Cyprus

A group of about 15 young people caused a fire in an abandoned metalsmith’s in the early hours of Saturday, next to a building housing agricultural workers. Nobody was injured. ...

Presenting the entirety of current Chinese painting in a single exhibition is an impossible task. The 42 works by 19 artists on display here tell the personal stories of their creators through ...

The state health organisation said it would be looking into Friday’s reports regarding the embezzlement of more than €30 million for neurolysis treatments and would take action “if deemed necessary”. ...

The Fire Department responded to a total of 35 calls since Friday, 20 of which were fires. At 11.52pm on Friday, Paphos firefighters responded to a fire in a private vehicle that ...

Unficyp vehicles were still in the Frenaros-Vrysoulles buffer zone on Saturday morning, after tension escalated on Friday between peacekeepers and farmers cultivating their land. The UN filed a formal police ...

The departure of Syria’s ex-president Bashar al-Assad, “in the manner he left, cannot considered anything but a very positive development,” President Nikos Christodoulides told a gathering in Athens on ...

There are times, admits George Rotos, when he’ll run into someone he knows and pretend not to see them – not because he doesn’t want to talk to them ...

A fire totally destroyed a 125cc motorcycle on Saturday at 4am, in Strovolos. The bike was parked at the side of the road and appears to belong to a 28-year-old, ...

Police are close to solving a series of cases concerning recent burglaries and theft in Famagusta district, after arresting a 41-year-old man and a 43-year-old woman. The suspects’ apartment was ...

A yellow warning has been issued for thunderstorms over the weekend, starting at 11am on Saturday and ending at 4am on Sunday. The Meteorological Department expects isolated heavy thunderstorms, mainly ...

President Nikos Christodoulides condemned the attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, on Friday evening. In a post on X on Saturday, the president wrote that he is “deeply ...

Bank of Cyprus and Hellenic Bank on Friday announced a new raft of measures aimed at supporting vulnerable borrowers. The developments come after meetings at the presidential palace earlier in ...

Cyprus’ citrus trees may be wiped out if a sap-sucking bug thought to have found its way to the island last year through compost in travellers’ luggage, becomes infected with ...

Cypriot football clubs Omonia and Pafos FC are to face each other in the knockout phase playoffs of the Uefa Europa Conference League as a result of Friday’s draw. ...

The north’s ‘parliament’ on Friday night passed its ‘state’ budget for 2025, with 29 votes in favour and nine votes against. The budget foresees a total of 136.28 billion TL (€3.75bn) worth ...

The radar system at the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport was broken on Friday night. The north’s civil aviation department’s director Mustafa Soli confirmed that the system was ...

The European Union’s “reflexes” on geopolitical issues in the eastern Mediterranean are “not what we would expect”, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Friday night. He was speaking to ...

The met office on Friday night put in place a yellow weather warning for storms over the weekend. The warning will be in place between 11am on Saturday and 4am ...

The Cyprus Agricultural Payments Organisation (CAPO) has disbursed over €2 billion in subsidies since Cyprus joined the European Union, the Commissioner of Agricultural Payments Andreas Kyprianou, said on Friday. Speaking at ...

Cyprus’ general government recorded a surplus of €867.5 million during the third quarter of 2024, according to preliminary data released on Friday by the state’s statistical service. This figure remains close ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) on Friday said that it is assessing the capital needs of banks in light of escalating macroeconomic and geopolitical risks. Speaking during a briefing ...

The Nicosia criminal court on Friday rejected Israeli property developer Simon Mistriel Aykut’s objections to his trial, and set his next hearing for January 13, when he is set to ...

Two men appeared in court in northern Nicosia on Friday, accused of making exactly $30,400 (€29,243) by trafficking people into the north from Sri Lanka. Police officer Yaren Yemenicioglu told the court ...

A 52-year-old man has been sentenced to ten years in prison for the rape and kidnapping of a woman in 2022 in Famagusta. The man was found guilty by the Famagusta ...