Cyprus

An online platform for the recruitment of contract soldiers (Syop) into the National Guard to fill available or vacated positions was announced by the ministry of defence on Monday. The ...

A total of 95.2 per cent of teens who will carry out their army service as of July successfully registered through the ministry of defence’s online platform, officials confirmed on ...

A total of 110 palm trees have been planted along the seafront on Castella beach in Oroklini, the Larnaca municipality and tourist board announced on Monday. The aim is to render ...

Two boats carrying Syrian migrants to Cyprus were intercepted and returned to Syria without entering the Republic’s ports, via an agreement between the Cypriot government and the transitional Syrian ...

The UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy on Cyprus Maria Angela Holguin’s mission officially begins on Monday, May 12 and she is expected on the island later this month. President Nikos ...

A man suffered burns from a fire that broke out at his residence over the weekend was taken to the Nicosia General Hospital A&E. According to the fire ...

Monday will be hazy due to dust which is expected to gradually dissipate. The weather is forecast to be mainly dry with increased clouds developing as the day progresses, bringing ...

A mecca for climbers, hikers, geologists and nature lovers today, the Troodos mountain range is the backbone of Cyprus ever since it was formed 92 million years ago as a fragment ...

Greece’s independent transmission system operator Admie on Sunday denied that it has plans to build an electricity interconnector to the country’s Dodecanese islands rather than to Cyprus. The ...

A 15-centimetre metal dagger was found inside the car of a man who was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, the police said on Sunday. The announcement was made following ...

A total of 250 mothers who gave birth to multiple children were honoured at an event to mark Mother’s Day on Sunday. The women had either given birth to five ...

Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas on Sunday declared that Greek Cypriots will “not withdraw from the fight we are waging until justice and freedom are restored in our homeland”. Addressing an ...

Archbishop Georgios on Sunday promised continued cooperation with the new Pope Leo XIV. “We are certain that we will continue the cooperation, because for us, the institution and not the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday that he is to meet United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin before the end of May. In statements to journalists, he said Holguin’s ...

Cyprus will join the Schengen zone in 2026, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday. “We will join the Schengen zone in 2026. A huge effort is being made by the end of 2025 ...

Aglandjia’s new ‘pay anyway’ scheme is about to defeat the purpose of its flagship recycling Pay As You Throw, as aggrieved residents are trying to find ways to make ...

The police on Sunday announced the arrest of a 29-year-old man who had been found to be in possession of cocaine and ecstasy. The man was arrested at around 6pm ...

The fire brigade were on Saturday evening called to a fire which had broken out in a stack of around 300 bales of hay near the Larnaca suburb of Aradippou, fire ...

Sunday’s weather is expected to be hot once more, with a blanket of high cloud holding the heat in. Temperatures will rise to 35 degrees Celsius inland, 29 degrees Celsius on ...

It looks like Cyprus politics has taken hostage the wastewater treatment plant in Mia Milia, foiling an agreement struck 14 years ago and resulting in the discarding of virtually all of ...

Coral Bay has officially been designated a plastic-free beach, becoming the ninth beach in Cyprus and the first within the boundaries of the Akamas municipality to receive the designation. A ...

Pro-Palestinian activist Louis Allan on Saturday descended from the tree in the Nicosia suburb of Engomi, where he had spent almost a week on hunger strike to highlight the plight ...

The police fired shots during the arrest of two men who were wanted in connection with two separate crimes in Paphos on Saturday. Paphos police’s assistant operations director Michalis ...

A quiet Sunday morning, a small three-star hotel in Yermasoyia on the ‘wrong’, suburban side of the highway. A modest swimming pool, an importunate cat that jumps on our table – ...