Cyprus News

A donkey died on Thursday night after being run over on the road between the Karpas peninsula villages of Leonarisso and Ayios Andronikos. According to newspaper Kibris, the donkey “suddenly ...

Turkish Cypriots’ sovereignty is “not up for negotiation”, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said in his speech to mark the 41st anniversary of the north’s unilateral declaration of independence ...

A case has been filed with the independent police complaints authority regarding a Somali woman who reported she had been mistreated and suffered racist behaviour at the hands of police ...

Efforts to gain international recognition for the north “remain without any support whatsoever”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday, the 41st anniversary of the north’s unilateral declaration of independence. ...

United States President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of State, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, is “well aware of the role of the Republic of Cyprus”, President Nikos Christodoulides said ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday said he would be ready to hold meetings with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar regarding the opening of new crossing points as early as next ...

Kalopanayiotis and Pissouri were on Friday rated as top tourist villages in an annual list published by the World Tourism Organisation (WTO). The initiative was launched in 2021 to promote tourism ...

A 46-year-old man was sentenced to 41 weeks imprisonment in Dhekelia after being found guilty of Grievous Bodily Harm (GBH), the British Bases announced on Friday morning. He was arrested on ...

Friday marks 41 years since the illegal declaration of the north of Cyprus as a separate republic. The declaration of the occupied areas as the ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus’ (TRNC) ...

Efforts are ongoing by the ministry of labour on Friday to bridge the gap between the concrete workers’ and employer demands, as entering into a third week of strikes looms. ...

Paphos police arrested two men overnight following a chase which saw shots fired by officers, in a drugs and dangerous driving case. According to police, officers at 9pm intercepted suspicious ...

Friday will be mostly sunny with a chance of afternoon showers and isolated thunderstorms in the mountains, the south and inland. Temperatures will rise to 25C in the interior and ...

The European Union is “closely monitoring” the waste management situation in Cyprus, European Commission Director-General for the Environment Aurel Ciobanu-Dordea said in a letter published on Thursday. He referred to ...

The national strategy for the prevention and management of violence in schools for the period 2024–2028 is human centred and scientifically backed, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said, following cabinet’s approval ...

Former House president Yiannakis Omirou called Greece’s recently declassified intelligence documents from the 1974 coup and subsequent Turkish invasion in Cyprus an important contribution to uncovering further details of what ...

The cabinet on Thursday greenlit an additional €109 million in spending for the finance ministry for fiscal year 2024, with Finance Minister Makis Keravnos saying the overall budget would remain balanced despite ...

The government pledged Thursday to tighten up procedures for granting state land intended for the construction of solar parks, aiming to make these practices “more transparent and meritocratic”. In a ...

President Nikos Christodoulides received an allowance for living abroad while he was in fact in Cyprus, it emerged on Thursday, as the matter was discussed at the House audit committee. ...

The European Commission has initiated two new procedures against Cyprus regarding water management and the submission of updated national energy and climate plans. The Commission issued a formal notice to ...

The prisons department found drugs in the possession of an inmate on Thursday after he had received a scheduled visit. The drugs were confiscated and handed over to the police ...

The Larnaca criminal court on Thursday sentenced two men, aged 38 and 27, to eight and nine years in prison respectively on charges of drug possession. According to a police statement, the ...

Any asylum seeker who commits a crime will have their subsidiary protection status revoked, Deputy Minister of Migration Nicholas Ioannides announced on Thursday. His statements were made after a Cabinet ...

The ‘Thermokitida Agapis’ association on Wednesday thanked the Ygeia polyclinic in Limassol for its contribution towards the purchase of two mobile rescue units valued at €40,000, now handed over to the ...

About 650 state hospital doctors, set to receive €19.1 million over and above their salaries, overtime and allowances, to keep up financially with their private sector peers, are to go on strike ...