Cyprus

Twenty five children from across the divide and aged between 5 and 12 currently meet to sing in the buffer zone in Nicosia once a week. Known as Songbird, the Intercommunal Children’...

The United Kingdom’s Labour Party’s former leader Jeremy Corbyn engaged in an evisceration of the country’s military bases in Cyprus, asking “what is the purpose, the point ...

A total of seven people have been held responsible for the death of conscript Thanasis Nicolaou in 2005, according to reports on Saturday. Newspaper Phileleftheros wrote that the report into the ...

The autopsy of a nine-month-old infant who was found dead in its mother’s car on Friday will be carried out by forensic pathologist Angeliki Papetta on Saturday. The autopsy ...

Supporting children with genetic diseases is “crucial”, Health Minister Michael Damianos said on Saturday. Speaking at an event held to mark World rare disease day, he said the event “highlights ...

The 25th rendition of the “Love Route”, a motorcycle ride to five districts across Cyprus, began its Nicosia leg on Saturday morning. The ride is organised once a year by ...

The king and queen of Brazil’s renowned Rio de Janeiro carnival visited Cyprus’ carnival capital Limassol on Friday night. According to the Cyprus News Agency, the pair “danced to ...

An embroidery-themed workshop and a guided tour in Lefkara awaits the last Saturday of March, organised by the Centre for Social Innovation. On March 29, a team of participants will head ...

Saturday’s weather is set to be sunny all day, with temperatures set to rise to a positively baking 32 degrees Celsius inland. On the west and north coasts, temperatures will ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Friday met with leadership figures from six political parties to discuss the enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem which is set to take place ...

Police chief Themistos Arnaoutis met with senior officers on Friday to set the police force on course for a major overhaul as authorities push forward with a plan to modernise ...

The year 2025 is expected to be another challenging year for international shipping, which should remain resilient and continue to adapt and grow, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday evening. Addressing ...

Market inspections to protect consumer interests are being intensified, the Consumer Protection Service announced on Friday, a day ahead of world consumer day. It is important that all businesses observe ...

Over a hundred Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot organisations signed a joint declaration, calling on President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar to end the negative rhetoric and ...

The enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem will take place in Geneva at midday on Tuesday, where President Nikos Christodoulides hopes for an agreement to resume stalled negotiations for a ...

Paphos municipality has secured a double distinction at the 2024 Cyprus Green Cities & Green Communities Awards, the municipality announced. Specifically, Paphos was named “Green City of Cyprus” for two projects: ...

The police are investigating the death of an infant in Nicosia, which appears to have been forgotten in a car. The nine-month-old child was taken to hospital by ambulance, however ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday welcomed a selection of Turkish Cypriots to the presidential palace to speak about next week’s enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem, which is set ...

Voters over a hundred years old will be removed from the voting registry if they are not receiving a pension, the interior ministry said on Friday, explaining that an amendment ...

Organising car races in the Paphos state forest, a Natura 2000 special protection zone, violates both national and EU legislation on nature and biodiversity conservation, environmental organisation Terra Cypria said on ...

Cyprus is facing a deepening energy crisis as homeowners who invested in solar power find themselves repeatedly cut off from the grid. Despite the government’s strong push for renewable ...

A return to politics and to Cyprus may be on the cards for Huseyin Ozgurgun, the former Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ who fled the north to Istanbul in 2019 after 16 million ...

The presence of migrant facilities in the heart of the Paralimni-Deryneia tourist area is tarnishing the municipality’s image and damaging the region’s reputation as a top travel destination, ...

The restructuring of local government hit another snag on Friday as municipalities threatened to halt payments if their budgets are not approved by the end of the month. The interior ...