Cyprus

Cyprus’ sole Olympic medallist Pavlos Kontides was given a hero’s welcome upon his return to the island at Larnaca airport on Friday. The aeroplane on which he flew home ...

An agreement between hotel owners and employees in the sector focusing on improving working conditions is expected soon following a joint meeting between the parties, it emerged on Friday. The ...

The customs department on Friday announced it had seized more than 3,000 counterfeit products, including football shirts and other items, from three shops in Ayia Napa. The other items included bags, ...

Bus tips onto its side in Famagusta A bus tipped onto its side while going around a roundabout in Famagusta on Friday morning. The bus was being used for private ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday said he endorsed a joint statement on Gaza released by the leaders of the United States, Egypt and Qatar. US President Joe Biden, Egyptian President ...

An earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale occurred in Famagusta in the early hours of Friday morning. According to the north’s met office, the earthquake took place around 19 kilometres ...

Contraband cigarette tobacco and the vehicles used to transport it illegally from the north to the Republic have been seized in the last few days by the customs department, it ...

Cyprus is on standby to assist in the evacuation of Europeans and third-country nationals if conflict in the Middle East intensifies, deputy government spokesman Yiannis Antoniou said on Thursday. Israel’...

The north is “suffering major losses” in its tourism sector, former Cyprus Turkish tourism and travel agencies’ union (Kitsab) director Mustafa Soforoglu said on Friday. Speaking to news website Haber ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition political party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman on Thursday night challenged Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar to a television debate, as their back-and-forth disagreement over the Cyprus problem ...

Conservation work at the mosque in the Larnaca district village of Alaminos is set to begin in the near future, Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage co-chairman Ali Tuncay said. He ...

A 46-year-old man from the Famagusta district was arrested on Thursday night after having allegedly attacked someone with a knife inside a coffee shop. The police said a 41-year-old man ...

By Tom Cleaver Students from the Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) discussed matters related to the new student dormitories in Paphos with the town’s mayor Phedonas Phedonos on Thursday. ...

Once the early morning mist, fog, and low cloud have cleared, Friday will be another warm and sunny summer’s day for the most part. Temperatures will rise to 38 degrees ...

Environmentalists in central Cyprus have stated their opposition to plans to build a solar farm near the villages of Lythrodontas, Kataliontas and Mathiatis. The Cyprus Environmental Movement said on Tuesday ...

Vera Tugolukova took 16th place on Thursday in the rhythmic gymnastics competition at the 33rd Olympics, becoming the last Cypriot athlete to feature in the Paris Games. She is the ...

In a special session held on Thursday, the House accepted in part the president’s referral back to it of a law relating to how legal entities collect royalties for ...

A Greek Cypriot was sentenced in the north on Thursday to 60 days in prison for attempting to help an accomplice cross to the Republic from the north with a fake ...

The European Commission on Thursday stressed that Cyprus has an obligation to provide access to asylum proceedings, as 70 migrants remain stranded in the buffer zone, unable to apply for asylum ...

Residents living in the buffer zone have decried the 14km fence stretching across the Green Line, calling it useless, as Deputy Minister of Migration Nicholas Ioannides visited the site on ...

By the first week of September Nicosia will respond in writing to Brussels regarding the latter’s request to be refunded for the €69 million in EU grants already disbursed for ...

Analysis of the seawater off the coast of Yeroskipou has proven it to be clean, the Eastern Paphos municipality said on Thursday. The municipality said bathers had reported that “brown ...

The forestry department has strengthened its workforce by hiring 118 new forest firefighters to be stationed across districts in Cyprus. According to a statement released on Thursday, a total of 30 firefighters ...

The US amphibious assault ship, USS Wasp, arrived in Limassol on Wednesday, Petty Officer 2nd Class Sydney Milligan reported. According to the publication by the Defence Visual Information Distribution Service, ...