Cyprus News

Road safety was on the top of the north’s ‘parliament’s’ agenda on Monday as it convened for the first time since the death of Greek Cypriot Photis Photiou ...

Two children were arrested on Monday in connection with an arson attack on a house in the Larnaca village of Kiti on Saturday night. The pair, aged 14 and 16 years old ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman said on Monday there may be “no Turkish Cypriots left” in some areas of the north in five or ten years’ time ...

Shots were fired at a parked car in Zakaki on Monday, police said. The shots were fired shortly after 3pm, with police currently believing they were fired from a small ...

A man appeared in court in the north on Tuesday, accused of having stolen copper coils from a water tank on the roof of his own father’s house. The ...

More than 1,200 people have signed up to participate in the government’s “e-Kofini” channel on the communication app Viber, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Monday. The Viber channel was ...

Sefa Karahasan, the Turkish public broadcaster TRT’s Cyprus correspondent, was arrested in the north in relation to the ongoing “fake diploma scandal” and appeared in court on Tuesday. Karahasan’...

A woman from Kyrenia was arrested for practicing “witchcraft” and for taking money in exchange for promises of a Republic of Cyprus passport, the Turkish Cypriot police announced on Tuesday. ...

Two firefighting helicopters and a total of 18 crew members arrived in Cyprus from Jordan with the aim of boosting Cyprus’ firefighting capabilities ahead of the summer, the agriculture ministry said ...

United Nations Envoy Maria Angela Holguin is set to arrive in Cyprus on Tuesday and begin her latest round of meetings. She is expected to meet with President Nikos Christodoulides ...

Leventis Gallery celebrates its 10th anniversary this year by expanding its horizons with specially designed programmes that enhance accessibility. Several events and actions are planned for the upcoming months, both ...

A 30-year-old man from Limassol has died after being involved in a road traffic accident on the road between Kalo Chorio and Limassol on Easter Sunday evening. The man, named ...

Easter Monday’s weather will be mostly clear and sunny but tempered by the possibility of isolated rain and even isolated storms in the mountains. Temperatures will rise to 25 degrees ...

Exhibition illuminates Cyprus’ environmental consciousness through art An upcoming five-day art show is more than just an exhibition organisers say, it is a social event that puts Cyprus’ environmental crisis ...

Countries aren’t quite ready to cede all authority to the WHO just yet but in a few weeks most Western nations will sign We’ve already written twice about ...

The fire brigade were called out to a whopping 120 fires across Cyprus on Easter Saturday night. A large proportion of the 120 fires were linked to the Easter “lambradjia” bonfire tradition, ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar met with Gambian President Adama Barrow on Saturday night. Tatar told Barrow about latest developments regarding the Cyprus problem and asked for his support on ...

A 16-year-old boy was hospitalised on Easter Sunday after the car in which he was riding as a passenger crashed. The crash occurred in the Paphos village of Peyia at ...

Damage caused by extreme weather caused power cuts to hit across the island on Easter Sunday. A yellow weather warning had been issued on Saturday for storms, with Cyprus’ electricity ...

Police made multiple arrests across the country of people carrying firecrackers and other pyrotechnic paraphernalia on Easter Saturday. One 18-year-old man was arrested near the Ayia Marina church in Limassol ...

A house belonging to a 73-year-old man was set on fire on Saturday night as a group of up to 70 youths attacked police who had been called as a lambradjia ...

A police car was completely destroyed on Easter Saturday night in what Limassol police spokesman Lefteris Kyriakou called an “organised attack”. The car had been set on fire when police ...

A factory in Nicosia’s Dali and Latsia has purchased €1 million in equipment before receiving the necessary permits, residents from the area alleged on Saturday, calling on the state to ...

Accepting Turkey’s conditions to resume talks for the Cyprus problem would be a mistake, Archbishop Georgios said in his Easter message on Saturday. He sent an “anguished appeal to ...