Cyprus News

In today’s episode, Defence Minister Michalis Georgallas on Sunday ‘warmly’ welcomed the US Senator Robert Menendez’s proposed amendment to the National Defence Appropriations Act (NDAA) extending to three ...

Police on Sunday arrested a 24-year-old man for an investigated case of helping third-country nationals to enter the Republic illegally. The case concerns the arrival by sea of 20 people in ...

A fire broke out at dawn on Monday in a parked vehicle in Geroskipou. The car was parked outside the owner’s apartment building. The fire was extinguished by the ...

Police on Monday arrested a 31-year-old burglary suspect in Paphos. According to the police the arrest was made after a tip-off from a member of the public who reported he ...

A 21-year-old resident of Paralimni was seriously injured in a road collision on Sunday. According to the police, the collision happened around 6.30pm on Protaras Avenue, when the 21-year-old, under ...

The Customs Department on Saturday seized the largest quantity of duty-free tobacco products ever intercepted on the island A total of 300 cartons of 200 cigarettes and 36 kg of rolling tobacco were ...

High temperatures are expected on Monday as the yellow weather warning remains in place until 6pm. Temperatures will hit 42C in the interior, 39C on the north coasts, 37C on ...

Archaeologists in Larnaca have unearthed a collection of royal tombs dating back to the Bronze Age, considered among the most luxurious in the Mediterranean. The excavation, conducted near Alyki Larnaca ...

The resumption of a new effort for a Cyprus settlement has been set as a priority by the Government of Nikos Christodoulides, the Minister of Justice and Public Order, Anna ...

Decision makers must tackle the migration crisis as whole, focusing on the reasons that lead people to migrate, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday. Speaking to the media from Rome, ...

Five aircraft and 12 fire engines were operating to extinguish a fire near the Zyripilli forest in Paphos, the forestry department said on Sunday afternoon. Authorities activated the Ikaros 2 contingency plan ...

One of the few places where dogs should be able to roam free Summer is heating up: temperatures are soaring as are tempers, with rows flaring at the beaches as ...

There is no information about the exact number of Cypriots in Rhodes, where a wildfire has been raging for six days, said the director of consular affairs at the foreign ...

Taxi drivers have turned the outdoor area of the Larnaca airport into a “coffee shop” with authorities seeking appropriate measures to put an end to their inappropriate behaviour, Transport Minister ...

Going through cancer is devastating, but a Paphos-based charity offers a welcome distraction When I first met Andrew Lauder, I didn’t know what to expect. He simply sounds too ...

Defence Minister Michalis Georgallas on Sunday welcomed the US Senator Robert Menendez’s proposed amendment to the National Defence Appropriations Act (NDAA) extending to three years from one the renewal ...

An officer was slightly injured during the rescue of a 17-year-old girl who was found unconscious in the sea area of Paphos over the weekend. Information about the missing teenager ...

And that’s aside from the health and building zone concerns When one of only two paper and plastic recycling processing plants burnt down in Geri, Nicosia last week, it ...

A stroke patient who waited for about seven hours on a stretcher at the Paphos accidents and emergency department “is receiving full medical care” state health services organisation (Okypy) said ...

More than 20 ground-breaking documentaries will take place at the 18th edition of the Lemesos International Documentary Festival this summer. From August 1 to 8, a line-up of cinema screenings and parallel events ...

The impact of Turkey’s economic embargo on the Republic of Cyprus amounts to around one percentage point of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) annually. According to the data collected ...

The Cyprus-Greece-Israel trilateral meeting scheduled for Wednesday has been postponed, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu underwent surgery on Saturday. The prime minister’s office said planned trips to Cyprus ...

A fire that broke out in Lythrodontas burned 5,000 square metres of pine trees, agricultural crops and wild vegetation, the forestry department said on Sunday. The agriculture ministry’s department said ...

An orange weather alert was in force on Sunday for extreme heat, as temperature reaches 44C. The warning for extreme high temperature is valid from 12 to 6pm, the met service ...