Cyprus News

A driver was arrested in the early hours for Monday in Nicosia for drink driving, with a breathalyser indication of 117μg of alcohol instead of the maximum allowed 22μg. He ...

Cyprus “strongly condemns the Houthi attacks against the international airports of Riyadh and Abha, targeting civilians and critical infrastructure” and has expressed its solidarity with Saudi Arabia. “We convey our ...

A teenager was hospitalised on Friday night after being beaten up by a group of people in Latsia, Nicosia. According to the police, a group of young people assaulted the ...

Cyprus has reported 659 violations by Turkish air and naval forces made during June and July, in a letter sent to the UN secretary general, it was announced on Monday. The ...

Seven people were arrested for traffic offences and illegal residence during overnight police operations to crack down on crime. The police pulled over 550 vehicles and checked 710 drivers and passengers. A ...

A low pressure mass forming in the Adriatic sea is moving southeast and will be affecting the eastern Mediterranean as of Wednesday afternoon. Monday started off overcast, with rain and ...

This year’s Independence Day military parade sent messages of sovereignty, morale and growing international partnerships, but the military hardware and foreign forces on display should be viewed in the ...

The Veterinary services are to officially record 3,000 cases of foot-and-mouth disease found in the summer in five livestock units, with the animals to be culled within days. The units in ...

Police have investigated some 208 animal abuse cases in Cyprus between January and October this year, with 25 of the most serious now before court. The cases involved 218 offences in total, with ...

Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas assured on Sunday that Cyprus will not abandon its demand that Turkey open its military archives, so that the fate of every missing person can be ...

Cyprus is planning to expand its Evangelos Florakis naval base at Mari to host more than eight large warships and support vessels from allied navies, defence publication Janes reported on ...

The body of a 42-year-old woman was found at her home in the Omonia area of Limassol on Saturday evening. According to the police’s statement issued on Sunday, a ...

Significant rain and storms are expected to reach Cyprus from the west on Wednesday afternoon lasting until Friday. According to the Met Office, the rain will hit Paphos first before ...

With only a few days to go, ArtCargo reveals its performance programme that will take over downtown Nicosia from October 16 to 25. Performances on trees, on 300 wine glasses, 12 metres above the ...

Animal Welfare Commissioner Elias Myrianthous said on Sunday that authorities should already have enforced court rulings against Melios Zoo, after a bear was found outside its cage on Saturday evening. ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos will raise a Turkish plan for an undersea gas pipeline to the occupied north with his EU counterparts in Luxembourg on Monday, the foreign ministry said. ...

The government is spending €4.7 million on projects in Kyperounda, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said at the village’s apple festival on Sunday. Ioannou formally handed over a €462,000 renovation of roads ...

After losing her mother to a “a rare and fatal” neurological illness, Mariyana Rakova knows better than most the sometimes appalling levels of palliative care offered by the state. Her ...

Cyprus has reportedly received a letter inviting it to the UN climate summit in Antalya, a government source informed the Cyprus News Agency on Sunday. The source was responding to ...

Athienou bread and loukoumi are expected to receive European protected geographical indication status within the next year, Agriculture Minister Christos Senekis said on Sunday. The status ties a product’s ...

Three construction workers fell nine metres at a building site in Strovolos, leaving one in a critical condition, police said on Sunday. The men, aged 33, 45 and 49, were working on a ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday that the new directorate for combating organised crime, dubbed the ‘Cypriot FBI’, dramatically changes how the state will tackle serious crime. In a recorded ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said that though he is ready to make certain concessions in a Cyprus settlement, the return of Morphou is “non-negotiable”. Speaking at the 46th anti-occupation event organised ...

Two drivers were taken to hospital after a head-on collision on the Polis Chrysochous to Paphos Road near Tsada on Saturday night. The crash happened at about 11pm, when a ...