Cyprus

Tobacco products brought illegally from the north were confiscated on Friday in the south by the Customs Department, which charged those arrested a total of €20,000 for unpaid duty and taxes. ...

Electricity cuts in Limassol and Nicosia on Friday morning are due to a fault and routine maintenance, electricity authority (EAC) spokeswoman Christina Papadopoulou said. The power outage in the Limassol ...

The Green party on Friday revealed that it is awaiting the results of a police investigation into the shooting of a dog in Ayioi Trimithias in Nicosia. The incident came ...

Officials of the United Arab Emirates Oil Company (Adnoc) and the British multinational BP will meet Energy Minister George Papanastasiou on Friday. According to the Cyprus News Agency the meeting ...

The state has been unable to recover funds erroneously allocated to businesses during the coronavirus pandemic three years on, it emerged on Friday. Of a total of €940 million spent, the ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos after meetings held in Egypt, stressed the strategic importance of relations between the two countries. Following a meeting on Thursday in Cairo with new Egyptian Foreign ...

Two suspects arrested in connection with the discovery of two charred bodies in a car in Limassol were remanded in custody for eight days on Friday. The pair, aged 23 and 19 ...

Friday will start off clear with increased clouds in the afternoon, mainly in the mountains. Temperatures will rise to 39C inland, 36C on the south and east coasts, 33C on ...

The loss of hundreds of forest trees, the habitat of many of Cyprus’ wildlife species, is the main reason the cluster of communities of Mathiatis, Lythrodontas and Analyontas is opposing ...

The controversial bill on fake news will not head to parliamentary vote come September and will instead be subject to further discussion so as to assuage concerns, the justice ministry ...

Cypriot high jumpers Elena Kulichenko and Buse Savaskan are to make their Olympic debuts on Friday morning as the qualifying round begins at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis. Kulichenko, ...

Cyprus is continuing pushbacks, it emerged on Thursday, even attempting to send migrants who arrived by sea into the buffer zone. The issue surfaced when Unficyp confirmed to the Cyprus ...

Lung cancer, the main cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, is the second most frequent form of cancer among men in Cyprus and the fifth among women. Marking August 1, world lung ...

The new ‘presidential’ palace and ‘parliament’ buildings in the north, which are under construction in Ayios Dhometios, are to be completed by November or December at the latest, Turkish Vice ...

A mass brawl involving 11 people on Wednesday night ended with a brick flying through the window of a police car, the Turkish Cypriot police said on Thursday. The fight took ...

A mural by French artist Seth, on the wall of a privately-owned building on Strovolos avenue, opposite the town hall, has been vandalised. The mural, which was unveiled on July 3, ...

Free short stay parking is now available in the taxis’ car park at Paphos airport, the transport ministry announced on Thursday. Those wishing to drop passengers off or pick them ...

The citizens’ service centre on Makarios avenue in central Nicosia will close for good on September 6, the government announced on Thursday. The move was marketed as a “merger” of the ...

A 57-year-old British man was found dead in his Nicosia apartment, police confirmed on Thursday as investigations are underway. Pools of blood were found in his Pallouriotisa home when officers ...

The development of the Larnaca marina and port will be split into two separate projects, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Thursday, referring to works estimated to cost up to €30 ...

Over €41 million was paid in 2023 to private hospitals for treating patients referred through the national health scheme (Gesy), with one medical establishment in Cyprus receiving over €6 million. According to information ...

Turkish Cypriots “cannot be linobambaki”, the north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli said on Thursday. Speaking on the 453rd anniversary of the Ottoman conquest of Cyprus in 1571, he described August ...

Andreas Angelides, lawyer and former Diko MP, died on Thursday. His funeral will be held on August 2 at the church of God’s Wisdom in Strovolos, at 4.30pm. Angelides was ...

Two persons were placed under arrest on Thursday in connection with the gruesome discovery of two charred bodies in a car in Limassol, while authorities also identified and named one ...