Cyprus

A child is sexually abused in Cyprus nearly every day and, although the number of cases is rising, it is a good sign, because it indicates that more and more ...

Cyprus’ strategy surrounding migration is largely focused on two core points: returns and integration, Deputy Minister of Migration Nicholas Ioannides said on Saturday. In a speech to the Demographics Institute ...

A 24-year-old man was arrested on Saturday as part of an investigation of theft from a home, theft of a vehicle, causing a traffic accident and fleeing the scene. Police ...

Three small earthquakes were felt by residents in Limassol and Paphos shortly before 10am on Saturday morning.A series of earthquakes began at 9:49. Those which were felt were 3.3, 3.6 and 3.7 magnitude ...

Three vehicles were seized, and 90 traffic violations were recorded on Friday and Saturday morning, police said amid a campaign for safe driving. One car was seized after the 35-year-old driver ...

Recent statements by a top UN official constitute yet more proof of the body’s commitment to efforts to resume the Cyprus negotiations within the UN framework, a government source ...

All migrants who were stranded in the buffer zone have been removed from the site, the deputy migration ministry confirmed on Saturday, putting an end to months of wrangling. A ...

The Alexandros thunderstorms plaguing Greece are slowly moving east towards Cyprus, prompting the national met office to issue a yellow weather warning for severe storms starting Saturday. The warning is ...

A beach bar on a protected environmental site was demolished early on Saturday morning, after turtle nests were endangered by the rampant pollution. The bar was on Chrysochou Bay in ...

They’ve got 20.6k followers on Instagram. They’re identical twins and they’ve got a contagious passion for food. Katerina and Georgia Fella, known as The Fella Twins, have ...

Cyprus is one of nine European Union member states which is set to acquire French Mistral surface-to-air missiles as part of the bloc’s first ever financial support package for ...

Greek Cypriot schoolkids in Nicosia, organised by student committee Psem, protested on the 41st anniversary of the declaration of the ‘TRNC’. Unusually, the protest didn’t have a Greek nationalist ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Friday that the aim is for Cyprus to become an export hub for liquefied natural gas, which will come from the deposits of the ...

Cyprus is expected to raise the issue of the participation of Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar as an observer in a recent meeting of the Organisation of Turkic States (OTS), ...

The European Commission expects growth in Cyprus to remain robust in 2025 and 2026, according to the Autumn 2024 Economic Forecast which was presented in Brussels on Friday. The Commission expects annual growth ...

The met office on Friday issued a yellow warning for thunderstorms which is valid from 10pm on Saturday until 8pm on Sunday. Isolated heavy thunderstorms are expected to affect initially ...

Nicosia district court rejected on Friday the motion of former Volunteer Commissioner Yiannakis Yiannaki to carry out a trial within a trial over his ongoing case over his forged degree. ...

Cyprus will begin accepting applications from commercial producers to construct energy storage facilities on the island in January, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Friday. Addressing the Energy symposium in ...

School students from all over Cyprus staged protests to mark the 41st anniversary of the north’s unilateral declaration of independence on Friday. The largest protest of the day took ...

A UK spy plane has been caught on camera departing from the Akrotiri British bases in Cyprus, allegedly departing for Gaza, it emerged on Friday. The images published by Declassified ...

The final two babies who remained in hospital after being fed ethanol while being treated on the neonatal intensive care ward in northern Nicosia’s emergency hospital were discharged on ...

The Famagusta district governor warned that his district office (EOA) would return to filing building permits on paper, due to the inefficiency of the online system on Friday. The deputy ...

Cyprus’ income from emissions allowances will fall by around €30 million next year, the agriculture ministry disclosed on Friday. The figures were disclosed ahead of discussions in parliament over the ministry’...

Larnaca municipality on Friday planted 20 palm trees at Kastella Beach in Larnaca as part of an effort to make the area greener and more inviting. In a statement, the municipality ...