Cyprus News

A van in Yermasoyia, Limassol, went up in flames just before midnight, causing damage to the engine. The Mercedes van was in the carpark of a block of flats when ...

The Cyprus Land Development Organisation (Koag) expects to deliver 244 residences by the end of the year, general director Eleni Symeonidou told the House finance committee on Monday, during discussions on ...

The police continued their overnight operations in key urban areas on Monday, resulting in seven arrests for various offences, including causing serious bodily harm, illegal entry into the Republic and ...

A 33-year-old died in Paphos on Monday afternoon after fainting in a gym. He was taken by ambulance to Paphos general hospital, where doctors struggled to keep him alive. A ...

Unsettled weather continues till Friday, with fine dust possibly in the atmosphere as of Thursday. Tuesday starts off overcast with isolated showers in the west. As the day progresses, rainy ...

Environment and animal welfare commissioner Antonia Theodosiou has pointed out persistent issues, including the overpopulation of cats and unowned dogs from uncontrolled breeding, low registration rates, delays in legislation enforcement, ...

The United Nations is hoping for new crossing points to open between Cyprus’ two sides “as soon as possible”, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Monday. He told ...

Despite the rains, water levels in the island’s dams remain exceedingly low, officials again warned on Monday. Total water inside the reservoirs comes to 39.9 million cubic metres – or 13.7 per ...

Defence ministry permanent secretary Andreas Kountouris on Monday attended a ceremony to mark the 77th anniversary of the closure of the last of the detention camps set up by the ...

European Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos on Monday held a telephone call with Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos following her trip to Turkey last week. According to the foreign ministry, the pair ...

Portugal’s socialist president-elect Antonio Jose Seguro won three quarters of votes cast by Portuguese nationals in Cyprus at the weekend’s presidential election. In total, Seguro won 12 votes, with ...

The new turbines ordered for the power plant at Dhekelia may not arrive until 2030, officials of the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) told MPs on Monday. EAC board chairman Giorgos ...

The criminal investigation file concerning Disy MP Nikos Sykas has been forwarded to the legal service, while the Limassol parliamentarian prepares to file a civil lawsuit against his party over ...

Yusuf Alemdar, the mayor of Turkey’s Sakarya municipality, which is located on the country’s Black Sea coast, lied about having obtained a degree in Cyprus, according to reports ...

Nicosia criminal court on Monday granted prosecutors another month to sift through the material and decide which can be shared with the defendants’ lawyers, in the case involving the theft ...

A proposal to grant institutional recognition to guide dogs triggered sharp disagreements on Monday during discussions at the House human rights committee. The bill, submitted by Ecologist MP Charalambos Theopemptou, ...

Bilal Balci, a former municipal civil engineer at Turkey’s Adiyaman municipality, who was last month handed a ten-year suspended prison sentence and released on bail conditions for his role ...

Forging a connection between the European Union and its citizens is of fundamental importance and will be made a priority during Cyprus’ EU Council presidency, President Nikos Christodoulides said on ...

Anastasia Routi-Eleftheriadi was on Monday appointed as the Paphos municipality’s interim municipal secretary as the town’s council returns to work following the suspension of mayor Phedonas Phedonos last ...

The Republic of Cyprus is obliged to agree to transfer Israeli prisoner Simon Aykut to the country of which he holds citizenship to serve out the remainder of his sentence, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides spoke by telephone with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday as Athens and Nicosia step up coordination on the Cyprus issue ahead of Mitsotakis’ meeting with ...

A Bangladeshi food delivery rider working in Nicosia is due to appear before a military court in the north after inadvertently crossing the divide while trying to deliver an order, ...

Questions over selective scrutiny within the justice system intensified on Monday, as lawyer Simos Angelides publicly lambasted the police’s handling of social media personality Annie Alexui’s allegations, contrasting ...

More than €20,000 in cash were seized during the raid of a restaurant in the old town of Paphos, which saw four people arrested on Sunday night. The police said that 65 ...