Cyprus

Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas on Friday promised to “strengthen our deterrent power” while attending a ceremony to award ‘black berets’ to armed infantrymen in the Larnaca district village of Kornos. ...

New Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman called for a solution to the Cyprus problem “where everyone wins” and for “lasting peace” in his first speech after being sworn in, at ...

Israeli property developer Simon Aykut was on Friday sentenced to five years in prison, after having last week pled guilty to a total of 40 of the charges he faced related ...

Extensive damages were caused to the car of a 50-year-old Larnaca man when it was set fire to outside his house. Examinations at the scene discovered a flammable substance, while ...

The Lebanese government on Thursday night approved the delimitation of its maritime border with Cyprus. Thursday’s cabinet meeting was attended by both the country’s President Joseph Aoun and ...

Cypriot citizens can now apply to study at three United States military academies – West Point, the Naval Academy, and the Air Force Academy – the defence ministry announced on Friday. The ...

We’ve all asked it: “Where’s the rain?” Well, there was promise of isolated showers earlier in the week. (Did it rain where you were? It didn’t here!) ...

A 37-year-old man arrested in Larnaca late on Thursday was remanded in police custody for five days by Larnaca district court on Friday after 360 grams of crystal meth was found ...

Firefighters rescued an injured man who was trapped overnight in an overturned tractor in Psematismenos, Larnaca, the fire service said on Friday. In a post on X, fire service spokesman ...

Two men, aged 35 and 26, were arrested on Thursday afternoon in Limassol after eight kilos of cannabis were found in their possession, police said on Friday. Police watched the 35-year-old park ...

Tufan Erhurman was on Friday sworn in as Turkish Cypriot leader in a brief ceremony at the north’s ‘parliament’. The ceremony was attended by Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz ...

Deposed Paphos bishop Tychikos has been hospitalised in Athens while attempting to make his way back to Cyprus from Istanbul, where he had appealed against his dismissal at the Ecumenical ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday night called for the European Union’s climate goals to “be more realistic” after the conclusion of the day’s European Council meeting. “Many member ...

The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING) has acquired an advanced spatial transcriptomics platform for biological tissue analysis, according to an announcement released this week. The institute said that ...

Friday’s weather is expected to begin with largely clear skies, though clouds are expected to gather in the afternoon, potentially bringing with them isolated rain and brief isolated storms, ...

The Limassol municipality is to “redesign” its social policy, mayor Yiannis Armeftis said on Thursday. He said that within the next three months, his municipality “seeks to bring local government ...

A forum focusing on humanity’s shared future – covering artificial intelligence, ethics, and cultural exchange – was held on Wednesday in Nicosia. It was organised by the Embassy of the People’...

The new CEO of the company manufacturing the cable for the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) insisted on Thursday that the project is still live and that there is “no Plan ...

A new blood centre in Yeri was inaugurated by Health Minister Michael Damianos on Thursday, aiming to strengthen the country’s blood supply and improve the management of blood products. ...

Famagusta Dog Rescuers is organising its annual dog walk event this Saturday, inviting all animal-lovers. The event will fundraise for the organisation and its dogs to take care of vet ...

The House plenum on Thursday enacted the reform of the Audit Office, which bolsters the financial autonomy of the agency, tightens up the qualifications of persons appointed to the post ...

The Evagoras information system of Larnaca municipality has been fully restored after a temporary shutdown caused by technical issues linked to Microsoft, the municipality confirmed on Thursday. In an official ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy should be present at any future meeting between United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, with the ...

Cyprus and the European defence agency (EDA) are jointly preparing to host a high-level defence conference in Cyprus, the agency’s chief executive Major General Andre Denk announced on Thursday, ...