Cyprus

Thursday will be mainly clear with temporarily increased high clouds. Temperatures will rise to 28C inland, 24C on the east coast, 26C on the remaining coasts, and 19C in the ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou was on Wednesday nearing the end of her review of a disciplinary investigation into the first-phase roadworks at Akamas national forest park. The report, submitted in ...

Oguzhan Hasipoglu was on Wednesday re-elected unopposed as secretary-general of the north’s largest political party the UBP, and after securing his re-election to the role called for Cyprus’ two ...

“We are not under anyone’s supervision, like Tatar is with Turkey,” President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday. Speaking during a televised interview held to mark the completion of the ...

The European Union’s “white paper on the future of European defence”, which aims to forge a plan for the bloc and the continent at large to bolster its defensive ...

In his latest book, long-time former Cyprus Mail political columnist Christos Panayiotides gives readers “a face-to-face look at the harsh reality” and the opportunity “to seriously contemplate where we want ...

The number of crossings to the north made by Greek Cypriots fell by 15 per cent in the final three months of last year, compared to the same period in 2023, according ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday night gave a long, televised address in which he reviewed and appraised his second year in office, reassuring the public that he has acted with “...

A 28-year-old man was on Sunday sentenced to four years in prison after having been found guilty of arson. The man had set a fire in brushland near the Larnaca ...

Members of parliament on Wednesday expressed their bemusement at the government’s latest bill aimed at regulating traditional Easter bonfires, known as “lambradjies”. The House legal affairs committee examined the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides chaired a cabinet meeting on Wednesday at the presidential palace, where ministers were briefed on the findings of an investigation into the 2005 death of soldier Thanasis Nicolaou. ...

A long-standing pension dispute at Cyprus’ public broadcaster, CyBC, is set to be resolved, heard on Wednesday, following a key agreement involving the government, trade unions, and the organisation’s ...

Tomatoes sold as Cypriot at a reseller point of sale were found to be imported from Egypt, inspectors from the agriculture ministry found on Wednesday. “It was determined that the ...

A 12 year prison sentence was handed down by Larnaca court on Wednesday to a man who had been caught with 19kg of cannabis. The 45-year-old had been arrested at Larnaca ...

Police arrested fifteen non-EU nationals in Nicosia’s walled city on Wednesday for residing illegally in Cyprus. The operation was initiated by Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis and involved both police ...

Costas Patsalides, the 45-year-old alleged ringleader of a bizarre criminal group which made headlines in recent weeks after using forged state seals and impersonating officials, was on Wednesday remanded in ...

Oelmek president Demetris Taliadoros upset the House education committee on Wednesday, claiming MPs were “on the take” from private schools and was why they refused to make any changes to ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Wednesday met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, completing the round of Cypriot leaders’ meetings with representatives of the island’s three guarantor ...

A miscommunication between friends meant that we had ended up at a restaurant with no reservation and they had no space to squeeze us in. Being all dressed up with ...

The Greek Cypriot side is aware of the statements by the Turkish Cypriot side and is approaching the upcoming multilateral meeting in Geneva with realism, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said ...

The director of the state health services organisation (Okypy) is to visit the Limassol hospital in a bid to resolve problems caused to outpatient services by upgrade works at the ...

Aiming to reduce feelings of loneliness and enhance general wellbeing, the Leventis art gallery launches its fourth edition of art therapy sessions for senior citizens. At 13 group art therapy sessions ...

For the first time a controlled forest burning was carried out in Cyprus under the supervision of the agriculture ministry’s forestry department and coordinated by the European University Cyprus’ ...

Cyprus’ new mental health strategy, covering the years from 2025 till 2028, was approved on Wednesday by the cabinet and aims at improving services and creating an environment to support those impacted, ...