Cyprus

The wedding venue at Prophet Elias church in Protaras has undergone an upgrade, the Paralimni-Dheryneia municipality said on Monday. “We aim to create an elegant and functional environment that will ...

House president Annita Demetriou on Monday reacted to online criticism of the rendition of the Greek national anthem at Saturday’s basketball match between the national teams of Greece and ...

An American national by the name of Andrew Smith was named as a tourism ambassador of Ayia Napa after making 100 visits to the town in the last 40 years, the Ayia ...

Ayia Napa and Greece’s Alexandroupoli have been twinned, the Ayia Napa municipality announced on Monday. It said Alexandroupoli mayor Ioannis Zamboukis had visited Ayia Napa over the weekend, and ...

A 37-year-old man and a 39-year-old woman were arrested in Limassol after allegedly attacking a man and causing grievous bodily harm, the police said on Monday. The attack reportedly took ...

A fire broke out in the early hours of Monday morning in an “abandoned wooden structure” in a field in the Limassol district village of Kolossi, the police said. The ...

While northern Europe is seeing the leaves change from green to gold (and the first snow has already fallen over the UK!), we’re still very much enjoying halcyon days. ...

The deposed Paphos bishop Tychikos has still not received an official invite to appeal against his dismissal at the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, his lawyer Evangelia Poulla said on Monday. ...

The number of people registered to vote in the north was exactly 217,056 as of the end of July, Turkish Cypriot supreme court chief justice Bertan Ozerdag said. That figure is ...

Paphos deputy mayor Angelos Onisiforou called for action to be taken over a “serious staff shortage” at the town’s airport. Speaking to local news website Pafosnet, he said the ...

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis said he is “satisfied and proud” with progress made on the Cyprus problem in recent months. “The efforts made by the Greek foreign ministry at ...

The north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel questioned in a statement released on the occasion of World Peace Day whether Akel would still exist if Turkey had not invaded Cyprus ...

The European Commission should ask why the Great Sea Interconnector has not been completed, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said. Speaking to newspaper Kathimerini, he made reference for the second time ...

Monday’s weather is expected to be warm and clear throughout the day, with temperatures set to rise to 38 degrees Celsius inland, 32 degrees Celsius on the west and southwest coasts, 34 ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin’s planned visit to Cyprus on Monday was postponed. The postponement was confirmed to the Cyprus Mail by UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus spokesman ...

Police arrested a 55-year-old man on August 31, in connection with a series of burglaries and thefts in Famagusta district. According to the police communication branch, testimony linked the man to ...

The Deputy Minister for European Affairs, Marilena Raouna, travels to Copenhagen on Sunday to attend the Informal Council of Ministers responsible for European Affairs of the European Union (EU), organized ...

The parents of 33-year-old Yiannis Lambitsis have appealed to President Nikos Christodoulides for immediate action to release the findings of the investigation into their son’s death at Nicosia general ...

Happening for the very first time this September is the Days of Ceramic Art and Clay event in Ayia Napa. Organised by the municipality in collaboration with the Association of ...

There’s never a good time to be stranded in your car, and definitely not when it’s 43 degrees Celsius on an August afternoon. Worse still is when you have ...

Elizabeth Thorneycroft saved more than 20 cats from last month’s blaze in Malia. In its aftermath, she initially managed to feed them partly with donated animal food, but now supplies ...

The Association of Unaccompanied Children Hosted in Greece 1974-1979 has issued a statement clarifying its position following recent public discussions. The organisation stressed it operates solely on the basis of ...

A small forest fire in the community of Pera Orini, in Nicosia district, was brought under full control early on Sunday. The forestry department of the ministry of agriculture said ...

The Speaker of the House, Annita Demetriou, on Saturday called for Cyprus to use its European Union membership to create a framework for pressuring Ankara. She said this would make ...