Cyprus

The supreme court has ordered the early release of a 29-year-old man convicted to four and a half years in jail for sexually abusing a minor, it emerged on Wednesday. ...

Around 30,000 children from mixed marriages in the north are trying to get Cypriot IDs and passports, opposition CTP ‘MP’ Urun Solyali said on Wednesday. Solyali has said that the state-controlled ...

The cabinet has approved the creation of a national autism committee, the deputy ministry for social welfare announced on Wednesday. A written statement explained that the decision was taken during ...

A man was arrested after a 16-year-old girl reported she was raped in an apartment in Paphos. The arrest concerns a 19-year-old soldier based in Cyprus with whom the minor ...

Energy Minister Natasa Pilides said on Wednesday that Cyprus is making great strides towards reaching energy self-sufficiency and a competitive internal gas market. “At the same time, we are also ...

An 84-year-old man was sentenced to seven years in jail by the Limassol criminal court on Wednesday for killing his 82-year-old wife Giorgoulla Charalambous on June 6 after an alleged disagreement. ...

Police and military special forces are attending a training in Jordan that aims to promote common tactics for future joint operations. Following the official invitation from the Jordanian armed forces, ...

In the island’s most famous tattooist THEO PANAYIDES finds an intense, disciplined man dealing in pain all his life, whose vivid artistic style saw him draw in the celebrities ...

A car fire broke out in the early hours of Wednesday morning in a vehicle parked on a coastal road, in the vicinity of Enaerios, in Limassol. According to police ...

An as-yet unidentified man robbed a kiosk in the early morning hours of Wednesday in Limassol. According to police statement, the robbery which happened in the Agios Nikolaos area, was ...

In today’s episode, the Cyprus economy is expected to grow by 5.7 per cent this year, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Tuesday addressing The Economist conference in Nicosia. In other ...

Arts and craft markets and pop-up bazaars are back! As we enter the autumn and winter months, the anticipated season of markets begins and before all of the annual Christmas ...

An employee has been accused of stealing a sum of €4,500 from an agency in Paphos. The owner of the agency reported the theft on Tuesday, police reported. The complainant alleged ...

Police examinations continue on Wednesday for an incident involving the beating of a 17-year-old pupil at a Larnaca lyceum by a group of students from another school, as a result ...

On Wednesday the weather will be mostly clear, although locally increased cloud cover on the west and north coasts is expected to bring isolated showers or even a storm. In ...

Police inform the public on Wednesday morning that no problem is observed on any of the main urban arterial roads and the highways. Rocks have fallen on the Orkoda-Kambos road ...

By Efi Xanthou So, some good Samaritan wants to donate €1.7 million to the Limassol municipality, what is people’s problem with this? Can’t Cypriots appreciate a good deed? It’...

More effective measures need to be adopted in an effort to crack down and eradicate human trafficking, said Commissioner for Administration and Human Rights Protection, Maria Stylianou-Lottides on Tuesday on ...

Nothing contributes more to the unification of Cyprus than expanding trade and business ties and providing the infrastructure to support them, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Cyprus, Colin ...

The Health Ministry on Wednesday announced a change in opening hours of Covid-19 vaccination centres across the island from Wednesday, October 19, 2022 in an effort to improve the service offered to ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos II’s health is stable, his personal doctor, Joseph Kashios, told the Cyprus News Agency (Cna) immediately after his evening visit to the Archbishopric on Tuesday. “The archbishop ...

The island’s Cabinet on Tuesday approved a preliminary national action plan in an effort to establish a mechanism to prevent and combat social exclusion and child poverty. The national ...

One of the four independent presidential contenders announced on Tuesday he has dropped out of talks aimed at putting forward a common candidate. Christodoulos Protopapas said he was withdrawing from ...

The Turkish Cypriot community must demand from the EU the right to get on board the prospective EuroAsia Interconnector project “without political preconditions,” head of the Turkish Cypriot Energy Efficiency ...