Cyprus News

Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides on Wednesday launched the multinational search and rescue exercise Nemesis 2021 with the participation of eight countries, including Cyprus. Speaking at the joint search and rescue coordination ...

Three men found guilty in the bullying death of a 16-year-old in 2019 will be sentenced on November 11. The three, a 20-year-old from Oroklini, and two 19-year-olds from Larnaca and Livadia, ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris gave instructions Wednesday for damage caused by rain at the village of Lympia to be immediately repaired and solutions to be found to prevent a repeat ...

Authorities have recovered a firearm in Paphos linked to the case of an Azeri national suspected of planning to assassinate Israeli businessmen living in Cyprus. The location of the weapon ...

Reports said Wednesday a 24-year-old man who escaped from a Limassol police station early in September has been arrested in the north. No more details were immediately available. The two ...

In a lifelong geek that runs a comic store, THEO PANAYIDES meets a woman drawn to extremes whose habit of drawing every day helps to embrace what scares her Talking ...

Initiative includes planting a tree for every new-born baby A tree planting initiative to plant one million trees withing three years aims to sow the seeds of hope for a “...

The forestry department announced on Wednesday it would be serial spraying against the Pine Processionary Caterpillar between November and January in forested areas. The aerial spraying will start at 7:30am ...

In today’s episode, President Nicos Anastasiades has told the 26th UN Climate Conference (COP26) in Glasgow that more than €500 million will be allocated by the Cyprus government by 2026 for ...

An asylum seeker was arrested at Paphos airport on Tuesday after attempting to depart using fake travel documents. The 25-year-old man of African descent, showed a Finnish passport while trying ...

Two people, 25 and 37, were arrested as part of investigations into two separate theft cases in Paphos and Polis Chrysochous, police said on Wednesday. The arrests came after a shop owner ...

Two businesses in Paphos and Limassol as well as 21 individuals were fined for violating coronavirus measures, police said on Wednesday. A Limassol-based petrol station was booked €500 for allowing an employee ...

The Cyprus property market is suffering from a misalignment between what is primarily available and what is being sought after by property seekers, a report from independent real estate asset ...

Retail trade experienced a boom in Cyprus during August, both in terms of value and volume. According to data released by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat), the Turnover Value Index ...

The House human rights committee on Tuesday underlined its support for shelters to house unaccompanied teenager migrants, calling for the programme to be strengthened. So far 57 teenagers have made use ...

Ruling party Disy on Tuesday sought to dispel the notion that it is looking to meddle with the setup of the General Healthcare System (Gesy), saying it only wants to ...

Amid warnings from officials that at the current rates of violations being recorded by newly installed traffic cameras many drivers will end up losing their licences, police on Tuesday issued ...

Police on Tuesday confirmed that Cyprus received a request from Germany to extradite a permanent resident of the island arrested last month in connection with a cross-border trading fraud investigation ...

One Covid-19 death and 249 new coronavirus infections were reported by the health ministry on Tuesday evening, raising the death toll to 575. There are currently 70 patients receiving treatment for Covid-19 in ...

MPs on Tuesday gave authorities a month to help farmers address a shortage in labour created in part by foreign workers taking up undeclared work elsewhere or applying for political ...

Cyprus on Tuesday presented its initiative for coordinating climate change actions in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (EMME) during the UN climate conference (COP26) in Glasgow. The summit brings ...

The north on Tuesday called on the government to cooperate over the issue of irregular migration, arguing that it is impossible for a single ‘country’ to tackle this on its ...

Police on Tuesday arrested a 53-year-old woman wanted in connection with the theft of around €70,000 from an apartment in Kato Paphos last week. The woman was a ‘key’ person in ...

Halloumi is not the means to achieve political goals, a state official said on Tuesday after reports that Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar tried to get the European Commission to ...