Cyprus News

Residents of Akrotiri were displaced early Monday after a military drone struck facilities within the British bases shortly after midnight, leading to precautionary evacuations, school closures and a series of ...

Fuel prices are expected to rise “visibly” in the next 10 days, petrol station owners’ association chairman Savvas Prokopiou said on Monday, with a widening conflict now engulfing the region. He ...

Paphos airport returned to action on Monday afternoon, having earlier been evacuated after a “suspicious object” was seen on radars. The evacuation saw passengers and staff alike removed from the ...

Municipal services are at the disposal of livestock farmers, the mayor of Dromolaxia–Meneou said on Monday, following a meeting held on February 27 to address concerns over foot-and-mouth disease. Speaking ...

A 58-year-old woman was injured in a traffic accident on Monday shortly after 7am on the highway near Yeroskipou, while travelling towards Paphos, police said. According to police, the vehicle ...

Five people were arrested for various offences across Cyprus overnight, police said on Monday. In a statement, police said the arrests were made during targeted crime-prevention operations. The suspects are ...

The Cypriot government on Monday postponed a planned meeting of the European general affairs council (Gac) which was due to take place in Nicosia, after the island’s British Akrotiri ...

The United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper on Monday confirmed that the drone which had hit the country’s Akrotiri air force base in Cyprus had struck the aerodrome’...

Cyprus has activated its repatriation plan to bring home hundreds of its citizens stranded by the war in Iran and the wider Levant, with authorities saying the priority is the ...

The civil defence on Monday issued a reminder regarding the procedures of finding and using evacuation shelters, should needs require, after the British Akrotiri air force base was hit by ...

Low-cost airline easyJet has cancelled Monday’s flights connecting Cyprus and the United Kingdom, the Cyprus Mail has learned. Flights from Tuesday are currently planned to operate as normal but ...

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Lumiere Art Gallery presents CHROMA by Her, a group exhibition bringing together 10 female painters from the United States, Sweden, Lebanon, Russia and ...

Schools in the villages of Trachoni, Episkopi, Akrotiri, and Asomatos – all of which are located within the bounds of the British Akrotiri base area – were closed on Monday “as a ...

The port of Limassol is ready to provide its facilities for potential evacuations of people from conflict zones via Cyprus through the government’s ‘Estia’ plan, should the need arise, ...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday said the European Union stands “collectively, firmly, and unequivocally” with Cyprus, after a drone hit the island’s British Akrotiri air ...

Monday’s weather is expected to be mostly clear across most of the island, though increased cloud cover is expected from time to time. Temperatures are expected to rise to 17 ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday stressed that Cypriot forces are “not participating in any way” in military action in the widening conflict in the Middle East, after the British air ...

The British bases’ authorities on Monday said it is planning a “temporary dispersal” of non-essential staff at the Akrotiri air force base after the base was hit by a drone ...

“This is a celebratory event – I do understand. It’s not my intention to make it all doom and gloom,” joked Boris Erg of IUCN (International Union for Conservation of ...

The government is “monitoring the situation” after the British Akrotiri air force base was struck by a drone at around midnight, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Monday. He wrote ...

The United Kingdom’s Akrotiri air force base in Cyprus has been hit by a drone, the Cyprus Mail learned in the early hours of Monday morning. Personnel on the ...

Cyprus remains a constant pillar of security and humanitarian contribution in the region, government spokesman Konstantinos Letympiotis said on Sunday night after an extraordinary meeting of the National Secruty Council. ...

A second fatality was recorded on Cyprus roads on Sunday lunchtime which left a 66-year-old driver dead. At 1.35pm a car being driven by 66-year-old Kyriacos Kyriacou on the road ...

Photographs show a light snowfall was seen at the peak of the Troodos mountains on Sunday. Barely covering the ground, it could still explain why it felt so cold around ...