Cypriot co-chairman Ali Tuncay said on Thursday. He was speaking to ...

European Parliament president Roberta Metsola on Thursday said that efforts to solve the Cyprus problem are “Europe’s responsibility”. “It is not a responsibility which falls solely on Cyprus. It ...

More than 180 projects have been worked on by the bicommunal technical committee on cultural heritage since its establishment in 2008, the committee’s Turkish Cypriot co-chairman Ali Tuncay said on Thursday. “...

Cyprus’ undertaking of the Council of the European Union’s rotating presidency comes at a “pivotal moment for Europe”, European Parliament president Roberta Metsola said on Thursday. “Expectations are high. ...

Two motorcycles were found on fire in the square in the centre of Dherynia in the early hours of Thursday morning, fire brigade spokesman Andreas Kettis said. He wrote in ...