Cyprus

Cyprus spent a total of €44.4 million on hosting Ukrainian refugees in 2022 and 2023 after Russia invaded their country in February 2022. The figure was released Monday as part of an answer to ...

The data protection commissioner’s office announced on Monday new measures and guidelines for the use of CCTV cameras in gyms. In a statement, Data Protection Commissioner Irene Loizidou Nicolaidou ...

The health minister has said that an investigation into an event taking place in May, where a member of the Elam party apparently gave the Nazi salute while visiting a ...

The visit of Greek Defence Minister Nikos Dendias to Cyprus on Monday “shows a very clear separation” of the country’s modern government from the junta which sponsored a coup ...

A total of 150 complaints were made between Friday night and Monday morning by members of the Limassol Traffic Police, as part of a weekend crackdown on traffic violations. Authorities checked 325 ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman on Monday said he had not yet decided whether or not he will run in next year’s Turkish Cypriot leadership elections. ...

Cyprus’ future will remain in limbo unless the island adopts a mutual defense posture with Greece that is capable of deterring Turkey militarily, independent MP Andreas Themistocleous asserted on Monday. ...

Multi-platinum recording singer and songwriter Bryan Adams is set to play in Limassol this autumn. Adams will be playing at Limassol’s Tsirio Stadium on October 16, as part of his ...

What is organic vinification? How are organic wines different from the others? Do they keep, and do they taste better? Organic wine production is flourishing all over the world. To ...

A drone illegally delivered two packages into the central prison on Sunday night. Prison guards spotted the drone between 10pm and 11pm, and witnessed it fly into the prison’s ...

“Turkey would have pulled out of Cyprus” if the attempted coup d’état which was performed in the country in 2016 had succeeded, Turkish ambassador in northern Nicosia Metin Feyzioglu said ...

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 ...