Cyprus News

Shots were fired outside a coffeeshop in Yiolou, Paphos, in the early hours of Saturday, damaging a window and a car windshield. No one was reported to be hurt. Police ...

Mainly fine weather is forecast for Saturday, as low pressure is affecting the region. Winds will start off a variable gentle breeze, 3 Beaufort, before gradually becoming southwest to northwest, a ...

Renovation work at the Mia Milia bicommunal sewage treatment plant “will not harm birds”, the Nicosia Turkish Municipality (LTB) said on Friday. Concerns had been raised that the lagoons where ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday had a working lunch with the five permanent UN Security Council members in New York where they discussed growing concerns over the region, as well ...

Both foreign and Cypriot investors have shown interest in the Larnaca port project, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeadis said on Friday, urging Cypriots to enter the bidding process. In statements after ...

Island states in the EU face a unique set of challenges where migration is concerned and the EU should take these into account when shaping its policy, Deputy Minister of ...

Nicosia has a “special symbolism” for Cyprus’ forthcoming presidency of the European Council, European Affairs Deputy Minister Marilena Raouna said on Friday. Speaking after a meeting with Nicosia mayor Charalambos ...

The convict with a life sentence who managed to slip away from police is armed, unlikely to give himself in and has a plan to travel to Colombia via the ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Friday offered the Famagusta port to be used to transport humanitarian aid from Cyprus to Gaza. Speaking to the Anadolu Agency, he said the ...

Environment Commissioner Antonia Theodosiou on Friday put forward a list of suggestions which the town planning authority could utilise to ensure the alleged “illegal house” being built near the Kryos ...

The customs department on Friday announced that large quantities of food which had been produced in Turkey had been seized at the Ayios Dhometios crossing point from cars driving from ...

Over €17 million in state aid was provided to voluntary organisations in 2023, Deputy Social Welfare Minister Marilena Evangelou said on Friday, while outlining actions and policies aimed at supporting children, the ...

The four-person Greek Cypriot delegation and the two-person Turkish Cypriot delegation will both travel to Strasburg to attend the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s next session next ...

Cyprus, as the 2024 president of the Med9 group of Mediterranean EU countries, is focusing on transforming the Mediterranean into a green energy corridor, according to Energy Minister George Papanastasiou. Addressing ...

The trial of Turkish Cypriot journalist Ali Kismir, who faces up to ten years in prison for “insulting” the Turkish Cypriot armed forces, was postponed again on Friday. Friday’s ...

A 34-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the investigation of a mobile phone theft worth approximately €1,000 from an electronics store in Paralimni. According to Famagusta police spokesman Steve ...

Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades on Friday highlighted the need for collaboration between ministries and district self-governance organisations (Eoa) to coordinate efforts in resolving various issues, for the benefit of the ...

A 61-year-old European citizen has been remanded for seven days, pending investigations into the usurpation of Greek Cypriot property in the north. Police spokesman Christos Andreou told the Cyprus News ...

The trial of Israeli property developer Simon Mistriel Aykut, who is accused of having developed and sold €43 million worth of property on Greek Cypriot land in the north, was adjourned ...

The Green Party has raised concerns about the government’s decision to eliminate relief measures, such as electricity subsidies and reduced VAT on essential goods, starting in October, amidst high ...

Pensioners are subject to “unbearable” car insurance premiums and face other discrimination based on their age, civil servants’ trade union Pasydy said on Friday. As well as the issue of ...

Swiss national Pierre Gentile on Friday began his duties as the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP)’s third member. Gentile succeeds his compatriot Paul-Henri Arni, who left the role at ...

The court case regarding the two monks who were found with €800,000 of unexplained cash and having allegedly engaged in sexual acts with one another at the Osiou Avakoum monastery was ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Thursday held a tripartite meeting with his Greek and Jordanian counterparts Giorgos Gerapetritis and Ayman Safadi in New York. The foreign ministry said that at ...