Cyprus

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 ...

The biggest problem plaguing the legal service has been the attacks from the Audit Office, Attorney-General George Savvides told the Supreme Constitutional Court on Friday, on his third and last ...

Cyprus is in danger of creating a “digital divide” that leaves less tech-savvy groups such as the elderly and disabled behind in the race toward e-government services, the Commissioner for ...

By Robert Morgan A 31-year-old woman was arrested for drug smuggling by customs officers in Larnaca on Wednesday, according to a police press release. The drugs were found during a ...

The first organised beach for the community of Mandria opened on Friday, complete with sun chairs and umbrellas. More features will be added to the beach in coming days, including ...

Drone footage from Paphos appears to show that the fire which devasted the Polemi area earlier in the week could have started at an illegal landfill, raising concerns that rampant ...

By Robert Morgan Three young men were arrested on Thursday in Limassol for drug possession while a fourth was arrested for possession of illegal explosives in the form of fireworks, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will attend a series of diplomatic meetings in Europe, including the International Summit on Peace in Ukraine scheduled for June 15-16 at Buergenstock, Switzerland. The president will ...

Health ministry permanent secretary Christina Yiannaki was exonerated on Friday by the anti-corruption authority, which had investigated claims questioning her age and knowledge of the English language. According to an ...

This is the first time real planning has gone into the long-standing promise of successive governments to install air conditioning in schools, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Friday. An ...

A 76-year-old Briton, permanent resident of Ayia Napa, suffered fatal electrocution on Thursday morning while gardening. William Edward, who lived in Ayia Thekla – Ayia Napa area – with his wife, was ...

The occupancy rate of the aircraft arriving in Cyprus last month reached around 85 per cent and is on the rise as peak season approaches, Hermes Airports said on Friday. Director ...

A man was caught driving under the influence of drugs on Thursday, Paphos police said. The 24-year-old driver’s car was also found to contain five grammes of cannabis and ...

The University of Nicosia Medical School on Friday announced that Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), will be awarded an honorary doctorate at the Medical ...

A 28-year-old man was scammed out of €46,900 after sending the money to a bank account falsely claiming to be part of a car sales company. After exchanging electronic messages with ...

Police on Friday were investigating the murder of 41-year-old Petya Krateva, after she was stabbed multiple times by her 48-year-old husband. The incident unfolded at around 10am when the two ...