Cyprus News

A 26-year-old man was arrested on Friday evening after driving his car at 161 kilometres per hour (100 miles per hour) on the motorway between Limassol and Paphos and then failing to ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Saturday departed Athens for New York ahead of the United Nations’ “high-level week”, where he and representatives of every other UN member state will address the ...

A fifteenth body has been recovered from the wreckage of the ferry which sank off the coast of Kyrenia last month, Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel said on Saturday. ...

Greece is aiming for the next enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem “to be a success”, the country’s President Constantine Tassoulas said, as he welcomed his Cypriot counterpart Nikos ...

A 15-year-old girl is injured but said to be “out of danger” after having fallen from the window of a third-floor flat onto a wooden pergola in the Limassol suburb ...

A funeral service was held on Friday evening for 15 missing persons, including nine children, whose remains had been recovered by the Committee on Missing Persons, at the Turkish Cypriot cemetery ...

A one-of-a-kind event is coming up, dedicated not only to furry four-legged friends but especially to Cyprus’ long-stay shelter dogs, who have patiently been waiting to find their forever home. ...

Saturday will begin with mostly clear skies across most of the island, though the weather may turn inland and in the mountains as the day goes on, with isolated rain ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) has opened a €1.13 million tender for cleaning services at its buildings, with companies invited to submit offers by October 23. The contract covers the cleaning ...

Neither diesel nor natural gas can provide a long-term answer to Cyprus’ energy needs, Cyprus Institute president Stavros Malas said on Friday, stressing the need to develop sustainable energy storage ...

The state cannot determine how much groundwater is actually pumped, according to research published on Friday by the investigative reporting network (Ciren). The research, drawing on data from the water ...

Former presidential candidate Andreas Mavroyiannis said on Friday that polls reaching him put him in first place for the 2028 presidential election, though he intends to wait until the end of ...

Cyprus’s Israeli made Barak MX air defence system will be presented publicly for the first time during the military parade marking Independence Day on October 1, Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas ...

Akel called on Friday for the justice ministry to carry out proper studies and consult with local authorities before proceeding with its decision to locate the new central prisons in ...

Direct Democracy MP Yiannis Laouris submitted a bill to parliament on Friday seeking to ban outdoor billboards and other advertisements used to campaign for foreign elections, following controversy over roadside ...

Cyprus took part in the multinational Medusa military exercise, which concluded on Friday off the coast of Crete after nine days involving forces from Greece, Egypt, France and Italy. According ...

A man already facing child sexual abuse charges was out on bail when he allegedly committed a string of new domestic violence offences against his partner. The court of appeal ...

Civil defence moved on Friday to explain its decision to send a preventive CY-Alert message over a yellow weather warning, after the nationwide notification included areas that recorded no rainfall ...

House speaker Annita Demetriou called on Friday for stronger support for Cypriot fishermen during a meeting with European Fisheries Commissioner Costas Kadis. Demetriou said she hoped the forthcoming EU policy ...

Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz on Friday quipped that “it seems we have upset some people” with his country’s plans to build a natural gas pipeline to link itself ...

Cyprus needs to strengthen skills renewal as working lives grow longer and more varied, Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas said on Friday. Speaking at the human resource development authority’s (Anad) ...

The parents of George Low, the British man who was stabbed to death in Ayia Napa in 2016, on Friday said that they have “more hope” of achieving justice for their ...

The Larnaca criminal court on Friday postponed proceedings in the case of a 77-year-old man who was allegedly subjected to pressure, threats and financial exploitation. The four defendants – two businessmen ...

The national lottery’s surplus fell to €7.2 million in 2025, down from €8.8 million the previous year, the institute’s head Angelos Efthymiou confirmed on Friday. Speaking with the Cyprus News Agency, ...