Cyprus News

In the wake of the fatal shipwreck off Cape Greco, the government was on Tuesday blasted for failing to address the underlying issues of the ongoing migration crisis. At least ...

A Russian fugitive who had been detained in Cyprus for three years before being extradited to Russia to be tried for large-scale fraud was awarded damages by the European Court ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday “where there’s a will, there’s a way” as the expanded informal five-party meeting got underway at the UN building in Geneva. The ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar spoke on Tuesday about the need for cooperation and dialogue “between two states” prior to his bilateral meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the ...

Ten Latvian cultural ambassadors visited Agros through the Erasmus+ programme, the organisation announced on Tuesday. They were hosted by the Friends of the Agros Forest association and the Youth Dynamics ...

It is increasingly unlikely that more survivors will be found from the boat that capsized off Cape Greco following the retrieval of seven bodies, Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas said on ...

One of the 24 charges of money laundering and defrauding faced by the two accused Avakoum monastery monks, Nektarios and Porfyrios, was amended on Tuesday at the Nicosia criminal court at ...

The trial concerning the high-profile ‘golden passport’ case involving former transport minister Marios Demetriades and several others has been postponed until April 25, the Nicosia Criminal Court ruled on Tuesday. The ...

Larnaca municipality is participating in the global ‘Earth Hour’ by turning off the lights for an hour on Saturday. On Saturday from 8.30 to 9.30pm the municipality invites everyone to participate ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will most likely reappoint Maria Angela Holguin Cuellar as his envoy to Cyprus to prepare the ground for a second meeting of the Cyprus problem, following ...

A private vehicle parked on a pavement outside the owner’s home in Lakatamia, Nicosia was set alight in the early hours of Tuesday resulting in extensive damage, the fire ...

The EU will not accept a two-state solution in Cyprus, European Council President Antonio Costa told UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during a telephone conversation, about which he then briefed President ...

Talks on Cyprus in Geneva wrap up on Tuesday with bilateral meetings of the UN Secretary-General António Guterres with each delegation, followed by the informal enlarged meeting on the ...

The warm weather of the past few days will start to subside as of Wednesday, with rain and temperatures lower than the seasonal average. Fine weather with passing clouds is ...

Aradippou municipality is set to become fully independent from the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) after having signed a three-year contract with supplier Bioland Energy following a bidding process. “With ...

This week’s enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem “will go down as the most pointless, least productive summit of all time”, high-profile Turkish Cypriot lawyer Mine Atli said in ...

President Nikos Christodoulides held a one-on-one meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan following the six-party meal which officially kicked off the enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem in the ...

Teachers and opposition political figures in the north reacted with outrage after the ruling coalition amended regulations regarding schools’ dress codes to allow pupils to wear hijabs from Monday onwards. ...

Greek opposition figures on Monday reacted with fury after the country’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis appointed as his Deputy Energy Minister Nikos Tsafos, who had previously referred to northern ...

Municipalities on Monday called off the measures they had earlier threatened – including halting payments – over the non-approval of their budgets. In a statement, the Union of Municipalities said that just ...

Most parliamentary parties as well as trade unions on Monday welcomed the government’s intention to undo the hiring freeze on permanent jobs in the public sector, with opposition Disy ...

Romanian airline AnimaWings will operate direct flights between Larnaca and Bucharest three times a week – on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The announcement was made during a presentation held at Larnaca ...

A boat with a reported 21 people aboard capsized off the coast of Cyprus on Monday, with seven people having been confirmed as dead so far. The boat was reportedly located ...

The government has gone back to the drawing board to tweak its bills regarding multiple pensions given to certain state officials, MPs heard on Monday. An official with the finance ...