Cyprus News

The search for the tourist who went missing after renting an inflatable boat and taking it into the sea from the port of Latchi has been unsuccessful so far, Paphos ...

A sweltering heatwave has gripped Cyprus, with temperatures hitting 33C inland on Wednesday, but relief is on the way as cooler air and even thunderstorms are forecast by the weekend. ...

Six months after having appointed a religious coordinator, President Nikos Christodoulides has yet to assign him any official duties, reports said on Tuesday. According to daily Haravghi – affiliated to the ...

The Cyprus consumers’ association has accused the ministry of labour of treating consumers unfairly by refusing to appoint a representative for them in a key European Union advisory body. In ...

The search for a 35-year-old foreign tourist who went missing off the coast of Cyprus has intensified after his rented boat was found adrift, with no one on board. The ...

Barbers and hairdressers have complained about unfair competition from shops that do not keep normal hours and even operate on Sundays and public holidays, media reported on Tuesday. The complaints ...

Fires were once again lit outside the north’s ‘parliament’ in northern Nicosia on Tuesday in protest against the ruling coalition’s decision to legalise the wearing of hijabs by ...

For more than two years, traffic cameras on one of the main arteries of the Nicosia suburb of Engomi have not been in operation following the failure to renew a ...

The media ethics committee in the north on Tuesday called on a Turkish news agency to correct a mistranslation of Archbishop Georgios’ Easter message. According to the ethics committee, the ...

The main civil servants’ union on Tuesday slammed a recently published report of the International Monetary Fund, vowing to fight any attempt to “encroach” on workers’ rights. In an interview ...

An attack inside Cyprus’ central prisons was on Tuesday branded an “attempted murder” by a prisoners’ rights group, which called for an urgent police investigation. The Association for the Protection ...

Two were killed and nine others injured in a collision between a van carrying disabled passengers and a rental car on the Kyrenia-Kythrea highway in the north on Tuesday. The ...

Seventeen municipalities and community clusters bordering forest areas have been equipped with government-funded wood chippers, the ministry of agriculture announced on Tuesday in a move aimed at reducing wildfire hazards ...

Turkey is planning to start drilling for natural gas off the coast of Cyprus “in the near future”, Turkish Petroleum Corporation (Tpao) research and development centre department head Muhammet Fatih ...

Two men were arrested in Larnaca on Monday night after getting into a fight on Finikoudes beach, the police said on Tuesday. Larnaca police spokesman Spyros Chrysostomou said the fight ...

A 46-year-old British tourist who was arrested after colliding head-on with a motorcycle and killing its rider was on Tuesday ordered to remain in custody until his next court hearing ...

After a weekend marred by law breaking behaviour at Easter bonfires, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis on Tuesday said he would write to the Supreme Court to request that cases involving ...

The House legal committee on Tuesday denied responsibility for the various crimes surrounding Easter bonfires, known as lambradjies, and other explosives over the weekend, insisting that the bill the government ...

The two negotiators Greek Cypriot Menelaos Menelaou and special representative of the Turkish Cypriot leader Gunes Onar will meet again early next week, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Tuesday. ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will attend the funeral of Pope Francis, it was reported on Tuesday. The Cyprus News Agency said that Christodoulides will travel to Rome to attend the funeral, ...

The Holy The Holy See’s embassy in Nicosia on Tuesday announced that it is to open a book of condolences for the passing of Pope Francis. The book will ...

A newly released short film shot during a holiday in Cyprus offers a glimpse into what the island was like in April 1974, three months before the Greek-inspired coup d’état ...

The Organisation of Turkic States’ (OTS) council of elders is to meet in northern Cyprus, according to reports in Turkey. The council, which comprises representatives of the governments of Azerbaijan, ...

Mobile speed cameras are “not set up on a whim”, traffic police director Charis Evripidou said on Tuesday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, he said there are “points where ...