Cyprus

The energy minister on Tuesday sounded favourably disposed towards the state investing directly in a mooted subsea electricity cable linking Cyprus to Greece, but MPs pushed back citing the political ...

Health Minister Michalis Damianos was on Tuesday taken to hospital in Nicosia after feeling unwell following a trip. He is currently receiving care at Apollonio hospital and will be kept ...

Global companies such as Tesla and Samsung have shown interest in participating in Cyprus’ battery-based electricity storage system, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Tuesday. In a presentation on the ...

The government’s contract with Opap Cyprus, providing for €447 million income over 15 years, is satisfactory and to the benefit of the republic, the finance ministry said on Tuesday, while the ...

Police on Tuesday arrested a third suspect in connection with the discovery of what authorities have described as the largest weapons cache found on the island. The 42-year-old man, is ...

Employees at the Limassol state hospital pharmacy on Tuesday announced a work stoppage this week to protest severe understaffing which has left the pharmacy unable to function effectively. Pharmacists from ...

Three Cypriot newspapers, including the Cyprus Mail, featured on a list of EU media outlets that Russia’s foreign ministry on Tuesday said it was banning access to inside the ...

Cyprus is a hotspot for real estate growth, which is the focus of this weekend’s Cyprus 4.0 supplement, free with the Sunday Mail. With a booming economy, favourable investment climate, ...

A man found dead on a beach in Ayia Napa on Monday died from drowning, an autopsy showed on Tuesday. Georgios Senekkis, 57, from Dasaki Achnas died while harpoon fishing in ...

Press emphasising safety concerns for tourists after Hezbollah threats last week are “a bolt from the blue” and the only way out is to defuse the situation, the Hotel Professionals ...

The government has plans to improve the infrastructure at Pournara migrant reception centre, where “excellent work” is being done, Deputy Immigration Minister Nicholas Ioannides said on Tuesday. Speaking after his ...

Huge differences have been found in petrol retail prices around the island, some exceeding 14 cents per litre, the Cyprus consumer’s association said on Tuesday. The association published a report ...

In an era where technology and art are increasingly intertwined, visionary artist Michalis Charalambous explores the boundaries of human experience through innovative mediums. His latest collaberation, Love, Death, and Meta, ...

Turkey on Tuesday issued an anti-navtex, bringing into question the republic of Cyprus and its right to issue navtex. The anti-navtex, posted on the website of the Turkish office of ...

Larnaca’s criminal court has sentenced a 26-year-old to 11 years in prison for importing 17kg of cannabis, police said on Tuesday. The court heard that 16.752kg of cannabis had been ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is expected to meet UN envoy Maria Angela Holguin in Brussels next week, on the sidelines of the European Council, it emerged on Tuesday. Government spokesman Konstantinos ...

The Republic will not accept migrants currently in the buffer zone, immigration deputy minister Nicholas Ioannides said on Tuesday. Speaking after a visit to the Pournara migrant reception centre, Ioannides ...

The electricity authority is failing to consider the high costs burdening consumers, the head of Epopai union Kyriakos Tafounas said on Tuesday referring to delays in the upgrade of the ...

One hectare of brushland and 60 large bales of hay were burned by a fire that broke out on Tuesday morning in Aradippou, in Larnaca. The fire also damaged a property. ...

A German, living in the north, is due to the questioned on Wednesday in the Republic, regarding the usurpation of Greek Cypriot property. The German suspect, the third in a ...

A 32-year-old illegal resident was remanded for six days on Tuesday in connection with the fire that broke out on Monday in Anogyra, as authorities said children setting off fireworks ...

Police on Tuesday are appealing for information to locate Constantin Liviu Mihai, 45, from Romania. The man is wanted for an investigated case of threats of violence and aggravated assault with ...

The findings produced by investigations into the Avakoum monastery scandal will be discussed at a meeting convened for Wednesday by attorney-general George Savvides. According to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), ...

Democratic Alignment (Dipa) president and former House speaker Marios Karoyian is recovering from a heart attack and subsequent stent implantation. Karoyian, 63, was admitted to the Apollonion private hospital on Monday ...