Cyprus News

Cyprus was ranked 31st out of 142 countries in the World Justice Project (WJP)’s annual rule of law index. The island received a score of 0.67 out of a maximum score ...

The House plenum on Thursday greenlit a law that affords free legal aid to women who are victims of abuse and to victims of domestic violence. Under the legislation, women ...

Nasa associate administrator Jim Free on Thursday welcomed Cyprus to the Artemis Accords, a set of principles and agreements established to govern international cooperation in the exploration and use of ...

Lawmakers on Thursday passed legislation tightening up the rules on illegal and undeclared work, which among others provide for stiffer fines on employers. Under the new rules, the minister of ...

Contrary to the assertions of the presidential palace, a document leaked to the press on Thursday showed that the government has not disclosed to parliament the names of the donors ...

A new Jumbo store opened in Latsia on Thursday, spanning some 9,000 square metres across two floors. It is the second Jumbo store in the Nicosia area, the first one being ...

Diagnostic centres announced on Thursday that they will go on strike and file lawsuits against the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) in protest of planned reforms in the sector. During a ...

The Third China-Cyprus Youth Forum, held from October 22-25, 2024, marked a significant milestone in the strengthening of cultural, educational, and technological ties between the two nations. Organised by the Chinese ...

Police are searching for a man in his 60s suspected of stealing $40,000 from a currency exchange service store in Limassol through deception. According to the CID, a 54-year-old employee reported ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman on Thursday said a coup is being carried out against the north’s ‘parliament’ as the ‘government’ ploughed ahead with procedures to ...

Environment Commissioner Antonia Theodosiou on Thursday called for a ban on the construction of buildings within 100 metres of the coast. Speaking at a conference organised by the environment department, she ...

Police were mobilised on Thursday to respond to a reported “bomb threat” in a school in Nicosia. According to the Cyprus News Agency, the threat was called in to a ...

Fraud investigations into a €46 million waste treatment project have shifted to Brussels but seem to be going nowhere, as the EU, which funded the project, remains uncertain about who is ...

Sefer Bugra Altundag, the man who killed 16-year-old Zehie Helin Reessur in January last year, was found guilty on five counts in court in Trikomo on Thursday. Altundag had been ...

Police on Thursday said 11 individuals found to be residing in the Republic illegally were deported. The operation unfolded on Wednesday in Paphos between 4am and 7am. Five men and six ...

The two men accused of murdering 45-year-old Ayca Alav in Nicosia’s walled city last December were on Thursday filmed running away from court after having been taken there in ...

The government is “very close to having announcements to make” regarding Cyprus’ joining of the United States’ visa waiver programme, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday. Speaking at the morning’...

By Tom Cleaver The British bases on Thursday announced that a total of 312 blackcaps – commonly known as ‘ambelopolia’ – which had been illegally trapped, had been seized at crossing points they ...

Bee-themed walks and virtual tours are among actions promoted in mountainous Larnaca by the city’s tourism development board to highlight and enhance the unique identity of the honey villages. ...

Three men appeared in court in northern Nicosia on Thursday morning after a 24-year-old man died in a fire in an apartment block in Mia Milia in the early hours ...

Three youths have been arrested and charged in connection with a fight that took place in Larnaca on Wednesday evening. They face charges of battery, causing a public disturbance and ...

Rusen Karakaya, whose daughter Selin was one of the 24 Cypriot children killed when the Isias hotel in the southeastern Turkish city of Adiyaman collapsed during the earthquakes which hit the ...

The trial of a 43-year-old man who killed a cat and then shared a grotesque picture of the cat he had just killed to his social media is set to ...

A 16-year-old boy from Paphos is “out of danger” after suffering a laceration to his abdomen while trying to jump over a fence to leave his school on Wednesday, Paphos ...