Cyprus

An 18-year-old has been remanded for six days as he is suspected of stealing cars and fleeing from the police following a car chase. Police were initially alerted to his ...

A 40-year-old woman is in serious condition at Nicosia General after being hit by a car driven by a 59-year-old man in Strovolos, police said on Friday. According to authorities, ...

Six people died from Covid-19 over the past week, the health ministry announced on Friday, while also reporting another 3,625 cases of the disease. A total of ten people were recorded ...

The Covid Years. Are we still in them or can we now look back on them? It is still hard to tell and they’ve given us a lot to ...

The family of an ex-footballer were on Friday offered temporary residence permits for humanitarian reasons, after their deportation was ordered, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said. Former player Mohamed Kamara from ...

A cruise passenger was flown to Limassol for urgent treatment after experiencing heart attack symptoms while onboard, the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) announced on Friday. The cruise-liner was located ...

Traffic cameras are recording about 450 violations each day – mainly for speeding – with a whopping 125,000 incidents logged since the pilot phase was launched on October 25, 2021. Haris Evripides, assistant director of the ...

Police on Thursday arrested three more persons in connection with the murder of a 41-year-old inmate at the Central Prisons. The three individuals being held are all male, aged 53, 38 and 36. ...

The finance ministry on Thursday published a call for a public consultation on a package of seven bills aimed at the smoother implementation of the ‘Mortgage to Rent’ scheme which ...

The House on Thursday voted to again extend a freeze on the repossession of certain categories of properties, despite warnings from the government and the banking industry not to. The ...

Police on Thursday placed under arrest two women in Limassol suspected of stealing some €22,000 worth of merchandise from their employer. The two suspects, aged 52 and 36, worked at the online sales ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday called France a ‘key strategic partner’ of Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean, welcoming the growing ties between Nicosia and Paris on a range of issues ...

Businesses and residents of the Lykavitos area in Nicosia voiced ‘desperation’ on Thursday over the restricting of a section of upper Makarios Avenue to one-way traffic, saying the change had ...

Rock bands, solo artists with atmospheric sounds and conceptual evenings arrive soon at Larnaca’s most popular live music venue, Savino Live starting with a performance by Fuse on Friday. ...

Elections for new archbishop of Cyprus will likely turn into an issue over Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine, with some bishops being favoured by the Russian church, and Patriarch ...

Turkish Cypriot media and opposition on Thursday saw Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay’s statements about the Islamic Kulliye project as threatening and an intervention into their culture. According to ...

Patients burdened with the high costs of specialised drugs to treat illnesses that are not covered by Gesy were discussed by lawmakers on Thursday. The House health committee talked of ...

In an atmospheric corner of Nicosia, a museum tells the story of one of the island’s oldest crafts finds PAUL LAMBIS Housed in a traditional old building that was ...

October was the busiest cruise month of 2022 for DP World Limassol, as 29 cruise ships carrying over 46,000 people, berthed at the port and used its passenger terminal. Between January and October, ...

While unleaded 95 petrol prices on the island have increased by 0.9 cents per litre, heating oil and diesel price registered a sharp reduction of 4.2 and 1.4 cents per litre respectively, according to ...

Athienou municipality should be included in the state housing scheme of 2023 as its exclusion is unfair, its Mayor Kyriacos Kareklas said on Thursday. In a letter to Interior Minister Nicos ...

In a year that has been excellent for Cyprus wines, the second International Maratheftiko Day will take place December 1, a day of celebration of the indigenous grape variety, with various ...

Larnaca port workers on Thursday afternoon decided to suspend their strike after three days over docking policies, following the intervention of Labour Minister Kyriacos Koushos. According to an announcement from ...

Paphos and Seville have been chosen by the EU as the 2023 European capitals of smart tourism, recognising the two cities’ outstanding achievements in smart, innovative, sustainable and inclusive tourism. The ...