Cyprus

By Ioannis Tirkides Optimism is rising high in the global economy for the recovery in 2021-22, and growth forecasts are being revised higher. The European Commission now expects real GDP ...

A surge in meth use over the past five years has caused alarm, with an official telling the Cyprus Mail that the problem is getting worse each year. Ykan (drug ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday spoke on the phone with new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, congratulating him on his assumption of duties and his forming a coalition government. According ...

Health authorities on Thursday announced 65 new positives from island-wide testing for the coronavirus, representing a 0.19 per cent positivity rate from the samples processed. That brings the total diagnosed to date ...

Far-right party Elam was given the chair of the ad hoc House committee on demographics on Thursday, as parties came to an agreement over the allocation of committees. Demographics had ...

The US on Thursday welcomed in their Nicosia embassy, the first eight officers from the National Guard who are going to participate in the International Military Education and Training (IMET) ...

The health ministry announced a total of 64 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Friday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

The EU needs to clarify whether it will act against further Turkish provocation, president Nicos Anastasiades told EU leaders on Thursday in light of next week’s European Council session, ...

A 70-year-old man, Michael Agathocleous from Lakatamia, died after a traffic accident on the Nicosia- Evrychou road on Thursday morning. According to police, Agathocleous appeared to have lost control of ...

By Elias Hazou and George Psyllides After just a year in office, Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis has resigned, confirmed by the presidential palace during the day. In a brief statement ...

Police on Thursday appealed for information regarding the whereabouts of a 32-year-old woman who has been missing from her residence in Paphos for a week. In a statement, police said ...

Cyprus ranks in 33rd place on the 2021 IMD World Competitiveness Ranking index, moving down three places compared with 2020. According to the Economics Research Centre of the University of Cyprus, the ...

Officials on Thursday pointed fingers at each other after a helicopter allegedly damaged a newly renovated ward of the Athalassa psychiatric hospital in Nicosia. On Tuesday evening, a helicopter transporting ...

The new Ayia Tylliria nature trail in the Pyrgos area was opened on Thursday by the Deputy Minister of Tourism Savvas Perdios in the village of Pigainia. The path starts ...

The vaccination portal will be open to those aged 18-39 until 5:30pm on Thursday, the health ministry announced. The move comes just a day before the portal is set to ...

By Mary Spyrou One person has been arrested for human trafficking and eight possible victims were identified in Cyprus as part of a joint European operation by Europol. The investigation ...

News that the UK government might open up summer holidays abroad for vaccinated Britons have been welcomed by tourism industry players in Cyprus, who hope that less red tape for ...

A pathologist hired by the family of a national guardsman who died 16 years said Thursday his death was the result of strangulation and not suicide. Demetra Karayianni said she had ...

A 77-year-old woman told police that two men broke into her house in Dhekelia while she was asleep and robbed her of jewellery worth around €2,400. The woman said the incident ...

Police on Wednesday seized two firearms and a quantity of dynamite, found in a field in Deftera, in the outskirts of Nicosia. Officers found the cache at around 2pm after ...

Federal Reserve officials signaled on Wednesday that they expected to raise interest rates from near-zero levels sooner than they had previously forecast. The euro and the pound both fell sharply ...

Agriculture minister Costas Kadis on Thursday highlighted the importance of the new Mammari firefighting aircraft base in Wednesday’s efforts to extinguish a fire in the Ayia Marina Xyliatos area, ...

Cyprus has only managed to reduce its road deaths by 20 per cent in the past ten years, the seventh country that has been least effective in helping the EU reach ...

With political will and commitment, and with flexibility and creativity, the two sides in Cyprus can find the necessary common ground to build a common future, British High Commissioner Stephen ...