Cyprus News

Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz and the country’s ambassador in Nicosia Ali Murat Basceri on Friday night attended a campaign stop for Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar organised by ...

Polis Chrysochous mayor Yiotis Papachristofi on Saturday promised that “major developments” worth at least €100 million will be carried out in the town next year. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, ...

A 19-year-old was arrested after attempting to rob a shop in Limassol, the police said on Saturday. According to the police, they received a call regarding the incident shortly after ...

Two men were injured in a fight which broke out in a block of flights late on Friday night, the police said on Saturday. The police received a call about ...

The north’s ruling coalition late on Friday night naturalised 124 people as ‘TRNC’ citizens, thus making them eligible to vote in this October’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election, hours before ...

High heat will be the order of the day again on Saturday, with temperatures set to reach a maximum of 42 degrees Celsius inland. Meanwhile, temperatures on the south, east, and ...

The Deputy Ministry of Tourism has launched a tender for hotel rooms in Nicosia to accommodate thousands of delegates expected during Cyprus’ presidency of the Council of Europe from January ...

Concerns were raised on Friday regarding “unusual movements” undertaken by an American military transport aircraft in and around Cypriot airspace. The aircraft, a Boeing C-17 which belongs to the United ...

Foreign ministers from European countries – including Cyprus – Australia and Britain on Friday jointly condemned Israel’s plans to construct a settlement east of Jerusalem. Israel immediately dismissed the statement. The ...

The reunification of Cyprus is a “non-negotiable goal” for the government, Deputy Culture Minister Vasiliki Kassianidou said on Friday. She added that “the current unacceptable state of affairs in Cyprus ...

The forestry department warned the public on Friday to stay away from the ancient oak tree in Lania to avoid injury. It said branches were falling off the centuries-old “natural ...

The Meteorological Department has issued a yellow warning for Saturday, when temperatures are expected to peak at 42C inland, 35C along the coast and 32C in the highest mountains. The ...

Areas of dense vegetation currently pose an increased risk of poisonous snakes, the civil defence warned on Friday, urging outdoor enthusiasts to be particularly cautious after a man was recently ...

Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker on Friday visited the Green Line which separates Cyprus’ two sides. He was accompanied on his visit by President Nikos Christodoulides and Nicosia mayor Charalambos Prountzos, ...

Cyprus was third among EU member states for the number of tertiary students from abroad with almost one in four in the country’s universities being an international student, Eurostat ...

The strike called on by employees of the north’s Koop Bank and its subsidiaries last week was brought to an end on Friday as a deal was struck by ...

Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos questioned the validity of online university courses on Thursday, saying that people were buying degrees by the thousands in Africa without actually having attended the courses. ...

The death of 31-year-old Antonis Kourras, who was killed in a paragliding accident in Kiti on Thursday morning, was caused by multiple injuries to the body and vital organs, a ...

The four-year-old boy who was pulled unconscious from a hotel swimming pool in Paphos on Thursday afternoon has been airlifted to Israel for further treatment. The police said that the ...

A report detailing the extent of the damage and the funds required to restore the Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) farm in Lofou has already been submitted to the university’...

Every corner of Cyprus “will be Europe”, opposition candidate at October’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election Tufan Erhurman said at a campaign rally at Kyrenia port on Thursday night. “I ...

An autopsy on the body of a 20-year-old taken to a private hospital in Limassol on Thursday night failed to establish the cause of death and police are now awaiting ...

Over 15,000 teachers have been employed and are ready to return to public schools with the start of the new academic year in September, the education ministry said on Friday. According ...

The paper processing factory which burned down in Ypsonas earlier this week will not reopen as it did not have the correct licences to operate, Curium mayor Pantelis Georgiou said ...