Cyprus

The Cypriot appeals court has upheld the eight-year sentence of a 36-year-old man who raped a 20-year-old British waitress in Ayia Napa in 2019, it emerged on Tuesday. A criminal court ...

Eighteen public works projects valued at €112 million will get underway across the island this year, according to data from the Department of Public Works. These include the second phase of ...

Stiffer fines and punishments are necessary for people using poisonous agricultural products, as in the past three decades almost three dozen Griffon Vultures, a protected species, have been killed by ...

Parents have come forward to make statements against a babysitter who is currently being investigated for abusing infants, police said on Tuesday, with one allegation against her being that she ...

The military plans to beef up its air defence systems within the year, the defence minister said on Tuesday. Michalis Giorgallas was speaking to the state broadcaster about the National ...

Three men appeared in court in the north on Tuesday after being arrested on New Year’s Eve night for shooting into the sky with rifles. The trio were arrested ...

A Turkish Cypriot lawyer was arrested in Italy, it emerged on Tuesday, with reports linking the arrest to the sale of Greek Cypriot-owned property in the north. The lawyer, named ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar made clear he would not return to the negotiating table without equal sovereignty and international status for Turkish Cypriots. In his New Year’s message, ...

Conservation works will be carried out on the medieval chapel at Apostolos Andreas in Karpasia, along with further works on the exterior of the building, the Greek Cypriot co-chairman of ...

Nicosia was on Tuesday waiting for the UN to formally announce the appointment of a new envoy to Cyprus. Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis told the Cyprus News Agency that the ...

A fire in a storage area in Ayios Dhometios was extinguished a few hours after it broke out, the fire service said on Tuesday. The fire broke out at 1:22pm ...

New HIV-1 strains have been discovered on the island, researchers at the University of Cyprus (UCy) announced on Tuesday. In an article published in the biomedical journal Viruses on December 21, ...

A delegation of Turkish Cypriots travelled to the Turkish city of Adiyaman on Tuesday for the beginning of the trial of those held responsible for the collapse of the Isias ...

Workers earning the minimum wage in the north are earning less than the equivalent salary in Turkey for the first time, it appeared on Tuesday. Upon returning to work after ...

Hotels in the Famagusta district are expected to see occupancy rates ranging between 20 and 30 per cent during January and February, according to Panayiotis Constantinou, president of the Famagusta Hoteliers Association (...

The final total of traffic deaths in Cyprus in 2023 reached 34, marking a continuing downward trend in deaths on the road, police spokesman Christos Andreou said on Tuesday. Numbers have fallen ...

The police’s investigation into the death of a five-month-old baby in Larnaca is ongoing, with police suspecting that it was caused by “shaken baby syndrome”. The baby was found ...

The father of one of the Cypriot children killed during February’s earthquakes was detained on arrival in Turkey on Tuesday after a case was filed against him for post ...

Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) rector Panayiotis Zaphiris this week announced the successful completion of the study outlining the potential establishment of a School of Marine Sciences, Technology, and Sustainable ...

Hellenic Bank on Tuesday released a statement welcoming the recent launch of the mortgage-to-rent scheme, which went into effect on December 4, 2023, describing it as a favourable way for eligible borrowers ...

The first shipment of humanitarian aid from Cyprus and the UK containing almost 90 tonnes of assistance has arrived to Egypt’s Port Said and is being transported to the Rafah ...

There has been an increase in people with Covid-19 being hospitalised in Cyprus in recent days, according to state health services organisation (Okypy) press officer Charalambos Charilaou. Charilaou was speaking ...

The family of the 57-year-old car crash victim from the village of Yiolou in Paphos who succumbed to his injuries in hospital over the weekend, announced on Tuesday the wish ...

Police on Tuesday said 136 migrants arrived to Cyprus by boat on New Year’s Day, while the man suspected of being the boat’s operator has been arrested and remanded ...