Cyprus

Restoration is to begin in the early part of the new year at Famagusta’s St George of the Latins church, bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage co-chairman Ali Tuncay ...

A 41-year-old Greek Cypriot man was shot at the Ayia Fyla area in Limassol on Monday night, which police are investigating as an attempted murder. The shooter fled with the ...

A man was shot in the face while out hunting near the Karpas peninsula villages of Eptakomi and Galateia, the Turkish Cypriot police said on Monday. The man, named as 44...

The north’s ‘government’ on Monday formalised its plans to move northern Nicosia’s court buildings from their current location in Nicosia’s old town to the under-construction ‘government’ complex ...

The floating, storage and regasification unit (Fsru) is currently moored at the Strait of Malacca, Malaysia, where it’s undergoing technical checks, the energy minister said on Monday. George Papanastasiou ...

Police on Monday said there were assessing whether the death of 62-year-old Vitaly Shostak in Limassol was a premeditated murder or suicide. Shostak was found to have died from a ...

Nicosia district court handed down a €15,450 fine to two companies after a man died in a labour accident, it was reported on Monday. According to a labour inspection department statement, ...

The €2 coin is now being sold for more than €1,000 amongst collectors. On the occasion of celebrating the 20th anniversary of Cyprus’ accession to the European Union in 2004, the central bank ...

The United Nations secretary-general’s reports on Cyprus are expected to be released next week, a spokesman for the United Nations said on Monday. They are the report of the ...

Did you know that, according to the World Health Organisation, cancer treatment in Europe costs more than $200 billion a year, $895 billion globally? Why is that? Diagnostic instruments and treatments, the ...

Because of Christmas and New Year, December is the month for sparkling wines. From Champagne houses to renowned wineries from all over the world get ready to celebrate New Year’...

Work was halted on Monday at the construction site in the Paphos district village of Kissonerga where a dead body had been found on Saturday. News website Reporter wrote that ...

The Cyprus Mail app is now available for iOS devices. Bringing the latest news to viewers, it follows the recent relaunch of the Android app. Features allow users to save ...

Next year is expected to be better than 2024 for the hotel industry, the chairman of the hoteliers’ association (Pasyxe) said on Monday. The statistical results received from the London exhibition ...

JEAN CHRISTOU: Without meaning to sound ungrateful, almost two years after ‘kind of leaving’ the rat race, I’m still waiting for that idyllic retirement to materialise: the one where ...

As his Reuters obituary put it on Monday, Jimmy Carter was “widely seen as a better former president than he was a president”, and this capacity extended to a trip ...

While Jimmy Carter’s election as president of the United States in 1976 may have been a close-run contest, it was greeted with almost unanimous elation in Cyprus. Church bells rang ...

For decades, the Larnaca-Dhekelia road was a symbol of industry. The rhythmic hum of oil tankers and the silhouette of towering fuel tanks defined this coastal stretch. But today, a ...

Cyprus retail trade association secretary Marios Antoniou on Monday expressed satisfaction with both customer footfall and revenue during the holiday season. Supermarkets and toy stores in particular thrived during this ...

Cypriot journalist Alex Efthyvoulou, the owner of English-language newspaper Cyprus Weekly, died aged 97 on Monday. Reacting to news of his death, President Nikos Christodoulides described Efthyvoulou as a “pioneering journalist ...

Limassol and Larnaca municipalities on Monday announced they would let off “silent fireworks” as part of their new year celebrations. “For the first time, Limassol municipality will bring the magic ...

A church service will take place on January 6 in the occupied church of Ayia Triada, the village council announced on Monday. The liturgy will begin at 8am and finish at ...

The Association of Cyprus Banks on Monday announced that interbank and cross-border transactions will soon be completed in just 10 seconds, with the service being available round-the-clock. The new service will ...

A new English radio station will be launched on January 1 in Cyprus, the people behind it said on Monday. Wow Radio Online will play a mixture of hit songs while ...