Cyprus News

September arrives with a packed cultural calendar and with more live music nights than we can count! Renowned musicians from the Greek pop and rock scene, international jazz and opera ...

Five days into our climb of Mount Kilimanjaro, shortly after midnight on June 15, 2026, under a sky ablaze with stars and thinning air, Karim Tabet, my fellow climber from Lebanon, our ...

The application platform for emergency financial support for the families of the dead and missing from the Kyrenia ferry sinking is now open, the Stelios Foundation said o Sunday. “We ...

Three men were further remanded in police custody on Sunday on suspicion of being involved in a conspiracy to commit murder and participating in a criminal organisation. They were initially ...

Farmers and residents of the Chrysochous valley warned on Sunday they will proceed with with pubic measures over the interruption of irrigation and the serious consequences that such a development ...

The number of unaccompanied minor migrants in Cyprus has decreased to less than 350, from about 1,100 who were the responsibility of the social welfare services before the establishment of the deputy ...

Cyprus remains one of the countries considered by Israel to be of the lowest risk level, without a special travel warning, a new assessment by Israel’s National Security Council ...

Greece’s €3 billion Achilles Shield deal with Israel is expected to significantly strengthen the country’s ability to protect itself against drones, aircraft, cruise and ballistic missiles, but experts caution ...

The maintenance and upgrading of the GSP stadium’s facilities, the creation of new sources of income and the reorganisation of the athletics department are the three main priorities for ...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Sunday praised the “deep friendship” between Italy and Cyprus, responding to congratulations by President Nikos Christodoulides for her becoming as the longest-serving leader of ...

A bill to establish minimum wages is set to be forwarded to the House by the end of the year, Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas said on Sunday. In response to ...

An additional 17,000 families stand to get child benefit, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday, announcing an increase in both the amount of the benefit and the income limits. “The maximum ...

The proposal to purchase an armoured presidential limousine was based on technocratic criteria, after assessing the needs and condition of existing official vehicles, government sources said late on Saturday. The ...

President Nikos Christodoulides’ meeting with European Council President Antonio Costa on Friday, followed by his call for a political decision on Cyprus’ Schengen bid “as soon as possible”, has placed ...

A strong police presence was out over Saturday night across the island with the aim of preventing serious crime and maintaining public order, the force said on Sunday. A total ...

The day will be mostly sunny on Sunday although clouds are likely to develop in the afternoon with temperatures showing a slight rise. Wind will also pick up in the ...

More than 25 years after the stadium closed and 15 years after plans were drawn up for its redevelopment, the broad concrete terraces and stark steelwork of the old GSP stand like ...

Sofia Christodoulou Makri has been elected the new president of Edek, securing 53.5 per cent of the vote in the party’s leadership election on Saturday. According to the official results ...

A single person remains in hospital six days after a passenger ferry sank off the coast of Kyrenia, Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel said on Sunday, confirming that 131 of ...

US ambassador-designate John Breslow has arrived in Cyprus to take up his post, becoming the first non-career political appointee to serve as Washington’s ambassador to the island. In a ...

UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy for Cyprus Maria Angela Holguin has cancelled her planned visit to the island on September 10 for health reasons, according to reports on Saturday. Sources told ...

A 61-year-old man in Paphos has lost more than €77,600 after falling victim to two linked cryptocurrency scams, police said on Saturday. According to a complaint filed with Paphos CID, the ...

Miriam Erne is in what might be called a transitional phase. At 36, “I have lived through some stuff,” she says – vivid stuff and sometimes terrible stuff, images she’ll carry ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday denied all knowledge of plans to purchase a new armoured limousine, costing €595,000, for his use, accusing someone in parliament of deliberately leaking the information ...