Cyprus News

Cyprus is preparing to tighten its “golden visa” programme ahead of its planned entry into the Schengen area, Deputy Migration Minister Nicholas Ioannides said on Thursday, as authorities carry out ...

The new service allows applicants to arrange immigration health insurance for Cyprus residence applications entirely online, with pricing available upfront. Pitsas Insurance has launched a new online platform for immigration ...

The doctors’ union (Pasyky) on Thursday asked the board of the state health services organisation (Okypy) to explain the legal basis of its scientific director post, after an Okypy spokesperson ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos on Thursday said that the state will operate with a budget surplus “for the third consecutive year” next year, as he presented next year’s state ...

Plans for a natural gas pipeline to be constructed between Turkey and occupied Cyprus have “generated enthusiasm within the international community”, Turkish Cypriot ‘energy minister’ Hasan Tacoy said on Thursday. “...

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis met the United Nations’ Cyprus problem envoy Maria Angela Holguin in New York, the Greek foreign ministry said on Thursday. Neither Gerapetritis, nor Holguin made ...

A large quantity of tobacco products was seized at the Agios Dhometios crossing point after customs officers found undeclared cigarettes and rolling tobacco during a routine check, the customs department ...

Nicosia Mayor Charalambos Prountzos on Thursday rejected the view that closing the capital’s central Makarios Avenue to traffic is the main issue facing the street, warning instead against a ...

The housing debate in Cyprus is too one-sided. It is invariably about how many people are looking for a home, how much rents have risen and how difficult it has ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel on Thursday lambasted President Nikos Christodoulides’ speech at the United Nations general assembly and the accusation of “hypocrisy” he had levelled at Turkish President ...

Representatives of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) will meet Denia village mukhtar Charalambos Alexandrou on Thursday, following Wednesday’s buffer zone altercation near the Nicosia district village, ...

A 54-year-old man from Paphos was arrested after attempting to steal a boiler, the police said on Thursday. The police said the incident began after a 44-year-old man went to ...

A 26-year-old man was arrested in Limassol on Wednesday in connection with three cases of burglary and theft, as well as the suspected illegal possession of property, the police said ...

Turkey is “closely monitoring military developments on the island of Cyprus”, the country’s defence ministry’s spokesman Zeki Akturk said on Thursday, offering criticism for the Republic of Cyprus’ ...

Six people were arrested during the police’s overnight operations operations, the police said on Thursday. The arrests were made for offences including drug possession, burglary, theft and vandalism. The ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos held what he described as a “frank exchange” with Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly in New ...

President Nikos Christodoulides called for the “development” of the natural gas located under the seabed off the coast of Cyprus “as soon as possible” when he met American multinational oil ...

Rain is expected to fall in the mountains, inland, and in the southeast of the island during Thursday afternoon, following a largely clear but partially cloudy start. Temperatures are expected ...

Festivals Already happening at NiMAC, in Nicosia, is the latest edition of Queer Wave 2026, which brings film screenings, discussions, parties and installations to the heart of the city, giving the ...

As greenhouse gas emissions were decreasing across Europe, in Cyprus they increased by 67.1 per cent between 1990 and 2024, while 13 per cent of the island’s land area was affected by drought ...

A prosecution witness in the Avakoum monastery fraud trial described on Wednesday how footage from a monastery security camera showing one of the defendants apparently faking a religious trance convinced ...

Former Disy leader Averof Neofytou said on Wednesday that he will stand for president again if there is no positive movement on the Cyprus problem during talks in New York ...

The planned central prisons at Ayios Sozomenos will be situated well away from the village’s archaeological remains, the justice ministry assured on Tuesday, after a meeting between Justice Minister ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of “hypocrisy of the highest form” as he addressed the United Nations general assembly in New York. “I listened ...