Cyprus

A complaint has been filed to the Council of Europe over the draining of wetlands near the bicommunal sewage treatment plant in Mia Milia, conservation biologist Robin Snape said on ...

On October 10 the anti-corruption authority will begin hearing an alleged corruption case implicating Edek leader and MP Marinos Sizopoulos, media reports said on Monday. Brought to light by a former ...

State officials on Monday pleaded with MPs to quickly pass a bill approving a 1.5 per cent general increase in the salaries of public-sector workers, but some lawmakers pushed back. The 1.5 ...

Cyprus’ new police chief Themistos Arnaoutis was sworn in on Monday afternoon, along with new deputy chief Panikos Stavrou, after President Nikos Christodoulides fired its leadership over the escape of ...

Pensioners in Nicosia will mark the International Day of Older People, celebrated annually on October 1 since 1990, with a protest outside the finance ministry on Thursday in response to what trade ...

An appeal filed by business owners against the north’s new minimum wage was rejected by the north’s minimum wage determination commission on Monday. The commission convened on Monday ...

Roads around Nicosia are to close for parades to celebrate Cyprus’ independence day. Iosif X Iosif avenue in Strovolos will be closed from the intersection with Spyros Kyprianou avenue to ...

The percentage of mixed feeding for infants – breastmilk and formula – has risen from 65.7 per cent in 2010 to 88.3 per cent in 2022 and Cyprus’ national strategy for increasing breastfeeding for the years 2024 ...

A 57-year-old man was found dead in the early hours of Monday after falling from his balcony. According to a police statement, the incident occurred at around 12.40am, when the ...

A man was issued a fine of 33,926TL (€886) in Kioneli after being filmed throwing sunflower seed shells out of his car’s window. The man had been filmed while waiting ...

Sofronis Avgousti was announced on Monday as Cyprus’ new men’s national football team manager. He signed a two-year contract, which will see him remain in post until November 2026. His ...

The customs department on Monday said that it had made “significant seizures at Larnaca and Paphos airports” between September 27 and 29. According to a statement released by the department, customs officials ...

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 56-year-old woman in a road traffic accident on Monday morning. The woman was driving a car on the motorway between ...

Ambassadors from Arab countries in Cyprus held an “emergency meeting” on Monday morning to discuss a joint plan of action to support Palestine and Lebanon. The meeting was announced by ...

Think like a tourist for a moment. What’s a Cyprus must-see? What’s the one site or place or attraction you’d recommend any visitor should not miss? Depending ...

Cyprus is at its “maximum state of readiness” for a potential evacuation of European Union and third country nationals from Lebanon, foreign ministry spokesman Theodoros Gotsis said on Monday. Gotsis ...

Prison guards on Monday staged a spontaneous protest in front of the Central Prisons, following the dismissal of the acting director of prisons Charalambos Philippides. Speaking to the media, the ...

First lady Philippa Karsera Christodoulides is on Wednesday set to begin work as the foreign ministry’s director of consular affairs, according to reports. Newspaper Phileleftheros wrote that Karsera had ...

On May 26, 1897, Irish author Bram Stoker unknowingly gave birth to a whole genre of literature and art, when he published Dracula. While the nocturnal, blood-feeding monster that served as his ...

Convicted escaped murderer, 42-year-old Doros Theofanous, was back at the Central Prisons in an isolation cell on Monday. The convicted double murderer was returned to prison shortly after 11am while ...

The government expects the police force to come up with a “roadmap” for improvements after its two chief officers were fired, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Monday. The police ...

An overwhelming 98.9 per cent of passengers in July and 97.8 per cent in August were processed through security checks at Cyprus airports in less than ten minutes, the transport ministry said ...

Power was restored to villages in the Famagusta and Larnaca districts after a fault at the Dhekelia substation caused power cuts in the region, transmission system operator (TSO) spokeswoman Chara ...

Greek and European basketball legend Dimitrios Papanikolaou is in Cyprus ahead of the Cyprus Basketball Federation’s (CBF) annual awards ceremony, scheduled for Monday evening at the Royal Hall in ...