Today’s weather: Clear start, rain possible later
Sunday will begin with clear skies across most of the island, though clouds are expected to gather as the day continues, and rain may be possible in the mountains during ...
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Animal Party lambasts BirdLife Cyprus for not attending anti-Elam protest
The Animal Party on Saturday excoriated ornithological non-governmental organisation BirdLife Cyprus for not attending a protest organised against Elam’s decision to table a discussion on “environmental activists and the ...
Bicommunal football match held in Nicosia
A bicommunal football match was held in Nicosia on Saturday morning, involving amateur players from Turkish Cypriot club Yenikent Percinci and Greek Cypriot club Apollon Yeri, both of which are ...
UN warns against hunting in buffer zone
The United Nations on Saturday warned hunters in Cyprus against hunting in the island’s buffer zone, stressing that it is “strictly prohibited”.
“Any aggressive or endangering behaviour by hunters ...
Fire service called to pump water from basements after heavy rain
The fire service were called upon to pump water from the basements of two properties on Friday after heavy rain hit parts of the island, its spokesman Andreas Kettis said ...
Bicommunal cleanup operation held across Nicosia’s divide
Dozens of people joined a bicommunal cleanup operation in and around Nicosia’s old town on Saturday morning, with volunteers picking litter from both sides of the island’s divided ...
Man arrested for driving almost seven times over legal alcohol limit
A 40-year-old man has been arrested in Larnaca after having been found to have been driving while almost seven times over the legal limit, the police said on Saturday.
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Man arrested for driving at 100mph, failing to stop for police
A 26-year-old man was arrested on Friday evening after driving his car at 161 kilometres per hour (100 miles per hour) on the motorway between Limassol and Paphos and then failing to ...
Christodoulides heads to New York for UN general assembly
President Nikos Christodoulides on Saturday departed Athens for New York ahead of the United Nations’ “high-level week”, where he and representatives of every other UN member state will address the ...
Fifteenth body recovered from Kyrenia ferry wreckage
A fifteenth body has been recovered from the wreckage of the ferry which sank off the coast of Kyrenia last month, Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel said on Saturday.
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Greece aims for next enlarged Cyprus meeting ‘to be a success’
Greece is aiming for the next enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem “to be a success”, the country’s President Constantine Tassoulas said, as he welcomed his Cypriot counterpart Nikos ...
Girl injured after falling from window of third-floor Limassol flat
A 15-year-old girl is injured but said to be “out of danger” after having fallen from the window of a third-floor flat onto a wooden pergola in the Limassol suburb ...
Funerals held for 15 missing persons from Aloa massacre
A funeral service was held on Friday evening for 15 missing persons, including nine children, whose remains had been recovered by the Committee on Missing Persons, at the Turkish Cypriot cemetery ...
Today’s weather: Clear start, storms possible later
Saturday will begin with mostly clear skies across most of the island, though the weather may turn inland and in the mountains as the day goes on, with isolated rain ...
Yilmaz on Cyprus gas pipeline: It seems we have upset some people
Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz on Friday quipped that “it seems we have upset some people” with his country’s plans to build a natural gas pipeline to link itself ...
Parents of man murdered in Ayia Napa have ‘more hope’ of justice after UK parliament debate
The parents of George Low, the British man who was stabbed to death in Ayia Napa in 2016, on Friday said that they have “more hope” of achieving justice for their ...
Finance ministry ‘monitoring situation’ amid rising fuel prices
The finance ministry is “monitoring the situation” with the cost of fuel continuing to increase in recent weeks amid developments in the conflict in the Middle East, its spokesman Michalis ...
Rotating presidency ‘an indispensable component of political equality’
A rotating presidency between the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot communities in a post-solution Cyprus constitutes an “indispensable component of political equality”, Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman’s undersecretary Mehmet ...
Petrol station owners warn of more price increases at pump
The price of fuel at the pump is expected to increase further in the coming weeks, petrol station owners’ association chairman Savvas Prokopiou warned on Friday, with recent developments in ...
Kyrenia ferry only underwent ‘superficial’ repairs after crack appeared in June
The ferry which sank off the coast of Kyrenia last month had only undergone “superficial” repairs in June after a crack appeared on its left side, the Turkish Cypriot Kyrenia ...
Cyprus-Lebanon undersea cable ‘not possible without Turkey’s permission’
A planned undersea electricity interconnection cable linking Cyprus and Lebanon is “not possible without Turkey’s permission”, Turkish Cypriot ‘energy minister’ Hasan Tacoy said on Wednesday.
“If there are plans ...
Undersea cable ‘will allow Cyprus to send renewable energy to Lebanon’
A planned undersea electrical interconnection cable linking Cyprus and Lebanon would allow the island to send energy there that it generates through renewable sources, which at present goes to waste, ...
Cypriot MEPs demand more measures against Turkey after State of EU speech
Two Cypriot members of the European Parliament reacted to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the European Union address by demanding that the bloc take more ...
Court hears how man killed wife with rotary saw
The 41-year-old man who killed his wife in a field next to the motorway which links Nicosia and Morphou appeared in court for the second time on Wednesday, with a ...