Cyprus

Police on Tuesday said they had made two more arrests in connection with the discovery of a large quantity of drugs during a search last month. One of the pair, ...

The long-awaited restoration of the historic warehouses in Kato Pyrgos is set to begin in September after the government approved a €1.3 million funding request, community leader Nicos Kleanthous said on ...

A seven-day remand order was issued against a 29-year-old man in connection with an armed robbery at a bakery in Ayia Napa earlier this week by Famagusta district court on ...

Cyprus welcomes the United States’ efforts to mediate between Ukraine and Russia with the aim of bringing the war in Ukraine to an end, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on ...

A fault at the Karvounas transmission substation caused widespread power cuts in mountainous areas of Limassol and Nicosia on Monday evening, the electricity authority (EAC) said on Tuesday. “There was ...

A 40-year-old man was arrested on Monday evening after police discovered more than a kilogram of cannabis during a vehicle stop in Kato Paphos, police said. According to the drug ...

Almost €140,000 has been paid by the government in salaries to a total of 126 workers who were unable to return to work as a result of the wildfire which tore through ...

The labour inspection department on Tuesday ordered that all outside work be suspended between 12pm and 4pm in areas impacted by the orange weather warning, with high temperatures forecast for ...

The continuous power cuts faced by the north after an explosion at a substation on Friday “would have been more widespread” were it not for the Republic stepping in to ...

Cyprus at the meeting of the informal EU Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) on Monday called for the immediate mobilisation was needed from both EU institutions and member states regarding the ...

Former Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Huseyin Ozgurgun’s son Salih Ozgurgun was arrested late on Monday night after arriving at the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport on an inbound flight ...

Fines for wasting water will be increased from € 51 to € 85 with immediate effect due to the “serious reduction in available water reserves”, the Larnaca self-governance organisation (EOA) announced on Tuesday. “According ...

In a celebration of all things green, clean and plant-based, the Vegan Fam Festival returns this year for another flavoursome edition. Held in Psematismenos village in just a few weeks, ...

Police have launched an investigation after gunshots were fired at a home in the Ayios Athanasios area of Amathus on Monday night. A witness told officers on Tuesday that two ...

The fires that broke out in the Tala community, burning three hectares of land on Tuesday morning have been brought under full control, according to the fire department. “Paphos city ...

A fire broke out near a vehicle close to the Ayia Napa church in Kantou at around 11pm last night, burning approximately five hectares of wild vegetation, dry grasses and ...

Tuesday will see temperatures climb to up to 43 degrees Celsius inland, with skies remaining clear and winds blowing light to moderate at south to northwest at 3 to 4 Beaufort and strong ...

Blue Flags are turning out to be a bone of contention, with the Cyprus Greens saying they can be misleading as they still fly on heavily polluted beaches but Cymepa – ...

Cyprus’ meteorology department has issued two warnings, a yellow one for high temperatures on Monday evening and an orange one, warning that the temperature on Tuesday is to reach 43 degrees ...

The state’s balance sheet for 2023 showed a considerable dip in inflows in tandem with a sharp rise in outflows, with the government paying out around €750 million alone to service ...

Five days after Majed Alashtar, a 13-year-old Syrian refugee, went missing from a state-run shelter in Nicosia, concerns are growing that bullying by older teenagers may have played a role. ...

The biggest challenge facing the government after the Limassol wildfires is “to bring the areas affected back to tourism as soon as possible,” deputy minister of tourism Costas Koumis said ...

The Limassol-Paphos motorway has been reopened to traffic following a Monday afternoon collision that forced the closure of both lanes towards Paphos just past Episkopi. Traffic is now running normally ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides are the likeliest to run for president in the 2028 elections, a new poll published on Monday showed. Asked who they think will ...