Cyprus

A teenager was injured after a violent incident at Pournara reception camp for asylum seekers and migrants, police said on Thursday. Minors were involved in a fight around 9pm on ...

Seven children are being treated in the paediatric department of Famagusta general hospital that reopened this week two years after its operation was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic, Health ...

In today’s episode, business leaders have called on President Nicos Anastasiades to urgently boost the island’s self-sufficiency in terms of the food supply, warning that based on current ...

Paphos police caught a man driving under the influence of drugs late on Wednesday. The driver tested positive in a narcotest carried out by traffic police who stopped his car ...

Police on Thursday said they have confiscated a number of firearms and ammunition found in an outdoor space in Larnaca. Following tip off, police found an automatic firearm, a loaded ...

A 28-year-old man has been arrested in Paphos in connection with a kiosk robbery, burglary and theft, police said Thursday. According to Paphos CID chief and spokesman Michalis Nicolaou, evidence ...

Nicosia police on Thursday said they have arrested two men, aged 52 and 25, as well as a 47-year-old woman as part of investigations into cases where scammers posing as doctors extorted ...

Council for Registration of Real Estate Agents president Marinos Kineyirou on Wednesday said that the Cypriot property market is not currently going through a bubble, despite the concession that prices ...

Cypriot banks were presented with bad checks worth a total of €438,000 in April, according to data released on Wednesday by the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC). This is the largest ...

MUFG Investor Services, the global asset servicing arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, on Wednesday announced that it has appointed Yannis Matsis as managing director and head of its office ...

Air travel to Cyprus by 2035 could be so prohibitive due to green commitments that the island could lose 15-20 per cent of its tourism and 1.7 per cent of its GDP ...

A fourth suspect has been charged in relation to last month’s incidents at Antonis Papadopoulos stadium in Larnaca which left one man with serious burns, police said on Wednesday. ...

The government has always recognised and supported the evolution of the University of Cyprus into an ambitious and proactive centre of scientific excellence, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday after ...

The discovery last week of three dead vultures in Paphos is “a huge blow” to the species’ population in Cyprus, according to a joint statement issued on Wednesday by the ...

By Antigoni Pitta and Nick Theodoulou Cyprus cannot continue to perpetuate irrational privileges for state officials, presidential candidate Achilleas Demetriades said on Wednesday, referring to the double appointment of his ...

MPs from the House ethics committee are calling on the government and wider public sector authorities to clamp down on employees who are engaged in private businesses without the requisite ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a 2017 decision by the Famagusta criminal court which found two defendants guilty in relation to a quadruple murder committed in Ayia Napa in June 2016. ...

The length of the school day and the educational curriculum for kindergartens, primary, secondary and technical vocational schools was once again the focal point of discussions by lawmakers during the ...

Larnaca district court on Wednesday ordered the eight-day remand of a 45-year-old man suspected of committing a series of crimes and traffic violations under investigation. The man is suspected of ...

The House legal affairs on Wednesday began discussions on the criminalisation of bullying, with a bill suggesting punishments ranging from hefty fines to prison time. Discussions on bullying are taken ...

Cancer survivors’ “Right to be forgotten” was the focus at a press conference marking Europa Donna Cyprus’s 20th anniversary on Wednesday. President of the board of directors of Europa ...

The interior and justice ministries are requesting that 300 contract police officers be hired for up to 28 months as the state steps up its efforts to tackle irregular migration across the ...

The deputy tourism ministry said on Wednesday Cyprus needs to start investing heavily in sports tourism, adding that in 2019, the last year before the Covid-19 pandemic, over 5,000 athletes visited the ...

The international community must pressure Turkey to reveal details of burial sites of Cyprus’ missing persons if there is any hope of ever finding them, presidential commissioner Fotis Fotiou said ...