Cyprus

Temperatures are expected to soar to a sweltering 41C on Thursday across Cyprus, as authorities warn of extreme fire danger and issue urgent weather alerts. The meteorological department has issued ...

MEMBERS of parliament on Wednesday discussed a new bill which, if passed, would tighten regulations on their own second jobs. The bill was put forward by Dipa MP Marinos Mousiouttas, ...

Supporting opposition candidate Tufan Erhurman at October’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election is “the right thing to do”, Turkish Cypriot Nicosia mayor Mehmet Harmanci said on Wednesday. Speaking to Genc ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Wednesday held a telephone conversation with the United Kingdom’s Minister of State for Europe Stephen Doughty to discuss ongoing developments in the region, a ...

The central government has allocated €8 million worth of funding to Cyprus’ five district governments to deal with “water supply and water loss issues”, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Wednesday. ...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Wednesday said Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s refusal to meet European Union envoy for the Cyprus problem Johannes Hahn “sends a message to both ...

The met office has issued a yellow weather warning for “extreme temperatures” on Thursday, with the mercury set to rise to a whopping 41 degrees Celsius. The warning will be in ...

The council of ministers has approved an emergency grant of €50,000 to help the families affected by the June 22 terrorist attack at Mar Elias church in Damascus. In a statement issued ...

A box file full of evidence was the central subject of Thursday’s court hearing of the trial of the 49-year-old woman who stands accused of having sold Greek Cypriot-owned ...

The permanent criminal court of Paphos will announce its sentence on July 8 for convicted murderer Doros Theofanous, known as “the hairdresser”, who escaped from custody last year. The court heard ...

The cabinet suspended former head of the central prisons Anna Aristotelous from her present post at the defence ministry on Wednesday over the classified state documents found in the residence ...

Divine Peak has been open in Paphos for several years and is one of those restaurants that consistently receives recommendations. However, it has taken me a long time to get ...

The Limassol district court issued a two-day remand order against the 18-year-old arrested on Tuesday in Limassol in connection with a case involving conspiracy to commit a crime, causing grievous ...

Applications for financial assistance to farmers hit by natural events, especially drought, are now live online, with €12.3 million currently available as compensation and a further €3.5m expected to follow, the ...

The Nicosia municipal pool is set to reopen on Friday, June 27 and will continue to operate daily until mid-September 2025 between 10am and 6.30pm. According to the municipality, children up to ...

A rally to object to a proposed bill aimed at limiting the right to protest is being held on Thursday at 5pm outside the parliament building, where the plenum will ...

Potamia beach in Kappari area, Famagusta, has been designated as a dog-friendly beach and is equipped with umbrellas, sunbeds and toilets – all free of charge – the municipality of Paralimni and ...

The Israeli ambassador to Cyprus, Oren Anolik, on Wednesday expressed concern over what he describes as a spike in “antisemitic rhetoric” across Cyprus’ public sphere in recent days. “What threatens ...

A batch of frozen duck breast fillets imported from Poland has been pulled from supermarket shelves in Cyprus after testing positive for Salmonella enteritidis, health officials confirmed on Wednesday. The ...

Cyprus has called on the European Commission to introduce stronger safeguards and impact assessments to protect the EU’s agricultural sector and food security. The request came during the EU ...

The British bases court in Dhekelia on Wednesday announced it had handed an eight-month prison sentence to a Greek Cypriot man who was arrested over the possession of cocaine and ...

A car parked outside a block of flats in Aglantzia went up in flames on Wednesday morning. The Fire Service received the call at 6.49am and sent two fire engines ...

Three cars crashed on Wednesday morning on the Limassol-Nicosia motorway, near the exit for Tseri. The police said one person was lightly injured and taken to Nicosia general hospital. The ...

A total of 17 flights are scheduled for Wednesday from Larnaca to airports in Israel and Jordan for the repatriation of stranded Israelis. Sources told the Cyprus News Agency that the ...