Cyprus News

The heads of the three political parties which make up the north’s ruling coalition on Wednesday met Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz in Ankara. The delegation, made up of ‘...

The Tenders Review Authority has cancelled a foreign ministry decision to award a contract for visa application services in 17 embassies, following serious complaints from a rival bidder. The complaints were ...

More than €30.000 have been stolen from two men aged 63 and 66 in Limassol, in a case of online fraud, police said on Wednesday. In the complaint filed by the two men, ...

More than 68 tourism businesses and organisations across Cyprus will hold clean-up and awareness actions on Friday, September 26, World Tourism Day. The Tourism Cares campaign encourages tourism professionals to show respect ...

A 19-year-old woman has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for importing a large quantity of cocaine into Cyprus. The decision was handed down on Wednesday by the Larnaca criminal ...

Cyprus has been given until November to repay millions of euros which had been paid by the European Commission in grants for the construction of the liquefied natural gas terminal ...

A 31-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday in connection to an ongoing case of burglary and the theft of a shotgun and an air pistol, which took place in Larnaca ...

For the first time, Cyprus has a dedicated centre focused entirely on space technologies, Deputy Research Minister Nicodemos Damianou announced on Tuesday evening. The Space Business Innovation Centre (Space BIC) ...

Applications have opened for land owners in the Akamas who do not develop and are entitled to a subsidy, the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday. They will be able to ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar will travel to New York on Friday ahead of a planned tripartite meeting with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and President Nikos Christodoulides. The tripartite ...

A 50-year-old was seriously injured on Tuesday when the quad bike he was on overturned in Famagusta, police said on Wednesday. At around 5pm, a 19-year-old was driving a quad ...

Trade unions were meeting on Wednesday morning to decide their next steps in the ongoing Cost of Living Allowance (CoLA) dispute. The meeting included unions Sek, Peo, Deok and Pasydy. ...

A 26-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday at Larnaca airport for importing large amounts of cannabis into the island and has been remanded for eight days, police said on Wednesday. ...

Famagusta district governor Yiannis Karousos on Wednesday declared he will have “zero tolerance” for the theft of water from the district’s supply. He said his district government has “launched ...

The time to drink wine and celebrate the grape harvest season is here, once again. Limassol has been busy preparing its historical Wine Festival, which this September and October returns ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar and some of his high-profile supporters hailed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s speech at the United Nations general assembly, with Tatar describing it as “...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos met his Iranian counterpart Seyyed Abbas Araghchi on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly in New York. The foreign ministry said the pair shared ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos held a tripartite meeting with Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly in ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will call for a “free, secure, strong, and prosperous Cyprus” during his speech to the United Nations general assembly on Wednesday night, according to the presidential palace. ...

Wednesday will begin with mostly clear skies across most of the island, but in the afternoon, cloud cover is expected to increase both inland and in the mountains, with isolated ...

By Antrea Panagiotou The climate crisis is no longer a distant threat, but our new reality. Its impacts are increasingly severe, leaving destruction in their wake and affecting every aspect ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday met and discussed the Cyprus problem, among other issues, on the sidelines of the UN general assembly ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar and his opposition-backed election challenger Tufan Erhurman both held large rallies on Tuesday night as the Turkish Cypriot leadership election draws closer. Tatar’s rally ...

President Nikos Christodoulides pledged his support for a “safe and stable Lebanon” on Tuesday, during a meeting with the country’s President Joseph Aoun held on the sidelines of the ...