Cyprus

This first Pediaios River Festival has arrived! From Tuesday until Sunday, a colourful and participatory series of activities in the Pediaios River and beyond has been planned to celebrate nature ...

“Would anyone logically think diaspora Cypriots could determine the result of the United States election?”, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos asked on Tuesday in response to apparent suspicion in Cyprus’ media ...

Disciplinary proceedings begin next week against trade unionist policeman Nikos Loizides for statements he made regarding the police force. Loizides, who is Isotita trade union’s vice president and spokesman, ...

The education ministry announced on Tuesday that it was to begin enforcing legislation prohibiting the use of mobile phones in secondary schools. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), the ...

The UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) is investigating Monday’s incident in Deneia, where a Turkish army officer allegedly threatened a farmer, while he was tending his field in ...

Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Xavier Bettel is on an official visit to Cyprus on Tuesday. Bettel, who is also the country’s deputy prime minister, will have a private meeting ...

The Cypriot government is in full agreement with the statement issued by the European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell regarding Sunday’s elections in Georgia, foreign ministry’s ...

A 72-year-old woman is in a “serious condition” after having been involved in a road traffic collision in the Limassol district on Monday morning. The collision occurred at around 7.20am ...

Turkish Cypriots on Tuesday are marking the 101st anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Turkey, which took place on October 29, 1923. A ceremony is set to take place in ...

A delivery driver has been hospitalised after being the victim of yet another attack in Limassol in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The driver, a 28-year-old Bangladeshi national, was ...

A 26-year-old man suffered a facial fracture and other injuries to his body after being involved in violent episodes while leaving a football match on Monday night. The incident occurred ...

Tuesday’s weather will be mainly sunny across the island, with temperatures set to rise to 27 degrees Celsius inland and on the coasts, and 17 degrees Celsius in the mountains. Overnight, ...

The government is investing tens of millions of euros to manage Cyprus’ traffic problem, although, according to Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades, the issue is not easy to solve. Vafeades, speaking ...

A Turkish army officer allegedly threatened a farmer in Deneia on Monday afternoon, while he was tending to his field in the buffer zone. Deneia community leader Charalambos Alexandrou said ...

An appeal has been lodged against a court decision nullifying the election of Savvas Savva to the post of Alassa community leader. This was announced on Monday by Limassol district ...

An earthquake measuring 3.8 on the Richter Scale was recorded 30km off Rizokarpaso in the north on Monday afternoon. According to Reporter, the tremor was not felt elsewhere in Cyprus.

An operation to dismantle a black money and money laundering network was launched in Limassol on Monday, under Europol guidance in close cooperation with Cyprus police. According to Philenews sources, ...

An NGO said on Monday that it awaits the green light from the government for the funding and staffing of an alert service for the elderly. Colloquially known as the ‘...

Footage from the annual 28th October parade – mostly made up of high school and university students – marking Greece’s resistance to Nazism and Fascism during World War II, though also ...

Seven of the eight Syrians arrested earlier this month on suspicion of financing a terrorist group, only to be then released, have been redetained under a different process, the Cyprus ...

A fourth report into the collapse of the Isias hotel in the southeastern Turkish city of Adiyaman, which killed 24 Cypriot children, 11 Cypriot adults, and 37 others, was completed and forwarded to ...

A 20-day-old baby died at the weekend and six more remained in intensive care on Monday after being fed ethanol while being treated at north Nicosia’s emergency hospital. The ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition political party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman described the north’s ‘government’s’ conduct as “extremely unserious” on Monday, as the political wrangling over attempts to appoint a ‘...

Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis on Monday said he was seriously concerned over the spate of attacks against delivery drivers, and would have a high-level meeting during the week to discuss ...