Cyprus

The trial of 11 suspects held responsible for deaths of 24 Turkish Cypriot children and 11 of their teachers and coaches when a hotel they were staying in collapsed began on Wednesday. The ...

In a Turkish Cypriot public figure, THEO PANAYIDES meets a doleful doer who treated politics much like a business. While dismissing the chances of Cypriots living together again, he is ...

UN Special Representative on Cyprus Colin Stewart will be meeting with both President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar ahead of departing for New York to inform the ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed Major General Erdenebat Batsuuri of Mongolia as force commander of the United National Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp). According to an announcement on Tuesday ...

The local comedy scene has picked up in the last year and although the majority of the shows are in Greek, a few pop up occasionally in English and sometimes, ...

In today’s episode, the first shipment of humanitarian aid from Cyprus and the United Kingdom for the people of Gaza arrived at Egypt’s Port Said. Meanwhile, the driver ...

Police arrested three people in Nicosia and Limassol in the wake of the latest football matches, while a teenager was injured, it emerged on Wednesday. According to the police, the ...

Two fires broke out in the early hours of Wednesday morning, in Nicosia and Paphos, destroying premises and property. In Nicosia, a supermarket on Famagusta Avenue in Aglandjia was destroyed ...

Workers at the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (Cyta) on Wednesday said they would ramp up industrial action this month, calling a 24-hour strike for January 16. The announcement was made jointly by ...

Wednesday will start off mostly cloudy in the west of the island with isolated rains expected, later spreading southeast. Temperatures will rise to 22C inland, on the south-east and east ...

Cypriot banks saw a rise in deposits and loans during November 2023, according to the Monetary and Financial Statistics report, valid as of December 2023, released by the Central Bank of Cyprus (...

Consulting and advisory firm PwC Cyprus on Tuesday released its tax guide for 2024, providing a valuable source of information on the tax framework of Cyprus for 2024. According to the announcement, ...

There are a total of 996,401 registered mobile subscribers in the north, 811,183 of which are active, according to the latest statistics released by the north’s Communications authority (BTHK). The statistics ...

The Cypriot appeals court has upheld the eight-year sentence of a 36-year-old man who raped a 20-year-old British waitress in Ayia Napa in 2019, it emerged on Tuesday. A criminal court ...

Eighteen public works projects valued at €112 million will get underway across the island this year, according to data from the Department of Public Works. These include the second phase of ...

Stiffer fines and punishments are necessary for people using poisonous agricultural products, as in the past three decades almost three dozen Griffon Vultures, a protected species, have been killed by ...

Parents have come forward to make statements against a babysitter who is currently being investigated for abusing infants, police said on Tuesday, with one allegation against her being that she ...

The military plans to beef up its air defence systems within the year, the defence minister said on Tuesday. Michalis Giorgallas was speaking to the state broadcaster about the National ...

Three men appeared in court in the north on Tuesday after being arrested on New Year’s Eve night for shooting into the sky with rifles. The trio were arrested ...

A Turkish Cypriot lawyer was arrested in Italy, it emerged on Tuesday, with reports linking the arrest to the sale of Greek Cypriot-owned property in the north. The lawyer, named ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar made clear he would not return to the negotiating table without equal sovereignty and international status for Turkish Cypriots. In his New Year’s message, ...

Conservation works will be carried out on the medieval chapel at Apostolos Andreas in Karpasia, along with further works on the exterior of the building, the Greek Cypriot co-chairman of ...

Nicosia was on Tuesday waiting for the UN to formally announce the appointment of a new envoy to Cyprus. Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis told the Cyprus News Agency that the ...

A fire in a storage area in Ayios Dhometios was extinguished a few hours after it broke out, the fire service said on Tuesday. The fire broke out at 1:22pm ...