Cyprus News

There were fires lit and dancing on the street as Morphou became the fourth town to hold a protest against the north’s ruling coalition’s decision to legalise the ...

Stretches of the Nicosia-Limassol highway, as well as on the Limassol-Paphos highway will be temporarily closed for road works next week, the Department of Public Works announced on Thursday. From ...

The Cyprus association of renewable energy companies (Seapek) on Thursday expressed its “deep and growing concern” over what it described as a “lack of planning” by the energy ministry, during ...

Coffee lovers, this upcoming event is for you! Get ready for a full day of caffeine hits, brewed beans and exquisite tastes as the Cyprus Specialty Coffee Festival 2025 arrives. On ...

Police on Thursday were in pursuit of a man who refused to stop when officers flagged down his car for a check. The initial incident took place around 3.30pm in ...

Opposition party Akel on Thursday demanded answers from the government on how it is handling the spate of incidents of violence and public nuisance taking place over the Easter weekend. ...

By Tom Cleaver Attorney-general George Savvides on Thursday met China’s Deputy Justice Minister Wang Yuwen. According to the Cypriot government, the pair “exchanged views on the state of laws, ...

Cabinet approved on Thursday an exceptional measure allowing several small schools across Cyprus to remain open from September, despite enrolments falling below the usual threshold. Education Minister Athena Michaelidou made ...

A free event coming up this Saturday invites people in Nicosia to build bird nests while learning about nature. Get hands-on and join a workshop at the Pedieos riverbed that ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s alleged castigation of Turkish Cypriots’ “impudence” and not knowing their limits over the north’s ongoing “headscarf crisis” is proof that Cyprus’ future will ...

The appointment of a new personal envoy to Cyprus by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is “imminent”, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Thursday. Speaking to journalists at the presidential ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday outlined the incentives he plans to introduce with the aim of convincing Cypriots living abroad to return to the island. Speaking ahead of the day’...

Police in Paphos are investigating a case of assault causing actual bodily harm and knife possession after a violent incident was reported in the early hours of Wednesday. According to ...

110 years since the Armenian genocide, which resulted in the deaths of over 1.5 million Armenians under the Ottoman Empire in 1915, was marked by the Armenian community of Cyprus, in addition to ...

Seven individuals are now the focus of legal action in the long-running murder case of Thanasis Nicolaou, as the victim’s family presses ahead with private criminal prosecutions over what ...

Italian energy company Eni on Thursday described the two agreements signed by Cyprus and Egypt earlier this year concerning the exploitation of natural gas resources under the seabed in the ...

Thursday marked exactly 21 years since simultaneous referendums were held on Cyprus’ two sides over whether to reunite Cyprus under the Annan plan on April 24, 2004. While an almost two-thirds majority of ...

Cyprus’ public hospitals saw a sharp rise in emergency cases over the Easter holidays, the state health services organisation (Okypy) announced on Thursday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, Okypy ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday began a two-day working visit to Serbia and Montenegro, marking the start of a series of international diplomatic engagements ahead of Cyprus’ assumption of the ...

There will be “no risk” of there being any water cuts in Cyprus this summer, with the delivery of mobile desalination units from the United Arab Emirates having put paid ...

A 40-year-old man suffered “serious injuries” after being involved in a head-on road traffic collision in the Paphos district, late on Wednesday night, the police said on Thursday. According to ...

A 44-year-old man from Paphos was arrested for drink driving twice within the space of an hour on Wednesday evening, the police said on Thursday. The man was first pulled ...

The search for the tourist who went missing after renting an inflatable boat and taking it into the sea from the port of Latchi continued on Thursday, after attempts to ...

Thursday’s weather is expected to be partly cloudy across most of the island, with increased levels of dust suspended in the atmosphere. Isolated light rain is also possible in ...