Cyprus

The European Commission on Thursday approved the disbursement of over €1 billion to Cyprus as part of its Security Action for Europe (Safe) programme. In total, Cyprus will receive exactly €1,181,503,924, while 18 ...

Cypriot members of the European parliament on Tuesday addressed the chamber in Strasbourg for the first time since the wildfire which tore through the Limassol district and killed two people ...

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis on Tuesday denied that his father-in-law is the subject of the European public prosecutor’s office (EPPO) investigation into the Great Sea Interconnector project, which ...

The Supreme Court has rejected an application by a prison warden, who is a suspect in an ongoing criminal case, to annul a previous court order authorising the seizure of ...

Former House president Demetris Syllouris will not take the stand in the ongoing golden passports trial against him, his lawyer Chris Triantafyllides told the Nicosia criminal court on Tuesday. Instead, ...

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis on Tuesday said there are “manifest interests” working to ensure that the Great Sea Interconnector will never be constructed. The project, if completed, will connect ...

Israel remains committed to the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), an Israeli government official told local media on Tuesday, amid apparent discord between Cyprus and Greece over the mammoth project. An ...

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on Tuesday thanked Cyprus for the humanitarian aid sent in August and called on the member states to take further action, during a ...

Five prosecution witnesses testified about land in the north developed by Israeli property developer Simon Aykut as his trial continued on Tuesday. One of the five is a land registry ...

Cyprus recorded an alarming increase of 52.4 per cent in greenhouse gas emissions between 1999 and 2023, while the rest of the EU recorded notable decreases, newly released Eurostat data shows. And Green ...

Waste collection will take place overnight on Friday, along the Nicosia-Limassol highway from Skarinou to Germasogeia, the Department of Public Works announced on Tuesday, which it said will affect those ...

A security guard was hospitalised with burns to the face after a group of young men reportedly attacked him with a gas cylinder at a primary school in Ypsonas on ...

The government is committed to implementing pension reform, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday. “One of the greatest needs in our country is to reform a state still operating with ...

A series of finance ministry discrepancies were highlighted on Tuesday by the Audit Office, including the delayed return of close to €9 million by the Cyprus Investment Promotion Agency and the ...

The Cost of Living allowance (CoLA) must be modernised so that it responds to society’s needs, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said on Tuesday, as the island braces for a ...

One of the suspects in the ongoing case of attempted murder and arson in Pyla was on Tuesday remanded for six days by the Nicosia district court over a different ...

The Union of Cyprus Journalists (ESK) on Tuesday called for both members and non-members to participate in the three-hour work stoppage as part of Thursday’s general strike, calling it ...

Two separate fires broke out in Larnaca on Monday night, causing extensive damage to two houses, the fire brigade said on Tuesday. The first incident occurred at 11.16pm in a ...

A house fire broke out on Tuesday morning in the Kiti area of Larnaca, causing extensive damage to the home, the fire brigade said in a statement. The blaze started ...

A vehicle fire that broke out in Ayios Dometios, in Nicosia, early Tuesday morning is believed to have been set deliberately, police said. Police received a report of the incident ...

A fire that broke out in Limassol in the early hours of Tuesday has caused extensive damage to a vehicle parked outside its owner’s home. According to the police, ...

The weather will remain mostly clear on Tuesday with temperatures ranging from 34 degrees Celsius inland to around 30 degrees on the west and south-west coast, 31 degrees in the remaining coastal areas ...

A Turkish Cypriot lost his leg after his house was struck by a missile fired by the Israeli military in Gaza, his family said on Monday. His aunt Eleen Abuzannad ...

Paphos district governors Charalambos Pittokopitis on Monday expressed his optimism about the water supply in the area, emphasising that water supply cuts for households or businesses were highly unlikely. “We ...