Cyprus

Exploration of a foreign culture can be trying at any age, but for the protagonist in a new book it is all consuming. Alix Norman meets the author behind it ...

The education ministry has announced the launch of the state schools summer programme from Monday, June 20 to Friday, July 22. A total of 54 schools will participate in the scheme, including 36 primary ...

Based on data from the European Statistical Office (Eurostat), Cyprus recorded the lowest rate of housing cost overburden in the EU in 2020, the finance ministry said in a statement. The ...

President Nicos Anastasiades, Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis and European Christian Democrats president Manfred Weber took to the podium at Disy’s party conference on Friday night to send strong messages ...

A thousand square metres of scrubland turned to ashes by a fire that broke out on Friday afternoon in an area near Xylofagou. A written statement from the forestry department ...

A participatory walk in Nicosia is coming up on June 21, unlike any other. The guided tour in old Nicosia explores the city, yet it goes beyond the charming corners and ...

By Sarah Ktisti and Nick Theodoulou Central prisons director Anna Aristotelous on Friday called for the appointment of independent criminal investigators after she said she was targeted by a senior ...

The Green Party on Friday announced it will participate in a protest march for Akamas over the weekend, saying the government is “politically irresponsible” in its rushed effort to complete ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited Cyprus on Friday where he promoted a message of dialing down tensions, amid the backdrop of increasingly sharp rhetoric emanating from Ankara. President Nicos ...

By the end of June all EU member states, including Cyprus, will receive the first batches of the monkeypox vaccine, according to EU Health and Food Safety Commissioner Stella Kyriakidou. ...

The state has no responsibility for rockslides on private plots, the interior ministry reiterated on Friday, a day after MPs and the Aglandjia mayor plead for financial assistance to clean ...

A national action plan has been prepared which includes mapping of vulnerable areas and actions and measures to address desertification and keep Cyprus green, the department of the environment said ...

A Nicosia gallery hosts the latest solo exhibition by young Cypriot visual artist Andreas Stylianou as he presents a complete series of NFTs. The exhibition is a pioneering showcase for ...

A police officer provided assistance to a pregnant couple who lost their way to a clinic where the woman was scheduled to give birth in the early morning hours of ...

An 83-year-old man who was hospitalised after a traffic accident in Nicosia died on Friday, a police statement said. Socrates Constantinides was being treated at the orthopaedic ward of the ...

Nicosia courts have started using security scan equipment, which was already installed but never utilised, according to various reports emerged on Friday. Following several arson cases takin place in the ...

Renown award-winning singer Alexia Vassiliou will perform during a special concert at Larnaca’s archaeological museum on June 24 to celebrate its recent reopening after extensive refurbishment. Called “Kipris”, the concert, ...

A 48-year-old man has been arrested for scamming a Limassol hotel and leaving €2,770 worth of unpaid bills in March, police said on Friday. The photo and details of the suspect ...

A 68-year-old man has been arrested after officers found over 11 kilos of cannabis in his house in Nicosia, police said on Friday. The man admitted to the offence after he ...

A 31-year-old was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident in Paralimni on Thursday night and is now in critical condition at Nicosia general hospital. According to a police statement, the ...

Two Covid deaths and 3,470 positive cases out of 53,416 tests were recorded during the past week, according to the health ministry’s weekly report, released on Friday. The deaths concerned a ...

The European Commission has registered and understood Cyprus’ concerns regarding the impact of the ‘Fit for 55’ package to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on tourism and the country’s economy, Transport ...

Police officers in Paphos arrested a motorcycle driver at 10.30pm on Thursday after discovering he had installed on his vehicle a mechanism to conceal his licence plate. The man, a 21...

The Faneromeni Arts Festival returns to old Nicosia this summer bringing a series of film screenings and theatre, music and dance performances. The Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation continues the ...