Cyprus

Any asylum seeker who commits a crime will have their subsidiary protection status revoked, Deputy Minister of Migration Nicholas Ioannides announced on Thursday. His statements were made after a Cabinet ...

The ‘Thermokitida Agapis’ association on Wednesday thanked the Ygeia polyclinic in Limassol for its contribution towards the purchase of two mobile rescue units valued at €40,000, now handed over to the ...

About 650 state hospital doctors, set to receive €19.1 million over and above their salaries, overtime and allowances, to keep up financially with their private sector peers, are to go on strike ...

Parents in the Karpas peninsula village of Ayios Andronikos are up in arms over a lack of teachers at the village’s primary school. Despite the school year having now ...

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Prejudice against people with disabilities is rife across Cyprus’ public transport, the association of the blind charged on Thursday. It accused the transport ministry of being indifferent to the humiliation ...

A fourth baby was discharged from hospital on Thursday after having been fed ethanol while being treated on the neonatal intensive care ward in northern Nicosia’s emergency hospital. A ...

Turkish Cypriot Nicosia mayor Mehmet Harmanci on Thursday called for the capital’s Ledra Palace crossing point to be opened to civilian road traffic. At present, only pedestrians and diplomatic ...

The Bank of Cyprus said on Thursday it is taking proactive measures to prevent online scams while fake news about a fraudulent lucrative platform linked to the bank have been ...

Cyprus aims to build closer ties with Bahrain in aviation, security, and crisis management by making its first appearance at the Bahrain International Airshow 2024. This new chapter in bilateral relations ...

The health ministry and the state health services (Okypy) on Thursday announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding which they say will ensure Okypy’s financial and administrative autonomy. ...

Two young men accused of firing shots at a wedding party in Mesogi last August pleaded not guilty to all charges in a Paphos court on Thursday. The defendants, both 23 ...

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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “remains engaged” with all sides in his efforts to hold an enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem, his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Wednesday night. ...

The trial of the two men who stand accused of having murdered 39-year-old Andreas Kouzoupis and 38-year-old David Chmelar and then putting their bodies in a car which they then ...

A 20-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday in Limassol for drug possession, following a police operation targeting suspected trafficking. Around 7.20pm, drug squad officers, acting on information related to narcotics ...

King Frederik X of Denmark made a special reference to the positive role played by Cyprus as a pillar of peace and stability in the Eastern Mediterranean region, according to ...

Improving relations between Cyprus and the United States may push Russia to recognise the north, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s international relations advisor Hasan Unal said on Thursday. Speaking ...

Canadian veterans who served in Unficyp, known as Operation Snowgoose, returned to the island last week to mark the 60th anniversary of the force. Over 28,000 Canadians have served in Cyprus ...

Former President Nicos Anastasiades lambasted his successor Nikos Christodoulides in a podcast interview, criticising the latter’s style of governance and his disassociation of himself from the former’s government. ...

Turkey is on Thursday to open a new military hospital in Kyrenia, with the country’s Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz set to formally open it. The hospital is being built ...

A teenage girl died after being involved in a road traffic collision in Larnaca on Wednesday night. The girl, named as 18-year-old Romanian national Iulia Mihaela Vasile, was riding in ...

Thursday will see mostly clear skies across the island, with increased cloud cover in parts of Cyprus through the early afternoon. Temperatures will rise to 25 degrees Celsius inland, 26 degrees Celsius ...

Greece’s intelligence service on Wednesday declassified 58 intelligence reports connected to the Greek-led coup in Cyprus in 1974 and the subsequent Turkish invasion, giving an inside account of the historic events ...