Cyprus

The carnival season is fast approaching! Coming up earlier this year, carnival season is getting ready to fill every corner of the island with masquerade parties, confetti, music and song. ...

A demonstration was held in Nicosia’s central Eleftheria square on Sunday over the train crash which killed 57 people between the Greek villages of Tempi and Evangelismos on the mainline ...

A 50-year-old man has died after being involved in a road traffic collision in the Larnaca district, the police announced on Sunday.. The man, named as Romanian national Ioulian Filip, ...

Residents of Rizokarpaso on Sunday staged a protest to demand that the road linking the village to the Apostolos Andeas monastery be completely rebuilt. A couple of hundred people blocked ...

A ceremony was heled in Limassol on Sunday to commemorate the 51st anniversary of the death of George Grivas, the leader of Eoka between 1955 and 1959 and the founder of Eoka ...

The Cyprus patients’ federation (Osak) has urged the health ministry to scrap plans for separate laws regulating public and private hospitals. Instead, they are calling for a unified legal framework ...

A tree was planted in London on Saturday as a memorial to the 24 Cypriot children and 11 Cypriot adults who died when the hotel in which they were staying in Turkey ...

Shots were fired in the direction of a house in Limassol in the early hours of Sunday morning, police said. The incident occurred shortly after 5am in the neighbourhood of ...

Two British nationals were arrested at Larnaca airport after having been found attempting to smuggle 148 boxes of cigarettes from the north to their home country. The pair, a 65-year-old man ...

A 24-year-old man has been arrested as part of the police’s investigations into an attempted murder which occurred in the Larnaca district village of Kornos, the police said on ...

Sunday’s weather will be largely cloudy for most of the day across most of the island, with isolated showers and even the odd storm possible in the afternoon. The ...

Cyprus has no means whatsoever of handling its waste stream, even if its collection was to be financed, experts and municipal officers admitted this week. Their statements come in the ...

Cyprus is rich in festivals of all types, there is no doubt about it. Some have been happening for years, decades even, while others are new, bringing emerging artforms and ...

Murals from the 12th and 16th centuries are visible in Paphos’ oldest monastery, Panayia Chrysolakournas, Steni community leader Elias Lampides said on Saturday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, Lampides ...

A yellow weather warning will be in place from 7pm on Saturday evening until 6am on Sunday, the met office said. The western half of the island will be most ...

Roadworks on the Nicosia to Limassol highway caused chaos on Saturday with frustrated drivers stuck in queues estimated at up to 4km long. Drivers leaving Nicosia were trapped by roadworks ...

It’s quite an emotional moment, on a Friday evening at Hoi Polloi a few minutes north of the checkpoint. Gifts are brought, as to a visiting dignitary: a Pink ...

A piece of a lung was found on Anexartisias street in Limassol on Saturday, prompting police to investigate whether it belongs to a human or animal. The organ was spotted ...

An initiative aimed at empowering young girls through basketball was launched on Saturday by the French ambassador and the non-profit organisation United Sports Cyprus (USC) at the outdoor basketball court ...

Natural gas agreements set to be signed between Cyprus and Egypt next month are among the most important ever signed by the island over the exploitation of natural gas fields, ...

A 25-year-old man was remanded for eight days at Paphos district court on Saturday after he was found with almost 1kg of cocaine. Members of the drug squad had pulled ...

A 51-year-old British national was arrested at Larnaca airport on Saturday after 22kg of cannabis were found in his suitcase, police said. The man flew in from Thailand through the ...

By Ifigenia Theodoridou An exercise to address potential threats at Larnaca airport was carried out on Saturday, the transport ministry said. The exercise was conducted due to increased drone activity ...

A former Russian MP has been sentenced to 18 years in jail for masterminding the murder of three Russian nationals in Peyia in 2004. The decision at a St Petersburg court on ...