Cyprus

Women’s organisations will hold a protest outside the Supreme Court on Thursday in solidarity with the appeal of a British woman who was convicted of lying about being gang ...

State doctors’ union Pasyki said on Wednesday they are close to taking measures over what they say is failure by the state health services (Okypy) to comply with an agreement ...

A motorcyclist has been hospitalised with serious injuries after an accident in Liopetri, in the Famagusta district, at 2.40 pm on Tuesday. According to police, the 59-year-old motorcyclist was involved in ...

Police on Wednesday said they had fined a cafeteria in Nicosia €8,000 for failing to check customers for a SafePass. The violation was identified during 2,975 nationwide checks that also resulted in ...

Cyprus-based troops from the Second Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment have been reflecting on the part they played in the evacuation of more than 12,000 British nationals and entitled Afghans out of ...

Authorities were investigating on Wednesday after a car was destroyed in a fire that broke out outside an apartment building in Larnaca. The fire started a few minutes after 2am ...

A 52-year-old man was arrested late on Tuesday in Paphos on suspicion of stealing electronic devices. Acting on a tip-off, police searched a house in Kato Paphos around 5.30pm on ...

Nicosia drug squad arrested two men late on Tuesday in connection with two separate cases of illegal drug possession. The first man, 27, was stopped by members of the drug squad ...

The ninth edition of the Cyprus Energy Symposium will put the spotlight on all energy-related issues pertaining to Cyprus, a statement by its organisers said. The symposium, which will be ...

CyprusInno has launched a new coworking space called The Base in Nicosia’s Ledra Palace buffer zone. The centre will not be limited to coworking elements as it wil also ...

A fully automated system to come online perhaps by the end of the year will address the problem of the long delays in the processing and disbursement of benefits, Labour ...

Amid complaints from parents, Nicosia and Larnaca bus operator Cyprus Public Transport (CPT) on Tuesday assured that inconveniences with issuing and renewing student bus passes are just a one-off and ...

UK High Commissioner Stephen Lillie on Tuesday clarified what he said in an interview last week was trying to pick up from where Crans Montana ended is a recipe for ...

The health ministry announced two deaths from Covid-19 and that 126 people tested positive on Tuesday. But it said not all data for tests taken privately had been collected so the ...

Cyprus was sixth among EU nations for the decrease in commercial flights in August 2021 compared to 2019, with a slump of 23.8 per cent. Although a considerable knock, the reduction was notably ...

The top priority of the House ethics committee is to work towards the modernisation of the law on officials’ declaration of wealth, it announced on Tuesday a day after all ...

The House selection committee unanimously decided on Monday there was no legal reason justifying the exclusion of an MP from any parliamentary committee, after Edek chairman Marinos Sizopoulos refused to ...

Bahrain’s national airline Gulf Air is considering using Larnaca airport as a hub for several international destinations, possibly including the United States. The topic was discussed during President Nicos ...

A man was fined €12,000 on Tuesday after he was found by the game fund with dead songbirds and traps in Paphos. The hefty fine was imposed following a tip-off to ...

The House commerce committee on Tuesday discussed credit card charges ahead of a new decree mandating all businesses accept card payments, which is due to come into effect this coming ...

A total of 27 free rapid test sites mobile units for coronavirus will operate for eligible groups nationwide on Wednesday, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population ...

A 43-year-old former first division Cypriot footballer was arrested in Greece and is to be extradited to Cyprus in connection with the embezzlement of more than €200,000, authorities confirmed on Tuesday. ...

The parliamentary committee on standards unanimously agreed on Tuesday that far-right Elam MP Andreas Themistokleous had a case to answer after he was accused of verbally abusing a Green party ...

President Nicos Anastasiades suggested more effective procedures to be put in place at the education ministry after teachers were told to “tear out” a page from a textbook with a ...