Cyprus News

Canada and the United Kingdom on Friday joined Australia in condemning Israel for closing its investigation into the killing of seven aid workers who were transporting humanitarian goods sent from ...

A new service hub has opened in Kato Pyrgos Tillyria to bring services closer to the people in remote areas. Speaking during the inauguration of the hub on Friday, Nicosia ...

The Larnaca district local government organisation (EOA) announced a €300,000 tender on Friday to design flood protection works for homes in Larnaca and Aradippou. Officials said the move was aimed at ...

Almost 145 tonnes of the silver-cheeked toadfish, known locally as hare’s head, have been caught in Cypriot seas over the past two years, fisheries department marine research officer Nikoletta Varnava ...

The Larnaca municipal health services began additional checks and spraying on Friday, aiming to address potential mosquito breeding grounds across the district. Municipal health inspector Andreas Stergides explained that the ...

The state health services organisation (Okypy) clarified on Friday that transferring patients with postoperative complications from private to public hospitals is a standard medical practice, responding to complaints from former ...

A hotel in Protaras was evacuated late Thursday after a fire broke out in a washing machine in the basement laundry, authorities said on Friday. The fire service received a ...

Bases police have made 26 arrests in the past week, including three on August 16 for drugs and immigration offences following a vehicle stop. During the vehicle search, officers discovered “drug related ...

It is “a disservice to the residents and shopkeepers on Makarios avenue to promote the narrative that closing the area to traffic is the main issue at hand”, Nicosia Mayor ...

Police on Thursday arrested four people following the seizure of more than 650grams of cannabis, a large sum of money and an air pistol. The arrests were made in the ...

Somalia’s foreign ministry on Friday denied having recognised northern Cyprus as an independent country, following the publication of a now deleted social media post by the country’s new ...

Cyprus must look beyond the immediate public cost of the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) and consider whether the project can transform the country from an electrically isolated island into an ...

The Paphos municipality is taking precautionary measures to combat mosquitoes, municipal health officer Christos Christou said on Friday. Asked by the Cyprus News Agency about the measures being taken following ...

The technical problem which caused power cuts in various areas across the island on Friday morning has “not yet been solved”, transmission system operator spokeswoman Chara Kousiappa said, though the ...

The 65-year-old father of an 11-year-old girl who was left alone at their Paphos home while he travelled to Albania to watch a football match was arrested upon his return ...

A new arrival has joined the donkey family at Limeri Cafe in Akamas, with the cafe announcing the birth of a baby girl. The owners shared the news on social ...

The Turkish Cypriot authorities have requested “concrete information” from the BBC over reports that as many as 30 children may have been conceived through in vitro fertilisation using the wrong sperm ...

The met office on Friday issued a renewed yellow weather warning for extreme temperatures. The warning will be in effect from 1pm to 4pm, with temperatures expected to rise to 41 ...

Lefkara mayor Sophocles Sophocleous has voiced concern about safety on the old main road linking Nicosia and Limassol, in the section between the Larnaca district villages of Skarinou and Kofinou, ...

Only a matter of days remain until the cultural event that each year attracts thousands of opera lovers from across Cyprus and abroad. On September 4 and 5, the Square of the ...

The police are investigating a fire which broke out in an excavator at a quarry near the Nicosia district village of Farmakas on Thursday evening. According to the police, the ...

The police are investigating what they believe to be a case of arson after a fire broke out in a clothing store on the ground floor of an apartment building ...

The police are investigating an attempted murder after shots were fired at a 33-year-old man in Ayia Napa in the early hours of Friday. “No one was injured in the ...

On Friday the weather will be overwhelmingly clear with increased cloud cover observed in the afternoon, mainly in the higher mountains. Temperatures will rise to around 41 degrees Celsius inland, around 33 ...