Cyprus

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 ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that it is not unconstitutional nor a violation of European Union law for the construction of luxury camp sites, also known as ‘glamping’, to ...

Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou on Wednesday night praised both workers and employers in the concrete sector for agreeing to the negotiation framework he has devised with the aim of bringing ...

A total of 448kgs of meat smuggled from the Republic were found by local police in Famagusta on Wednesday, the town’s Turkish Cypriot municipality said. The meat, all of ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Wednesday said he was not “indifferent” to the challenges of local government reform and that he in fact “did more than that for which the ...

The floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) Prometheas, which will form part of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) project at he, will set sail for Cyprus from Shanghai at the ...

Local government reform had been undertaken without preparation, Akel leader Stefanos Stefanou said on Wednesday. The two and a half years which had been granted while elections were postponed had ...

State hospital doctors will be going on a 48-hour strike at the end of the month, Pasyki union announced on Wednesday after another failed attempt to clinch a deal with ...

Cyprus Football Association (CFA) chairman Giorgos Koumas came under heavy criticism on Wednesday after the Cyprus sports writers’ union withdrew an award from a journalist who had uncovered corruption within ...

The first flamingos have arrived in Larnaca’s salt lake searching for a warmer climate and food. Every year thousands of migratory birds including flamingos come to Cyprus to spend ...

The House legal committee on Thursday called for improvements to the procedural framework surrounding public contracts, amid a wave of contracts being terminated by the government in the second half ...

The window of opportunity to file an appeal after a criminal conviction should be increased from three months to six months, the House legal committee agreed on Wednesday, after a ...