Cyprus

Nicosia district court on Friday rejected former Volunteer Commissioner Yiannakis Yiannakis’ request to suspend his trial. Yiannakis’ defence argued that his right to a fair trial and presumption of innocence ...

A global tech outage disrupted operations in multiple industries in Cyprus and abroad on Friday, with airlines halting flights, some broadcasters off-air and everything from banking to healthcare hit by ...

Police on Friday said their intervention ensured the swift and safe transportation of an unconscious patient to the Limassol general hospital. The incident occurred on Thursday afternoon when an officer ...

Police in Paphos are investigating the death of a six-year-old girl. The girl was living with her parents, who are asylum seekers from Nigeria, and had according to Paphos police’...

Police in Paphos on Thursday evening seized a total of seven computers which they believe had been converted into illegal gambling machines. Paphos police’s assistant operations director Michalis Nikolaou ...

Polis Chrysochous mayor Yiotis Papachristofi on Thursday night met with representatives from the Paphos chamber of commerce and industry (Evep) to discuss the under-construction road between Paphos and Polis Chrysochous, ...

Turkish opposition political party CHP leader Ozgur Ozel on Thursday evening said the north is not a “baby homeland”, but in fact a “sister country”. Ozel was speaking at late ...

The met office on Friday issued a yellow weather warning for extreme high temperatures. The warning will be in effect between 11am and 4pm, with temperatures set to rise to ...

Temperatures on Friday are set to reach a whopping 42 degrees Celsius inland, making the day a veritable scorcher. Temperatures on the coasts will be slightly lower, rising only to 34 degrees ...

There are “no plastics worse than others” when it comes to cleaning beaches, especially after parties or weddings when – in the name of creating a celebratory atmosphere – poppers propel thousands ...

The government on Thursday signed an agreement granting all workers in the central government and the broader public sector a 1.5 per cent rise on their base salary – the first such ...

The independent investigation into the circumstances behind the murder of Thanasis Nicolaou will plough ahead despite the certiorari (a writ or order by which a higher court reviews a case ...

The Embassy of Palestine in Cyprus denounced on Thursday the Israeli parliament’s rejection of a Palestinian state, calling the move a rebuff to the international community. “The insistence of ...

The Turkish Cypriot police on Thursday announced they had found and seized a total of 75 kilograms of lamb meat which had been smuggled to the north from the Republic. The ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday instructed his government to explore the possibility of offering financial and psychological support to the children of missing persons. The decision came as he met ...

The government has announced seven new agricultural priorities to be delivered by 2027 under the European Union’s common agricultural policy. The priorities were unveiled by Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou on ...

Fidias Panayiotou was one of four Cypriot members of the European parliament who voted against European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen when her nomination was ratified by the European ...

Every week for the past 20 years, a group of Greek and Turkish Cypriots have gathered in a cobbled courtyard in Cyprus’s divided capital Nicosia to reminisce about the past ...

A policeman stationed in Nicosia was one of the two suspects arrested on Sunday evening for a fire that broke out on Saturday in Xyliatos area. The police said the ...

Solving the problems that exist in public hospitals is the primary goal of the health ministry, said Minister Michalis Damianos on Thursday. Damianos made these remarks from Famagusta General, part ...

Under no circumstances are there discussions for a two-state solution for Cyprus, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday. His statements to the German Press Agency (GPA) were published in a ...

I’m not a big football fan myself but I am fascinated by the way fans get worked up when their team is playing. It is obvious the adrenaline is ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday called for negotiations for a solution to the Cyprus problem to resume. Speaking during his arrival at the European Political Community summit in ...

2024 marks 50 years since the Turkish invasion, and throughout the year several events and cultural performances remember that harrowing summer of 1974 that changed the course of history for the island and ...