Cyprus News

Cyprus had the second-lowest percentage of people reading books in the European Union, with only 33.1 per cent of the population engaging in the activity, according to a Eurostat survey published ...

Larnaca police on Saturday said they were investigating an arson attack after the Aek football fan club was set on fire. The incident unfolded on August 13 where individuals broke in ...

Cyprus is fully prepared to deal with mpox cases, with sufficient vaccines available for everyone, Dr Elisavet Constantinou, Director of Public Health Services, assured on Saturday. Earlier this week, the ...

A 30-year-old man in Limassol was fined over €9,000 after police discovered hundreds of contraband cigarettes and tobacco in his possession, police reported on Saturday. The man was initially stopped by ...

Wolt delivery service on Saturday slammed the racist attacks against delivery drivers in Limassol, following reports of an increase in assaults. The company specified that since June 2023, it had expressed ...

Heavy fog at Larnaca airport caused four flights to be diverted to Paphos early on Saturday morning. According to Hermes Airports, after 3am, the fog prevented flights from Frankfurt, Zurich, ...

A 71-year-old man wanted by Interpol for drug crimes was arrested in Cyprus, police said on Saturday. Officers received an Interpol tip about his whereabouts and he was arrested in ...

Incidents of dog abandonment and neglect have increased significantly, according to shelter volunteers who spoke to CNA. These issues are not confined to the summer months but persist throughout the ...

In 2010, Stavros Makrides left Cyprus. It was, he thought, a temporary move. “I went to study in the UK,” he reveals. “And I never came back. Why? Because I’d ...

Will it be a good year for rain or will the drought continue? If you’d like to predict the weather for the rest of the year, August is the ...

Turkish Cypriot journalists’ union, Basin-Sen, on Friday condemned articles written in Kibris Newspaper regarding heated scenes at the Teknecik power plant overnight. Scenes became tense on Thursday night over alleged ...

A new yellow weather warning has been issued for Saturday between 12pm and 5pm, as temperatures are expected to reach 41 degrees Celsius inland, the Met Office reported. In the mountains, ...

A 27-year-old woman from Afghanistan whose child was kidnapped to the north has been granted asylum by the Republic along with her son, it emerged on Friday. Martina Malikzada, 27 from ...

All five faulty generators at the Teknecik power station outside Kyrenia have been repaired as of Friday morning, the north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel said. Speaking to reporters, Ustel ...

Hundreds of delivery drivers staged a peaceful protest in Limassol on Friday morning, expressing deep concern over what they describe as a frightening surge in violent attacks against them. Around 300 ...

Workers from the Turkish Cypriot Famagusta municipality have been given training on how to remove weeds from historical building and the town’s historical walls. The training was given by ...

Russia has expressed its opposition to direct flights to the north of Cyprus and the militarisation of the eastern Mediterranean. Director of the Fourth European Department at the Russian Foreign ...

While the ‘government’ and trade unions in the north find themselves at odds over whether controversial repairs to the north’s Teknecik power station have fixed its issues, local residents ...

Chairman of the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority (Cera) Andreas Poullikas has handed in his resignation, which reportedly has nothing to do with major energy issues still pending, the finalising of ...

Outdoor cinema nights and the summer season go hand-in-hand and this year, Cyprus’ cinephiles have had plenty to enjoy. From film and documentary festivals to independent film screenings around the ...

A 60-year-old man was in critical condition in hospital on Friday after sustaining burns while attempting to light a barbecue. According to the state health services (Okypy), he is currently ...

A fire that broke out on Thursday at the edge of the Kelia state forest is believed to have been intentional. The Forestry Department reported on Friday that the fire ...

“Damage is inevitable” to Cyprus’ electricity grid with the related power cuts a foreseeable consequence during times of heightened consumption, transmission system operator (TSO) spokeswoman Chara Kousiappa said on Friday. ...

Cyprus was in no way pressured to greenlight Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan’s participation in the upcoming informal EU Council foreign ministers meeting, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on ...