Cyprus

Social welfare services staff hold a 24-hour strike on Monday in protest over a recent decision about the coordination of disability support programmes. The announcement was made by the administrative ...

Dozens of protesters gathered in Nicosia on Sunday afternoon to demonstrate outside the British high commission against Israel and the British military bases in Cyprus. The protest, called “Global Rally ...

“Cyprus must be heard at the United Nations,” Limassol sign language tutor Fani Anastasiou said on Sunday. “It would be particularly important for the United Nations to support such initiatives ...

Cyprus wine exports increased by 3% in 2024, compared to 2023, amounting to €1.3 million, Minister of Energy, Commerce and Industry said on Saturday, while speaking at the opening of the annual Wine Festival ...

A traffic collision in Linopetra, Limassol, at around 12.30pm on Sunday has left a man dead. The victim is identified as Mohamed Al Ahmed, 34, a Syrian national and resident of ...

The municipal beach in Yeroskipou has undergone a major upgrade with an investment of more than €1.5 million, the mayor, Nikos Palios has announced. The project aims to improve facilities and ...

A 32-year-old man has died after falling from the second floor of a building in Zakaki, Limassol on Sunday. Police are treating the incident as an accident. The alarm was ...

Cyprus has opened the doors for women aged 18 and over to voluntarily enlist in the National Guard. While women have long served as officers and contract soldiers (Syops), this expansion ...

A 57-year-old man was arrested in the Famagusta district on Sunday after police found a knife in a bag of clothing he was carrying to a detainee. Police said the ...

Is 2025 the year new festivals launch in Cyprus? It certainly seems so as yet another event prepares for its inaugural Cyprus edition. The Art Explore Festival is a little different. ...

Sustainable fashion, upcycling and EU policies join forces this week at an exhibition in Paris, featuring the work of Cyprus textile designer Michalis Pantelides, who said “fashion should be slow, ...

Police on Sunday arrested an 81-year-old man in Larnaca in connection with the cultivation and possession of cannabis. The arrest followed a targeted operation by the drugs squad (Υkan) on ...

One Turkish Cypriot election tradition which is little known outside of the Turkish Cypriot community is the prevalence of election music. Typically, each major candidate will come out with a ...

Fewer than 100 days remain for Cyprus to iron out the remaining logistical challenges as it prepares to assume the six-month rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union in ...

Three of the four people arrested on Sunday in connection with the seizure of over 100 kilogrammes of drugs hidden inside a container carrying toys were remanded in custody for eight ...

A spell of seasonal low pressure is affecting the region, bringing mainly clear skies but with some local cloud cover. On Sunday, conditions will remain mostly sunny. At times, increased ...

Chicanery or sheer stupidity – the question some MPs posed this week as to how Cyprus got tangled in the whole LNG farrago in awarding the contract to the Chinese-led consortium. ...

Talks for a Cyprus settlement must resume from where they broke off at Crans Montana, was the message UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres conveyed to President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot ...

People from all over Cyprus gathered on Friday evening to celebrate the annual bicommunal pride, which traditionally ends with a big gathering in the buffer zone. “What makes it so ...

Police investigations into the alleged rape case at the central prison are “at an advanced stage” and will be forwarded to the legal services upon completion, the prisons department said ...

Police on Saturday arrested four people suspected of smuggling 97 kilograms of cannabis and 5 kilograms of cocaine hidden inside inflatable toys that arrived in a shipping container from Greece. According to ...

UN cost savings plans for next year envisage far smaller cuts to senior staff than to lower ranks – including the special adviser for Cyprus – a draft budget document shows, a ...

A trilateral meeting between Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos and his Greek and Syrian counterparts, George Gerapetritis and Asaad Hassan al-Shibani to discuss further cooperations between the countries was held in ...

It’s a pleasant Tuesday night in early September, and the street outside the club is buzzing. Tables have been set up, a chatty crowd – with perhaps a disproportionate number ...