Cyprus

As the summer tourist season edges towards its conclusion, Paphos airport is once again in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. While the island’s tourism industry thrives, with ...

September will have its fair share of fun events and local festivals and the community of Xylofagou is busy preparing for the next edition of the International Potato Festival. Celebrating ...

Police have apprehended 40-year-old Tolka Tongel, who had escaped from Athalassa psychiatric hospital, where he was being treated. Police said Tongel was serving a 30-month sentence, imposed by the Larnaca ...

A 72-year-old Limassol resident reported to the police on Saturday that he had been conned out of over €95,000 in online investments. He told the police that around the end of ...

Saudi Arabia’s Transport Minister Saleh Al Jasser arrives in Cyprus on Monday for official talks with his Cypriot counterpart Alexis Vafeades. The two ministers will also visit Limassol port, ...

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci is in a Famagusta hospital after fainting in a nearby hotel. He was rushed to hospital in an ambulance. Kibris Postasi reported that doctors ...

In an effort to find a compatible bone marrow donor for an 18-month-old boy in Paphos, the association of Paphos Apoel FC fans is setting up a saliva sample taking ...

The next steps regarding the Amalthea initiative, the corridor for transporting humanitarian aid from Cyprus to Gaza, was discussed in Brussels between Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos and UN coordinator for ...

Carobs had their own festival on Friday, giving visitors the chance to taste all kinds of sweets and watch the dark brown syrup being made first-hand. The event was organised ...

Six-time Paralympic medallist swimmer Karolina Pelendritou came first in the S11 category 50-metre freestyle qualifying race on Saturday, clocking 29.92 at the Paris La Défense Arena, in the Paris 2024 Paralympics. ...

Isolated showers and possibly thunderstorms are forecast for Saturday, mainly in the mountains, inland and in the southeast. Cyprus is being affected by low pressure and an unstable air mass. ...

By Tom Cleaver The number of people crossing from the Republic to the north via crossing points has decreased in the first seven months of 2024 compared to the same period ...

The price of package holidays in Cyprus as well as in the EU continued increasing in 2024, with Cyprus recording the third highest increase among member states in July, according to ...

Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades on Friday said it was worth reconsidering if a Park & Ride would be beneficial in Limassol’s Ayios Athanasios industrial area, after a meeting with ...

Recently elected governor Yiannis Karousos has announced plans to transform the Famagusta district self-governance organisation (Eoa) into “the most efficient licensing authority in Cyprus”, vowing to minimise the waiting time ...

The hazelnut forest near the Nicosia district village of Alona may “totally collapse” if measures are not taken to ward against threats to its ecological balance. Following a meeting at ...

A couple of dead turtles or fish do not constitute a “mass stranding”, the Department of Fisheries and Marine Research has said regarding reports that turtles had washed up on ...

The Federation of Patient Associations (Osak) on Friday welcomed the creation of a patient advocate, stating that it would significantly address complaints within the health sector. Osak chairman Pambos Charalambous ...

The forestry department on Friday issued a warning regarding the heightened risk of forest fires until Sunday due to strong to very strong winds, with gusts reaching up to 6 Beaufort. ...

Authorities across the board were on the defensive on Friday over their handling of a 64-year-old man arrested for sexual crimes against minors. The teenage girls believed to be victims ...

A Syrian man appeared in court in northern Nicosia on Friday after having illegally crossed from the Republic to the north with the aim of being sent back to Syria. ...

Greece’s Foreign Minister, Giorgos Gerapetritis, said on Friday that without dialogue, there can be no solution to the Cyprus issue. Commenting on his meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan ...

Clélia Chevrier Κolacko has been appointed France’s new ambassador to Cyprus, replacing Salina Grenet-Catalano. Kolacko’s appointment came into effect on August 25, according to a decree published in ...

A 40-year-old man who had been arrested in Kioneli after having let off 17 fireworks inside a house in which he was staying as a guest had also smuggled a total ...