Cyprus

Highly respected environmentalist and journalist Martin Abbas Hellicar died on Saturday, aged 56. He passed away in hospital where he was being treated after sustaining serious injuries in a car accident ...

A 68-year-old man from Paphos was arrested on Saturday night after being found to have been driving while four times over the legal alcohol limit. The man’s car was ...

The police on Sunday announced that the upcoming week would be an “awareness week” for road safety, with a particular focus on driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol. ...

Garbage is piling up on the shores of Potamos Liopetri harbour – degrading a protected nature site and exposing a serious flaw in how Cyprus deals with illegal dumping. Liopetri beach, ...

An 84-year-old woman from Nicosia died of heatstroke on Saturday afternoon, the health ministry said on Sunday. The woman had been admitted to the Nicosia general hospital on Friday and ...

A fire which broke out in a car in the Paphos district village of Emba in the early hours of Sunday morning is believed to have been caused by arson, ...

Police on Sunday announced the arrest of a man suspected of stealing 900 metres of electricity cables. The man, aged 33, reportedly cut down five telegraph poles near the Limassol district village ...

Turkish Cypriots and other Muslims across Cyprus celebrated the beginning of Eid al-Adha, one of the two main festivals on the Muslim calendar, on Sunday. The festival is celebrated during ...

The fire brigade and the electricity authority (EAC) on Sunday found themselves at odds with one another over the cause of a wildfire which broke out near the Nicosia district ...

Temperatures are to continue to soar on Sunday to a high of 39 degrees Celsius inland, with temperatures on the west coast to reach 31 degrees Celsius, temperatures on the rest of ...

While definitely striking, the evisceration of the so-called centrist parties at the ballot last week should not be seen in isolation but rather as part of a wider malaise and ...

Victims of last week’s fires in Paphos will start receiving compensation on Wednesday, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou announced on Saturday, following orders from President Nikos Christodoulides. Panayiotou stated that ...

A large fire broke out between the villages Fikardou and Farmakas, necessitating the intervention of five aircraft. Fire services spokesman Andreas Kettis said that there are also trucks at the ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos and the UN Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas, Miroslav Jenca discussed on Friday in New York about ...

Two police officers were suspended on Saturday during an investigation into the police response time related to the murder of a 41-year-old woman in Paphos. The disciplinary investigation involves seven ...

Cyprus on Saturday welcomed an upgrade to the economy by ratings agency Standard & Poor’s, who updated long-term ratings to ‘BBB+’ from ‘BBB’. The agency also assigned a positive ...

A new yellow warning has been issued by the met office for extreme high temperatures on Saturday, with the maximum temperature inland expected to rise to 41 degrees C. According to ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will be in Switzerland on Saturday afternoon to attend the Ukraine Peace Summit in Burgenstock, taking place on June 15 and 16. The director of his press office, Victoras ...

The story goes that the great rembetika player Markos Vamvarakis was walking the streets of Piraeus and Athens in the late 1940s with his fellow musicians on the lookout for ...

Do you remember the food yiayia used to make? Fasolia, koupepia, pourgouri, lentils and rice. Tiropita and spanakopita. In the summer, we ate village salads: rough cut cucumbers, tomatoes, and ...

Using computer modelling, the met office’s three-month forecast is predicting normal seasonal temperatures until the end of August but the model failed to predict higher-than-normal temperatures that occurred in ...

A 48-year-old man in Limassol was scammed out of €178,500 which he thought was used to buy a car, police said on Friday. The man reported to he reached a deal ...

Cyprus does not accept lectures from anyone on how to manage the issue of migrants, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday, as the UN peacekeeping force (Unficyp) and the UNHCR ...

A new yellow warning was issued by the Meteorology Department for extreme high temperatures on Saturday, with maximum temperature inland expected to rise to 41 degrees Celsius. According to the Meteorology ...