Cyprus

Cyprus’ police will take part in the European week for lorries and buses next week which will include intensive checks on the vehicles to make sure everything is in line ...

Turkish Cypriot trade union for nurses and midwives KTHES on Saturday threatened to take action if the ‘health minister’ and his team did not resign over the death of an ...

Any form of service in the National Guard should be acknowledged as an honour for the conscripts and their families, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Saturday. Speaking at a ...

The fire service has rescued two people who were injured in separate incidents, one falling from a block of flats onto a garage roof and another while cleaning photovoltaic panels, ...

Former Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides lashed out at President Nikos Christodoulides on Saturday, saying he was “not telling the truth” about developments leading up to his dismissal from the Audit Office. “...

Human bones belonging to those who died in 1974, as well as people missing from as far back as 1964, have been placed in boxes and left among furniture in a warehouse ...

The little boy doesn’t hesitate once. He’s only 10 years old – the video was shot in Kakopetria in 2015 – but the piece of charcoal flies across the paper, adding lines ...

Police arrested a 23-year-old man on Friday evening in connection with burglaries and theft in Larnaca. At 1.30am, police received a call that a civilian had found a person acting ...

The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) is determined to use all technological means and the newest methods and techniques available to locate possible burial sites of missing persons on the ...

A yellow warning has been issued for isolated thunderstorms from 8am to 6pm on Sunday. The Meteorological Department said the precipitation rate would be between 35mm and 55mm per hour, ...

Human Rights Commissioner Maria Stylianou Lottides on Friday raised concerns over the rising number of racially motivated attacks against foreign food delivery workers, despite the existence of laws and regulations ...

The Church of Cyprus has donated €1 million to the Hellenic Naval Academy, Greek Defence Minister Nikos Dendias announced on Friday. In a post on social media, he said the donation ...

Elam members marched on Larnaca’s Finikoudes beach on Friday night in protest against migration. The march made its way from Europe Square up the beach road and was billed ...

Cyprus’ long-term employment rate, that being those who have been unemployed for 12 months or more, is below the European Union average, according to the EU’s statistical agency Eurostat. At ...

Identifying irregularities in tender bidding will be a primary focus for the audit office over the next few years, auditor-general Andreas Papaconstantinou said on Friday during a House finance committee ...

Opposition ‘MPs’ in the north “will not allow” Ziya Ozturkler, the man the ruling coalition declared as ‘parliament speaker’, to attend discussions over next year’s ‘state’ budget, ‘parliamentary’ finance ...

Ahmet Tugcu, the leader of the north’s electricity authority Kib-Tek’s employees’ trade union El-Sen, on Friday announced he had filed two lawsuits against ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel over ...

The Cyprus problem was among the issues discussed during the two-hour meeting foreign ministers of Greece and Turkey had on Friday, in Athens, where they expressed their differing positions on ...

Cyprus is among the EU countries with the highest antibiotic consumption and rates of antimicrobial resistance, Health Minister Michael Damianos stated on Friday during a press conference for a campaign ...

The north’s ‘foreign ministry’ on Friday called on the European Union to “stop acting as the Greek Cypriot side’s spokesman”. The ‘ministry’ was responding to EU High Representative ...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched a new EU-funded initiative aimed at promoting sustainable energy practices in Turkish Cypriot local communities. The contract amounts to €245,000 and will be ...

American multinational oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil will next year begin drilling for natural gas under the sea off the coast of Cyprus, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Friday. ...

Six Syrians suspected of financing terrorism have allegedly orchestrated the transfer of hundreds of thousands of euros, it emerged on Friday. Investigation into the matter by the Republic’s authorities ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos and ambassadors of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries in Cyprus discussed bilateral relations and cooperation, the embassy of Kuwait said in a press release on ...