Cyprus News

Civil defence sirens sounded in the Paphos district village of Kissonerga in the early hours of Saturday morning due to a malfunction. The sirens began wailing at 12.40am, though, as ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Saturday called on both Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to put an “immediate end” to “actions which may lead to ...

The Paphos district tourism development and promotion company (Etap) has installed a total of 18 “smart signs” for tourists across the district, it announced on Saturday. The signs have been placed ...

A mob of 10 people reportedly attacked three men who were exiting a mosque in Paphos on September 6, with one man remanded in custody on Saturday. The three men, a father ...

Cyprus is in “advanced consultations” with the United Arab Emirates regarding the establishment of a joint company to participate in the share capital of the Great Sea Interconnector, President Nikos ...

A firecracker exploded outside a residential garage in Limassol in the early hours of Saturday morning. The explosion caused no damage, and the fire was extinguished by the garage’s ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will travel to New York on Saturday ahead of the United Nations General Assembly. He is set to give his speech to the general assembly on Wednesday, ...

A group cycling event is coming to Aradippou as part of the European Mobility Week. The Youth and Sports Committee of Aradippou Municipality organises a series of events this year ...

Kids do it constantly, at least till they become jaded teenagers. ‘Look!’ they’ll exclaim, ‘A dog!’, pointing at a rocky protuberance (that does look a bit like a dog’...

Saturday’s weather is set to be partly cloudy across the island, with isolated rain falling in different parts of the island in different parts of the day. The coasts ...

Strengthening energy cooperation between the Med9 countries and promoting green energy will be the focus of next week’s ministerial meeting in Larnaca, which was expected to promote peace and ...

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is closely monitoring developments over the Vasiliko liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal, which is currently under investigation for misappropriation of EU funds and corruption. EIB ...

The UBP, the largest political party in the north, will decide who its leader will be at its party conference on Saturday. The party’s 21,000 members will be able to ...

A 16-year-old boy died in a motorcycle crash in the Limassol district village of Pano Polemidia on Friday afternoon. The boy, named as Charalambos Pissarides, was riding the motorcycle through ...

Attorney-General George Savvides on Friday issued a warning to those decrying the Supreme Constitutional Court’s decision to fire the now former Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides. Speaking to television channel Alpha, ...

The government has €454 million of funding available for Cyprus’ farmers through the European Union’s common agricultural policy, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Friday. Speaking at the opening of ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Friday telephoned Panathinaikos basketball coach Ergin Ataman. The call came days after Ataman had reacted with upset to a banner reading ‘50 years of illegal ...

Cabinet on Friday approved the state budget for 2025 and the government’s medium-term fiscal framework for the three years between 2025 and 2027. Speaking after the day’s cabinet meeting, Finance Minister ...

The Cyprus Football Association (CFA) and the island’s football clubs on Friday insisted they are on the right track with regards to the policies they have undertaken to ensure ...

The Paphos district government on Friday announced that it would begin to remove billboards from the district’s main roads. It said it had taken the decision to “immediately remove ...

Cyprus’ electricity regulatory authority (Cera) on Friday approved cabinet’s decision over the future of the Great Sea Interconnector project, adopting the requests of Greece’s Independent Power Transmission Operator (...

No significant progress is expected in the case against the monks involved in the Osiou Avakoum monastery in the coming days, it emerged on Friday. The church court case is ...

The Republic of Cyprus and the north both expressed overall satisfaction with the Council of Europe’s committee of ministers’ decisions regarding developments related to the use of and compensation ...

Loans reaching a total of €125 million for Tepak facilities in Limassol and Paphos were signed on Friday between the finance ministry, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and Tepak. One loan ...