Cyprus News

Saturday’s weather will be mainly clear with temperatures ranging from 36 degrees Celsius inland to 33 degrees on the south and east coast, and around 30 degrees on the west and north ...

A 30-year-old man lost his life while swimming off Lemba beach in the Paphos area on Friday evening. The circumstances of his death remain under investigation. According to the police, ...

The search and rescue centre JRCC on Friday afternoon rescued a woman who had fallen from the sea caves at Cape Greco in the Ayia Napa area. An ambulance, members ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Friday decried the “unpunished murders” of the Turkish Cypriot residents of the village of Tochni, at a service held to mark the 51st anniversary ...

The police on Friday said there is an increased amount of traffic on the roads towards the Troodos mountains ahead of the elongated public holiday weekend. In particular, they said ...

A fire broke out in a pile of furniture which had been left next to an underground car park belonging to a block of flats in Limassol on Thursday afternoon, ...

The forestry department is “on standby” and “conducting continuous patrols to prevent fires from starting”, its press spokesman George Constantinou said on Friday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, he ...

A Turkish Cypriot has been diagnosed with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, commonly known as mad cow disease, prompting the north’s veterinarians’ association to demand “urgent biosecurity measures”. People can contract ...

The north’s ‘foreign ministry’ on Thursday night accused the Republic of Cyprus of intending to “mislead the public” in its reaction to the arrest of five Greek Cypriots in ...

A 32-year-old man was stabbed at his workplace near Larnaca on Thursday night, with one of his work colleagues having verbally admitted to the crime. Both the victim and the 31...

A parked car was set on fire in the Larnaca suburb of Aradippou in the early hours of Friday morning, with the police saying they believe the fire was started ...

Temperatures are expected to remain abnormally high through Friday, with the mercury inland set to rise to 40 degrees Celsius. Elsewhere, temperatures on the east and south coasts are set to ...

A one-day festival full of street vibes, tradition and community spirit is in the works and is about to dress one Larnaca neighbourhood with feel-good vibes. The Prodromos Street Festival ...

Restoration works have been completed at the monastery and church of Panayia Kanakaria in the Karpasia village of Lythrangomi, one of Cyprus’s most important cultural heritage monuments. The project, ...

The five Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the north last month were remanded for another seven days on Thursday and will likely enter pleas on August 21. All five briefly ...

A ‘silent protest’, organised by CY Movement to Gaza, was held in Nicosia today for the Palestinian journalists who’ve been targeted and killed in Gaza. Around 242 Palestinian journalists have ...

The continued unlawful detention of five Greek Cypriots in the north constitutes a flagrant breach of fundamental legal principles and human rights, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis told the Cyprus News ...

Cyprus increased its greenhouse gas emissions by 8.3 per cent in the first quarter of 2025 compared with the same period in 2024, despite economic growth of 3 per cent, according to Eurostat. This ...

Several individuals of Syrian origin who took part in a brawl on Thursday, August 7, in the Zakaki area of Limassol have been deported from Cyprus, following coordinated actions by the ...

Turkish Cypriot authorities in the north are moving ahead with procedures to reunite 13-year-old Syrian boy Majed Alashtar – who had disappeared from a shelter in Nicosia last week – with his ...

Cyprus continues to struggle with extreme temperatures on Thursday, while the risk of wildfires remains at a ‘red alert’ level. The met office issued a new red warning in effect ...

Early on Thursday morning, an attempted murder and arson took place at a car rental company on the Larnaca–Dhekelia road, as a security guard came under gunfire and four ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is scheduled to meet on Monday morning with the team of American experts specialising in fire investigations at the presidential palace. According to the president’s official ...

Three elderly people are being treated for severe heatstroke at Nicosia general hospital as extreme temperatures and a prolonged heatwave continue to affect the population, with vulnerable groups most at ...