Cyprus

The 13-year-old boy who disappeared from a shelter in Nicosia six days ago has been found safe in the north, police said on Tuesday. Efforts are now underway through the ...

Doctors of national health scheme (Gesy) who are on holiday outside Cyprus and Greece cannot currently access the Gesy website or portals, the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO), which manages implementation ...

Additional policing measures will be taken on the highways over the August bank holiday, police on Tuesday. In addition to monitoring traffic, police checks will focus on road violations and ...

A silent protest for the journalists killed while covering developments in Gaza will be held on Thursday in Nicosia. “Their silence is forced – ours is a choice,” a poster calling ...

Cyprus hotels will be at their busiest from the following weekend until August 18, with occupancy rates between 90 and 95 per cent, according to Thanos Michaelides, president of the hoteliers association (Pasyxe). ...

Costas Themistocleous, who served as agriculture minister between 1998 and 2003 under former president Glafcos Clerides, on Tuesday criticised former president Nicos Anastasiades’ recent intervention on the Cyprus problem, accusing him of ...

Lockers are to be placed in eight locations on two beaches in Paralimni and Deryneia, the municipality said on Tuesday. The lockers will be installed at six locations on Vrisi ...

Fines for wasting water will be increased from €51 to €85 with immediate effect due to the “serious reduction in available water reserves”, the Larnaca district organisation (EOA) said on Tuesday. “According ...

Cyprus mountaineering is having a moment; while one team successfully reached the dangerous Belukha peak in July, another readies to climb one of the world’s highest peaks, both pushing ...

Police on Tuesday said they had made two more arrests in connection with the discovery of a large quantity of drugs during a search last month. One of the pair, ...

The long-awaited restoration of the historic warehouses in Kato Pyrgos is set to begin in September after the government approved a €1.3 million funding request, community leader Nicos Kleanthous said on ...

A seven-day remand order was issued against a 29-year-old man in connection with an armed robbery at a bakery in Ayia Napa earlier this week by Famagusta district court on ...

Cyprus welcomes the United States’ efforts to mediate between Ukraine and Russia with the aim of bringing the war in Ukraine to an end, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on ...

A fault at the Karvounas transmission substation caused widespread power cuts in mountainous areas of Limassol and Nicosia on Monday evening, the electricity authority (EAC) said on Tuesday. “There was ...

A 40-year-old man was arrested on Monday evening after police discovered more than a kilogram of cannabis during a vehicle stop in Kato Paphos, police said. According to the drug ...

Almost €140,000 has been paid by the government in salaries to a total of 126 workers who were unable to return to work as a result of the wildfire which tore through ...

The labour inspection department on Tuesday ordered that all outside work be suspended between 12pm and 4pm in areas impacted by the orange weather warning, with high temperatures forecast for ...

The continuous power cuts faced by the north after an explosion at a substation on Friday “would have been more widespread” were it not for the Republic stepping in to ...

Cyprus at the meeting of the informal EU Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) on Monday called for the immediate mobilisation was needed from both EU institutions and member states regarding the ...

Former Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Huseyin Ozgurgun’s son Salih Ozgurgun was arrested late on Monday night after arriving at the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport on an inbound flight ...

Fines for wasting water will be increased from € 51 to € 85 with immediate effect due to the “serious reduction in available water reserves”, the Larnaca self-governance organisation (EOA) announced on Tuesday. “According ...

In a celebration of all things green, clean and plant-based, the Vegan Fam Festival returns this year for another flavoursome edition. Held in Psematismenos village in just a few weeks, ...

Police have launched an investigation after gunshots were fired at a home in the Ayios Athanasios area of Amathus on Monday night. A witness told officers on Tuesday that two ...

The fires that broke out in the Tala community, burning three hectares of land on Tuesday morning have been brought under full control, according to the fire department. “Paphos city ...