Cyprus

Cyprus authorities have issued international arrest warrants for four Turkish nationals wanted in connection with the illegal development of Greek Cypriot land in the north, the mayor in exile of ...

A fire that broke out at midday on Tuesday in dry grass and wild vegetation near the highway bypass to the new Tseri roundabout spread to old vehicles and spare ...

The remands of a 52-year-old man and a 47-year-old woman who were arrested last week on suspicion of the murder of 45-year-old Yiannis Argyrou were renewed on Tuesday. The pair ...

The Public Works Department on Tuesday insisted that the bridge at Kalavasos, which the fire department on Monday said was too low for its trucks to pass under in the ...

A total of 1,300 people have called the road transport department since May 2 to complain that they are still waiting for car dealerships to make an appointment to replace their vehicle’...

Cyprus’ Eurovision 2025 entry Theo Evan will be performing at the first semi-final of the 69th Eurovision song contest at 10pm Cyprus time on Tuesday. Evan will take the stage with ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday hailed the dissolution of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), a proscribed terrorist organisation in Turkey and the European Union, which had officially announced ...

A small group of lawyers are taking on around half of the legal aid cases in Cyprus’ courts, according to a report released by the Audit Office on Tuesday. The ...

The Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) on Tuesday announced that it will continue its broad installation of smart meters in Nicosia, Larnaca, Paphos and surrounding areas throughout May. In Nicosia, ...

By Michele Kambas When Andreas G Andreou and Emre Serdar founded their window and framing company in Cyprus in 2015, they had a mission: to challenge the island’s divisions by ...

Larnaca’s district organisation (EOA) issued a total of 15 fines over the weekend to people washing pavements, roads, verandas, fences and cars with a hosepipe, it was announced on Tuesday. ...

A private education project worth over €50 million is advancing in Polemidia, Limassol, with construction preparations under way for a new school funded by the Yael Foundation. Work is expected to ...

Two people were injured in an accident on the Ayia Napa roundabout on Tuesday. Police said the accident happened at around 6.10am, when two cars on the roundabout crashed. Two ...

A car in Larnaca was completely destroyed on Tuesday by fire, which the police believe was the result of arson. The car, belonging to a 60-year-old man, was parked in ...

Larnaca district court issued a three-day remand order on Tuesday against the 17-year-old who was arrested to facilitate investigations into the torching of a car in Larnaca on April 5. The ...

No dates have been set yet for a visit by the UN chief’s personal envoy María Ángela Holguín to Cyprus, UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said late ...

Mainly fine weather is forecast for Tuesday, however in the afternoon clear skies will give way to clouds and isolated showers, with a possible thunderstorm, in the mountains, inland and ...

The Cyprus health insurance organisation (HIO) on Monday broke its silence over mounting criticism about delays in approving innovative medicines, pointing to chronic understaffing and the complex nature of pharmaceutical ...

The north’s ‘parliament’ on Monday upheld a decision to not acquiesce to a request filed by the north’s chief public prosecutor’s office to lift the immunity of ...

A 25-year-old man was arrested in Limassol on Monday over his alleged involvement in a fight which broke out in 2023 and left one of the involved parties with a fractured ...

A political ally of former Turkish Cypriot chief negotiator Kudret Ozersay was released on bail on Monday after it turned out that the signatures on documents he had allegedly forged ...

The road between Rizokarpaso and the Apostolos Andreas monastery on Cyprus’ northeastern tip will reopen in afternoon from Saturday, the north’s ‘transport ministry’ said on Monday. In a statement ...

Cyprus has taken in the sixth-highest proportion of Ukrainian refugees of any European Union member state, according to figures released by the EU’s statistical service, Eurostat. In total, there ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday evening inaugurated a new gambling addiction treatment centre in Paphos, describing it as a “space of high social and humanitarian value”. He added that it ...