Cyprus

EU member states, including Cyprus, are expected to draw up a common list of so-called safe countries of origin when they process asylum applications, the European Commission announced on Wednesday....

The north’s ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu on Wednesday evening said the Greek Cypriots are “using the European Union as a weapon”. He was speaking to the north’s public ...

The 32 members of the new bicommunal technical committee on youth were officially named on Wednesday by President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar. The leaders named 16 people each ...

Former Turkish Cypriot ‘education minister’ Ahmet Derya took to the stage outside the north’s ‘parliament’ to condemn the incumbent ruling coalition as fires were lit for the third day ...

The first hearing of a defamation lawsuit Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar had filed against pro-opposition Turkish Cypriot newspaper Yeniduzenwas heard at court in northern Nicosia on Wednesday. Tatar is ...

Ankara mayor Mansur Yavas on Wednesday said the Turkish government’s “silence” over the signing of a joint declaration by five central Asian states and the European Union which ruled ...

Families preparing their Easter feasts this year will face higher prices at the checkout, with some vegetables nearly tripling in cost, according to new data. The Consumer Protection Service’s ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, and former prime minister Binali Yildirim were all accused of partaking in “filthy” corruption in northern Cyprus, linked to assassinated Turkish ...

The government is to create a national unit for the implementation of financial sanctions, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said on Wednesday. Speaking after the day’s cabinet meeting, he said ...

The latest hearing in the case against 22 Turkish Cypriot teachers who stand accused of “battering” police officers during a protest in 2022 took place in northern Nicosia on Wednesday. Little progress ...

The Great Sea Interconnector project was absent from announcements and discussions in Greece following a meeting of the country’s National Security Council (Kysea) on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, ...

A cardboard box with a large amount of duty-free tobacco products was found by Limassol police in a car stopped for inspection on Tuesday, while the driver was found to ...

The governmental press office on Wednesday announced the official translation and unification of the Republic’s updated constitution into English. The publication will include “a comprehensive, consolidated text of the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has dismissed corruption allegations by former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides as ‘fake news’, denying claims he attended the inauguration of an allegedly illegal leisure centre project. The controversy ...

To call the Rio Bravo Saloon a Limassol staple would be an injustice. Although it first opened in 1998, it feels like it has been around for much longer, considering how ...

The Paphos district court on Wednesday ruled that the 40-year-old man who was arrested over disrupting a mass in Yeroskippou in the Paphos region on Monday will remain in custody ...

Michail Christoforou, 69, from Agrokipia was killed on Wednesday morning when he was hit by a motorcycle on a zebra crossing. The police said the motorcyclist, aged 37, was riding along Limassol ...

Speaking at ‘Stavros Stylianides’ army camp in Kornos, Nicosia, where he wished conscripts and officers a ‘Happy Easter’, President Nikos Christodoulides said the National Guard was now “stronger than ever”. “...

The Nicosia criminal court has rescheduled the “trial within a trial” procedure of the German real estate agent accused of usurping Greek Cypriot properties in the north to May 2 after ...

A 46-year-old British tourist has been ordered to remain in custody for six days following a fatal collision in Oroklini that killed 57-year-old motorcyclist Petros Christodoulou, as Larnaca authorities continue ...

The government has taken a major leap forward in the fight against cancer with the approval of a new national cancer institute, Health Minister Michael Damianos said on Wednesday. The ...

The cabinet approved an amended special incentive to produce affordable housing, either for sale or rent, on Wednesday. The changes will impact third-country workers in particular. The incentive is now ...

Halloumi producers are battling to safeguard its iconic cheese as US tariffs and strict EU regulations put its prized export at risk. The Cyprus dairy producers’ association warned on Wednesday ...

The forestry department has issued a warning targeting illegal cutting of trees for the traditional lambradjia bonfires ahead of the upcoming Easter holidays. Emphasising that the felling of trees without ...