Cyprus News

Five prosecution witnesses testified before the Nicosia criminal court on Monday in the Avakoum monastery case, with evidence focusing on payments for religious icons, donations and the monastery’s financial ...

House President Annita Demetriou and Slovak President Peter Pellegrini on Monday discussed the Cyprus problem, among other matters, as Demetriou visited Bratislava. Demetriou said after the meeting that “I briefed ...

France has “fallen into the hands of the far left and illegal immigrants”, Elam member of the European Parliament Geadis Geadi said on Monday, as the day’s plenary session ...

Paphos’ town council on Monday night voted to rename the town’s Kemal Ataturk Street, with the street, which is located in the historically Turkish Cypriot neighbourhood of Moutallos, now ...

Turkish Cypriot electricity workers’ trade union El-Sen went on strike on Monday after a worker suffered serious injuries following an explosion at a transformer station last week, with the striking ...

A decision on whether Maccabi Tel Aviv will play their EuroLeague home games in Cyprus could be taken this week, amid an ongoing security review, reports said on Monday. Daily ...

President Nikos Christodoulides offered high praise for United States President Donald Trump, saying that the US’ 47th president has a “unique advantage”. “Either you like it or not, but you ...

Dromolaxia and Meneou mayor Kypros Andronikou was on Monday indicted and summoned to appear in court over a social media post, standing accused of having presented his own personal views ...

The electronic platform for depositors and bondholders burned in the 2013 bank bail-in will be reactivated over the next few days for people who previously applied but received no reimbursement, while ...

Petrol station owners’ association chairman Christodoulos Christodoulou on Monday warned that prices at the pump will continue to increase this week, with the price of a litre of diesel having ...

Works are under way to uncover and remove waste from the former landfill at Vati, as part of efforts to restore the site, deputy head of the Water Development Department’...

The government should introduce targeted financial support to help farmers meet the rising cost of fertilisers and plant-protection products, the Panagrotikos farmers’ association said on Monday. The association’s secretary-general ...

The court case concerning the death of 14-year-old Stylianos Constantinou, who took his own life in 2019, continued with further testimony before the Nicosia district court on Monday. In her testimony, ...

Reconstruction and repair works on the boxed stormwater culvert beneath Digeni Akrita Avenue in central Nicosia began on Monday and are expected to last around 28 weeks, Nicosia district government organisation ...

Over the next years Cyprus anticipates to have available to it some €3.5 billion in EU funds for development projects, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday. “These are projects which will ...

President Nikos Christodoulides accused Turkey and its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of taking a “new Ottoman approach” to its regional relations and described Erdogan as the “great obstacle” to solving ...

Children’s rights commissioner Elena Pericleous on Monday warned against the use of children as political props, after member of the European Parliament Fidias Panayiotou had a day earlier published ...

Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides on Monday highlighted the role of sport and prevention in tackling addiction, ahead of the 22nd annual veteran football tournament against drugs. The tournament, dedicated to ...

Strengthening cooperation, tighter controls on health services and harsher penalties for impersonating medical professionals were at the centre of a meeting between President Nikos Christodoulides, Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides and ...

The Supreme Court on Monday continued examining the demand of eight communities in the Mitsero area for an interim order stalling works to relocate the asphalt factory from Dhali to ...

Teachers’ trade unions on Monday said that they will meet Education Minister Athena Michaelidou to discuss the government’s planned changes to the way in which teachers are appointed to ...

Residents of a block of flats in Larnaca said on Monday they were at their wit’s end over what they described as “African terrorism” and called for the immediate ...

A twenty-first body was recovered from the sea off the coast of Kyrenia as search operations continue following the sinking of a passenger ferry off the town’s coast in ...

Police seized hundreds of nitrous oxide canisters during a raid on a premises in the Famagusta district on Sunday night. According to a police statement, officers from the Famagusta crime ...