Cyprus

Employers and industrialists’ federation (Oev) chairman Antonis Antoniou on Friday expressed his distaste for the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA), saying his organisation believes it “should have disappeared”. He was speaking after ...

A British tour operator which sold holidays to northern Cyprus, among other destinations, closed on Thursday, with all future bookings cancelled. The operator, which traded under the name Balkan Holidays, ...

The Cypriot government is under fire over its decision to cut funding for electric vehicle (EV) subsidies, sparking concern among car importers and green mobility advocates. In a statement issued ...

The criminal case against former Transport Minister Marios Demetriades in relation to “suspicious” naturalisations of new Cypriot citizens under Cyprus’ citizenship through investment scheme, commonly known as the ‘golden passport’ ...

Coastal engineer Xenia Loizidou on Friday slammed the government’s plan to import mobile desalination plants from the United Arab Emirates to solve Cyprus’ water shortage as an “incoherent panic ...

Cyprus is to take part in World Tai Chi & Qigong Day on Saturday, with people set to gather in Nicosia’s central Eleftheria Square to take part in a ...

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Friday called for strengthened technical military operation with Cyprus. Speaking upon a visit to the country of his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides, he said his ...

Work to widen and resurface the road between Rizokarpaso and the Apostolos Andreas monastery on Cyprus’ northeastern tip began on Thursday, with the road set to be widened by as ...

The government is awaiting Apple’s approval for the inclusion of its ‘e-Kalathi’ platform’s app on the company’s iOS operating system, the consumer protection service’s competition branch ...

A 77-year-old has lost around €142,000 after “investing” in a scheme advertised online that turned out to be a scam, police reported on Friday. Following his registration with the scheme in ...

Contracts were signed on for the creation of a new cemetery within the bounds of the Polis Chrysochous municipality, the town’s mayor announced on Friday. He said the contract ...

Edek will elect a new leader on June 1, following the surprise resignation of Marinos Sizopoulos, according to reports on Friday. The Cyprus News Agency reported that the elections have already ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Thursday night reiterated his support for a two-state solution to the Cyprus problem, saying, “whatever the Greek Cypriots and the European Union say, the ...

The police on Friday announced that they had made a fifth arrest in connection with an alleged attack on five members of a volleyball team from Paphos outside a nightclub. ...

Three people were arrested over an attack on a man who is being held in custody in the central prison, the police announced on Friday. The men are aged 34, 28, and 26 ...

Cyprus, long known for its stunning Mediterranean landscapes and robust financial services sector, is rapidly carving out a new identity as a burgeoning hub for technology and innovation. Within this ...

The search for the tourist who went missing after renting an inflatable boat and taking it into the sea from the port of Latchi continued into its fourth day on ...

A fire broke out in a car belonging to a 70-year-old man in the Larnaca suburb of Aradippou in the early hours of Friday morning, the police said. Larnaca police ...

Increased clouds, isolated rain, and even possibly the odd storm will be the order of the day on Friday. Temperatures are set to rise to 23 degrees Celsius inland, 26 degrees Celsius ...

Evripidis Mouxouris, a 104-year-old second world war veteran, will lead the Cypriot contingent at Friday’s march to mark Anzac Day in Sydney. Mouxouris was born in Morphou in 1921 and ...

In a move that took party cadres by surprise, Edek leader Marinos Sizopoulos announced on Thursday that he was stepping down. Sizopoulos delivered the news to party cadres during a ...

There were fires lit and dancing on the street as Morphou became the fourth town to hold a protest against the north’s ruling coalition’s decision to legalise the ...

Stretches of the Nicosia-Limassol highway, as well as on the Limassol-Paphos highway will be temporarily closed for road works next week, the Department of Public Works announced on Thursday. From ...

The Cyprus association of renewable energy companies (Seapek) on Thursday expressed its “deep and growing concern” over what it described as a “lack of planning” by the energy ministry, during ...