Cyprus

A 45-year-old woman is under arrest on suspicion of paying for her shopping with a stolen cheque, police said on Friday. They said a supermarket owner had filed a complaint ...

Parliament has passed amendments extending the ban on specific single-use plastics (SUPs) to September 30 this year, notwithstanding the EU directive should have been transposed into law by July 2021. The new ...

Government advisor on coronavirus issues Petros Karayiannis announced Friday he has tested positive to Covid-19 and is experiencing symptoms. Speaking to state television, the doctor, who received the booster jab, ...

One hundred and eight organisations, political parties, trade unions and NGOs are expected to participate Saturday in a bicommunal event titled: “For peace and a solution open all roads!” Organisers ...

The annual multinational aeronautical exercise ‘Noble Dina – 2022’ has wrapped up. The drill saw the participation of vessels and aircraft of the armed forces of Cyprus, Greece, the US, France and ...

The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail, brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in local and international. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this ...

A man aged 22 and a woman aged 54 are under arrest as police investigate a case of aiding illegal entry into the Republic. Police said the two were arrested on Thursday ...

Paphos district court has suspended the operation of a business premise in Polis Chrysochous suspected of operating as an illegal casino, police said on Friday. They said the court had ...

Police fined 15 individuals and three business establishments in the 24 hours up to 6.00 am on Friday for breaking health protocols to contain the spread of coronavirus. Overall, police carried out 1,864 checks. ...

Cyprus must find its place in a renewed architecture for the protection of the security and values of Europe, President Anastasiades said in a post on Twitter during the first ...

Nicosia police said on Friday they were investigating after they found over 180 firecrackers in the possession of students. Following a tip-off, officers located and seized a total of 187 firecrackers on ...

A 34-year-old man was arrested in Paphos after officers found crystal meth and cannabis in his apartment, police said Friday. The search, which was carried out on Thursday following a ...

Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) chairman George Theocharides was appointed in the position of Chairman of the Committee for Economic and Markets Analysis (CEMA) of the European Securities and ...

There is interest from people in Scandinavian countries and Switzerland in visiting Cyprus this summer, according to the Deputy Minister of Tourism Savvas Perdios. Speaking from Switzerland, where he is ...

Supermarkets in the north were emptied of alcohol after news hit of a big price hike to be slapped on them through increased taxation. Some shop owners pre-emptively took bottles ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris on Thursday said he is planning to address an urgent letter to the Council of Europe with evidence showing mass migration flows to Cyprus through Turkey ...

The health ministry announced that there had been no new deaths from Covid-19 and that 5,186 had tested positive from 103,263 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 5.02 per cent. The ...

The Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) has announced that it will be offering scholarships to Ukrainian students seeking asylum due to the Russian invasion of their country. Ten undergraduate scholarships ...

Cyprus is the only European country that does not have a university teaching hospital and this is to the detriment of both the academic and medical communities, MPs heard on ...

The Employers and Industrialists Federation (Oev) on Thursday asked the health ministry to lift all coronavirus measures, saying that other countries were doing this and because businesses cannot take much ...

The House audit committee on Thursday addressed a recent auditor-general report on the judicial service, which covered a range of subjects including cuts to judges’ salaries, building and evidence security, ...

President Nicos Anastasiades is in Brussels for the European Council Thursday and Friday where EU leaders are expected to discuss the situation in Ukraine, and also with US President Joe ...

By Yiannis Seitanides RCB Bank’s coordinated exit from the financial markets has entered the final stretch, with the supervisory authorities in Nicosia and Frankfurt managing a situation that could ...

Perhaps it was an unconscious decision prompted by the surprisingly vicious cold snap currently gripping the island, an unwitting turn towards familiarity and reliability, but visiting Chesters recently was not ...