Cyprus

Environment Commissioner Antonia Theodosiou on Thursday called for a ban on the construction of buildings within 100 metres of the coast. Speaking at a conference organised by the environment department, she ...

Police were mobilised on Thursday to respond to a reported “bomb threat” in a school in Nicosia. According to the Cyprus News Agency, the threat was called in to a ...

Fraud investigations into a €46 million waste treatment project have shifted to Brussels but seem to be going nowhere, as the EU, which funded the project, remains uncertain about who is ...

Sefer Bugra Altundag, the man who killed 16-year-old Zehie Helin Reessur in January last year, was found guilty on five counts in court in Trikomo on Thursday. Altundag had been ...

Police on Thursday said 11 individuals found to be residing in the Republic illegally were deported. The operation unfolded on Wednesday in Paphos between 4am and 7am. Five men and six ...

The two men accused of murdering 45-year-old Ayca Alav in Nicosia’s walled city last December were on Thursday filmed running away from court after having been taken there in ...

The government is “very close to having announcements to make” regarding Cyprus’ joining of the United States’ visa waiver programme, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday. Speaking at the morning’...

By Tom Cleaver The British bases on Thursday announced that a total of 312 blackcaps – commonly known as ‘ambelopolia’ – which had been illegally trapped, had been seized at crossing points they ...

Bee-themed walks and virtual tours are among actions promoted in mountainous Larnaca by the city’s tourism development board to highlight and enhance the unique identity of the honey villages. ...

Three men appeared in court in northern Nicosia on Thursday morning after a 24-year-old man died in a fire in an apartment block in Mia Milia in the early hours ...

Three youths have been arrested and charged in connection with a fight that took place in Larnaca on Wednesday evening. They face charges of battery, causing a public disturbance and ...

Rusen Karakaya, whose daughter Selin was one of the 24 Cypriot children killed when the Isias hotel in the southeastern Turkish city of Adiyaman collapsed during the earthquakes which hit the ...

The trial of a 43-year-old man who killed a cat and then shared a grotesque picture of the cat he had just killed to his social media is set to ...

A 16-year-old boy from Paphos is “out of danger” after suffering a laceration to his abdomen while trying to jump over a fence to leave his school on Wednesday, Paphos ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Thursday attended an international conference in Paris for Lebanon, with the aim of rallying military and humanitarian aid for the country. The conference was hosted ...

Thursday’s weather will be largely clear and sunny, with temperatures once again on the rise. Temperatures will rise to 26 degrees Celsius inland and on the coasts and 16 degrees Celsius ...

Details regarding the next round of support measures offered by the government to help alleviate the rising cost of living will be announced within the next month, Finance Minister Makis ...

There are 436,000 vehicles registered in the north, ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli said on Wednesday. Speaking to Kibris Postasi TV, he said around 3,000 new vehicles are being registered in the north ...

The election of Ziya Ozturkler as the north’s ‘parliament’ speaker was placed into the north’s ‘government’ gazette on Wednesday, sparking fury among opposition figures, who claim he was ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Wednesday said he is ready to open a new crossing point in Mia Milia, on the eastern edge of Nicosia. Speaking to Kibris Postasi ...

Cyprus on Wednesday became a signatory to the Artemis Accords, a set of principles and agreements established to govern international cooperation in the exploration and use of outer space. The ...

Bioland Energy has rebounded from a protest against planned photovoltaic parks in Frenaros, which cut a public presentation of the project short on October 17, by issuing a press release outlining ...

Cyprus’ online tax portal, Taxisnet, is now unavailable for users attempting to access it from abroad due to security measures being taken to deal with a wave of cyber attacks ...

The strengthening of bilateral cooperation and exchanges between young people from China and Cyprus was discussed on Wednesday by members of the House education committee with a delegation of young ...