Cyprus

Roads around Troodos are open only to vehicles equipped with snow chains or four-wheel drive due to light snow fall in the area, police warned on Tuesday morning. The affected ...

Larnaca police on Monday arrested a woman suspected of stealing a car in Limassol on Friday. Officers who were investigating the theft of the car spotted a vehicle resembling the ...

Police carried out 8,925 checks aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus from Monday until Tuesday and booked 67 individuals for violations of protocols. According to a statement, 3,422 inspections were conducted ...

The House finance committee on Monday discussed two bills extending tax breaks to landlords who rent to businesses stricken by the coronavirus crisis, which aim at convincing them to voluntarily ...

Calls for the removal of Turkish troops and an end to Turkey’s guarantor status are red lines from which the north will not budge, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar ...

Work is underway to provide a better road network in Peyia which started with the demolition of a house on a dangerous corner allow road widening on Sunday, local authorities ...

One death from the coronavirus and 113 new cases were announced on Monday. The health ministry said the death was of a woman in Nicosia general hospital, aged 86, who had underlying ...

The met service issued a yellow weather warning for rain and storms late on Monday. Drivers were asked to be careful citing limited visibility on the road. The service also ...

The health ministry has announced the rapid testing sites for Tuesday. The sites are for the testing of the wider population but also the obligatory weekly testing of people back ...

Those who took to the streets on Saturday demonstrating against corruption and pandemic measures did not expect the police to use batons, teargas and water cannon to break up the ...

A 25-year-old woman who was injured by a police water cannon during a protest in Nicosia on Saturday underwent an eye operation on Monday. Local musician Anastasia Demetriadou participated in ...

The postal services have suspended deliveries to certain countries due to bad weather conditions, it was announced on Monday. Citing bad weather conditions in European countries, the services announced the ...

The epidemiological picture in Limassol remains alarming, the health ministry said on Monday following a meeting with the advisory committee on coronavirus and the contact tracing team. One reason put ...

Opposition MPs on Monday piled on Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis for having reported to authorities a Twitter parody account – leading to police raiding the home of a Larnaca woman – with ...

Opposition parties called for the justice minister’s resignation on Monday following accusations that police had unnecessarily cracked down on demonstrators using excessive force and injuring several people, including a 25...

More than 400,000 people have undergone a rapid coronavirus test in the last two weeks, the health ministry announced on Monday. Between February 1 to February 14, the health ministry carried out more ...

Domestic violence incidents might have been avoided if the social welfare service had implemented the restructuring plan approved by the cabinet back in 2013, the psychologists association (Pasypsy) said on Monday. ...

Police are investigating a complaint of sexual assault made against a politician, a spokesman confirmed on Monday. In a recent statement to the police, a woman has alleged that a ...

A domestic violence unit within the Paphos police headquarters launched operations on Monday, a police spokesman said. Operating as part of the CID, the domestic violence unit will serve the ...

Paphos police on Monday said they are investigating an internet scam amounting to €21,000 following a complaint by a permanent resident last December. The complaint was made by the director of ...

After a weekend of unrest that saw both Apollon and AEL football fans storming each other’s fan clubs police will increase their presence in Limassol on Monday night as ...

An agreement reached between Cyprus and Israel to allow the free movement of vaccinated Israelis to the island was welcomed by the transport Minister Yiannis Karousos on Monday. He said ...

Sunday saw a record number of SMS sent for permission to move around, figures published by the deputy ministry of research, innovation and digital policy on Monday showed. A total ...

Cyprus has one of the highest survival rates for pediatric cancer in the world, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Monday as International Childhood Cancer Day is marked globally on ...