Cyprus

A yellow weather warning is in place on Monday with rain intensity expected to range between 35 and 55 millimeters per hour, in effect from 12 noon until 6pm and possible hail. The ...

Ten suspects were charged on Sunday for rioting outside Alphamega stadium in Limassol ahead of a scheduled Ael-Apollon match. The match was never held, due to the rioting that saw ...

The Greek Cypriot side is ready for negotiations, even tomorrow, on the condition that the basis of any initiative must be under the agreed framework and the decisions of the ...

Over the past few months authorities have detected and seized a series of large quantities of cannabis, whose carriers tried to smuggle it through Larnaca airport. And although the amounts ...

Thousands of people gathered on Sunday to protest former Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides’ dismissal by the Supreme Constitutional Court. The case for his dismissal was brought to the court by Attorney-General ...

In an age when ‘drip’ is a compliment and ‘extra’ is not, it is a very fine line between speaking properly and coming across as quaint. For as long as ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel was voted at the head of the UBP party in the north, it emerged on Sunday. The announcement on Sunday said Ustel won with 65.8 ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou is set to inform an EU Council of Agriculture and Fisheries, in Brussels, on Monday, about the outcomes of the MED9 Agriculture Ministers Summit held in ...

Environmentally degraded habitats have been upgraded with the conclusion of the three-year Darwin Plus plan, Birdlife Cyprus said this week. Focussing on Akrotiri and Cape Pyla, the project restored important ...

House speaker Annita Demetriou said on Sunday that the situation with the Cyprus problem cannot become the country’s normality. Speaking at a church service in Mesogi, Paphos, Demetriou said: “...

Cultivated organic areas in Cyprus are 8 per cent of the land, up from 0.22 per cent 21 years ago, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Saturday. She added that the sector has ...

Police are investigating a burglary in Larnaca jewellery shop, where items worth €15,000 were taken, it emerged on Sunday. According to police, the burglary took place early Saturday morning, when masked ...

Port police rescued a British couple in Limassol from the sea on Sunday, after the pair fought. The couple, a 27-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man, had an argument, which ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has ranked the issue of Cyprus’ missing persons among his top priorities, Humanitarian Affairs Commissioner Anna Aristotelous said on Sunday at a church ceremony for the fall ...

A yellow weather warning has been issued for Sunday by the met office, who said there is a chance of strong storm in isolated areas. The met office added that ...

Two people were arrested in for throwing flares before the Anorthosis-Omonia football match, police said on Sunday. The match, held on Saturday night, was at the Antonis Papadopoulos stadium in ...

It’s an early morning mid-week and Polis is springing to life at the leisurely, humane pace which makes the region so appealing for a certain calibre of visitor and ...

Voting was delayed for over an hour while the focus remained on plans for a two-state solution to the Cyprus problem at the north’s largest party the UBP on ...

The United States navy’s amphibious landing dock ship the USS Oak Hill docked in Limassol on Friday to conduct scheduled maintenance. According to the Defence Visual Information Distribution Service, ...

Two parallel bicommunal rubbish cleanups were held on either side of Nicosia for World Cleanup Day on Friday. A total of 80 volunteers gathered in Cyprus’ divided capital city, supported by ...

Representatives of opposition political parties from both sides, Akel and the CTP, are to travel to New York to attend events and hold meetings on the sidelines of the United ...

The Cyprus Bar Association on Saturday vowed to “vigorously defend the independence of the courts against any attempts to undermine them”. Their statement came amid public upset over the sacking ...

The governments of Cyprus and Greece on Saturday signed a “framework of understanding” regarding the section of the Great Sea Interconnector which will connect Cyprus to the Greek island of ...

By Loulla Astin A celebrity chef, Loulla Astin rose to fame in the early 90s. What began as a guest spot on the BBC’s Eggs n Baker quickly led ...