Cyprus

Efforts surrounding the Cyprus problem are garnering a positive response, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday night. He sought to stress that he has observed “positive developments” reiterating the government’...

President Nikos Christodoulides said it was not goal to “convince anyone” over the foreclosures and non-performing loan bills, after a meeting with MPs at the presidential palace on Monday night. ...

“If the administration chooses to override the F-16 veto, I will oppose it and there will be consequences,” Senator and Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Robert Menendez ...

A 29-year-old man who died at Aphrodite’s Rock in Paphos on Sunday drowned, an autopsy revealed on Monday. Carried out by state pathologist Orthodoxos Orthodoxou, the findings were in ...

British woman Ellie Horrocks, 22, who was in a coma after a quad bike accident in Ayia Napa has made it back to the UK after a GoFundMe managed to raise ...

The state will spend €60 million more this fiscal year as a result of the increase since June in the Cost of Living Allowance (CoLA), MPs heard on Tuesday. The funds ...

Out of the population of individuals that were at risk of poverty in Cyprus in 2022, 5.6 per cent were unable to afford a meal containing meat, fish or a vegetarian equivalent ...

A marathon session in parliament on Monday failed to avoid a showdown at the House plenum for later this week, where MPs will be voting on a contentious bill tabled ...

International Moon Day is coming up shortly and Nicosia has special events organised for it. Apart from joining celebrations around the world, our capital city has a special role in ...

The energy ministry said on Monday that funds for the making housing energy efficient will be increased by €25 million. According to the announcement, the ministry will increase the funding from €35 ...

A 53-year-old man on Monday pleaded not guilty to burglary charges brought against him for incidents in July 2022. On Monday, the man appeared in the Larnaca-Famagusta Criminal Court, where a ...

The trial of a 45-year-old man accused of premeditated murder in Paphos has been adjourned following a request from his defence lawyers. The trial is set to resume on September 20 ...

Less that 24-hours before the planned protest at Limassol’s casino resort, one of the unions has backed out as a response to the labour minister’s “plea to refrain ...

Cyprus is lagging behind in the implementation of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and the Paris agreement on climate change, according to a press release issued by the UN Sustainable ...

National investment promotion agency Invest Cyprus on Monday announced that in the context of a forum taking place this week, it has joined forces with the ANIMA Network to launch ...

Giorgos Koumas was re-elected unopposed as president of the Cyprus Football Association (CFA) on Monday. Koumas was formally re-elected in Limassol in the presence of officials from Fifa and Uefa ...

The IMD Smart City Index 2023 ranked Nicosia in 117th place amongst its 141 ‘smart cities’ with respondents identifying road congestion as their key concern. Nicosia also ranked ‘CC’ in structures and ‘...

New conscripts on Monday started to take up their 14-momth posts in the National Guard in a process that will last until Friday. Recruits have to enlist on the specified ...

A children’s group will soon be established to discuss issues concerning them, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday, after receiving the annual report for 2021 of the Commissioner for the ...

The biggest pre-Cyprus Comic Con event is happening this coming weekend! Get your geek on with cosplay, card games and collectibles at the CCC Bazaar says ALIX NORMAN Three years ...

A total of 35 dishonoured cheques, with a total value of €67,609, were issued in June 2023, while 16 persons (10 legal and 6 natural) were recorded in the preliminary list of the Central Information Register (...

Police are investigating an alleged scam in which a woman from Nicosia lost over €77,000. The woman, aged 49, was allegedly persuaded by an unknown person via social media to invest money ...

Police arrested a 26-year-old man aboard a flight bound for Israel on Friday after he was found to be in possession of forged documents. The man boarded the flight on ...

CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES on what Netflix has in store for July From sci-fi movies taking place in a ghetto to sword fighting in a backward medieval village, Netflix has a slate ...