Cyprus News

Footballers’ association Pasp chairman Spyros Neofitides on Friday demanded that his association be given a cut of the income generated by taxes levied on takings by betting shops. He said ...

Minors who had caused ire among Larnaca locals earlier in the week following incidents at an elderly nursing home where they were housed, were moved overnight to other facilities, it ...

The Tashkent nature park in Vouno in the north of the island on Friday issued a call for donations to fund the newly formed “Karpasia donkeys management plan”. In a ...

Former Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos will officially unveil the new monument built to the Greek revolution of 1821 in Paphos, the town’s municipality announced on Friday. The unveiling will take ...

Bringing the Emirates into the Great Sea Interconnector (GIS) was at the centre of President Nikos Christodoulides’ trip to Abu Dhabi on Wednesday and the next few days will be ...

There is a need for a new strategic plan for blood donation, Miltos Miltiadou, president of the Pancyprian Thalassaemia Association, said on Friday, in response to messages sent to patients ...

A special guest will arrive on the island on November 21, on the occasion of the upcoming match of the Cyprus national team with the silver medalists in the recent Olympic ...

The state veterinary services announced on Friday the recall of K. Th. Nikolaou Ltd’s ‘Class A’ eggs after they were found to contain chlorates above the permissible levels. They ...

The council of ministers will on Friday discuss a proposal to fast-track legalisation of properties for which it is difficult to obtain title deeds, by securing planning amnesty for certain ...

A bureaucratic mistake rubbished a court decision to deny a migrant’s asylum application it emerged on Friday, after the Administrative Court for International Protection upheld the individual’s appeal. ...

Cypriot Twitch streamer Ahmet Sonuc, better known by his alias Jahrein, was arrested late on Thursday night in the Turkish Mediterranean city of Antalya for “obscenity”. The Antalya police headquarters ...

This Saturday, the United by Pride event will bring together the communities of the island with two parallel marches in Nicosia. The marches will begin at 6pm from Eleftheria Square ...

Two men, aged 39 and 32 years old, were arrested on Friday after being found digging a hole on the road to the St Hilarion castle in the Kyrenia district in the ...

The National Council is meeting on Friday under President Nikos Christodoulides to discuss updates and next steps ahead of the president’s departure for the UN general assembly in New ...

A cannabis haul of almost 23kg was seized in a Nicosia drug bust operation with a 29-year-old set to be brought before Nicosia District Court for the offence on Friday. ...

A motorcyclist was hospitalised in serious condition on Friday after an accident involving a car in the Mouttallos area of Paphos. According to police, the accident happened shortly before 6pm ...

A fire which broke out early on Friday in a community council vehicle in Kissonerga has been classed as arson, police said. The fire had broken out in double cab ...

A 31-year-old man was in hospital in critical condition on Friday after crashing his quadbike in Akamas. The accident happened on Thursday at around 2.45pm when, while driving on a ...

Friday will be mostly clear with clouds developing later starting in the west and of the island and spreading elsewhere. Temperatures will rise to 34C inland, 33C in the southeast ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday spoke of “progress” in talks between Nicosia and Athens regarding the Great Sea Interconnector – the mooted subsea cable connecting the electricity grids of Cyprus and ...

Turkey on Thursday condemned this week’s signing of a roadmap to boost two-way defence co-operation between the United States and the Republic of Cyprus. The US steps, including last ...

Serdal Gunduz, the 30 per cent shareholder and secretary-general of the now-infamous Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU) in Morphou, was charged with 130 more counts of fraud, document forgery, and ...

The government on Thursday said President Christodoulides currently receives a pension of just €600 a month, contradicting earlier reports that the amount comes to €1,000. Speaking to a television news network, deputy ...

Companies registered in Cyprus are part of an ongoing probe led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) into a €30 million VAT fraud and money-laundering scheme, it emerged on ...