Cyprus

Shots were fired at a pharmacy on Grivas Digenis Avenue in Limassol and investigations are underway, police confirmed on Friday. The incident was reported shortly after 8.30am, when employees inside ...

A 42-year-old man was arrested after a search of his home found a number of stolen bicycles and stolen electric scooters which are believed to have been stolen, the police ...

Workers at three hotels in Limassol went on a spontaneous strike on Friday morning. Trade union Sek announced that workers at the Atlantica Miramare hotel, the Atlantica Oasis hotel, and ...

One of the five people who filed complaints to the police leading to the arrest and subsequent detention of five Greek Cypriots in the north on Thursday night withdrew her ...

Opposition Turkish Cypriot leadership election candidate Tufan Erhurman holds a four-point lead over incumbent Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar ahead of next month’s election, according to a poll released ...

Friday’s weather is expected to be warm and clear across the island, with temperatures set to rise to a maximum of 37 degrees Celsius inland, 31 degrees Celsius on the west ...

On Thursday, the European Parliament overwhelmingly adopted a resolution condemning the illegal and continued detention of five Greek Cypriots in the north, calling for their immediate and unconditional release. The ...

The foreign ministry on Thursday paid tribute to the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. “Today marks 24 years since the heinous terrorist attacks of 9/11,” the ministry ...

The Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC) announced on Thursday it has launched a probe into practices distorting competition relating to the acquisition of ExxonMobil’s share capital by ...

The two defendants in the ongoing ‘golden passports’ trial insisted on Thursday that they are innocent of all charges, that they broke no law nor done anything untoward. Former House ...

An estimated 3,000 people from both the public and private sectors joined Thursday’s island-wide general strike in Limassol, demanding the full restoration of the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA), according to figures ...

Carrying placards reading “hands off CoLA”, “CoLA for all” and “the struggle for CoLA does not stop here”, thousands of protesters gathered outside the district administration in Paphos on Thursday ...

The water development department, responding on Thursday to media reports of stalled drilling in Ayia Marina Chrysochous, said the project falls under the Paphos district administration. “The competence and responsibility ...

Overall tax revenues have risen considerably over the last few years, although tax arrears continue to be high, MPs heard on Thursday. The House audit committee was discussing the auditor-general’...

A radiologist is facing a negligence lawsuit from the family of a 63-year-old woman who died of pancreatic cancer, after allegedly failing to detect early signs of the disease despite ...

Cyprus was brought to a standstill on Thursday, as thousands of workers staged a nationwide strike outside the finance ministry, chanting “Hands off CoLA” and “CoLA for all workers,” demanding ...

What are the voices of the sea? What tales does the ocean hide? A one-of-a-kind experiential musical storytelling workshop for children is coming to Larnaca this Saturday as part of ...

Nicosia district court on Thursday sentenced former volunteerism commissioner Yiannakis Yiannaki to three years in prison for deliberately circulating forged documents to secure a job in the public sector. During ...

Nicosia police arrested two men, both aged 29, on Wednesday in connection to an investigation into drug smuggling, it was announced on Thursday. The arrests followed intelligence shared between the drug ...

Cyprus has a higher life expectancy at birth than the EU average, Eurostat data showed on Thursday. In 2024, the average life expectancy at birth in the euro area was 81.7 years, ...

Approximately 90 Nepalese residents of Paphos gathered peacefully on Wednesday at the city’s town hall square to honour the victims of the recent mass anti-government protests in Nepal. Holding candles, ...

According to the Oxford dictionary, Mystes is the one initiated in a mystery, as in the Dionysian mysteries. The mysteries were celebrated throughout ancient Greece, revolving around Dionysus, the god ...

Defence lawyer Kostis Efstathiou told the criminal court on Thursday that he would be asking for changes to the bail terms of two monks from the Avakoum monastery, who are ...

For thousands of students arriving in Cyprus, mastering Greek is about more than just learning a language. It’s about belonging. Since 1998, the School of Modern Greek at the University ...