Cyprus

Sunday’s elections were a mixed bag, with many established politicians retaining their parliamentary seat, a few ‘veterans’ making a comeback, new faces including the youngest ever person to become ...

Changes are expected in local government councils after the election of some councillors as MPs on Sunday. Three vacant seats will have to be filled at the Larnaca municipal council ...

Cyprus has closed its airspace to flights from Belarus, joining a list of European Union nations imposing restrictions following the forced landing of a passenger jet in Minsk on May 23. ...

A total of 64 rapid testing sites will operate around the island on Tuesday, the health ministry announced. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

Sunday’s parliamentary elections saw four parties pick up seats with many other political hopefuls left to pick up the pieces, in a vote which was dogged by low turnout ...

The MPs and representatives of the religious groups elected to parliament on Sunday were officially announced on Monday by chief returning officer Dr Costas Constantinou. The ceremony took place at ...

“In 2019, we participated in the science-based targets, which is an initiative of the Paris Climate Agreement. And we have committed to reducing absolute scope Scope 1 and scope 2 emissions by 21 per ...

Deputy minister for tourism, Savvas Perdios will be travelling to London and Moscow in the coming days in attempt to push for tourist arrivals from Cyprus’ two biggest markets. Perdios ...

Turkish Cypriot tourism ‘minister’ Fikri Ataoglu announced on Monday the cancellation of a live show at Saint Hilarion castle in the north featuring renowned Danish DJ Kölsch, which was ...

Growing in popularity around the world, sight running has recently been introduced in Nicosia. And while there are few tourists to take advantage so far, people from other towns may ...

Cyprus, already among the countries where women account for fewer than one in five members in parliaments, experienced a three per cent drop in representation compared with the 2016 parliamentary elections. ...

With 14,008 votes, Akel’s Irene Charalambides received the most votes out of all the MPs in the newly elected House, it was revealed on Monday. In posts on her Twitter ...

Government spokesman Kyriacos Koushos said on Monday that an agreement has been reached in principle over the reopening of crossing points, which could open on Friday. However, he added that ...

The health ministry on Monday reiterated the new measures that will come into force as of June 1 as coronavirus restrictions are reduced as the coronavirus indictors on the island improve. ...

Paphos police said on Monday they arrested a woman for remaining illegally in Cyprus after her asylum application was rejected. According to police, the woman’s 2019 asylum application was rejected ...

Elam’s Sotiris Ioannou became the youngest MP in the new house at 26 years old, taking up his seat just two years after graduating. Winning one of Elam’s four ...

An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale was felt in Cyprus on Monday morning, the Cyprus Seismological Centre said. The earthquake was recorded at 9:23 and was felt the strongest in ...

Cyprus on Monday upgraded six countries in its categorisation for arrivals based on the epidemiological data, effective from June 3. Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy and Poland have been upgraded ...

The day after the elections must be characterised by a sense of increased responsibility towards our country, President Nicos Anastasiades said after the parliamentary elections during which Disy held its ...

In addition to the 56 new MPs, representatives for two religious groups were also elected on Sunday. Yiannakis Mousas is the representative of the Maronites and Antonella Mantovani for the Latins ...

Police booked ten people after 2,186 checks for breaches of the coronavirus measures nationwide in the 24 hours leading up to 6am on Monday. Nicosia officers carried out 179 checks and booked two ...

Disy retained is position as the largest party in the House after Sunday’s elections for new MPs although it saw its number of seats reduced, as did the other ...

And the necessary reforms to tap funds could prove tricky By Kyriacos Iacovides The government’s multi-billion euro recovery and resilience plan, ‘Cyprus Tomorrow’ is not quite the done deal ...

Seven parties were set to enter parliament following Sunday’s parliamentary elections but the three biggest each lost in or around 3% over the previous legislative elections in 2016 in what is ...