Cyprus News

Children came up with a host of ideas for making their neighbourhood greener, from planting more trees and adding benches to creating spaces for play, walking and socialising, during an ...

Cyprus had around 4,400 people employed in the sport sector in 2025, including 1,400 aged between 15 and 29 and 3,000 aged between 30 and 64, according to Eurostat data. The figures form part of a wider Eurostat ...

Unusual summer rainfall and occasional hailstorms in Cyprus have created favourable breeding conditions for mosquitoes, microbiologist Dr Petros Karayiannis said on Tuesday, warning that climate change could make such conditions ...

Cyprus recorded one of the EU’s sharpest monthly increases in petrol prices in August, while fuel costs across the bloc continued to climb sharply on an annual basis, according ...

Hourly-paid government staff on Tuesday warned the government against altering its current plans for their union representatives to meet President Nikos Christodoulides next week, saying that should those plans change, ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Tuesday called for the next enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem to be one at which “success is guaranteed”, ahead of his trip to ...

A 37-year-old British father on Tuesday pleaded guilty to causing the death of his three-year-old son, who fell from a fourth-floor window at a Paphos hotel in July. The father ...

The British defence ministry is to buy new air raid sirens for its Akrotiri air force base and the adjacent village of the same name, with the contract for their ...

This week, the capital welcomes one of the most esteemed guitarists on the international music scene. Dominic Miller makes his debut at the Axiothea Mansion in a landmark concert on ...

Customs agents, acting on a tipoff, stopped two Israeli women for luggage inspection at Paphos airport on Monday and found large quantities of duty free cigarettes. The agents found 19 cartons ...

Customs agents confiscated almost 10kg of duty free nargileh tobacco during searches of vehicles in Dherynia and Ayios Dhometios on Monday. Agents at the crossing point in Dherynia pulled over ...

A rubbish lorry overturned into a field on Tuesday morning in Achelia, Paphos, due to a mechanical problem. The driver and two passengers – all foreigners – were lightly injured and taken ...

A 37-year-old British father charged over the death of his three-year-old son following a fall from a Paphos hotel window is due back in court on Tuesday morning to enter ...

Key prosecution witnesses will be testifying on Tuesday, as the trial of suspended mayor of Paphos Phedon Phedonos continues before the Paphos criminal court. The hearing, which began in late ...

For Cyprus, respect of international law is not an abstract, theoretical principle, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday evening, adding that an effective multilateral system is of particular importance for ...

Ten people were arrested overnight for illegal residence, possession of drugs and traffic offences. The police pulled over 494 vehicles and checked 641 drivers and passengers. A total of 330 reports were filed ...

Mainly fine weather can be expected on Tuesday before clouds start gathering in the afternoon, bringing isolated showers in the mountains and inland. Winds will be a southeast to southwest ...

Over 205,400 bone marrow donors are currently registered with the Karaiskakio Foundation, which has to date offered more than 1,000 transplants to patients in 36 countries, the foundation said on Monday to mark ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos and his Andorran counterpart Imma Tor Faus on Monday discussed progress in relations between Andorra and the European Union as they met on the sidelines of ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos and his Swiss counterpart Ignazio Cassis on Monday pledged to boost cooperation between Cyprus and the Alpine state when the pair met on the sidelines of ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday evening refused to rule out the prospect of developments of note occurring on the Cyprus problem this week, saying that “behind-the-scenes” meetings on the sidelines ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel on Monday promised that if his party the UBP is re-elected at the forthcoming legislative elections, it will resurrect Cyprus Turkish Airlines, which closed ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Jordanian King Abdullah II on Monday discussed the prospect of closer relations between the Hashemite kingdom and the European Union, as they met in New York ...

The fifteenth body which was pulled from the wreckage of the ferry which sank off the coast of Kyrenia last month has been identified as Mehmet Bayhan, Turkish Cypriot ‘prime ...