Cyprus News

The September agenda has arrived alive and kicking! A rich calendar will unfold over the next few weeks with events in towns and villages, for old and young. In the ...

A 34-year-old man was remanded in custody on Wednesday after being arrested earlier in the day at Larnaca airport, having arrived with over 24kg of cannabis in his suitcase. Police ...

Parents and guardians of schoolchildren are responsible for picking them up ahead of Thursday’s general strike, the education ministry said on Wednesday. Buses will not be running, so children ...

No lives will be in danger during the general strike on Thursday and no patients will be left without proper medical care, the State health services organisation (Okypy) said on ...

Seven tourists have been added to Ayia Napa’s long list of honorary regular visitors, the municipality said on Wednesday. The new ‘tourism ambassadors’ are Paul Johnson with 61 visits, Michael ...

A 29-year-old was arrested on Tuesday in the framework of police investigations into the possession of drugs and explosives. The police said on Wednesday this was the eighth person to ...

A 22-year-old who arrested on Tuesday in Larnaca to facilitate investigations into a drugs case, has been remanded on Wednesday for eight days by the Larnaca district court. Members of ...

A sunny start off for Wednesday before clouds form in the afternoon, yielding isolated showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly in the mountains. Winds will be a southwest to northwest ...

By Athena Eftychiou Similar to the rest of the Mediterranean and even the east coast of the UK from where I’m currently writing this, Cyprus has been experiencing some ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou on Tuesday met Egypt’s Petroleum Minister Karim Badawi for a “results-oriented discussion” regarding the two countries’ efforts to exploit natural gas from under the seabed ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday night issued a 1,000-word statement – his second of this year’s election campaign so far – criticising efforts towards a federal solution to the ...

Turkish Cypriot journalist Canan Onurer said she has received death threats after refusing to retract a report on alleged criminal activity involving individuals who had recently arrived on the island ...

The European Commission on Thursday approved the disbursement of over €1 billion to Cyprus as part of its Security Action for Europe (Safe) programme. In total, Cyprus will receive exactly €1,181,503,924, while 18 ...

Cypriot members of the European parliament on Tuesday addressed the chamber in Strasbourg for the first time since the wildfire which tore through the Limassol district and killed two people ...

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis on Tuesday denied that his father-in-law is the subject of the European public prosecutor’s office (EPPO) investigation into the Great Sea Interconnector project, which ...

The Supreme Court has rejected an application by a prison warden, who is a suspect in an ongoing criminal case, to annul a previous court order authorising the seizure of ...

Former House president Demetris Syllouris will not take the stand in the ongoing golden passports trial against him, his lawyer Chris Triantafyllides told the Nicosia criminal court on Tuesday. Instead, ...

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis on Tuesday said there are “manifest interests” working to ensure that the Great Sea Interconnector will never be constructed. The project, if completed, will connect ...

Israel remains committed to the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), an Israeli government official told local media on Tuesday, amid apparent discord between Cyprus and Greece over the mammoth project. An ...

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on Tuesday thanked Cyprus for the humanitarian aid sent in August and called on the member states to take further action, during a ...

Five prosecution witnesses testified about land in the north developed by Israeli property developer Simon Aykut as his trial continued on Tuesday. One of the five is a land registry ...

Cyprus recorded an alarming increase of 52.4 per cent in greenhouse gas emissions between 1999 and 2023, while the rest of the EU recorded notable decreases, newly released Eurostat data shows. And Green ...

Waste collection will take place overnight on Friday, along the Nicosia-Limassol highway from Skarinou to Germasogeia, affecting traffic, the Department of Public Works announced on Tuesday. The work is scheduled ...

A security guard was hospitalised with burns to the face after a group of young men reportedly attacked him with a gas cylinder at a primary school in Ypsonas on ...