Cyprus

Local wine Maratheftiko is celebrated on December 1, and this year an event in Paphos will bring together 26 wineries that produce it to celebrate. Maratheftiko is an ancient red variety, only ...

More than one third of women from Cyprus who took part in a European survey said they had experienced physical violence, sexual violence or the threat of it during their ...

Financial repercussions from the ongoing concrete workers’ strike are growing exponentially while the shortage of material has far-reaching and unforeseen effects, the director general of the Cyprus chamber of commerce (...

A debate on the Cyprus issue – coinciding with the condemnation of the 41st anniversary of the universal declaration of independence in the north – will be included in the Plenary Session ...

The Green party on Monday condemned the Limassol mayor’s participation in a conference alleged to promote Zionism. The party accused Mayor Yiannis Armeftis of taking part in the event ...

By Richard Boxall Sunday’s final of the 2024 BAOFinancial Autumn T20 Cup presented by HurryCurry will be contested by MSN Punjab Lions and Markhor after both came through their semi-finals ...

Thirty kilos of cocaine was found by police in a container in Larnaca, the force announced on Monday. Officers of the police drugs branch Ykan were searching the container after ...

Paphos police were on Monday looking for a man suspected of counterfeiting money. The suspect, aged 41, is wanted, while a 43-year-old is already in custody for the case, according to ...

An employee is wanted for theft of money and a check from his employer on Monday, Paphos police reported. According to Paphos assistant police chief Michalis Nicolaou, the case was ...

Crews were continuing to clean up the road network and damages to the power supply on Monday, in the aftermath of extreme winds on Sunday, which mainly affected the island’...

A section of John Kennedy Street in Nicosia was closed to traffic on Monday morning, police announced. The road section has been closed off since 8am for safety reasons, since ...

Police arrested 24 third country nationals over the weekend whose status in the Republic was illegal. They were then taken into custody and authorities have initiated procedures for their immediate repatriation. ...

The names of nine Cypriots, working as agents of the secret service of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (CSSR) in Cyprus, at the height of the Cold War, in the seventies ...

Workers in the cement industry on Sunday called on the government to take a more active role in sorting out their labour crisis, with a strike ongoing for more than ...

Visitors can experience what it must have been like to be a passenger in the late 1960s at the now derelict Nicosia airport by taking part in a workshop “A ...

President Nikos Christodoulides reportedly presented a plan of Cyprus’ possible future accession to NATO to US President Joe Biden at their meeting in October 30 at the White House. According to ...

As a yellow weather warning for high winds remained in place on Sunday and as the strength of them picked up in the afternoon, problems were seen around the island, ...

A total of €117 million will be the budget given by the state to the new municipalities as was agreed during a debate in Parliament, the interior ministry said on Sunday. ...

Two crimes have been carried out against the 7th primary school of Limassol in as many days, with vandals damaging the buildings and thieves making off with money for Christmas ...

As temperatures around the island hit a low point on Sunday the first snow of the season fell on the mountains. At around 1pm a flurry of snow fell on ...

Hundreds of people demonstrated against “the transformation of Cyprus into a base for war” outside the US-sponsored security training facility CyCLOPS in Larnaca on Sunday. The protestors, carrying banners with ...

Elon Musk on Sunday declared that Cyprus YouTuber and MEP Fidias Panayiotou should become “president of the EU”. In a post on X, Musk responded to another user who said ...

Over 100 million euro will be spent to upgrade the health sector by 2027, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Sunday. He said this was made clear during a meeting on Friday ...

A 10-day old seal, one of the rarest animals in Europe, was rescued off the coast of Cyprus, the ministry of agriculture announced on Sunday. The Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus ...