Cyprus

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman called for “peace and friendship with the Greek Cypriot people” in his message marking the 42nd anniversary of the Turkish Cypriots’ unilateral declaration of independence. “...

STYX Film Encounters returns this November with a new screening programme titled System Breakdown – a series of five landmark films dissecting the absurdities, failures and crises of modern systems. From ...

Cyprus’ economy recorded robust growth in the third quarter of 2025, with new national and European data confirming that the country continues to outperform the wider region. According to a flash ...

The long-awaited cost-of-living allowance (CoLA) agreement, signed Thursday after months of tough negotiations between employers and workers, has drawn mixed reactions across Cyprus’ political spectrum. Disy, on Friday, welcomed the ...

A culture of effective project management needs to be established in Cyprus to ensure the public benefits from governmental spending on major infrastructure and development initiative, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades ...

New school need to be built as the current ones are overcrowded outdated and lack necessary equipment the House education committee said after paying a visit to two schools and ...

A video of a woman filmed driving on a Limassol highway while simultaneously handling a laptop and a mobile phone on Wednesday night has gone viral on various social media ...

Gender equality is an essential pillar of peace, sustainable development, and democracy and has advanced across several institutional levels in recent years, gender equality commissioner Josie Christodoulou said on Friday ...

Iranian forces are believed to have seized a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker managed by Cyprus-based Columbia Shipmanagement after it abruptly changed course in the Gulf of Oman while sailing from the ...

A new digital platform for social care structures, designed to give the public clear and immediate access to all approved facilities under its supervision has been launched, the social welfare ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday praised the “extremely constructive” approach taken by Cyprus regarding relations between the European Union and Turkey, as it prepares to undertake the Council of ...

Circulating text messages asking beneficiaries to follow a link to correct their personal information in the national health system (Gesy) are a scam and should not be opened, the Health ...

Law commissioner Sofia Cleopa Hadjikyriakou lamented that her office is understaffed and staffed with people from the wrong ministry as she appeared in front of the House finance committee, which ...

The government aims for Cyprus to have a “hydrogen production business ecosystem” by the end of 2027 to bolster the island’s energy production, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Friday. ...

A concrete water tank overlooking Larnaca’s salt lake – a habitat for migratory flamingos – has just got a mural of the long-necked birds, making it a new artistic landmark for ...

Details that were so far unknown were presented on Friday by the prosecution during court procedures to file a case regarding the murder of businessman Stavros Demosthenous, who was gunned ...

Seismic activity in and around Cyprus has been “gradually reducing” in strength in the aftermath of the two strong earthquakes which struck near Paphos on Wednesday, the geological survey department ...

United Nations special representative Khassim Diagne on Friday met Turkish Cypriot ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu for the first time, as his contacts continue after arriving on the island to take ...

Larnaca’s renovated Ermou street is set to open to the public on November 19, almost one month earlier than planned, Larnaca mayor Andreas Vyras confirmed on Friday. The works on ...

Students and organised groups gathered on Friday to protest the unilateral declaration of northern Cyprus as a separate republic. The unilateral declaration of independence was made on November 15, 1983. Events and ...

A demonstration protesting the possible removal of 2.000 animals from the Paphiakos animal shelter near Paphos took place on Friday morning outside the town’s district court. The protest attracted volunteers ...

Turkish Cypriots reacted largely positively on Friday to the first meeting of Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday, following the former’s election ...

Salih Cansec, the chief of the north’s tender commission, on Thursday had his remand extended for a further seven days after having been arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of ...

Ask a foreigner, and they’ll tell you Cyprus is all sun and sea. For the most part, our summer visitors are blithely unaware that we have two mountain ranges, ...