Cyprus

Ayia Napa Mayor Christos Zannettou on Friday pleaded not guilty before the Famagusta Criminal Court to charges related to the misuse of EU funds for a hotel renovation project in ...

Sirens will sound across Cyprus on July 15 and 20 as part of events to mark the anniversary of the 1974 coup and Turkish invasion, the civil defence said on Friday. On Monday, ...

Workers at public broadcaster CyBC suspended their strike action on Friday evening after being given reassurances that their dispute over pension payments will be resolved. The three trade unions which ...

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Police said on Friday that a building shot at in Limassol was an advertising agency, and not a Forex company as had initially been reported by authorities. The building was ...

A 20-year-old was arrested for going 120 km over the speed limit, police said on Friday. Police said that the man was arrested on the Limassol-Nicosia highway in the early hours ...

Police arrested a 29-year-old man suspected to be illegally residing in the Republic of Cyprus, Paphos police said on Friday. According to police, the man was found on Thursday night, ...

Paphos police arrested a 51-year-old man suspected of people smuggling, it emerged on Friday. According to police the man was found after a 46-year-old in a migrant reception centre said ...

A 4.1 Richter earthquake was felt in Cyprus on Friday morning, the European Seismological Centre said. According to the centre, the earthquake registered at 7.34am, and was felt in Limassol. In ...

The weather on Friday is expected to be mostly clear with some low cloud cover in coastal areas, the met office said. In the afternoon, isolated storms are expected in ...

A 28-year-old man arrested in connection with the murder of Demetris Andronicou, AKA ‘Demetroui’, was released on Friday after authorities learned the gangland shooting occurred on his wedding day. According ...

Cyprus, which lost 89 people to antibiotic resistance in 2020, is striving to reduce the use of the drugs in livestock farming, but there is still a long way to go. Data ...

Parliament on Thursday evening ratified an interstate agreement between Cyprus and the United States on the sharing of travelers’ information, as a prelude and precondition for the island joining the ...

After three years of debate in committee, parliament on Thursday voted through tweaks to the legislation governing the wealth declarations, or capital statements filed by state officials and Politically Exposed ...

A man was arrested Thursday morning in a village near Nicosia for the illegal possession of a massive stash of tobacco products, including over 800,000 cigarettes. The arrest came after authorities ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has received the report by his personal envoy to Cyprus and is studying it, a spokesperson for the UN chief confirmed late on Thursday. “The secretary-general ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou on Thursday took formal delivery of a cost-benefit analysis for the Great Sea Interconnector project – the mooted subsea electric cable linking Cyprus to Greece. The dossier ...

“Wish you were clean” is a phrase all too familiar for beachgoers in Cyprus, a country where clean coasts are rarer than rain. Volunteers are turning wishes into reality, however, ...

The House health committee on Thursday agreed that the law on the registration of doctors should be amended for those deciding to practice or further their education abroad. Specifically, the ...

Civil aviation employees are threatening to escalate their actions after a two-hour work stoppage failed to prompt government action on staffing issues, it emerged on Thursday. According to a statement ...

Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottides has blamed “procrastination” for the failure to recover state land illegally exploited in Paralimni for the past 39 years. In a report made public on Thursday and forwarded ...

The north’s ‘government’ was on Thursday ridiculed by environmentalists after releasing its latest beach cleanliness report. In previous years, the reports had contained data and statistics pertaining to the ...

The Mari blast was a murder that killed the hopes and dreams of the young, Popi Christoforou, mother of the twins Christos and Miltos said on Thursday during the memorial ...

The lawyers of a man arrested on suspicion of operating a pyramid scheme on Thursday hit out at the media, insisting their client is innocent and that the media had ...