Cyprus

Evening prayers will be read on Sunday at 6pm in the church of Ayios Mamas in Morphou, where the recently-recovered icon of the Akanthou village saviour saint is temporarily being ...

Police in Paphos have arrested two boys, aged 14 and 16, to facilitate investigations into a case of theft. Paphos police said a 41-year-old permanent resident of Cyprus reported that on July 29 ...

Three people have been arrested for illegally working and residing in Cyprus, while their 70-year-old employer has been charged. Acting on a tip-off, Paphos police investigated a pizza parlour in ...

Two passengers, aged 50 and 44, who were smoking during a flight and drinking booze they had brought onto the plane in their luggage, were handed suspended prison sentences of four months ...

Police have arrested a sixth suspect in the context of ongoing investigations into the assault and serious injuring of a 17-year-old on August 24 in Protaras. The sixth person, a 17-year-old, ...

Isolated showers can be expected on Thursday, mainly in the mountains and possibly in the eastern part of the island. Seasonal low pressure is affecting the area, with temperatures on ...

Five high-profile court cases are set to dominate the headlines in the upcoming weeks, ranging from the contentious golden passports trial, the fate of the auditor-general’s job and Thanasis ...

There are “projects” in the pipeline over the maintenance and restoration of the historic Saint Phanourios cave near the Kyrenia district village of Ayios Georgios, the bicommunal Technical Committee on ...

A man who was arrested on Sunday after having handed himself in to the Turkish Cypriot police after he illegally crossed from the Republic to the north was jailed for ...

A total of 100 people who were revealed to have been living in squalor in a camp near Morphou filed reports to the Turkish Cypriot police that they had been trafficked, ...

The government is “examining the possibility” of declassifying Cyprus’ energy market from its current status as “emergent”, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Wednesday. Cyprus’ energy market is currently classified ...

Cyprus’ authorities “have not seen” the financing plan for the Great Sea Interconnector project, the finance ministry’s permanent secretary George Panteli said on Wednesday. Speaking at an extraordinary meeting ...

By Tom Cleaver The north’s electricity authority Kib-Tek paid the Republic’s electricity authority (EAC) a total of $2 million (€1.8m) for the supply of electricity during the month of ...

A total of 132 chickens were killed after being attacked by dogs in a chicken coop near Lapithos, the Turkish Cypriot police announced on Wednesday. The incident took place at around 7.30...

Two people were arrested at Larnaca airport on Wednesday after customs department officers found significant quantities of contraband tobacco in their luggage. In the first incident, customs officers inspected the ...

A fire under control in Akrotiri on Wednesday, after three firefighting aircraft battled the flames. Fire trucks from the British bases and forestry department were also deployed to the scene, ...

Designated users of Turkish Cypriot properties on Mackenzie beach, Larnaca protested outside the interior ministry on Wednesday over plans by the government to sign contracts with people subletting their properties. ...

A meeting of the House energy and commerce committee which focused on the latest developments regarding travel arrangements to and from the north was controversially held behind closed doors on ...

The interior ministry is examining proposals on how to prevent illegalities in under-construction buildings, a responsibility handed over to the newly formed district self-governance organisations. Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou met ...

By Michael Pelosiand Emilios Charalambous With the rapid technological progress that is taking place, EU legislators have been actively trying to keep up and enhance the regulatory provisions in the ...

Communities in the Vasiliko area are outraged over the environment department’s approval for the construction of an asphalt plant in their area, it was reported on Wednesday. The plant, ...

Police on Wednesday announced the arrest for sexual crimes of the 64-year-old man involved in the Limassol investigation, which had started off last week with the man reporting to authorities ...

Petra tou Romiou, the mythological birthplace of Aphrodite, is an “environmentally and culturally rich area” and it should not be developed in the name of unrestrained enrichment, the Cyprus Greens ...

A 25-year-old man has been arrested in relation to a punch-up in Larnaca, which sent three to hospital, one of whom is intubated and in critical condition. Police obtained a ...