Cyprus

We spoke to some of the asylum seekers who’ve been stranded in the buffer zone in Cyprus, some of them since mid-May.

A total of 15 people appeared in court in Morphou on Sunday, accused of having stolen 2,500 heads of garlic from a field. The police’s representative in court said the garlic ...

A 17-year-old National Guard conscript who was hospitalised after feeling unwell during an exercise will be taken to France to undergo further treatment, it was announced on Sunday. He will ...

The met office on Sunday issued a yellow weather warning for abnormally high temperatures on Sunday night. The warning will remain in effect from 11pm on Sunday until 7am on ...

A “record-breaking” turtle weighing 90 kilograms was rescued by a team in Cyprus and taken to the Tashkent nature park in Vouno to undergo treatment, the park’s director Kemal Basat ...

House President Annita Demetriou said on Sunday she “cannot be so optimistic or talk about optimism” with regard to the Cyprus problem. She was addressing student union Pofen’s annual ...

Curfews, sporadic gun violence in the streets, media censorship, chaos and confusion: these were the conditions under which journalists had to operate in the immediate aftermath of the coup of ...

A dead body was found on Silver beach in Engomi Ammochostou, near Famagusta, on Sunday. The Turkish Cypriot police said the body was found near the rocks on the beach, ...

The installation of air conditioning units in schools is to begin within the next few days, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Sunday. Speaking at student union Pofen’s annual ...

Nicosia has welcomed a new exhibition that captures life in Cyprus from antiquity to today. Split into five acts, the Cyprus Insula History – Memory – Reality exhibition at the Bank of ...

A 54-year-old man who stands accused of running a pyramid scheme had his remand extended for a further five days on Saturday. Police believe the man had a “leading role” ...

People love to jump off cliffs. In Cape Greco, where rocky shores and fascinating caves tower above blue waters, this temptation is great – often too great to resist. “The excitement ...

The foreign ministry on Sunday said it was largely pleased with the latest annual reports on Cyprus submitted by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Guterres had at the beginning of ...

Cypriot member of the European parliament and social media influencer Fidias Panayiotou opened a poll on X, the social media platform better known as Twitter, asking his followers whether or ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday said that neither the Greek Cypriots nor the Turkish Cypriots “loved” the Republic of Cyprus when it was first established in 1960. Speaking to newspaper Kathimerini, ...

A 23-year-old man was found with four open wounds at the Ayia Napa medieval monastery in the early hours of Sunday morning. He was transferred to the Famagusta general hospital ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday he was “horrified” by the attempted murder of former US President Donald Trump. In a post on X, the social media platform better known ...

Sunday’s weather is expected to be mainly hot and sunny, tempered by the possible occasional rain shower or storm in the mountains. Temperatures will rise to a scorching 39 degrees ...

The July 1974 coup and subsequent Turkish invasion of Cyprus were tragic in themselves but what’s even more tragic is that 50 years later, the prospects for a solution are at ...

Billionaire Elon Musk has congratulated Fidias Panayiotou on being elected to the EU parliament as a Cypriot MEP, it emerged on Saturday. Musk posted on his platform X to congratulate ...

Two more suspects have been arrested in an investigation into a café explosion in Strovolos, Nicosia last month, police said on Saturday. The two men, 26 and 23, were arrested on Friday ...

Most of the 30 Village Clusters created by local government reform have proceeded with the establishment of their headquarters, permanent secretary of the interior ministry Ellikkos Elia said on Saturday. However, ...

A 50-year-old man suspected of killing his 43-year-old brother-in-law in Peyia was released from Athalassa Psychiatric Hospital, rearrested and remanded for six days, police said on Saturday. Police in Paphos ...

Were people members of a cult 4,000 years ago in Bronze Age Cyprus, and did they use monoliths like the mysterious one found in Erimi? Is a skeleton with a bludgeoned ...