Cyprus News

Cyprus’ Green party remains in “constructive opposition”, despite having supported Nikos Christodoulides in the last presidential election, the party’s new president Stavros Papadouris said on Monday. Papadouris, who was ...

Cyprus’ leaders “must be encouraged” to achieve a solution to the Cyprus problem, former Greek foreign minister Dimitris Avramopoulos said on Monday. Writing in newspaper Politis, he said a “sustainable ...

Last May, thousands of you read George’s story! Just 19 years of age, he was about to set off for the most gruelling top-tier bike race in the world – France’...

A bridge under construction in Kalavasos is too low, making it impossible for fire trucks to use the riverbed beneath to quickly access areas in an emergency. Fire department spokesman ...

Nurses on Monday marked International Nurses Day by saying ongoing staffing shortages are the “gangrene” of the health care system. Nurses’ union Pasyno on Monday brought renewed attention to the ...

The high-profile trial into Cyprus’ controversial citizenship-by-investment programme resumed on Monday with testimony from two key witnesses before the permanent criminal court in Nicosia. The case centres on allegations of ...

Agrometeorological services are getting an upgrade, making weather updates more frequent and immediately accessible to farmers, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Monday. The minister told a press conference that ...

A total of 315 cooperative bank properties are expected to be taken over by the state soon, however Akel is breathing down the government’s neck to support the reestablishing of ...

Civil servants are said to have made millions virtually overnight by appropriating Turkish Cypriot properties and taking advantage of the lack of supervision by the interior ministry run guardian of ...

Tensions within the Orthodox Church of Cyprus appear far from over, as yet another dispute surfaced on Monday among senior clergy, this time over the election of the new pope. ...

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 ...