Cyprus

Far-right British fugitive Tommy Robinson is currently on holiday in Cyprus, staying at a holiday village near Cape Greco. Robinson, a former member of the fascist British National Party and ...

The newly formed municipality of East Paphos has requested its name be officially changed to Municipality of Ierokipia, it emerged on Monday. “We want to preserve the historical identity of ...

The first phase of the Nicosia ring road is to set be officially completed and handed over on Thursday, the public works department said on Monday. Deputy director of the ...

Police in Paphos over the weekend arrested of a 33-year-old man for threatening and assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, and driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs. According ...

The Paphos district court on Saturday issued a five-day remand for a 45-year-old woman for a case of theft of thousands of euros worth from a department store in Paphos. ...

Monday will be mostly clear with some low clouds on the coasts and a chance of brief afternoon showers in the mountains. Temperatures will rise to 38C in the interior, 32...

The Olympic spotlight on Monday is turned the final of the horizontal bar in which Cypriot gymnast, Marios Georgiou, is taking part. Georgiou qualified for the horizontal bar final on ...

Police on Monday are treating a stabbing incident in Limassol overnight as attempted murder, after a 29-year-old man was seriously wounded with a knife. According to the police, the incident ...

A memorial service was held on Sunday at Kykkos Monastery for Archbishop Makarios III, the first President of the Republic of Cyprus, who passed away on August 3, 1977. The service was ...

Mathiatis may not be the centre of the universe, but it is certainly considered to be the ‘centre of balance’ in Cyprus, and that’s not just according to local ...

Fishermen are to be offered increased support to cull the population of the venomous silver-cheeked toadfish, a type of pufferfish from the Indo-Pacific region, the fisheries department announced this week. ...

Two men were remanded for eight-days by the Limassol District Court on Sunday in an ongoing drugs investigation. The two men, 31 and 26, were arrested on Saturday after police drug squad ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday that there would be no cover-up in the ongoing investigations related to the Vasiliko LNG case. The president was replying to journalists’ questions after ...

Police arrested the mother, 21, of a 3-month-old baby that died in Nicosia General last week from malnourishment and neglect. The woman, who had been abroad, was arrested on Saturday night ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s refusal to attend a UN meeting would show contempt towards the international body and the Turkish Cypriot people, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday. ...

“Any person having in his possession, custody, control or disposition any sponge, knowing that it has been taken in contravention of this Law, shall be liable to a fine not ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar denied on Sunday receiving an invite to meet with the UN and said he would not accept even if there was. Tatar said that that ...

The government hopes that Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar will accept a UN proposal to hold a tripartite meeting on August 13, spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis. President Nikos Christodoulides already accepted the ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Sunday that there is a need to adjust policies as Cyprus is possibly its worst drought and heatwave in years. In an interview with ...

Earlier this week, the fear that journalists could be jailed for what they wrote was very real and Thursday’s decision to review the proposed ‘fake news’ bill has only ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Saturday night announced he had accepted an invitation from United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to attend a tripartite meeting with him and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin ...

Another person was rescued on Saturday by the Search and Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) after getting into distress after jumping into the sea at the Sea Caves in Cape Greco. ...

The search and rescue coordination centres of Cyprus and Lebanon have signed a technical arrangement for cooperation, “strengthening the Republic’s efforts to become a crossroads of humanitarian operations to ...

Cyprus star Pavlos Kontides has climbed to third place in sailing’s Men’s Laser class (ILCA 7) on the discipline’s third day, just two points behind the sailor in ...