Cyprus News

A 28-year-old man who attacked someone with a kitchen knife in Lakatamia on Saturday was arrested a few hours after the incident, police confirmed. Officers are trying to assess whether ...

Newly founded Volt Cyprus announced on Saturday its six candidates running for the upcoming European Parliament elections. The ticket will include investigative journalist Makarios Drousiotis, whose trilogy of books stirred ...

The ‘job’ was ordered on video call within the prison cell A Supreme Court decision to quash an arrest warrant has brought to light the extent of organised crime within ...

Photo: CY Police Checkpoints The driver of a tanker that overturned on the Nicosia-Limassol highway was hospitalised on Saturday, as police cautioned the public to be vigilant on the road. ...

Two men were remanded at Famagusta district court on Saturday, in connection with two boats which reached Cape Greco carrying 147 migrants. During questioning, the migrants identified the two men, aged 19 ...

Demonstrations are to be carried out across Cyprus on Saturday, to protest the two-year anniversary since Russia invaded Ukraine. “Every day Ukrainian cities are bombarded by missiles of all kinds ...

Next month will be eventful and it is fast approaching. With the arrival of spring and the carnival season, March is expected to have a packed cultural calendar. One venue ...

We visited Bar Souvenir in Nicosia, where Sunday brunch also includes drag-queen karaoke and a special show by Lynn Dynasty and Masc4Mascara. (For best results, play video in 1080p (...

Recently, we’ve been hearing that Cyprus is highly xenophobic. But the truth isn’t that cut and dried finds ALIX NORMAN Apparently, Cyprus is xenophobic? You’ll have seen ...

Cyprus’ tourism ministry this week unveiled an incentive plan aimed at the qualitative and aesthetic improvement of beaches for the year 2024, with local authorities being the beneficiaries. In an official ...

GlobCom Company, in partnership with SEGULA Technologies, announced this week that it has started trials for Mercedes-Benz vehicles’ ADAS/AD sensory equipment on Cyprus public roads from February 12 to March 25, 2024. ...

The renovation project of existing spaces and the creation of new ones at the Paphos general hospital is expected to be delivered in the second quarter of 2024, according to an ...

Limassol shipping companies sanctioned by US Companies registered in Cyprus were hit with sanctions on Friday, as the US, UK and Canada sought to toughen the crackdown on Russia, two ...

CyBC will be paying out over a million euros to journalist Evdokia Loizou, who contracted viral encephalitis from her working conditions, the court ruled on Friday. According to the Nicosia ...

The British woman who reported being gang raped while on holiday in Ayia Napa took the stand at Famagusta criminal court this week. The hearing took place behind closed doors ...

Crime per capita in Cyprus has risen for the second consecutive year, according to the police’s annual statistics report. The report shows that the “crime index”, the ratio of ...

LGBT right’s group, Rainbow Families Cy, on Friday called on authorities to take issues of hate speech seriously, instead of allowing extremist rhetoric to grow, following homophobic rhetoric of ...

Sun, beach and plenty of fun! It may be a little while away yet pretty soon, the coastline of Cyprus will fill with events and travellers. Gearing up for another ...

Despite a record number of visitors last year, there is a growing gap between the number of arrivals to Cyprus and occupancy levels, due both to tourists going to stay ...

The construction of the new central prison building by 2026 will significantly alleviate the issue of overcrowding in prisons, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said on Friday. He was speaking after meeting ...

The Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) on Friday announced that it has become a member of the EuroCTP consortium, a collaborative initiative involving several European exchanges. EuroCTP, established in August 2023, aims ...

The Nicosia Municipality has spent €11 million on social integration programmes in the last 12 years, Mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis said on Friday. Speaking at a ceremony presenting the results to date of ...

Turkish energy company Aksa made $1 billion (€924 million) in profit in Cyprus since 2000, Cyprus Turkish Chamber of Mechanical Engineers chairman Ayer Yarkiner claimed on Friday. Yarkiner at a joint press conference ...

An increase of 472 per cent in cases against the state for asylum applications was recorded from 2020 to 2023, the legal service announced on Friday. However, there was a nine per cent ...