Cyprus News

Cyprus recorded the lowest use of public transport among all EU countries in 2024, with 85 per cent not using it, significantly higher that the EU average, Eurostat said on Wednesday. According ...

War “has already touched on European soil”, Dutch member of the European Parliament Jeroen Lenaers warned on Wednesday, as lawmakers discussed the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and the ...

Apart from using SafeCY to find the nearest bomb shelter, people will now be notified on their phones through the app of an imminent danger at the moment it appears ...

Two people were remanded in custody on Wednesday in connection with arson in Anoyira, Limassol, resulting in a fire that burned about 600 square metres of wild vegetation on March 8. The ...

Pame Express, the park and ride bus service from GSP stadium into Nicosia, will be suspended as of March 23, due to a continuous shortage of drivers. Cyprus Public Transport said ...

The extradition process to Germany is underway for a Lebanese national arrested in Larnaca on terrorism charges, subject to a European arrest warrant issued by the German authorities, Cyprus police ...

A woman was found dead on a footpath in Limassol on Wednesday, the police confirmed. A police spokesperson told the Cyprus Mail that the woman was found in the east ...

A total of 38 incidences of foot and mouth disease have been detected since the start of the outbreak of the disease in Larnaca last month, veterinary services department spokeswoman Sotiria ...

The Cyprus ADHD Support Association called on authorities on Wednesday to integrate private occupational therapy into the general health system (Gesy), saying the service is a basic therapeutic need for ...

Livestock farmers in the Larnaca district on Wednesday staged a protest against the ongoing culling of animals in the aftermath of an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the ...

Police in Limassol seized a pistol and explosives yesterday after discovering them in an open area in the district said on Wednesday. Officers, acting on a tip, found the pistol, ...

A Lakatamia residential building was evacuated on Tuesday afternoon after a fire erupted in the building’s elevator shaft, the fire department said on Wednesday. According to the fire department, ...

A fire broke out in a bus parked near a primary school in the Limassol area in the early hours of Wednesday. The bus driver was able to get out ...

The Ierokipia municipality said on Wednesday that it is continuing to collect recyclable materials from homes in the villages of Yeroskipou, Koloni and Konia as part of efforts to boost ...

The Turkish government is planning to deploy surface-to-air missiles to Cyprus, with the conflict in the Middle East ongoing, according to reports on Wednesday. Turkish newspaper Sabah reported that Turkish-made ...

Cabinet on Wednesday was to issue a decision regarding the expropriation of land for the planned new hospital in Polis Chrysochous, President Nikos Christodoulides said. “It is important that we ...

Cabinet on Wednesday approved plans to create a national civil protection mechanism, which will be directed by a civil protection coordinator. President Nikos Christodoulides announced the approval of the plans ...

Cypriot member of the European Parliament Costas Mavrides, of Diko, late on Tuesday night called for the permanent stationing of European Union military force in Cyprus. “The last few years, ...

Local theatre productions are increasing this spring. The majority are in naturally in Greek, a few are in Russian, so it is particularly exciting for the island’s anglophones when ...

The Netherlands “stands with Cyprus”, the country’s Prime Minister Rob Jetten said late on Tuesday night, following the announcement of his country’s intention to deploy a frigate to ...

Violence committed against nurses and other medical staff at hospitals is a growing issue, trade union Pasydy’s nurses’ branch leader Prodromos Argyrides said on Wednesday, saying that nurses “do ...

A total of 36 commercial flights in and out of Cyprus were cancelled on Wednesday, with the war in the Middle East continuing to disrupt regional airspace. All but four of ...

Wednesday’s weather is expected to be mostly clear across most of the island, though heightened levels of dust are expected in the atmosphere. Temperatures are expected to rise to 20 ...

Environmental experts assured on Tuesday that Cyprus’ atmosphere and natural environment remain unaffected by toxic emissions linked to ongoing military conflicts in Iran and strikes on oil facilities in the ...