Cyprus

President Nikos Christodoulides announced on Monday, a key decision to allow the anti-corruption authority in Cyprus to hire permanent staff, underlining his government’s stance of zero tolerance towards corruption. ...

Joint university programmes began gaining popularity in the late 1990s, in Europe in particular. With the vision to increase academic cooperation and student mobility across countries, institutions came together to ...

More than 37,000 kilograms of used batteries were recycled in Cyprus during the first half of 2025, according to the non-profit organisation Afis Cyprus, which coordinated a series of public awareness and ...

The municipality of Ayia Napa announced on Monday that it is moving forward with a formal twinning agreement with the Greek municipality of Alexandroupolis, in what Ayia Napa mayor Christos ...

A group of 50 young people from six European countries gathered this month in the village of Pervolia, Larnaca, for a programme aiming to promote healthy and active lifestyles. The event, ...

A huge wildfire that broke out on Sunday afternoon in the community of Steni, near Polis Chrysochous in Paphos district, has been brought under control, authorities confirmed. Fire service spokesman ...

A 49-year-old man is in hospital after being shot in the leg outside his home in Pyla just after midnight on Monday. The shooting happened in front of the man’...

A seasonal low-pressure system is keeping its hold over the region, bringing clear skies but sending temperatures soaring to summer highs. Monday’s weather will be mostly clear across the ...

Children abroad are already licking lollipops that basically blast music through their teeth. But in Cyprus, the futuristic sweet is still nowhere to be found, leaving many locals desperate for ...

With temperatures ranging above 40 degrees Celsius on a regular basis, summer is in full swing. While we cool off with cold drinks, air conditioning and beach days, our animal companions ...

Parts of the Paphos district were left without power on Sunday afternoon after a wildfire broke out near the village of Steni. Steni itself was left without power, along with ...

A man appeared in court in northern Nicosia on Sunday after having been arrested for having allegedly driven into the Republic illegally near the village of Louroujina. Louroujina is the ...

The beauty of spending the summer in Cyprus is that you can do and have it all. Beach parties and luxurious spa getaways, village road trips and loud music festivals, ...

It is “too early to judge” whether or not last year’s sweeping government reforms were a success, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Sunday. He said there have been “...

The results of an autopsy conducted on the body of a 73-year-old man who was found dead in a ditch near Paphos airport on Sunday indicate that he was “likely” ...

The 17-year-old boy who had been arrested in connection with the robbery of a bag from two men on Larnaca’s Finikoudes beach was on Sunday remanded in custody for ...

The week ahead will be “critical” for the Cyprus problem, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Sunday. “Our effort is continuous. We have a clear goal, and we are working ...

The Paralimni and Dheryneia municipality on Sunday laid out plans for the construction of a new central square in Paralimni. It confirmed that it had submitted an application to the ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar doubled down on his opposition to the appointment of Johannes Hahn as the European Union’s envoy for the Cyprus problem. “Following the Greek Cypriot ...

A 30-year-old man suffered stab wounds and other serious injuries after getting into a fight with a 53-year-old man in a supermarket car park in the Limassol district village of ...

Investigations are ongoing on Sunday over the death of 16-year-old Turkish Cypriot teenager Ivan Gurbetoglu in a motorcycle crash near the Paphos district village of Choletria. The police have said ...

Hot and sunny weather will once again be the order of the day on Sunday, though tempered by the odd low cloud in parts. Temperatures will rise to 38 degrees Celsius ...

With a loss of €56,283 in cryptocurrency investments, 2025 did not start well for a Limassol man who fell victim to a cyber fraud in the first week of the new year. ...

Matters became heated between Energy Minister George Papanastasiou and the electricity authority’s scientific staff’s trade union Sepaik leader Marios Pappoutis at the union’s annual general meeting on ...