Cyprus

Plans for a new solar farm to be built in the buffer zone which separates Cyprus’ two sides appear to have reached something of a deadlock after Wednesday’s meeting ...

The Union of Cyprus Journalists (UCJ) expressed its full support on Thursday to journalist Theodosia Apostolou after she received death threats following a post on her news website ‘Larnaka Online’. ...

The former auditor general of Cyprus, Odysseas Michaelides, is set to announce his political future next month, with the possibility of founding a new party gaining traction. Speaking to Politis ...

The trial of the two men who stand accused of having murdered 39-year-old Andreas Kouzoupis and 38-year-old David Chmelar and then putting their bodies in a car which they then ...

Social welfare service workers staged a two-hour work stoppage on Thursday, from 11.30am till 1.30pm, to protest the “targeting of social welfare service workers” following the alleged abuse case of ...

The Greek Cypriot side is acting in a manner which is “pathetic and childish”, the north’s ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu said on Thursday. Speaking to Gundem Kibris Web TV, ...

A video of a mouflon giving birth in a forest went viral on Facebook on Thursday morning. Mouflons are usually hard to spot as they are not only shy but ...

Dates were set on Thursday for the next hearings of the trial of the two former MPs facing criminal charges over a report by news company Al Jazeera into the ...

The pain of uncertainty still haunts families in Cyprus, five decades after the island was divided. Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Cypriot diplomat Rona Panteli called the issue of ...

The three-member committee appointed to examine the recalls process for cars imported from the EU and third countries began its first public hearings on Thursday. The first witness to testify ...

A 30-year-old wanted after a loaded gun was found last November in an open area of Konia community, Paphos, was arrested on Wednesday night for conspiracy to commit a crime ...

A car abandoned in a remote area of Pyrgos, Limassol, was totally destroyed on Thursday, shortly after midnight, according to the police. The fire was reported to have started 40 minutes ...

A 23-year-old delivery driver reported to have been attacked at around 11.45pm on Wednesday in Limassol by a gang of about 20 people on motorcycles, who he said were wearing hoods ...

Isolated showers and thunderstorms persist, as low pressure continues to affect the area. Thursday will be partly cloudy with isolated showers and a possible thunderstorm in the afternoon, mainly in ...

The health ministry spent more than €10 million sending Cypriot patients abroad to receive treatment in 2022, the audit office announced on Wednesday. In a report written on the health ministry’s ...

There is a tendency in Cyprus either to completely ignore EU directives or to implement them with excessive zeal. In the former category are nature conservation, waste management, water protection ...

The European Union is “committed to supporting Cyprus on its journey towards reunification”, European parliament President Roberta Metsola said on Wednesday. Addressing a European parliament debate on the Cyprus problem, ...

The outcome of Wednesday’s meeting of President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar demonstrates their commitment, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. Speaking to ...

The police on Wednesday evening announced the arrest of three minors and one 18-year-old male in connection with the clashes between teenagers and the police which broke out in Limassol ...

A 20-year-old man was handed a 20-week suspended sentence by a court on the British bases after having been found guilty of stabbing his father in the leg. The man, ...

A 30-year-old man was arrested in Cyprus as part of an international police operation over the existence of a website on the dark web on which images of sexual abuse ...

Both Turkey and the north offered condemnation for the events held in the Republic of Cyprus to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of Eoka – the paramilitary organisation set ...

Teachers walked out of every public school in the north on Wednesday as protests continue against the ruling coalition’s handling of education in light of a retracted attempt to ...

Four out of five internet connections in Cyprus now offer speeds of at least 100Mbps, the office of the commissioner of electronic communications and postal regulation (OCECPR), reported on Wednesday. ...