Cyprus News

A 46-year-old man bit a police officer’s hands to avoid arrest for drug possession late on Thursday in Larnaca. The drugs squad found the man, who was wanted for ...

President Nicos Anastasiades is set to meet UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres at 11.30 on Friday in the Belgian capital after reiterating on Thursday his determination to work closely with him ...

Britain will next month publish plans to allow fully vaccinated people to travel unrestricted to all countries except those with the highest Covid-19 risk, in a boost for a travel ...

A new EU-funded project has been launched in Cyprus to facilitate the integration of migrants in a range of areas including participation, education, cultural and social life, urban planning, business, ...

The European Council is set to offer Turkey “readiness to engage” in “a phased, proportionate and reversible manner” while remaining fully committed to a comprehensive settlement of the Cyprus problem ...

Health authorities on Thursday announced 175 new positives to the coronavirus, with the positivity rate from testing remaining stable at 0.51 per cent. There were no new deaths attributable to Covid-19, with ...

The House plenary on Thursday rubberstamped the chairs and members of the 16 regular parliamentary committees, plus of the ad hoc committee on demographics and a newly created ethics committee for ...

Authorities are tracking a boat loaded with about 70 migrants off Cape Greco, it was reported on Thursday afternoon. A coast guard vessel was dispatched to rendezvous with the boat, spotted ...

Paphos criminal court on Thursday sentenced to 17 years in jail on the charge of manslaughter the main suspect in the slaying of a 20-year-old Syrian man that took place in ...

Cyprus traditional products that have secured or are being considered for the EU’s PDO (protected designation of origin) status were in the spotlight on Wednesday evening at a special ...

The health ministry announced a total of 63 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Friday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

Outgoing Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou urged youths on Thursday to get the Covid vaccine, as health authorities said they have located two coronavirus clusters in the past couple of days, ...

Saying discrimination has no place in the European Union, President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday expressed support for LGBTI persons after Hungary’s parliament passed a law that would ban homosexual ...

Anorthosis football players were vaccinated on Thursday at the vaccination centre at Larnaca port ahead of their participation in European fixtures. Club spokesman Demetris Christoforou told the Cyprus News Agency ...

Citizens’ Alliance president Yiorgos Lillikas is bowing out of politics while his party has set in motion procedures to merge with Edek, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Thursday. The ...

Passengers traveling to Cyprus must upload from July 1 their EU Digital Covid Certificate (EUDCC) on the Cyprus Flight Pass online platform, the transport ministry announced on Thursday. This follows approval ...

Every day at dawn, as Dinos Ayiomamitis’ small truck slowly navigates the pathway of a cemetery, cats quietly emerge from among the surrounding tombstones. “Here you go, Bourekka mou,” he ...

The Sovereign Base Area Police are asking the public for help in solving a 23- year-old murder that took place on June 25, 1998, at Lady’s Mile. The fatal stabbing of ...

A further five cases of the Delta variant have been detected in Cyprus from samples taken between March 9 and June 11, the health ministry announced on Thursday. The lab work, carried ...

Saying the relevant bodies are “deaf” to their requests for an improvement in mental health care, a group of state doctors employed at the Athalassa mental health hospital said on ...

One more sexual harassment case has been filed in court, police said on Thursday, as the force continued its investigation into a flurry of complaints filed recently. Police spokesperson Eleni ...

A 28-year-old and a 41-year-old were arrested for driving under the influence of drugs on Wednesday night, Paphos police said. The two men were released pending test results. A small ...

Jean-Pierre Lacroix, the head of Peace Operations for the UN will pay a four-day visit to Cyprus, starting on Thursday. During Wednesday’s international press briefing at UN Headquarters in ...

In a move to promote cultural and rural tourism, the deputy ministry of tourism on Thursday announced 570 free traditional handicraft and enogastronomy workshops to take place over the weekends until ...