Cyprus

The aim is the resumption of the UN-led peace talks for the solution of the Cyprus issue, the Greek Cypriot side reiterates, ahead of the visit to Cyprus of the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides presented the government’s future objectives and major reforms during a long meeting with the ministers at the Troodos presidential residence. The entire cabinet, as well as ...

A 57-year-old man who was drink driving caused a minor road accident in Limassol late on Friday. Police said the man was arrested after he was found with 98μg alcohol ...

A 26-year-old man who was found inside a stolen car in Paphos has been arrested, police said on Saturday. The specific vehicle was reported stolen by its 75-year-old owner on ...

Cyprus rejected Chevron Corp’s plan to develop the island nation’s offshore Aphrodite natural gas field, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing Energy Minister Giorgos Papanastasiou. Papanastasiou told Bloomberg ...

A 43-year-old man was arrested in possession of 22kg of cannabis, Limassol police said on Saturday. Drug squad officers searched the house of the suspect located in Vasa Koilani village ...

Arsonists targeted a Limassol mosque early on Saturday, only hours after Muslims had gathered there to pray. Police said an unknown person approached the Jedit Mosque located in the old ...

What do visitors know about the occupation of the island? Alix Norman speaks to a selection of tourists to find out Cyprus is billed as sea, sun and sand – a ...

A brand-new festival will join the events calendar in September as the Larnaca Municipality organises the first Larnaca Jazz Festival. Over two days, a handful of the island’s jazz ...

The interior and labour ministries are joining forces to combat illegal employment of third-country nationals and reduce irregular migration this month. Officials have identified 83 cases of illegal employment of third-country ...

USSRoosevelt guided-missile destroyer arrived for a port call to Larnaca, it emerged on Friday. US Ambassador to Cyprus Julie Fisher said in a post on Platform X (Twitter) that it ...

Chairman of the US Senate External Relations Committee, Robert Menendez was awarded on Friday the title of honorary citizen of the city of Paphos and presented with the key to ...

Parties discussed aspects of the Cyprus problem with diasporic populations during the last day of the annual diaspora conference in Nicosia. Representatives from the main political parties received questions by ...

An Intercity bus burst into flames at Limassol port on Friday, forcing three passengers to jump out of the windows to escape the fire. The vehicle was parked but operating, ...

Hotel workers union on Friday demanded an amendment to the industry’s wages decree so the indexation allowance be calculated automatically. Syxka-Peo union issued a statement welcoming the decree incorporating ...

The audit office has written to EU bodies as well as Cypriot officials raising concerns over the interconnector project, it emerged on Friday. The letter details a lack of transparency ...

School textbooks to be used in the north in the upcoming academic year have been criticised by teachers for containing “non-secular” content. Rifat Can, a geography teacher based in the ...

The number of new asylum applications in Cyprus in May was down 61 per cent compared to the same months last year, according to the European Union’s statistical agency Eurostat. ...

A report into the “multi-year delay” in installing lifts in government-owned apartment buildings has been released by Human Rights Commissioner Maria Stylianou Lottides. The report highlights the impact on elderly ...

Three political parties have released statements calling on the government to reinstate the fuel subsidy that was scrapped on July 1, causing an 8.3 cent per litre price rise for consumers. Disy ...

Public sector workers in the north are set to work the same hours all year round, after a bill was unanimously passed in ‘parliament’ on Friday. Pending assent from Turkish ...

Medical equipment is set to be donated to the Makarios hospital’s paediatric clinic by the Australian Hellenic medical charity. The charity, operating alongside the Cypriot community of Adelaide, announced ...

The picnic site in the village of Vouno was sealed off by the Dikomo municipality on Friday in an ongoing spat regarding an “unauthorised” building on the site. According to ...

Kyrenia mayor Murat Senkul issued a warning to people illegally taking water from the town’s supply on Friday. Senkul said there is a difference of about 250 thousand tonnes between ...