Cyprus News

A 67-year-old man was arrested in connection with a suspected fraud involving gaining €9,800 through false representations in Paphos, police said on Friday. The case relates to an incident in January 2024, ...

A 34-year-old man was arrested in Limassol on Thursday night after he was caught driving at 177km/h on a road where the speed limit is 80km/h. Police stopped ...

Discussions over the potential opening of new crossing points to connect Cyprus’ two sides remained deadlocked during this week’s visit of United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to the island ...

The British father under investigation following the death of his three-year-old son in a fall from a hotel balcony in Paphos will ask the court on Monday to temporarily lift ...

Police are investigating the assault and robbery of a 23-year-old man who was attacked while walking in Ayia Napa in the early hours of Friday. The incident occurred at around 4...

A fire that extensively damaged a house in Larnaca on Thursday morning was caused by arson, the fire department said on Friday. Firefighters responded to the blaze at a residence ...

The public should not be forced to pay for the reform of local government, president of the Union of Cyprus Municipalities Andreas Vyras said on Friday. Cyprus’ municipalities are asking ...

A dual British-Azerbaijani national has been arrested in Cyprus on suspicion of spying on Akrotiri base and passing information to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, London police said on ...

Ready to welcome audiences, the 21st Lemesos International Documentary Festival opens on Saturday, August 1. Organised by Brave New Culture and funded by the Department of Contemporary Culture of the Deputy ...

The trial concerning suspended Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos, who stands accused of rape and domestic abuse, was adjourned until September 10. The hearing continued behind closed doors on Thursday and was ...

The trial of the 37-year-old British father who was charged with causing death by recklessness continues before the Paphos district court on Friday morning. The defendant had been released on ...

President Nikos Christodoulides met newly appointed EU envoy for the Cyprus problem Raffaele Fitto at the presidential palace in Nicosia on Friday. Fitto had arrived on the island on Thursday ...

The met department on Friday issued a new yellow weather warning for extreme temperatures, as temperatures are expected to reach up to 40 degrees inland. The warning is in effect from 2...

On Friday, the weather will be mostly clear with temperatures ranging from up to 40 degrees Celsius inland, to around 33 degrees on the west and southwest coasts, around 36 degrees in the ...

The sea off Dasoudi keeps turning brown, and no one in charge can agree on why. That should worry us more than it does By Penelope Vasquez Hadjilyra The sea ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Thursday spoke on the phone with his Iranian counterpart about the current crisis in the Persian Gulf. Cyprus’ chief diplomat later posted on X: “Held ...

The Cyprus Union of Nursing Staff (Oyyk-Sek) on Thursday welcomed Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides’ initiative and the cabinet’s decision to approve an additional grant scheme for nursing and midwifery ...

Recorded cases of human trafficking “do not reflect the true extent of the problem”, Human Rights Commissioner Maria Stylianou-Lottides said on Thursday, revealing that 30 victims were identified in Cyprus last ...

The prosecution and the defence squabbled on Thursday on the admissibility of phone communications as evidence in the ongoing trial of Giorgos ‘Zavrantonas’ Christodoulou. Christodoulou is on trial before Nicosia ...

A new bridge loan scheme allowing farmers to access funding before receiving grants under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will be introduced this year, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on ...

Foreign workers are almost three times more likely to be subjected to forced labour than Cypriots, while accounting for around 9 per cent of Cyprus’ workforce, figures presented at an event ...

The government said Thursday that by year’s end it plans to get the wheels turning on a significant segment of the planned highway linking Paphos to Polis Chrysochous. Speaking ...

The cabinet on Thursday approved a new annual grant scheme for undergraduate nursing and midwifery students, with Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides describing it as “a particularly important step towards addressing “...

The investigation into the wildfire that erupted following a military exercise at the Kalo Chorio firing range has widened to examine decisions taken at the highest levels of the National ...