Cyprus News

Cyprus and the Central African Republic established diplomatic relations on Monday, with foreign ministers Constantinos Kombos and Sylvie Baipo Temon meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly ...

The United States navy’s destroyer the USS Jason Dunham arrived at the port of Limassol on Monday, with the US embassy in Nicosia saying it had arrived for the ...

MPs on Monday pushed back hard against a government request for the release of €146,000 for a software application matching ID cards with unpaid traffic fines at checkpoints. The House finance ...

A 41-year-old woman was on Monday sentenced to 12 months in prison for causing the death of a 35-year-old motorcyclist in a 2022 road collision in Paralimni, by the Famagusta District Court. ...

Reform of the pension system will cost the state more than €800 million overall over a six-year period, the labour minister said on Monday as the government continued talks with employers ...

The court of appeal has overturned the release on bail of a man accused of domestic violence, actual bodily harm, harassment, issuing threats, and psychological violence, among other things the ...

The stretch of the highway that passes through the bases from Akrotiri to Kolossi will remain closed until lunchtime on Tuesday, the SBA authorities announced on Monday. The road closure ...

The 22-year-old woman who was stabbed multiple times at a supermarket in Nicosia last month is paralysed, Dr Burhan Nalbantoglu hospital’s chief physician Hasan Birtan said on Monday. He ...

The Breakfast for All programme has returned to kindergartens in Larnaca and Famagusta, providing free breakfast to about 3,600 children each day, the education minister said on Monday. The programme has ...

Teachers’ unions Poed, Oelmek and Oltek will protest outside the presidential palace on October 8 to protest the education ministry’s “insistence on new legislative regulations concerning the teacher appointment system”, ...

Cyprus wines can become more competitive and of better quality, Agriculture Minister Christos Senekis said, while pledging government support for winegrowers tackling drought, climate change and rising production costs. Speaking ...

More than 1,000 hate speech comments are posted in Greek on Cypriot online sites every 24 hours, House human rights committee chair Christos Christofides said on Monday. He told the committee that 48 ...

A large wooden door from a traditional Cypriot house may not have been designed simply for letting people in and out. In many vernacular homes, the main entrance, known as ...

A total of 5,176 Turkish Cypriots have been granted Cypriot citizenship since 2004, figures released by the interior ministry showed on Monday. A total of 2,972 citizenships, the largest share of the total, ...

Lawyers representing a former Greek soldier serving in Cyprus (Eldyk) seriously injured by a grenade said two of the 73 grenades supplied to the unit had been withdrawn after cracks were ...

Persistently high temperatures and recent rainfall have created favourable breeding conditions for mosquitoes across Cyprus, while monitoring has shown their numbers increasing over the past three years, health services said. ...

Cyprus, Greece and Israel share a common trait beyond their defence cooperation, Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas said on Friday, that being “they do not have good relations with Turkey.” Speaking ...

Disy senior officials Efthymios Diplaros and Yiannis Karousos shook hands over the party’s presidential election candidate, ending days of strife over who to support. Deputy president Diplaros told Sigma ...

Crisis management and the identification of private businesses considered critical to defence and security will be strengthened under a cooperation agreement signed on Monday by the defence ministry and the ...

Cyprus recorded the second-largest annual decline in commercial flights in the EU in August, even as flight activity across the bloc continued to expand and the island’s tourism downturn ...

A 20-member team from the Machallekide Gym has climbed two peaks in the Italian Alps, raising the flag of the Little Heroes children’s cancer charity at an altitude of ...

Teachers’ organisations are getting ready to announce measures to protest the education ministry’s intentions regarding the appointment system, it was made known on Monday. Cyprus News Agency sources said ...

Police are investigating a bomb threat email sent to the English School in Nicosia on Monday. Speaking to the Cyprus Mail, police said the email warned of an “explosive device” ...

The pension reform bill is to be submitted to the House by the end of month, Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas assured on Monday. Addressing the labour advisory board, Mousiouttas affirmed “...