Cyprus

The government is to install cameras to catch overweight lorries, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Monday. Speaking to news website Reporter, he explained that spot weighing equipment has already ...

The Cyprus Mail, with its expert writers, journalists and extensive archive material, has compiled a special background briefing ‘Divided Island’ on efforts to reunify the island since 1974.Read in 60 or ...

Workers at the state health services organisation (Okypy) on Monday threatened to go on strike over the organisation’s hiring of seasonal workers. Two trade unions, Pasykek-Peo and Oekdy-Sek, announced ...

House President Annita Demetriou on Monday urged that Greek Cypriots “dare to take the next step” in the Cyprus issue in a parliamentary speech to mark the July 1974 coup and ...

A 63-year-old man suspected of being involved in the case of cheating and extorting money from citizens who invested in the Metamax pyramid scheme, presented himself on Monday morning to ...

A yellow weather warning for storms was issued by the met office on Monday. The warning is in effect from 12pm until 5pm, with storms expected to mainly impact the ...

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that former state pathologist Panicos Stavrianos may file a case to annul a court ruling which found national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou, who died in 2005, ...

A British teen who served with Unficyp in 1974 and was killed on July 21, a day after the Turkish invasion, is to be honoured at a ceremony in the UK on ...

Seven people were arrested in Ayia Napa for drug possession, unlawful employment, and illegal residence over the weekend, police said. The arrests were part of an effort by the Famagusta ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Monday commemorated the anniversary of coups d’état in Cyprus and Turkey. July 15 marks the 50th anniversary of the coup in Cyprus backed by ...

A military “game of chess” is being played out in the “silent battle ground” of the island’s buffer zone, Unficyp’s outgoing military chief has said. In an interview ...

The air ambulance helicopter, transporting the 17-year-old National Guard conscript to France, took off at 2pm from Larnaca airport. The conscript, who was hospitalised after feeling unwell during an exercise, ...

If the events of 1974 – coup and invasion – are to become a lesson, then “we must look the people of Cyprus in the eye and not hide behind repeated slogans,” President ...

Police in Paphos have arrested a 33-year-old against whom two arrest warrants were pending in relation to recent car thefts. The man, a permanent resident of Paphos, was arrested at 11.40...

Police have arrested two people in Paphos in relation to cases of impersonation. Paphos police’s Michalis Nicolaou said that around 2pm on Saturday a woman presented a French passport ...

A 31-year-old man was arrested on Sunday afternoon in Limassol for drink driving, while his wife and two children were passengers in the car. The man was found to have 103μ...

Greek Defence Minister Nikos Dendias is on a visit to Cyprus on Monday, the 50th anniversary of the 1974 coup. During his stay, he will meet with his Cypriot counterpart Vasilis ...

There will “soon” be a “substantial effort” to resolve the Cyprus problem, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday. He was speaking at a ceremony to remember soldiers who died during ...

In a career spanning five decades, journalist Michael Nicholson made his reputation covering wars from Vietnam to Rwanda, but few scoops were as bittersweet as the one he clinched on ...

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 ...