Cyprus

The first meeting of the Cypra slaughterhouse investigation, which will also probe related companies and individuals, will take place on February 12, it emerged on Friday. According to a statement by ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos has been accused of demolishing another listed buidling in the old town of Nicosia in 2018 without the municipality taking any measures against him since. The mansion had been ...

A child protection NGO on Friday slammed a Paphos court decision to release a man suspected of molesting two sisters pending his trial, raising the risk of them seeing him ...

Four Limassol nurseries were evacuated after receiving emails warning of a bomb on Friday in a replay of what occurred in Nicosia a day earlier. The Cyprus News Agency reported ...

The north will enter a full lockdown on Friday evening as cases continue to rise leading the authorities to question whether the health system could cope. The lockdown will start ...

As part of measures aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus, the transport ministry has published new guidelines for public and private transport effective from Friday. It said that ...

Akel’s Nicosia municipal councillors on Friday slammed a postponement the previous evening about how to handle the demolition of houses in the centre of Nicosia by the Archbishopric. It ...

Paphos municipality said on Friday it has removed 300 20-tonne trucks of construction and other waste from various areas in the town in recent days as part of a cleaning campaign. ...

Larnaca police on Thursday evening arrested two men after burglary tools were found in their car. Traffic police officers stopped the car driven by a 40-year-old man, who was with ...

Police in Limassol were on Friday investigating the arson of a luxury vehicle belonging to the chairman of second division side Aris, who will is also a candidate for MP ...

The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail, brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in local and international – in audio form. Presented by ...

More than two kilos of cannabis were seized by police in Nicosia on Thursday and two men were arrested in connection with the case. Members of the drug squad who ...

A 62-year-old cyclist is in serious condition in Paphos hospital after he was hit by a car on Thursday afternoon. He was injured at 3.45pm when a car hit him ...

Police carried out more than 14,500 checks for violations of coronavirus protocols in 24 hours from Thursday until 6am on Friday, issuing fines to 138 individuals and two businesses. The record number of 14,596 ...

A lack of flights out of Cyprus due to the pandemic is having a huge impact on the ability of Paws dog shelter in Paphos to re-home dogs abroad, something ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Thursday conveyed to the British government that his side will be going into the five-way summit on Cyprus with a two-state mindset, an arrangement ...

Civil aviation officials on Thursday confirmed that a flight under presidential designation to the Seychelles did take place in August 2015 but couldn’t say whether President Nicos Anastasiades himself was ...

The health ministry announced five deaths and 116 new cases of Covid-19 on Thursday. The deaths concerned four men aged 81,73, 86 and 71, and one woman aged 84. All had underlying conditions. All died ...

The education minister announced on Thursday a series of events to commemorate 200 years since the 1821 Greek War of Independence. The Greek War of Independence is considered a monumental event in ...

Former foreign minister and member of the Cyprus negotiating team Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis expressed her disappointment on Thursday because she was not officially informed by the palace that she would not ...

The attorney-general has ordered the criminal prosecution of a state pathologist for refusing to carry out a post-mortem and not complying with the order of a coroner because of Covid. ...

The number of SMS sent for permission of movement has not changed much over the past three days but has increased from last week, statistics published by the deputy ministry ...

Turkish Cypriot health authorities were forced to interrupt Covid screenings on Thursday morning after they were overwhelmed by the large number of people wanting to be tested, reports said. According ...

Discussions of the Cyprus proposals in the draft Plan of Recovery and Sustainability (European Recovery funding plan) are to begin on February 11, according to a press release from the finance ...