Cyprus

President Nicos Christodoulides said on Friday that he plans to appoint an advisor for the promotion of multiculturalism, acceptance and respect for diversity. Addressing the 7th Youth Summit of European ...

Two people were hospitalised with heat stroke at Limassol General Hospital on Friday. Cybc reported that one individual affected has been intubated in the Intensive Care Unit. According to an ...

Firefighters in Paphos safeguarded homes from a fire that broke out on Friday near the community of Polemi in Paphos. According to the Cyprus News Agency (Cna), local’s homes ...

A plan for a 12 per cent early retirement adjustment will be presented next week, Minister of Labour Yiannis Panayiotou said on Friday after a meeting with the Labour Council. The ...

Education minister Athena Michaelidou held a reception on Friday for the highest achievers of this years Pancyprian examinations. Michaelidou said “it was an exceptionally important meeting for us, very pleasant, ...

Non-EU countries must be more proactive in their cooperation with repatriating irregular migrants that arrive at the bloc, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said during an EU meeting. Speaking at the ...

The only way to revoke the yellow slip (MEU1 visa) given to Israeli national with an EU passport Yaacov Afik, who is building massive developments on Greek Cypriot land in ...

A man has been arrested and remanded in custody for seven days in the north after police found drugs and related paraphernalia, which had been smuggled from the Republic, in ...

The north and Turkey signed an agreement on Thursday evening which allows citizens of the ‘TRNC’ access to Turkish consular assistance while in third countries. The agreement was signed in ...

The traffic camera network is being further expanded as from Monday Limassol is set to have a further four cameras in operation. The police announced on Friday that the cameras ...

Cyprus Airways, the island’s flag-carrier airline, unveiled its two new Airbus A220 aircraft at a ceremony at Larnaca airport on Friday. The A220 is the smallest aircraft in Airbus’...

The heat shelter in Nicosia will remain open for a second successive weekend. The shelter, which is located at the municipal multipurpose centre near the Famagusta Gate in the walled ...

The forestry department informed the public on Friday that the risk of fires remains at the “Red Alert” level for the eighth consecutive day. At the time of its press ...

Swathes of Nicosia woke up without electricity on Friday morning after power cuts hit the districts of Strovolos and Latsia. According to the Electricity authority (EAC), the morning’s first ...

The ECB this week released the latest version of its Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) report, providing insight into the financial state of households in Cyprus and the Eurozone, ...

Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz committed a social media faux pas on Thursday when he accompanied a celebratory tweet regarding the anniversary of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus with a ...

After an arduous 19 months, British pensioner David Hunter was on Friday found guilty of manslaughter. The news was met with a wave of relief across the packed courtroom in Paphos ...

Two firefighting aircraft departed Cyprus for Greece on Friday morning with the aim of helping to fight the country’s forest fires. The Air Tractor-type planes, which belong to the ...

The Cyprus Space Exploration Organisation (CSEO) is set to hold an event to celebrate International Moon Day on Friday. Visitors to the event will have the opportunity to see a ...

El-Sen, the north’s electricity authority (Kib-Tek)’s employees’ trade union, claimed on Friday that workers tasked with fixing faults at the Teknecik power station were prevented from doing so ...

In today’s episode, the current status quo is not and will never be accepted and cannot be the future of Cyprus, President Christodoulides said on Thursday, the 49th anniversary ...

After 19 months in prison, David Hunter is expected to hear the verdict from a three-panel judge today, over the killing of his wife Janice who was suffering from cancer, which ...

An autopsy on Friday confirmed that drowning was the cause of death of a 10-year-old girl who was found dead at the bottom of a pool at a villa in ...

The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail, brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in local and international. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this ...