Cyprus News

Attorney-general George Savvides on Tuesday appointed former Supreme Court judge Andreas Paschalides as the independent criminal investigator of a video which emerged last week alleging campaign finance lawbreaking on the ...

The trial of a 22-year-old accused of involvement in an attempted murder last July will continue on February 2, Larnaca criminal court ruled on Tuesday. He is accused of attempting to ...

By Dina Gavarieva There’s a lot to worry about in the world right now – rising living costs, global uncertainty and the looming what-if of illness – but here in Cyprus ...

Mud, debris and leaves were observed on several roads in Miliou in the Paphos area, causing roads to be blocked and making driving in the area particularly dangerous, the community ...

Fire engines and agricultural tractors have been converted into snowploughs to clear snow from mountain roads and ensure residents can move freely, the forestry department said on Tuesday. According to ...

House President and Disy MP Annita Demetriou on Monday met with the Cyprus Police Association (CPA) to discuss disputed police reform plans recently announced by police chief Themistos Arnaoutis, it ...

Police seized four vehicles and filed more than 70 traffic complaints during overnight operations from Monday into Tuesday, after carrying out over 370 traffic checks on roads across the island. Of the ...

Turkish Cypriot politician Oz Karahan on Tuesday announced his intention to stand as a candidate in May’s parliamentary elections, becoming the first Turkish Cypriot to do so since the ...

Increased patrols and risk assessments for potential search and rescue operations will be carried out at Lady’s Mile and Episkopi Bay using two new jet skis, the bases said ...

Cyprus will “place particular emphasis on the protection of workers” during its six-month term as the holder of the Council of the European Union’s rotating presidency, Labour Minister Marinos ...

An earthquake measuring 3.7 on the Richter scale was felt in the Paphos district in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The earthquake hit at 3.28am, with its epicentre located around 80 ...

The social support body’s management committee on Tuesday implored First Lady Philippa Karsera Christodoulides to reconsider her resignation from her role as the body’s chairwoman. She had resigned ...

Sandro Gozi, the secretary-general of the EDP, one of the centrist groups in the European parliament, on Tuesday said that he had penned a letter to the European Commission over ...

Police on Tuesday called on drivers to be particularly careful on the roads due to the overall adverse weather conditions in the inland areas and in the higher mountains. “Due ...

Diko leader Nicholas Papadopoulos on Tuesday warned President Nikos Christodoulides over what he described as “unfortunate” references to Cyprus’ political parties in statements he made after his chief of staff ...

Taxi drivers in Larnaca went on strike for four hours on Tuesday morning in protest at what they described as “uncontrolled action by passenger transport applications” in the town, and ...

United Nations special representative in Cyprus Khassim Diagne is late on Tuesday expected to brief representatives of countries which contribute personnel to the UN’s peacekeeping force on the island (...

Nicosia mayors from both sides of the divide have called for the revival of the bicommunal peace education initiative Imagine. A recent event by the Association for Historical Dialogue and ...

Video footage emerged on social media on Monday, showing four men, reportedly employees of the Chlokaras community council, kicking and throwing a sea turtle on a local beach. According to ...

The College of Commissioners of the European Union will pay an official visit to Cyprus on January, 15 and 16 in the context of its contacts with the Government of the Republic ...

The rain that struck the island in the last three days totalled 22.4 millimetres per square metre, bringing this month’s rainfall to 31 per cent of the usual monthly average by ...

A 48-year-old and a 21-year-old were on Monday arrested pursuant to court warrants in connection with two separate cases of burglary and theft in Larnaca and Nicosia. The first case, ...

A joint English-language Bachelor’s and Master’s programme in product design engineering will be offered by Neapolis University Paphos and the University of Western Macedonia, starting from the academic ...

The resignation of President Nikos Christodoulides’ chief of staff and brother-in-law, Charalambos Charalambous, was a necessary response to the video accusing him and others of corruption, Disy president Annita Demetriou ...