Cyprus

The police have issued an urgent warning over a surge in fraudulent messages circulating on social media and mobile phones, falsely claiming recipients owe money for traffic violations. Authorities say ...

Twenty children from Greece fighting cancer were given a moment of joy on Wednesday as they met President Nikos Christodoulides at the presidential palace, with a surprise promise of tickets ...

Two suspects, aged 33 and 28, arrested in connection with a house burglary in Nicosia, the theft of a motorcycle, and other offences, are to be remanded by the Nicosia district court ...

In a display of skill and determination, Dinos Kkanti shattered the Guinness World Record for the traditional “glass dance” on Tuesday night, balancing an astonishing 416 glasses on his head. The ...

For the first time since their construction, the newly built “presidential” and “parliamentary” complexes in northern Cyprus have been put into operation, hosting school events ahead of Turkey’s national ...

The Turkish-Cypriot administration on Wednesday accused the Greek-Cypriot side of “distorting history” and evading responsibility for the Cyprus problem in a strongly worded letter to the United Nations.   The letter, ...

Limassol’s municipal council is divided after mayor Yiannis Armeftis unilaterally sponsored a bicommunal peace choir event, bypassing normal approval channels, it was reported on Wednesday. The “Breaths of Peace” ...

Nearly 300 special constables (Sea) serving in the Cyprus police force are set to leave their posts this summer as their fixed-term contracts expire, sparking discontent and potential protests among officers ...

The search for the tourist who went missing after renting an inflatable boat and taking it into the sea from the port of Latchi has been unsuccessful so far, Paphos ...

A sweltering heatwave has gripped Cyprus, with temperatures hitting 33C inland on Wednesday, but relief is on the way as cooler air and even thunderstorms are forecast by the weekend. ...

Six months after having appointed a religious coordinator, President Nikos Christodoulides has yet to assign him any official duties, reports said on Tuesday. According to daily Haravghi – affiliated to the ...

The Cyprus consumers’ association has accused the ministry of labour of treating consumers unfairly by refusing to appoint a representative for them in a key European Union advisory body. In ...

The search for a 35-year-old foreign tourist who went missing off the coast of Cyprus has intensified after his rented boat was found adrift, with no one on board. The ...

Barbers and hairdressers have complained about unfair competition from shops that do not keep normal hours and even operate on Sundays and public holidays, media reported on Tuesday. The complaints ...

Fires were once again lit outside the north’s ‘parliament’ in northern Nicosia on Tuesday in protest against the ruling coalition’s decision to legalise the wearing of hijabs by ...

For more than two years, traffic cameras on one of the main arteries of the Nicosia suburb of Engomi have not been in operation following the failure to renew a ...

The media ethics committee in the north on Tuesday called on a Turkish news agency to correct a mistranslation of Archbishop Georgios’ Easter message. According to the ethics committee, the ...

The main civil servants’ union on Tuesday slammed a recently published report of the International Monetary Fund, vowing to fight any attempt to “encroach” on workers’ rights. In an interview ...

An attack inside Cyprus’ central prisons was on Tuesday branded an “attempted murder” by a prisoners’ rights group, which called for an urgent police investigation. The Association for the Protection ...

Two were killed and nine others injured in a collision between a van carrying disabled passengers and a rental car on the Kyrenia-Kythrea highway in the north on Tuesday. The ...

Seventeen municipalities and community clusters bordering forest areas have been equipped with government-funded wood chippers, the ministry of agriculture announced on Tuesday in a move aimed at reducing wildfire hazards ...

Turkey is planning to start drilling for natural gas off the coast of Cyprus “in the near future”, Turkish Petroleum Corporation (Tpao) research and development centre department head Muhammet Fatih ...

Two men were arrested in Larnaca on Monday night after getting into a fight on Finikoudes beach, the police said on Tuesday. Larnaca police spokesman Spyros Chrysostomou said the fight ...

A 46-year-old British tourist who was arrested after colliding head-on with a motorcycle and killing its rider was on Tuesday ordered to remain in custody until his next court hearing ...