Cyprus

Police are taking increased security measures across points of entry, embassies and other sensitive locations, due to the situation in the Middle East, spokesman for the force Christos Andreou said ...

A 22-year-old police cadet died in a road accident in Nicosia, after he lost control of his motorbike and fell on to the pavement, police said on Saturday. Costas Demetriou ...

On the wall of a house near the Faneromeni underground car park in old Nicosia there’s a very polite printed note, in Greek and English: “Dear friend,” says the ...

A 15-year-old has been arrested in connection with yet another delivery driver attack in Limassol, in which a 22-year-old was injured. The incident unfolded in the early hours of Saturday ...

Clocks will go back one hour on Sunday, October 27. Summertime for 2024 ends on Sunday at 04:00am and clocks should be moved an hour back. The time change is applied in ...

Tests carried out at diagnostic centres in Cyprus are already “of perfect quality”, diagnostic centres’ association (Pasydike) chairman Giorgos Kouttoukis said on Friday. Speaking to Astra radio station, he said ...

Hotel unions on Friday threatened to go on a collective strike, a few days after rejecting a mediation proposal on collective agreements put forth by Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou. In ...

Telecom company Epic on Friday said there was no evidence of a data breach on its systems so far, after a leak purporting to show 46 users and their passwords was ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Friday said opposition party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman is “causing chaos”, at the end of a third week of political wrangling in the north ...

The annual Christmas ‘Paramythoupoli’ winter wonderland will return to the car park below Nicosia’s walled city’s D’Avila bastion this year, the Nicosia municipality announced on Friday. As ...

The first fines have been issued to businesses who have not ensured health and safety for workers whose jobs require standing for long periods, it emerged on Friday. The law ...

The government’s new public procurement website has gone live, the treasury announced on Friday. The website allows for easier public access to all matters related to government contracts, how ...

The Mitsikouri International Performing Arts Festival for Children and Young People is about to begin bringing 10 theatre, dance and music performances for children to Nicosia, Limassol and Lefkara. Viewers as ...

Former prisons director Anna Aristotelous has been appointed as acting permanent secretary of the defence ministry until the post can be properly filled, the cabinet decided on Friday. The appointment ...

Sefer Bugra Altundag, the man who killed 16-year-old Zehie Helin Reessur in January last year, was sentenced to life in prison in court in Trikomo on Friday. Altundag had been ...

Worsening traffic congestion and measures to address it dominated Friday’s House finance committee meeting, where Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades presented his ministry’s €780 million budget for 2025. MPs pressed Vafeades ...

The cabinet on Friday at an extraordinary session was briefed on the 88 flagship goals of the government that include reforms in health, education, welfare, environmental issues and migration. According to ...

The three special operations police officers who were suspended from their duties in the aftermath of the escape from custody of 42-year-old convicted double murderer Doros Theofanous have returned to ...

It is a great honour and pride for all of us at Pafilia Property Developers to have been given the opportunity to host the Summit of the Mediterranean Member States ...

The north’s ‘government’ announced on Friday that it has appointed ‘finance minister’ Ozdemir Berova as its new spokesperson. Berova’s appointment was agreed upon on Thursday evening during a ...

The three men who were arrested after a 24-year-old man died in a fire in an apartment block in Mia Milia appeared in court again on Friday. The trio stand ...

The man driving the motorcycle carrying the shooter in the murder of 34-year-old Demetris Andronikou in April was on Friday sentenced to life in prison by the Nicosia criminal court. ...

Former Turkish ambassador to the north Metin Feyzioglu was officially appointed as ambassador to the Czech Republic on Friday. Feyzioglu was swiftly relieved of his duties at the end of ...

Negotiators from both sides of the divide met on Thursday night for the first time since the tripartite dinner in New York, kickstarting what is hoped will be a new ...