Cyprus

The council of ministers will on Friday discuss a proposal to fast-track legalisation of properties for which it is difficult to obtain title deeds, by securing planning amnesty for certain ...

A bureaucratic mistake rubbished a court decision to deny a migrant’s asylum application it emerged on Friday, after the Administrative Court for International Protection upheld the individual’s appeal. ...

Cypriot Twitch streamer Ahmet Sonuc, better known by his alias Jahrein, was arrested late on Thursday night in the Turkish Mediterranean city of Antalya for “obscenity”. The Antalya police headquarters ...

This Saturday, the United by Pride event will bring together the communities of the island with two parallel marches in Nicosia. The marches will begin at 6pm from Eleftheria Square ...

Two men, aged 39 and 32 years old, were arrested on Friday after being found digging a hole on the road to the St Hilarion castle in the Kyrenia district in the ...

The National Council is meeting on Friday under President Nikos Christodoulides to discuss updates and next steps ahead of the president’s departure for the UN general assembly in New ...

A cannabis haul of almost 23kg was seized in a Nicosia drug bust operation with a 29-year-old set to be brought before Nicosia District Court for the offence on Friday. ...

A motorcyclist was hospitalised in serious condition on Friday after an accident involving a car in the Mouttallos area of Paphos. According to police, the accident happened shortly before 6pm ...

A fire which broke out early on Friday in a community council vehicle in Kissonerga has been classed as arson, police said. The fire had broken out in double cab ...

A 31-year-old man was in hospital in critical condition on Friday after crashing his quadbike in Akamas. The accident happened on Thursday at around 2.45pm when, while driving on a ...

Friday will be mostly clear with clouds developing later starting in the west and of the island and spreading elsewhere. Temperatures will rise to 34C inland, 33C in the southeast ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday spoke of “progress” in talks between Nicosia and Athens regarding the Great Sea Interconnector – the mooted subsea cable connecting the electricity grids of Cyprus and ...

Turkey on Thursday condemned this week’s signing of a roadmap to boost two-way defence co-operation between the United States and the Republic of Cyprus. The US steps, including last ...

Serdal Gunduz, the 30 per cent shareholder and secretary-general of the now-infamous Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU) in Morphou, was charged with 130 more counts of fraud, document forgery, and ...

The government on Thursday said President Christodoulides currently receives a pension of just €600 a month, contradicting earlier reports that the amount comes to €1,000. Speaking to a television news network, deputy ...

Companies registered in Cyprus are part of an ongoing probe led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) into a €30 million VAT fraud and money-laundering scheme, it emerged on ...

Seven pharmacies that have secured an interim court order and operate as they please complained on Thursday about the ruckus being caused by the pharmacists’ association clamouring to have the ...

A festival celebrating crushed green olives? Oh yes! The 53rd edition in fact is coming up in Tseri on Friday bringing a variety of traditional activities and flavours. The Crushed ...

Portacabins being used to temporarily house classrooms at Lapithos’ Yavuzlar high school have been placed on a dried-up river bed, Cyprus Turkish secondary education teachers’ union (Ktoeos) chairwoman Selma Eylem ...

Cyprus issued over 30,000 residence permits in 2023, mostly to Russians, Indians, and Nepalese individuals, a Eurostat report showed on Thursday. According to the report, Cyprus gave out 34,000 residence permits last year, ...

The Republic of Cyprus’ airports recorded their largest ever passenger numbers during the first eight months of the year. In total, exactly 8,179,421 passengers passed through Cyprus’ two airports between January ...

The Pan-Cyprian Student Co-ordinating Committee (Psem) said on Thursday that the issue of installing air conditioning in schools had become a mockery because the president and others had not fulfilled ...

Competitive shooters in Cyprus are “abandoning the sport” due to dysfunction and mismanagement among the sport’s administrators. During a meeting between athletes, coaches, parents, and sporting administrators, it was ...

Four stages, a stellar line-up of both international and local DJs, immersive art installations and visual effects and three long nights of electronic music are coming up as the BEONIX ...