Cyprus News

The Supreme Court will on October 14 start deliberations on whether a murder ruling over the death of national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou will be annulled following a motion filed by former ...

It is (still) festival season and Cyprus’ villages and rural areas are busy celebrating local life, culture and seasonal produce. An upcoming one-day festival places the spotlight on a beloved ...

Combining his Mediterranean roots with the influence of Japanese aesthetics and philosophy, Ioannis (Giannis) Aristotelous is a Greek Cypriot artist making waves in Japan’s contemporary art scene. Based in ...

A group of migrants who attempted to travel from Cyprus to Italy early on Tuesday morning were intercepted by authorities off the coast of Akrotiri. At around 3.30am, a coast ...

A 27-year-old man from Paphos was arrested on Monday after having allegedly been hunting birds in an area where hunting is prohibited. Paphos police’s assistant operations director Michalis Nikolaou ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will travel to the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday to meet the country’s President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The pair will discuss matters including ...

Our Rugby Europe XV Conference 2024-2025 season fixtures are here. We’re hosting Andorra for our only home game in April, and we’re also taking on Malta and (hopefully) ...

The full bench of the Supreme Court was convening on Tuesday over the motion seeking to annul Thanasis Nicolaou’s murder ruling. Set to begin at 11am, the case is ...

An expert seems to have tilted the scales in the ongoing Osiou Avakoum monastery scandal, when he testified in church court on Tuesday that videos showing monks in actions inconsistent ...

The weekend’s Ed Sheeran concerts were the biggest in terms of audience to ever have been staged in Cyprus, with 45,000 guests attending from 42 different countries. Speaking to the Cyprus ...

The Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the UN, Ambassador Maria Michail spoke about the importance of peacekeeping operations (PKOs) as a key tool in addressing today’s challenges to global ...

A trilateral meeting on the Cyprus issue in New York is not expected to take place before October, according to diplomatic sources on Tuesday.  The same sources said that the ...

The deputy ministry of research had violated the law in the way it ‘appointed’ companies to implement the ‘e-wallet’ service, as the process was riddled with conflicts of interest and ...

A roadmap for Bilateral Defence Cooperation was signed on Monday by the Republic of Cyprus and the United States. The roadmap was signed at the defence ministry by Minister Vassilis ...

Parties and deputies tabled 11 different bills at the House finance committee on Monday, all aimed at regulating the payment of multiple pensions to state officials. Of those bills, two were ...

Cyprus’ holding of the European Council’s rotating presidency “will involve all the island’s districts”, European Affairs Deputy Minister Marilena Raouna said on Monday. Speaking after a meeting with ...

The project for importing LNG to Cyprus must be completed as soon as possible, as every delay costs the Cypriot economy and the consumer huge sums of money, President of ...

Cyprus’ health ministry on Monday sought to assure that Medochemie pharmaceutical company had complied with a series of recommendations, after it was found to have produced a contaminated antibiotic which ...

Thorny issues, such as revenue from building permits and the responsibility for dangerous buildings, dominated Monday’s meeting between Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou and president of the Union of Municipalities ...

No one can argue against Omodhos village being the wine capital of Cyprus. It is surrounded by several wineries and their vineyards cover mountain tops such as Afames and Kremnos ...

A cross-border tax evasion and money laundering scheme involving Greece, Cyprus and Slovakia has led to the arrest of 21 people, Greek police said on Monday. Greece’s police said the ...

A Turkish Cypriot woman was arrested at Paphos airport after being found with almost 40kg of tobacco products she had brought from the north, the customs department said on Monday. ...

“Everywhere in Ayia Napa,” says Lotta, wrinkling her nose in disgust, “there are reps. They get in your face, touch your body…” Not every visitor to Cyprus has a winning ...

A 27-year-old Syrian national was sentenced on Monday to two months in prison in the north for having illegally crossed the Green Line, after the Turkish Cypriot police found he ...