Cyprus

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou hit out against the UN peacekeeping force (Unficyp) on Monday over the dozens of migrants stranded in the buffer zone for weeks. The migrants from countries ...

Nurses fumed on Monday over reported plans to reduce the minimum Greek language requirement for third country nationals who wish to practise nursing in Cyprus. Trade union Pasydy expressed “strong ...

Watch people disembarking from a plane in Larnaca or Paphos, and it’s immediately clear who’s been to Cyprus before! While visitors struggle with their bags, passports and hangovers, ...

The Hala Sultan Tekkesi in Larnaca will be closed to visitors on Wednesday due to the traditional pilgrimage taking place at the site to mark the fourth day of Eid ...

Naked and worn-out electricity cables running through forested areas are a significant cause of fires and that risk, as well as the risk from illegal rubbish dumps, has been predictable ...

Half of Cyprus’ beaches may disappear within the next 50 years due to rising sea levels, climate scientist Dr Giorgos Zittis from the Cyprus Institute has warned. “Sea level rise is ...

The 24-year-old YouTube prankster Fidias Panayiotou was all people talked about last week. Surprising everyone – even himself – Fidias was not only elected MEP but also managed one of the biggest ...

State health services (Okypy) representatives are to meet with doctors’ trade unions on Tuesday in a last-ditch attempt to avoid the strike planned by doctors for Thursday. According to the ...

Several cases of heat exhaustion have been reported across public hospitals in Cyprus since the onset of the current heatwave, state health services (Okypy) spokesperson Charalambos Charilaou said on Monday. ...

The responsibilities concerning immigration and asylum matters have been transferred to the newly established deputy ministry for migration and international protection, effective from June 17, the interior ministry announced on Monday. “...

President Nikos Christodoulides is in Brussels on Monday where he will participate in the European People’s Party Summit and then the informal dinner of the European Council. Christodoulides travelled ...

Minister of Finance, Makis Keravnos on Monday will take part in the Eurogroup and Ecofin meetings, to be held on June 20-21, as well as annual meetings of European Stability ...

IMAGO, a must-see work of contemporary dance by multi-award-winning dancers and choreographers from the UK James Pett and Travis Clausen-Knight, is coming to Limassol this month. Mark your calendars for ...

A 43-year-old cyclist, named as Sotiris Petrides, suffered a fatal accident at the linear park of Strovolos on Sunday. According to the police, while cycling on the bike path at ...

Police on Monday are investigating the circumstances under which, 49-year-old Iuliia Viacheslavovna Kovalchukova from Russia, a resident of Paphos, lost her life in a quad bike accident. Paphos traffic police ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Monday is set to wrap up his visit to the USA with a meeting with his counterpart, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The meeting ...

A 15-meter-long boat was completely destroyed by a fire that broke out on Sunday on a boat docked in the Ayia Napa marina. In a post on platform “X”, fire ...

Monday will be hot and clear after dissipation of early morning fog, with some intermittent clouds and slightly cooler temperatures expected. Temperatures will rise to 35C in the interior, 28C ...

Driving up to the forestry service headquarters in late May it is easy to see why the former department director likened the Paphos forest to a church, with Stavros tis ...

Elia Herodotou was elected as Pera Pedi’s mukhtar at the second attempt on Sunday, after the originally scheduled election on June 9 ended in a tie. Herodotou, 25, won 71 votes, beating ...

A pair of polls carried out in the north show opposition party the CTP to be ahead and to be the largest party in ‘parliament’ in a hypothetical election. One, ...

El-Sen, the employers’ union of the north’s electricity authority Kib-Tek, announced on Saturday night they had filed a complaint to the Turkish Cypriot police after police had prevented them ...

A 35-year-old man from Paphos was sentenced to five months in prison on Friday after having been arrested in March for being found to be in possession of a knife ...

Music and more music is on the horizon as the summer agenda fills up with concerts, beach parties and live performances. From the island’s musicians to some of the ...