Cyprus News

A 57-year-old man was found dead in the early hours of Monday after falling from his balcony. According to a police statement, the incident occurred at around 12.40am, when the ...

A man was issued a fine of 33,926TL (€886) in Kioneli after being filmed throwing sunflower seed shells out of his car’s window. The man had been filmed while waiting ...

Sofronis Avgousti was announced on Monday as Cyprus’ new men’s national football team manager. He signed a two-year contract, which will see him remain in post until November 2026. His ...

The customs department on Monday said that it had made “significant seizures at Larnaca and Paphos airports” between September 27 and 29. According to a statement released by the department, customs officials ...

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 56-year-old woman in a road traffic accident on Monday morning. The woman was driving a car on the motorway between ...

Ambassadors from Arab countries in Cyprus held an “emergency meeting” on Monday morning to discuss a joint plan of action to support Palestine and Lebanon. The meeting was announced by ...

Think like a tourist for a moment. What’s a Cyprus must-see? What’s the one site or place or attraction you’d recommend any visitor should not miss? Depending ...

Cyprus is at its “maximum state of readiness” for a potential evacuation of European Union and third country nationals from Lebanon, foreign ministry spokesman Theodoros Gotsis said on Monday. Gotsis ...

Prison guards on Monday staged a spontaneous protest in front of the Central Prisons, following the dismissal of the acting director of prisons Charalambos Philippides. Speaking to the media, the ...

First lady Philippa Karsera Christodoulides is on Wednesday set to begin work as the foreign ministry’s director of consular affairs, according to reports. Newspaper Phileleftheros wrote that Karsera had ...

On May 26, 1897, Irish author Bram Stoker unknowingly gave birth to a whole genre of literature and art, when he published Dracula. While the nocturnal, blood-feeding monster that served as his ...

Convicted escaped murderer, 42-year-old Doros Theofanous, was back at the Central Prisons in an isolation cell on Monday. The convicted double murderer was returned to prison shortly after 11am while ...

The government expects the police force to come up with a “roadmap” for improvements after its two chief officers were fired, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Monday. The police ...

An overwhelming 98.9 per cent of passengers in July and 97.8 per cent in August were processed through security checks at Cyprus airports in less than ten minutes, the transport ministry said ...

Power was restored to villages in the Famagusta and Larnaca districts after a fault at the Dhekelia substation caused power cuts in the region, transmission system operator (TSO) spokeswoman Chara ...

Greek and European basketball legend Dimitrios Papanikolaou is in Cyprus ahead of the Cyprus Basketball Federation’s (CBF) annual awards ceremony, scheduled for Monday evening at the Royal Hall in ...

Akel on Monday lambasted governments past and present over the state of Cyprus’ police in the wake of President Nikos Christodoulides’ decision to sack the chief of police, his deputy, ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Monday morning announced that he had agreed to attend an “informal dinner” with President Nikos Christodoulides and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Tatar was ...

Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou begins an official two-day visit to Cyprus on Monday, ahead of independence day celebrations. Sakellaropoulou will meet President Nikos Christodoulides shortly after 5pm at the Presidential ...

Monday will see locally increased clouds at times bringing a chance of isolated showers, mainly in the west and north and later in the east. Temperatures will rise to 32C ...

Arriving back in Cyprus on Sunday night, President Nikos Christodoulides fired the police chief and the deputy director of prisons. The move follows the escape last week – and subsequent arrest ...

Police on Sunday afternoon arrested the convicted murderer who has been on the run since Thursday after he was spotted on the Limassol sea front. He was arrested at around 5.30...

Volunteering at a dog shelter is easy, fun and a wholesome experience for everyone. All you need is a love for dogs and an hour to spare. A group of ...

The lifting of a US arms embargo against Cyprus for another year has been branded a “grave mistake” by the Turkish foreign ministry, it emerged on Sunday. The Turkish Foreign ...