Cyprus

2000 law wrongly forced investment companies to plough funds into tanking stock exchange The state has been ordered to pay two investment firms compensation of €9,714,246 plus interest, after the Nicosia District ...

Call the Midwife star Jenny Agutter was home for the Christmas holidays in Nicosia when intercommunal violence broke out in December 1963 British actress Jenny Agutter was living in a flat ...

A 60-year-old tourist was hospitalised in serious condition on Saturday after he attempted to dive down to the Zenobia shipwreck off the Larnaca coast. The incident was reported by the ...

Akel central committee is expected to decide on their preferred choice of presidential candidate for the 2023 elections on Sunday, following the first day of discussions on Saturday. The 105 member-body met ...

A 36-year-old man was remanded for eight days on Saturday after 3.5 kilos of cannabis and almost €9,500 were found in his car. The man was arrested around 8pm on Friday when ...

The foreign ministry on Saturday said the Republic has now fulfilled the requirements of the US 2019 partnership act and hopes that Washington will fully lift its decades-old arms embargo on ...

Authorities had to intervene and break up two mass fights at the Pournara reception centre for asylum seekers on Saturday. A fight that broke out around 5pm resulted in the ...

Police helped get a 53-year-old woman to hospital for a scheduled operation after her car broke down on the motorway, they announced on Saturday. The woman contacted police for help ...

A medical expert from Israel has treated the 20-year-old man who suffered burns to 45 per cent of his body during violent incidents involving football fans last week, by putting artificial ...

A 72-year-old Paphos resident is treated in serious condition after he fell while trying to climb up the balcony of his house, Cyprus News Agency reported on Saturday. The pensioner ...

Minister of Energy, Commerce and Industry Natasa Pilides on Thursday evening attended the launch of the Gen Y Innovation Network in London. Gen Y was set up to act as ...

Police on Saturday issued a public plea for information to help locate a driver involved in a hit and run that resulted to the injury of a 67-year-old woman who ...

Limassol police on Saturday said they were investigating an attempted murder after a 44-year-old man who was assaulted the previous morning was treated in serious condition at the Nicosia general ...

Nicosia district court remanded a 36-year-old man for six days on Saturday on suspicion of stealing sacred vessels from a chapel in a school yard. The theft was reported to ...

Cyprus is collaborating with Italian health authorities to formulate an agreement to cooperate on issues related to infectious diseases control, the health ministry announced Saturday. The news came a day ...

The Girlfriends Circle offers fun and friendship – without the oneupwomanship of other ladies groups finds Alix Norman Many women’s groups are all about the ego. They solicit ladies of ...

Cypriot authorities are expected to submit a formal request to the EU’s Directorate General for Competition for the implementation of the European Commission’s ‘mortgage to rent’ scheme in ...

A third of all real estate transactions in Nicosia during the first quarter of 2022 concerned apartments, according to a report by the Council for Registration of Real Estate Agents published ...

Cyprus’ new ferry link with Greece creates great potential for maritime tourism between the two countries, deputy minister of shipping, Vassilios Demetriades said on Friday. Speaking at a press conference ...

Measures on how to deal with inherent hooliganism and avoid incidents escalating during the impending Apollona – Apoel match on Sunday in Limassol, were decided at a meeting held on Friday ...

Turkish Cypriot police uncovered 11 kilos of Indian cannabis worth €375,000 (TL 6m) following a raid at Tymbou (Ercan) airport, Turkish Cypriot media reported on Friday. Kibris Postasi’s website reported that ...

A 27-year-old man was taken into custody to facilitate investigation into the murder of 60-year old Leontios Pogiatzis last July, in Paphos district. The body of the 60-year-old was found ...

The European Commission proposed changes to its planned embargo on Russian oil to give some countries more time to shift their energy supplies, and to address shipping concerns expressed by ...

European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth Mariya Gabriel was in Cyprus on Friday to take part in the island’s first-ever Democracy Forum in Nicosia and called ...