Cyprus

The Limassol criminal court on Wednesday sentenced a former Pattichion theatre director to five-and-a-half years in prison for theft and money laundering, between 2017 and 2020. The former director Vasos Argyrides, 65, was ...

Traffic on the Nicosia-Limassol highway will be interrupted at night by asphalt paving works on July 14 and 15, the department of public works has announced. The roadworks are scheduled to take ...

An 80-year-old man was murdered in his home in Limassol in the early hours of Wednesday morning, with his 47-year-old son verbally admitted to the crime and he has now ...

The deputy shipping ministry, although aware of reports that regular passenger ferry cruises linking Cyprus and Lebanon were about to be launched, said it could not comment on their veracity ...

A request was submitted on Wednesday at the Nicosia criminal court to change the conditions in which Israeli property developer Simon Aykut, accused of developing and selling property on Greek ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Wednesday held a meeting with Tanzanian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Thabit Kombo. Kombos attended the meeting on behalf of the European Union’s foreign affairs chief ...

The Cyprus association of care home owners on Wednesday expressed “strong dissatisfaction” over the way House labour committee discussed living conditions in private and state care homes for people with ...

A police officer has been arrested after being accused of domestic violence by his partner, according to reports on Wednesday. News website Alpha reported that the accusation was the third ...

An air-conditioned space was opened on Wednesday by Larnaca municipality to offer mostly the elderly a place to cool off in the face of extremely high temperatures. It said the ...

A total of 1,325 counterfeit Labubu toys, keychains and other accessories were seized in a coordinated operation carried out by the customs department on Tuesday, it announced on Wednesday. The operation, ...

A sixth person, aged 18, was arrested by police late on Tuesday suspected of being involved in a Paphos robbery on June 29 in which two tourists were injured. In the last ...

The internationally acclaimed author, philosopher and founder of the European School of Economics, Elio D’Anna, will be live on stage at the Rialto Theatre in Limassol for the first ...

The north’s population is 590,000, excluding foreign students and Turkish soldiers, ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel said on Tuesday night. Speaking to Diyalog TV, he said the ruling coalition is working ...

The met office on Wednesday morning issued a yellow weather warning due to the forecast high temperatures. The warning will be in force between midday and 5pm, with temperatures set ...

Temperatures are set to rise to 40 degrees Celsius inland on Wednesday, with the skies set to be clear throughout the day. On the west coast, temperatures will only reach 31 degrees ...

By Kristina Cernakevica Two weeks ago, something quite revolutionary happened in the heart of Limassol. University Square – often a site of casual weekend strolls – became the stage for Cyprus’s ...

President Nikos Christodoulides speaking at the 30th anniversary event of the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) emphasised it’s crucial role in the ‘security architecture’ of the Eastern Mediterranean and ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar told member of the European Parliament Fidias Panayiotou that he is not Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s “puppet” during an interview spanning over an ...

Currently there are around 89 programs and residences in place facilitating approximately 1,000 disabled people, the Deputy Welfare Ministry said on Monday, responding to concerns raised by the labour committee earlier in ...

A 57-year-old Nicosia businessman fell victim to a phone scam that saw him lose €14,500 on Monday afternoon, police reported on Tuesday. The man first received a phone call from an ...

The energy regulator (Cera) said on Tuesday it’s awaiting a response from the finance ministry on whether to include a tariff on electricity bills for the first €25 million that ...

The water of Memi lake in the Xyliatos area could not be used for interrogation purposes due to environmental concerns, experts from the agriculture ministry told the House agriculture committee ...

MPs hauled government officials over the coals on Tuesday after learning that the LNG import project at Vasiliko not only would not be ready by year’s end, as previously ...

Craving a dose of that Nicosia Book Fest atmosphere? You will not have to wait until October this year as Cyprus’ largest literary festival embarks on a summer tour that ...