Cyprus News

Limassol district court on Wednesday ordered the eight-day detention of a 30-year-old convicted prisoner suspected of orchestrating the purchase of the motorcycle involved in last week’s murder of 49-year-old ...

The presidential administration building located next to the presidential palace will be adorned with a model sculpture resembling the famous fourth century Kyrenia shipwreck, it was announced on Wednesday. The ...

The British bases announced on Wednesday that revealed anti-bird trapping operations have continued at pace despite the ambelopoulia migration season ending this month. Specialist officers from the community action team (...

The rocket launcher which detached from a military helicopter during a training flight on Tuesday has been retrieved by police and handed over to the defence ministry, the ministry’s ...

The trial two people arrested during the independence day parade last year was postponed by the Nicosia district court on Wednesday. Journalist Giorgos Tattis and Turkish Cypriot political activist Oz ...

Senegalese diplomat Khassim Diagne, who will serve as the UN’s new special representative and head of the peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) has arrived in Cyprus to formally assume ...

A bill on the five-year extension of lifting the US arms embargo to Cyprus, which could replace its current annual renewal, is set to be voted on by the US ...

Sixty-five boxes of untaxed cigarettes, each containing 200 cigarettes, were seized from a 58-year-old Turkish Cypriot at Paphos airport on Tuesday, police said on Wednesday. The cigarettes were found in his ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is on Wednesday in Brussels, where he will participate in a dinner later for the leaders of the EU member states with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ...

One parliamentary seat will be transferred from Nicosia to Paphos, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Wednesday. Speaking to CyBC, Ioannou said the ministry has prepared a bill to redistribute ...

Countries that pose a threat to the security and defence interests of the EU and its member states cannot participate in its defence initiatives, Deputy Minister for European Affairs, Marilena ...

Another walk, part of Larnaka 2030’s interdisciplinary walks in the communities of the newly established Municipality of Dromolaxia-Meneou, is coming up. Under the title Pathkia Pathkia, the walks seek to ...

A 46-year-old man was arrested after attacking and stabbing a supermarket employee at a Paphos supermarket on Tuesday evening, after having been stopped on suspicion of stealing alcohol from the ...

On Wednesday, temperatures will climb to up to 30 degrees Celsius inland, around 28 degrees on the coast and up to 23 degrees in the higher mountains. While it will initially be mostly ...

Peace processes that involve women are more likely to be agreed upon and last, making female participation a crucial part of negotiations, Gender Commissioner Josie Christodoulou said on Tuesday. “Women’...

Cypriot champions Pafos FC played out a goalless draw with Kairat Almaty in Kazakhstan on Tuesday night in their third Champions League match of the season. They played the lion’...

MPs on Tuesday pledged to come to the aid of displaced persons who claim that creditors are moving to repossess their homes, while government officials pleaded ignorance of the issue. ...

The civilian court case against two of the five Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the north in July was on Tuesday adjourned until Friday. The pair face charges of ...

Turkish Cypriot leader-elect Tufan Erhurman on Tuesday said his “greatest pride is seeing our people smiling” in his first public statement since Sunday night. “I am continuing to listen to ...

The government on Tuesday sought to downplay worries that – amid the persistent drought – Cyprus will dry out, insisting it has taken a series of actions ensuring adequate water supply. But ...

Sunday’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election result was “a reaction from the Turkish Cypriot people” Turkish Cypriot perpetual candidate Arif Salih Kirdag said on Tuesday after achieving a high of ...

Cyprus and Croatia underlined their similarities and reaffirmed their alignment on all EU matters on Tuesday as President Nikos Christodoulides visited Zagreb, the first official visit by the island’s ...

A bus driver in Larnaca on Tuesday reported that a group of students on his bus were “throwing various objects” at him and called the police. The incident occurred at ...

A Cypriot lawyer alleged on Tuesday that the procedure to select a Cyprus judge for the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is tainted and should be repeated from scratch ...