Cyprus

President Nikos Christodoulides welcomed children of the diaspora from the US and Canada at the presidential palace on Tuesday. Welcoming the children, aged 14 to 17, Christodoulides said that “we are very ...

Lebanese president Joeseph Aoun will visit Cyprus on Wednesday morning for a one-day visit to hold official talks with president Nikos Christodoulides. Government spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis said that Christodoulides will ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday evening ahead of next week’s planned enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem, which is set to ...

Boris Demash, the founder, owner, and editor-in-chief of Cyprus Daily News and the associated websites Cyprus-Daily.News and Cynews.cc, has been arrested in Cyprus, it was announced today. An ...

An unexpected accident at a fish farm off the southern coast of Cyprus has turned the sea between Alaminos and Moni into a busy fishing ground, raising concerns about illegal ...

Cypriot MEP Fidias Panayiotou has gone ahead with publishing his highly controversial interview with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, following days of criticism from political parties and government officials. The ...

Potato farmers are demanding sweeping changes to compensation rules for extreme weather, warning that prolonged drought has pushed many to the brink of survival. Farmers from across Cyprus are set ...

Soaring energy costs and suffocating bureaucracy are the biggest threats facing Limassol’s industries, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou has warned, pledging swift action to tackle the crisis. Speaking after a ...

A 27-year-old motorcyclist is fighting for his life after suffering severe head injuries in a crash on the Pera Pedi to Saittas road on Monday night. Police said the accident ...

Cyprus is facing very high temperatures, with the mercury reaching 40C inland on Tuesday as a heatwave continues across the island. The forestry department has announced that the risk of ...

The government on Monday began accepting applications for the issuance of the European Union Blue Card for workers from outside the EU. The deputy ministry of migration said those eligible ...

Cyprus was touted as a potential location for a planned camp to be built to house Palestinian people who are to be “temporarily” relocated out of Gaza, according to reports ...

House president Annita Demetriou on Monday expressed “anguish and anger” over a European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruling which found that Cyprus had violated the human rights of a ...

The Turkish Cypriot authorities on Monday announced that an agreement has been struck with both Turkish Airlines and subsidiary AJet to cap air ticket prices to and from the north ...

More than 2,000 patients have visited Nicosia general hospital’s “fast-track clinic” in the first three months of its operation, Health Minister Michael Damianos said on Monday. The clinic is operating ...

Drilling at the Pegasus-1 well has detected a 350-metre column of natural gas, the government announced on Monday, giving no more clues about the significance of the find – but separately ...

Parliament is aiming to hold a vote on legalising euthanasia in January next year, with an article-by-article deliberation in the House human rights committee of a bill providing for its ...

A handwriting expert testifying in a criminal trial on Monday stated categorically that the defendant – a German woman facing charges of fraudulently transacting in real estate – did not fill out ...

The United Nations is “working hard to get results” on confidence-building measures regarding the Cyprus problem ahead of next week’s enlarged meeting in New York, UN envoy Maria Angela ...

Transport drivers across Cyprus walked out on Monday, demanding urgent changes to laws on tachograph use. The 24-hour strike began at 5am following a vote last week by the national ...

I hadn’t planned on needing it this much. I had just wrapped a long week of interviews, edits and one too many emails and was already dreaming about getting ...

The constitution clearly defines the separation of powers, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Monday, when asked about calls to sack deputy attorney-general Savvas Angelides after the European Court of ...

Cyprus is turning to artificial intelligence, digital mapping and fresh witness outreach to resolve the fate of hundreds of missing persons from the 1960s and 1974, it was announced on Monday. ...

Only 12 soldiers were in the van that caught on fire last Friday on the Limassol-Nicosia highway, the defence ministry said on Monday. The statement came in response to a complaint ...