Cyprus

The government on Friday stressed a political decision was taken to remove 14km of barbed wire stretching across the buffer zone, after it was criticised by Disy for ignoring UN ...

Bickering between the government and opposition Disy continued Friday over a letter published by party leader Annita Demetriou after a National Council meeting last week. In her letter, Demetriou voiced ...

A US decision to shut down the humanitarian pier off the coast of Gaza “does not affect the continuation of the Amalthea initiative at all,” government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said ...

The transport ministry on Friday reported there has been a reduction in road violations where traffic cameras have been installed during the April-June 2024 quarter. It added that the number of ...

By Robert Morgan Some 22 city and long-distance taxi licences were suspended from entering Larnaca airport by the Licencing Authority between June 20 and July 10 for violations of pickup/drop-off rules, with ...

A series of events are to be held in the north over the weekend to commemorate the eighth anniversary of the failed coup d’état which took place in Turkey ...

UN involvement in the Cyprus issue will be discussed later on Friday when Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis meets UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York. Mitsotakis affirmed on Thursday ...

State health services (Okypy) hourly staff will stage a 24-hour strike on July 23 to protest unmet demands and perceived mistreatment. The strike will begin at 6.30am on July 23 and end ...

Stefania Yakovleva discusses the difficulty of figure skating ‘To succeed, you have to put in a lot of effort and never give up’ A fantastic athlete and dedicated person, Stefania ...

Villages in Limassol are due to create a Monitoring Centre for wildfires it emerged on Friday, after the area has been one of the hardest hit this year. The communities ...

A man and a teenage boy were arrested on drug possession charges in Paphos, police said on Friday. During a raid at 5.30pm on Thursday at the home of a 33...

Ayia Napa Mayor Christos Zannettou on Friday pleaded not guilty before the Famagusta Criminal Court to charges related to the misuse of EU funds for a hotel renovation project in ...

Sirens will sound across Cyprus on July 15 and 20 as part of events to mark the anniversary of the 1974 coup and Turkish invasion, the civil defence said on Friday. On Monday, ...

Workers at public broadcaster CyBC suspended their strike action on Friday evening after being given reassurances that their dispute over pension payments will be resolved. The three trade unions which ...

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Police said on Friday that a building shot at in Limassol was an advertising agency, and not a Forex company as had initially been reported by authorities. The building was ...

A 20-year-old was arrested for going 120 km over the speed limit, police said on Friday. Police said that the man was arrested on the Limassol-Nicosia highway in the early hours ...

Police arrested a 29-year-old man suspected to be illegally residing in the Republic of Cyprus, Paphos police said on Friday. According to police, the man was found on Thursday night, ...

Paphos police arrested a 51-year-old man suspected of people smuggling, it emerged on Friday. According to police the man was found after a 46-year-old in a migrant reception centre said ...

A 4.1 Richter earthquake was felt in Cyprus on Friday morning, the European Seismological Centre said. According to the centre, the earthquake registered at 7.34am, and was felt in Limassol. In ...

The weather on Friday is expected to be mostly clear with some low cloud cover in coastal areas, the met office said. In the afternoon, isolated storms are expected in ...

A 28-year-old man arrested in connection with the murder of Demetris Andronicou, AKA ‘Demetroui’, was released on Friday after authorities learned the gangland shooting occurred on his wedding day. According ...

Cyprus, which lost 89 people to antibiotic resistance in 2020, is striving to reduce the use of the drugs in livestock farming, but there is still a long way to go. Data ...

Parliament on Thursday evening ratified an interstate agreement between Cyprus and the United States on the sharing of travelers’ information, as a prelude and precondition for the island joining the ...