Cyprus News

The first natural gas to come to Cyprus for power generation won’t be from offshore wells in the island’s exclusive economic zone but rather imports of LNG from ...

Local crime prevention councils have been created in Limassol, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said on Tuesday. He said the pilot project, implemented in Limassol since November 2024, aimed to “further strengthen ...

The loss of lives is not up for “populism or political exploitation”, the transport ministry said in a statement on Tuesday, in response to remarks by Disy deputy president Yiannis ...

Only 61 per cent of the Agency for Equal Distribution of Burdens’ budget for 2024 was spent, its chairman Akis Pouros said on Tuesday. He also told the House refugees committee that ...

The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal lodged against a court decision nullifying the election of Savvas Savva to the post of Alassa community leader, it said on Tuesday. On ...

The Football Association has agreed to a ‘significant’ pay rise for the women’s national team, reports said on Tuesday. The pay rise was agreed at a meeting held a ...

Under threat of indictment, the football clubs with the largest debts sat down with the tax commissioner on Tuesday, apparently getting a reprieve until the end of March. The one-hour ...

Police have ruled out foul play regarding the dead body found in the centre of Nicosia on Tuesday morning. A police spokesman confirmed to the Cyprus Mail that the body ...

The north’s ‘foreign ministry’ on Tuesday said the agreements signed by the Republic of Cyprus and Egypt concerning the exploitation of natural gas resources under the seabed in the ...

The issue of a commissioner for the elderly took centre stage in a meeting on Tuesday at the presidential palace between President Nikos Christodoulides and the Cyprus organisation of older ...

Trees in Cyprus can now be registered with the help of artificial intelligence. The Cyprus institute presented a new AI-registration system to support the reliable counting of trees as part ...

Young NEETs in Cyprus – those not in employment, education or training – dropped to 13.8 per cent in 2023, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said on Tuesday, reiterating the government’s aim for creating ...

Limassol municipality has postponed all carnival events scheduled for Saturday as the funerals will be held of the five family members that perished in a fire in the Ayios Nikolas ...

Cypriot actress Marina Makris was awarded as one of ten European Shooting Stars 2025 at the 75th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin on Monday night. Makris is well-known for her ...

With the carnival period just around the corner, the events calendar is filling up as revelers around the island get ready for one of the most hedonistic periods of the ...

A 24-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of stealing from his grandparents’ house. He was apprehended in Paphos after his grandparents complained on Monday that he stole items ...

Everywhere you look, it is carnival time. The biggest celebrations are, of course, in Limassol yet other cities join in the carnival fever with Sunday parades and festivities. This Thursday, ...

The north on Monday night supplied the Republic with electricity after a fault at the Dhekelia power station left the Republic unable to fulfil its own electrical needs. Electricity authority (...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday called for Europe to “operate with unity” over the war in Ukraine. Speaking via videoconference at an extraordinary informal meeting of the European People’s ...

Over 90 per cent of fires in Cyprus last year were caused by human activity, the fire service said on Tuesday. Presenting its annual report for 2024, the fire service said a ...

Nicosia district court on Tuesday ruled against any further delays in the trial of former volunteer commissioner Yiannakis Yiannaki, following a request from his defence lawyer, Thanasis Korfiotis, to withdraw ...

A 48-year-old man was on Tuesday found guilty in the north of having fatally stabbed 40-year-old Vietnamese national Dam Thi Hop 33 times. Later on Tuesday afternoon, he was sentenced to 39 ...

The cybercrime division of the police has issued a fresh warning over a surge in fraudulent SMS messages, urging the public to stay vigilant against scams targeting cryptocurrency users. According ...

Archaeologists from Leiden University and the University of Cyprus have uncovered new evidence at the Chalcolithic settlement of Palloures in Chlorakas, revealing its critical role in Cyprus’ early trade networks ...