Cyprus News

Police arrested five people during overnight operations on Monday targeting crime and traffic offences, authorities said on Tuesday. The arrests involved offences including begging, failure to appear in court and ...

Cypriot member of the European Parliament Costas Mavrides, of Diko, called on the European Union to impose sanctions on Turkey should the country’s parliament pass the planned “maritime jurisdiction ...

Cabinet on Tuesday approved the development and production plan for the Kronos gas field, which is located in Block 6 of Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), with President Nikos Christodoulides stressing ...

A vessel from the Global Sumud Flotilla bound for Gaza sought refuge in the port of Paphos on Tuesday morning after suffering technical problems during the Israeli interception operation in ...

A Turkish national accused of abducting his two-year-old son from Limassol and taking him to the north was remanded in custody on Tuesday by the Famagusta ‘district court’, while the ...

Authorities have frozen more than €3 million in luxury real estate linked to former Russian politician and businessman Mikhail Yurevich, a naturalised Cypriot who remains wanted internationally over allegations tied to ...

Photographs and poems are the creative mediums of the new exhibition Echoes of Trees – Between Image and Verse, set to open on May 27 at the head offices of Electricity Authority ...

Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel extolled the “alliance of stability” her country has formed with both Greece and Cyprus, pushing back against distaste, particularly in Turkey and inside the ...

Tuesday’s weather is expected to be mostly sunny across most of the island, with sparse cloud cover in parts. Temperatures are set to rise to 30 degrees Celsius inland, 27 degrees ...

Environment Commissioner Antonia Theodosiou has requested the immediate cancellation and withdrawal of environmental approval for the Baths of Aphrodite-Fontana Amorosa roadwork in Akamas, citing both legal and ecological breaches. In ...

The Cypriot authorities have not been formally notified about the interception of boats sailing towards Gaza in the eastern Mediterranean as part of the Gaza Sumud flotilla, President Nikos Christodoulides ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday said he expects for there to be a “European” reaction should Turkey’s parliament pass the planned “maritime jurisdiction law”, which will codify the country’...

The leader of the Alma party Odysseas Michaelides and an MP candidate for Disy got into a fiery tussle over the weekend, with the former accusing the latter of leeching ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Monday stressed the “importance of dialogue” as he met his Kazakh counterpart Alibek Bakayev in Nicosia. “During our meeting, the importance of dialogue, stability, and ...

More than 25 wineries from all over Cyprus will meet at the Wine Aroma of Cyprus exhibition, full of aromas, flavours and wine stories. The Cyprus Oenophile Association hosts a special ...

Sikou Pano! parliamentary election candidate and barrister Savvas Zannoupas was attacked at the Larnaca district court building and in its vicinity, he said on Monday. He confirmed in a post ...

A single Joker ticket landed its holder the jackpot, paying out a whopping €11.6 million – the second largest winnings ever recorded in Cyprus. The winning ticket was the only one to ...

Ahead of the parliamentary elections, two organised groups representing people whose savings got wiped out in the 2013 bank bail-in have asked the political parties to explicitly commit to restitution. The ...

Justice Minister Costas Fitiris called for stronger coordinated action to combat online violence against girls, as a two-day conference on the issue opened in Nicosia under Cyprus’ presidency of the ...

Israeli naval forces intercepted vessels from the Global Sumud Flotilla in the Levant on Monday morning, in an operation carried out off the west coast of Cyprus. The flotilla, compromising ...

Association of Cyprus Travel and Tourism Agents (ACTTA) president Charis Papacharalambous on Monday outlined a cautious outlook for the island’s tourism sector, warning of continued pressures but expressing hope ...

Schools across Cyprus will teach and commemorate the genocide of the Pontic Greeks under measures formally integrated into the education system, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou confirmed on Monday Addressing students ...

Geadis Geadi has criticised the display of the LGBT flag outside the European Commission headquarters, describing the move as an “unacceptable equation” between activist movements and official state flags. In ...

Sofoklis is a character full of quiet contradictions. He wants to return to the Cyprus he has lost; and is left with loss and absence. His connections to the past, ...