Cyprus News

By Stavros Petrides Limassol’s festive season is in full swing, but the celebratory spirit is hampered by significant traffic congestion as holiday shoppers flood the streets. With Christmas markets, ...

The contract between the government and Hermes airports to extend the management of Larnaca and Paphos airports until 2033 will be signed on Monday, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Sunday.  ...

Foreign Minister, Constantinos Kombos, on Sunday said he discussed “core aspects” of the regional developments, with his Israeli counterpart, Gideon Sa’ar on Sunday. In a post on X, Kombos, ...

A total of 42 people were identified and arrested by the police on Sunday, as part of an action to identify third country nationals residing illegally in Cyprus, while a total ...

Parliament on Monday will hold an extraordinary session to discuss the president’s referral of a law passed on December 5 to limit large cash transactions.  The plenary session is set ...

The Secret Service of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (CSSR) used its Greek Cypriot collaborators at the height of the Cold War, in the 1970s and 80s, to try and infiltrate ...

Police arrested a 57-year-old man for drink driving and damaging a police vehicle in Limassol, authorities announced on Sunday. According to police, the man was arrested at 11pm on Saturday ...

Cyprus’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomed the EU Council Conclusions on enlargement on Sunday, noting that they incorporate crucial issues for the Republic of Cyprus and that they send a ...

There is no other alternative but to end the Turkish occupation of Cyprus and reunite our homeland, pledged President Nikos Christodoulides on Saturday. In a speech at an event in ...

Three teens were injured in a fight outside a cafe in Limassol, police said on Sunday.  According to police, the teens were outside of a cafe in Limassol at around 7...

President Nikos Christodoulides said that the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Syria must be safeguarded, and hoped that countries like Turkey would not attempt to exploit the gap created by ...

Government budgets are the main instrument of economic policy that determine how resources are to be allocated and collected from various interest groups. On Wednesday, MPs voted to approve the ...

News-wise, the Great Sea Interconnector had had quite the week: first the leaking of two reports casting major doubts over the endeavour, followed almost instantaneously by the revelation that a ...

‘Niko, you can’t hide,’ protestors chanted on pro-Palestine march on Saturday afternoon. About 200 people gathered in Nicosia’s city centre to protest Israel’s actions in the Middle East ...

A 67-year-old was caught by the police on Saturday doing 196km/h on the Nicosia-Kokkinotrimithia motorway. The man was stopped just after 11am by traffic police, the force said in ...

The Middle East crisis is at the centre of a working trip Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos will be making to Israel and Palestine. Kombos leaves on Saturday and will be ...

Members of the special forces’ underwater demolition team, chief of staff lieutenant general Georgios Tsitsikostas and MEP Loucas Fourlas braved the icy water of Limassol’s sea on Saturday to “...

A group of about 15 young people caused a fire in an abandoned metalsmith’s in the early hours of Saturday, next to a building housing agricultural workers. Nobody was injured. ...

Presenting the entirety of current Chinese painting in a single exhibition is an impossible task. The 42 works by 19 artists on display here tell the personal stories of their creators through ...

The state health organisation said it would be looking into Friday’s reports regarding the embezzlement of more than €30 million for neurolysis treatments and would take action “if deemed necessary”. ...

The Fire Department responded to a total of 35 calls since Friday, 20 of which were fires. At 11.52pm on Friday, Paphos firefighters responded to a fire in a private vehicle that ...

Unficyp vehicles were still in the Frenaros-Vrysoulles buffer zone on Saturday morning, after tension escalated on Friday between peacekeepers and farmers cultivating their land. The UN filed a formal police ...

The departure of Syria’s ex-president Bashar al-Assad, “in the manner he left, cannot considered anything but a very positive development,” President Nikos Christodoulides told a gathering in Athens on ...

There are times, admits George Rotos, when he’ll run into someone he knows and pretend not to see them – not because he doesn’t want to talk to them ...