Cyprus

Following the success of its premiere last May, the documentary The History of Copper in Cyprus will be screened again in Nicosia. The second screening will take place on October 2 ...

Cyprus has found “sizeable quantities” of natural gas in blocks Pegasus and Glaucus, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou told the Cyprus Mail on Friday, following an earlier announcement by the president ...

Maintenance works on the Limassol-Nicosia motorway will be carried out in the direction of Nicosia from 8 pm until 5:30 am and will be completed by Thursday, October 2. Due to a machine ...

The five Greek Cypriots who had been arrested in the north in July and were later accused of privacy violations, trespassing and breaching the peace, are scheduled to appear before ...

On Friday, the weather will remain mainly clear with temperatures rising up to 35 degrees Celsius inland, 29 degrees on the west coast, around 32 degrees on the remaining coastal areas and up ...

The latest Eurobarometer survey on food safety shows that 95 per cent of Cypriots are interested in food-safety issues and other factors influencing food choices – far above the EU average of 72 ...

The ambassador of Palestine to Cyprus, Abdallah Attari, responding to a controversy involving Disy, expressed his appreciation for the friendship and solidarity between Palestine and Cyprus, reaffirming his “unwavering respect ...

A new bill currently discussed in parliament proposes that homeowners will not be able to sell their property until their utility bills have been settled and they have obtained a ...

Deputy Research Minister Nicodemos Damianou on Thursday rejected allegations of impropriety over the awarding of the new electronic ID (eID) contract to JCC, the company he once managed, insisting “nothing ...

The third enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem, involving Cyprus’ two sides, the UN and the island’s three guarantor powers – Greece, Turkey and the United Kingdom – will take place ...

Civil servants in semi-governmental organisations will be able to transfer to other departments and services in the broader civil service without restrictions to the length of the transfers. The House ...

President Nikos Christodoulides met Chinese Premier Li Qiang in New York on Thursday, reaffirming strong bilateral ties and a mutual commitment to deepen cooperation across key sectors, including trade, tourism, ...

A man in police custody was subjected to “inhumane and humiliating treatment and punishment”, ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottides said on Thursday. In her capacity as head of the national mechanism to ...

“The aim is for the old city of Nicosia to regain its rightful place, with safe and peaceful coexistence of residents, businesspeople, students and visitors,” Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said ...

The recall of faulty Takata airbags has reached 76 per cent of affected vehicles, according to data presented on Thursday during a meeting of the House transport committee. Around 19,000 cars remain ...

The government is now pondering its options for appeal after the European Commission gave it until November 6 to repay a total of €67.2 million handed out in grants for the construction ...

A joint event celebrating the vital role of athletes with disabilities in the Olympics was held on Wednesday by the Nicosia Lions NGO, Cyprus Special Olympics, and the European University ...

Breast screening centres have been renovated and equipped with new digital mammography machines, the Health Minister Michael Damianos said on Thursday.  The upgraded units feature the latest technology, including tomosynthesis (...

An education ministry senior employee will stand before a court of justice on October 30 to answer to criminal charges for the indecent assault and sexual harassment of colleagues at the ...

Igor Grechushkin, a 48-year-old Russian-Cypriot alleged to be linked to the 2020 Beirut port explosion, has reportedly been transferred to the Republic of Cyprus, where officials will decide whether he will ...

Two financing agreements totalling €55 million were signed on Thursday by Finance Minister Makis Keravnos, EIB vice president Kyriacos Kakouris and CING chief executive Leonidas Phylactou. At the signing, which took ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s special representative Gunes Onar on Thursday met United Nations under-secretary-general for peacebuilding Rosemary DiCarlo on the sidelines of the UN general assembly in New ...

The Republic of Cyprus will pay the €25 million demanded of it by Greece’s independent transmission system operator (Admie) when the Great Sea Interconnector project is being “implemented it in ...

The dredging of Larnaca’s marina, budgeted at €900,000, is “proceeding as scheduled” and is expected to be completed by December, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Thursday. Speaking during a ...