Cyprus

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 ...

The work stoppage of customs agents which had initially been indefinite has officially ended, with customs agents on Saturday announcing that they would start working with the new automated import ...

The mental health of children and youth remains an “absolute priority” for the health ministry, Health Minister Damianos said during the inauguration of the new building of the Cyprus ADHD ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos and Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud during a meeting in New York on Friday signed a memorandum of cooperation, aiming ...

By Loula Astin Pastitsatha – Aromatic Beef with Pasta This popular Greek family stew is a speciality of Corfu. I remember eating it in the famous Tripa Taverna in Kinopiastes, Corfu, ...

A 25-year-old woman remains in critical condition after being severely injured in a car accident on the Paphos-Limassol highway on Friday afternoon. According to the police, the young woman was ...

With international law as the only tool in our quiver, Cyprus cannot be liberated, President Nikos Christodoulides said, speaking at an event of the federation of Cypriot American organisations in ...

On Saturday, the weather will remain overwhelmingly clear with temperatures rising up to 34 degrees Celsius inland, around 29 degrees on the west coast, 31 degrees in the remaining coastal areas and up ...

Cyprus has found “sizeable quantities” of natural gas in blocks Pegasus and Glaucus, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou told the Cyprus Mail on Friday, following an earlier announcement by the president ...

Young people in Cyprus move out of the family home at the average age of 27.2, making them some of the oldest youngsters to leave home within the EU, Eurostat data ...

Deputy Minister of Tourism Kostas Koumis has held a series of important contacts in Paris in  the framework of Cyprus’ participation in the IFTM 2025 tourism exhibition, through which it became ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli on Friday said that opposition Turkish Cypriot leadership election candidate Tufan Erhurman would win next month’s election “by a long way” if ...

The programme “Walking Safely in My School Neighbourhood” was launched on Friday morning at a conference organised by the Cyprus police in collaboration with the education ministry. The programme aims ...