Cyprus

Police in Paphos on Wednesday are searching for an individual suspected of breaking-in and damaging the city’s social welfare offices. According to Paphos CID head Michalis Nikolaou the suspect ...

Patients with leukaemia in need of chemotherapy are on a long queue as the haematology department of the Limassol General Hospital has exceeded its capacity, patients’ rights groups said on ...

The annual growth rate of Cyprus’ Composite Leading Economic Index (CLEI) remained positive in October 2023, despite a slight deceleration, according to the University of Cyprus Economic Research Centre. Based on ...

The Construction Materials Price Index in Cyprus experienced a marginal decrease of 0.13 per cent in October compared to the previous month, according to the latest report from the state’s ...

President Nikos Christodoulides, accompanied by ministers is travelling to Belgrade on Wednesday for the third Cyprus-Serbia intergovernmental summit. The president is set to have a private meeting with the President ...

Wednesday will be mild and partly cloudy with periodic dust in the air from the evening onwards. Temperatures will rise to 23C in the interior, 22C on the east coast, 24...

The ability of Cypriot banks to reduce operating costs while investing in digital transformation will be key to offsetting inflationary pressure and still-high credit provisions, rating agency Standard and Poor’...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos defended the government’s position over the war waging between Israel and Gaza, telling MPs that Cyprus is approaching the idea for a humanitarian corridor “realistically”. ...

Cyprus’ accession to the Schengen Area and the Visa Waiver program are one of the foreign ministry’s top priorities for next year, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Tuesday. ...

A mountain development commissioner is set to be appointed within the next two months, an agriculture ministry confirmed on Tuesday amid mounting criticism from MPs at the House commerce committee. ...

A man was arrested in northern Nicosia on Tuesday for masturbating in the middle of a road. The man was later taken to court and charged with obscene exposure, before ...

Most of the anti-corruption authority’s budget for 2024, around €1.2 million, will be spent on investigating complaints filed before it, officials said on Tuesday. According to the authority, the complaints are ...

Attorney General George Savvides confirmed on Tuesday that his service was reviewing the case details surrounding a 2012 fatal road accident, for which no one has been held accountable for over ...

Members of the House refugee committee will visit Brussels next week to urge EU officials to put pressure on Turkey to help find Cyprus’ missing persons. According to committee chair ...

The cancer committee of the Cyprus patient associations’ federation (Osak) on Tuesday urged for the inclusion of a National Cancer Institute in the health ministry’s 2024 budget. “The need for ...

The number of British armed forces deployed in the sovereign British bases in Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean has surged by around 1,000 following the Hamas attack in Israel on October 7, ...

The attorney-general on Tuesday suggested the public should manage their expectations regarding new prosecutions in relation to the ‘golden passports’ affair, where to date just one case has been brought ...

Prison guards have been instructed to carry out thorough checks on inmates to find illicit mobile phones as the justice ministry is trying to clampdown on organised crime unfolding in ...

The Limassol marina on Monday set the stage for the 2023 European Championship FAREAST 28R, marking a historic milestone as Cyprus welcomes its first-ever international sailing competition in the specific boat ...

An EU-wide mechanism to combat illegal migration was one of the main issues on the agenda on Tuesday during a meeting in Athens between Cyprus Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou and ...

Cyprus experienced a 33 per cent decrease in the number of new asylum seekers in August 2023 compared to the same month last year, while, at the same time, the EU saw ...

Almost €15 million has been paid to police officers for overtime work up until the end of September this year, Justice Minister Anna Procopiou said on Tuesday. Speaking to the House ...

The forestry department is gearing up for Tree Week, scheduled to take place from Sunday to December2, with events and activities set to take place in various districts. According to ...

The Cyprus university of technology (Tepak) is undertaking the digitisation of the traditional fishing boat Lambousa, currently in its final stages of restoration at the Limassol shipyard. The vessel, which ...