Cyprus

BirdLife Cyprus on Monday expressed its strong opposition to the environment department expanding the Electricity Authority’s (EAC) overhead network in the protected territory of the endangered Griffon vulture, at ...

Long-serving CyBC journalist Soula Hadjikyriakou has died, her family announced on Monday. ‘‘You lived a life full of challenges, joy, happiness, success and difficulties. You slipped through the hands of ...

The ready mixed concrete producers’ association will propose a full lifting of its ongoing strike at its general assembly on Monday as the industry-wide strike by unions enters its sixth ...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Monday called for house prices to fall. He pointed out that Cyprus has seen the third-lowest rate of house price increases in the European Union ...

A 52-year-old man was remanded for three days on Sunday in connection with a case of burglary and malicious damage. A 63-year-old businessman reported to police on October 28 that between ...

A government contract with Intrakat for the study and construction of the first phase of the Paphos-Polis highway has been terminated, the public works department announced on Monday. A notice ...

Two in three Cypriots place a high priority on adapting to climate change, according to the European Investment Bank’s (EIB) annual climate survey. “Climate change is an undeniable reality ...

A 26-year-old man was arrested after trashing a hotel lobby in Paphos, police announced on Monday. Paphos police assistant operations director Michalis Nikolaou said the incident had occurred shortly before ...

A 26-year-old man was arrested on Sunday for having narcotics in his possession. Police stopped him for a check on Athienou Avenue in Larnaca. During the search they found a ...

A man was arrested after presenting a counterfeit French identify card at passport control at Larnaca airport, police announced on Monday. The incident took place at around 3.35pm on Sunday, ...

A 45-year-old man was arrested on Monday after a car was set on fire in Limassol. Police said the crime was committed on October 20. He was spotted by officers carrying ...

A British Royal Air Force reservist was sacked after sending photographs of his penis – known as ‘dick pics’ – to a female colleague while he was deployed in Cyprus. The man, ...

“Autumn, with its mystical dance of falling leaves, symbolises the beauty of release and surrender,” say organisers of an upcoming wellness festival, adding it is “a metaphor for shedding that ...

Police in Paphos arrested a 22-year-old man for a case under investigation of knife assault and injury with conspiracy to commit a felony over the weekend. The crimes are being ...

The Limassol and Famagusta fire services responded to 16 weather-related incidents over the weekend, fire service spokesman Andreas Kettis reported on X on Monday. Limassol fire stations responded to eight incidents, ...

Paphos police and the fire department were called to help a woman injured while hiking Avakas gorge over the weekend. According to police, the call was received on Saturday around 3.30...

Monday will be partly cloudy and overcast with local showers and isolated thunderstorms expected, mainly along the coast. Hail may also fall. Starting in the early afternoon the rain will ...

A 67-year-old man was seriously injured in Limassol after his vehicle overturned on Sunday morning in Parekklisia. Under circumstances that are being investigated, at around 5am, the man lost control ...

Sunday’s storms left parts of Cyprus reeling, leaving a fire, tornado, hail, landslides and closed roads in their wake. The public had been cautioned there was an orange weather ...

Disy is ready to collaborate with the President of the Republic and anyone else from the political sphere who has positive policies for the country, party leader Annita Demetriou said ...

The fire services on Sunday rescued a hunter who had injured himself after falling in a ravine. According to fire service spokesman Andreas Kettis, a team was sent to rescue ...

A photo, taken in the Turkish Cypriot enclave of northern Nicosia in the late 1960s, shows 15-year-old Suleyman posing with his rifle and his best friend, the two lads having ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will participate in the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Azerbaijan.  According to a written statement by ...

The met office on Sunday upped its weather warning for Sunday from the initial yellow to orange over storms. In place from 8am to 6pm, the region is expected to ...