Cyprus

A bill on parental leave is expected to reach the House Plenary for a vote next Thursday, deputy minister for Social Welfare Anastasia Anthousi said on Tuesday. Speaking to the ...

The government reiterated on Tuesday that it would not water down the rules relating to the manufacturing and content specifications for halloumi cheese, as codified in the Protected Designation of ...

People should forget about across-the-board cuts on energy-related taxes, brace for even higher electricity prices and turn to renewables, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Tuesday. In comments to daily ...

A 40-year-old man has been arrested in connection with three fires which broke out on Tuesday, two in Alassa village and one in the industrial area of Agios Sylas, in ...

Cyprus is “flooded with migrants”, director general of the interior ministry Costas Constantinou told the House ad hoc committee on demographics on Tuesday. “Our country’s capacity to host migrants ...

A march to demand improved abortion laws and healthcare coverage across the island will be held in Nicosia on Friday. Against the backdrop of the US supreme court decision to ...

Power cuts continued to grip the north on Tuesday, impacting the operation of hospitals, which are currently running on emergency generators. On Monday, the Republic’s government received a request ...

A diver with fluid on his lungs was rescued on Tuesday after he got into difficulties while diving at the Zenovia wreck off the Larnaca coast. The Larnaca search and ...

Two men, aged 21 and 23, were expected to be remanded on Tuesday in connection with the attempted murder of a 33-year-old man in Akaki. Investigations started after police received information about ...

A minimum wage will be introduced “in the coming months”, the government said on Tuesday, after a meeting with President Nicos Anastasiades and relevant stakeholders ended in disagreement. Despite the ...

Two men, aged 19 and 26, have been jailed for two months and a third, aged 32, for three months with a three-year suspension after violent attack during a U19 Apoel-Pafos FC match ...

The attorney general on Tuesday said he will appeal a 12-month sentence imposed on the hit-and-run driver who killed a Swedish mother in a fatal Ayia Napa crash earlier this ...

Police on Tuesday called on people to be alert after receiving complaints from people that they are being asked to hand over social media passwords, especially on Instagram. According to ...

A 27-year-old man, who has been arrested on suspicion of drug possession in Limassol, was expected to be remanded on Tuesday, police have said. The illegal drugs were found during ...

The first ever recorded sighting of the African desert warbler in Cyprus has been confirmed as the unexpected visitor from the Sahara made its way to the Akrotiri Peninsula. “This ...

A fire that broke out near the industrial area in Ypsonas early on Tuesday was brought under control two hours later, destroying about 20,000 square metres of dry grass and wild ...

A drunken tourist was arrested at a Kato Paphos hotel after management called the police following a raucous disturbance, in a case which saw the 51-year-old resisting arrest. Paphos police ...

Larnaca police were investigating a case of attempted murder on Tuesday after an explosion occurred in a vehicle being driven in Oroklini. According to a police statement to the Cyprus ...

On Tuesday morning the weather will be mostly clear. Winds will be mainly south-westly to north-westly, initially light, 3 Beaufort, becoming light to moderate in the afternoon, 3 to 4 Beaufort and on ...

In today’s episode, a travel company executive in Cyprus said he expected the airport and airline chaos gripping Europe to subside in the coming weeks as thousands of flights ...

Paphos police are continuing intensive investigations into a case of threats and illegal possession of a firearm that occurred outside a nightclub in the early hours of Sunday. Following the ...

Presidential elections will be held Sunday, February 5 and the runoff will be on Sunday, February 12, the ministry of interior has announced. On Friday, December 23, the decree of the minister of ...

Police proceeded with the arrest of a 35-year-old resident of Paphos, to facilitate investigation into the case of theft, assault, and causing actual bodily harm. The incident happened at noon ...

Government doctors in accident and emergency departments of the island’s hospitals held a three-hour work stoppage on Tuesday. “The main reason [for our stoppage] is the understaffing of doctors, ...