Cyprus News

Customs agents confiscated almost 10kg of duty free nargileh tobacco during searches of vehicles in Dherynia and Ayios Dhometios on Monday. Agents at the crossing point in Dherynia pulled over ...

A rubbish lorry overturned into a field on Tuesday morning in Achelia, Paphos, due to a mechanical problem. The driver and two passengers – all foreigners – were lightly injured and taken ...

A 37-year-old British father charged over the death of his three-year-old son following a fall from a Paphos hotel window is due back in court on Tuesday morning to enter ...

Key prosecution witnesses will be testifying on Tuesday, as the trial of suspended mayor of Paphos Phedon Phedonos continues before the Paphos criminal court. The hearing, which began in late ...

For Cyprus, respect of international law is not an abstract, theoretical principle, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday evening, adding that an effective multilateral system is of particular importance for ...

Ten people were arrested overnight for illegal residence, possession of drugs and traffic offences. The police pulled over 494 vehicles and checked 641 drivers and passengers. A total of 330 reports were filed ...

Mainly fine weather can be expected on Tuesday before clouds start gathering in the afternoon, bringing isolated showers in the mountains and inland. Winds will be a southeast to southwest ...

Over 205,400 bone marrow donors are currently registered with the Karaiskakio Foundation, which has to date offered more than 1,000 transplants to patients in 36 countries, the foundation said on Monday to mark ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos and his Andorran counterpart Imma Tor Faus on Monday discussed progress in relations between Andorra and the European Union as they met on the sidelines of ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos and his Swiss counterpart Ignazio Cassis on Monday pledged to boost cooperation between Cyprus and the Alpine state when the pair met on the sidelines of ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday evening refused to rule out the prospect of developments of note occurring on the Cyprus problem this week, saying that “behind-the-scenes” meetings on the sidelines ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel on Monday promised that if his party the UBP is re-elected at the forthcoming legislative elections, it will resurrect Cyprus Turkish Airlines, which closed ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Jordanian King Abdullah II on Monday discussed the prospect of closer relations between the Hashemite kingdom and the European Union, as they met in New York ...

The fifteenth body which was pulled from the wreckage of the ferry which sank off the coast of Kyrenia last month has been identified as Mehmet Bayhan, Turkish Cypriot ‘prime ...

Cyprus and the Central African Republic established diplomatic relations on Monday, with foreign ministers Constantinos Kombos and Sylvie Baipo Temon meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly ...

The United States navy’s destroyer the USS Jason Dunham arrived at the port of Limassol on Monday, with the US embassy in Nicosia saying it had arrived for the ...

MPs on Monday pushed back hard against a government request for the release of €146,000 for a software application matching ID cards with unpaid traffic fines at checkpoints. The House finance ...

A 41-year-old woman was on Monday sentenced to 12 months in prison for causing the death of a 35-year-old motorcyclist in a 2022 road collision in Paralimni, by the Famagusta District Court. ...

Reform of the pension system will cost the state more than €800 million overall over a six-year period, the labour minister said on Monday as the government continued talks with employers ...

The court of appeal has overturned the release on bail of a man accused of domestic violence, actual bodily harm, harassment, issuing threats, and psychological violence, among other things the ...

The stretch of the highway that passes through the bases from Akrotiri to Kolossi will remain closed until lunchtime on Tuesday, the SBA authorities announced on Monday. The road closure ...

The 22-year-old woman who was stabbed multiple times at a supermarket in Nicosia last month is paralysed, Dr Burhan Nalbantoglu hospital’s chief physician Hasan Birtan said on Monday. He ...

The Breakfast for All programme has returned to kindergartens in Larnaca and Famagusta, providing free breakfast to about 3,600 children each day, the education minister said on Monday. The programme has ...

Teachers’ unions Poed, Oelmek and Oltek will protest outside the presidential palace on October 8 to protest the education ministry’s “insistence on new legislative regulations concerning the teacher appointment system”, ...