Cyprus

The first phase of the Nicosia highway ring road was delivered on Thursday at noon, allowing traffic to flow freely between western Nicosia and the cities of Larnaca and Limassol, ...

Thursday marks 60 years since the bombing of Tillyria in 1964 when, from August 7 to 9, Turkish air forces dropped napalm bombs on villages in the area. President of the community council of ...

Two illegal businesses on Faros beach at Pervolia were demolished by Larnaca’s district office on Wednesday, amid a police presence. A tractor and team from the city’s district ...

Police arrested a 32-year-old resident of Larnaca on Wednesday, under suspicion of burglary. A police statement said that the burglary case was reported to the police by a 65-year-old woman ...

The state health services organisation (Okypy) and doctors failed to reach an agreement on Wednesday after a mammoth meeting to discuss pay incentives for state hospital doctors. The meeting between ...

The monks’ legal team for the church’s procedures against them in the infamous Osiou Avakoum scandal demanded on Wednesday that the main whistleblower in the case be deemed unreliable. ...

The government is being sued for migrant pushbacks over the dozens of asylum seekers still stranded in the buffer zone, while the deputy migration minister remained defiant on Wednesday saying ...

‘I shed tears of joy with my coach, my wife, and my child‘ Cypriot dinghy sailor Pavlos Kontides won a silver medal at the Olympic Games on Wednesday, finishing second ...

The father, 23, of a dead three-month-old baby was remanded for another five days on Wednesday, as investigations continue into the infant’s death. Both parents are currently in custody over ...

The vast majority of pupils in public primary schools who speak Greek as a second language have serious language gaps, it emerged on Wednesday. The results come from the educational ...

The House plenary will be convening in an emergency session on Thursday, after the president referred a law back to parliament, along with three others to the Supreme Constitutional Court. ...

 The forestry department on Wednesday announced that it had dispatched two firefighting planes to North Macedonia to assist with forest fires in the areas of Chashka and Sveti Nikole. The ...

Cyprus will be ready to deal with an influx of migrants should the situation in the Middle East worsen, deputy minister of migration Nicholas Ioannides said on Wednesday, as the ...

Cypriot fencer Alexander Tofalides wrote a letter to fans who supported him during the Paris Games, where he became the first Cypriot athlete to ever compete in the discipline at ...

A 33-year-old Syrian mother of six was arrested in the north in the early hours of Tuesday morning, it emerged on Wednesday, after attempting to travel to the Republic of ...

The Sovereign Base Area (SBA) police’s anti-bird trapping team has issued a warning to trappers as the migration season of the black caps – also known as ‘ambelopoulia’ and still ...

The privatisation of the Kyrenia port is “in the final stage”, the north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli said on Wednesday. Speaking to Kibris TV, he said the ‘government’ has “...

Three men who had been found guilty on 17 charges each in relation to the murder of Turkish Cypriot businessman Halil Falyali and his chauffeur Murat Demirtas were all handed long ...

Police in Limassol arrested a 20-year-old man who allegedly attacked officers shortly after midnight on Wednesday during a crime prevention check. According to a statement, police officers noticed an individual ...

Doctors and representatives of state health services organisation Okypy will meet on Wednesday at noon to discuss several points, most importantly the parameters for an agreement on the financial incentives ...

Salone and Shibui opened more or less at the same time last year, and have since been joined by a third sibling, Greek-inspired fish restaurant Porto Ydra. All three restaurants ...

The 2024 Cyprus Kitesurfing Championship, also known as ‘King of Kite’ which took place between August 2 and 4, saw the participation of 120 athletes from Cyprus and abroad and over 2000 spectators. The event ...

The exit to Oroklini on the Ayia Napa to Rizoelia highway has been closed due to a traffic collision, police said in a statement released on Wednesday. Police also urged ...

Extracting groundwater found under the Pentadaktylos mountains would be the “biggest mistake we can make”, environmentalist Ilkay Ilseven said on Wednesday. Speaking about the north’s overall water situation, he ...