Cyprus News

Nicosia was on Tuesday waiting for the UN to formally announce the appointment of a new envoy to Cyprus. Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis told the Cyprus News Agency that the ...

A fire in a storage area in Ayios Dhometios was extinguished a few hours after it broke out, the fire service said on Tuesday. The fire broke out at 1:22pm ...

New HIV-1 strains have been discovered on the island, researchers at the University of Cyprus (UCy) announced on Tuesday. In an article published in the biomedical journal Viruses on December 21, ...

A delegation of Turkish Cypriots travelled to the Turkish city of Adiyaman on Tuesday for the beginning of the trial of those held responsible for the collapse of the Isias ...

Workers earning the minimum wage in the north are earning less than the equivalent salary in Turkey for the first time, it appeared on Tuesday. Upon returning to work after ...

Hotels in the Famagusta district are expected to see occupancy rates ranging between 20 and 30 per cent during January and February, according to Panayiotis Constantinou, president of the Famagusta Hoteliers Association (...

The final total of traffic deaths in Cyprus in 2023 reached 34, marking a continuing downward trend in deaths on the road, police spokesman Christos Andreou said on Tuesday. Numbers have fallen ...

The police’s investigation into the death of a five-month-old baby in Larnaca is ongoing, with police suspecting that it was caused by “shaken baby syndrome”. The baby was found ...

The father of one of the Cypriot children killed during February’s earthquakes was detained on arrival in Turkey on Tuesday after a case was filed against him for post ...

Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) rector Panayiotis Zaphiris this week announced the successful completion of the study outlining the potential establishment of a School of Marine Sciences, Technology, and Sustainable ...

Hellenic Bank on Tuesday released a statement welcoming the recent launch of the mortgage-to-rent scheme, which went into effect on December 4, 2023, describing it as a favourable way for eligible borrowers ...

The first shipment of humanitarian aid from Cyprus and the UK containing almost 90 tonnes of assistance has arrived to Egypt’s Port Said and is being transported to the Rafah ...

There has been an increase in people with Covid-19 being hospitalised in Cyprus in recent days, according to state health services organisation (Okypy) press officer Charalambos Charilaou. Charilaou was speaking ...

The family of the 57-year-old car crash victim from the village of Yiolou in Paphos who succumbed to his injuries in hospital over the weekend, announced on Tuesday the wish ...

Police on Tuesday said 136 migrants arrived to Cyprus by boat on New Year’s Day, while the man suspected of being the boat’s operator has been arrested and remanded ...

In today’s episode, two grandparents and two grandchildren died after being involved in a road traffic collision. Meanwhile, President Nikos Christodoulides said in his New Year message there is “...

The Paphos district court issued a five-day detention order against a suspect wanted for an investigated case of extortion by false representation and illegal drugs possession, it was announced on ...

The Paphos district court imposed a five-month prison sentence on a 43-year-old man found guilty of domestic violence, it was announced on Tuesday. According to police, the 43-year-old, a permanent ...

A car set on fire in Limassol in the early hours of Tuesday was extinguished by neighbours who noticed the vehicle aflame. According to the police, the fire broke out ...

The United Nations Security Council is expected soon to vote on the resolution for the renewal of the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp), which expires on ...

The driver of a pick-up truck which crashed into another vehicle killing its four occupants on New Year’s Eve was remanded in custody for six days on Tuesday. Court ...

Tuesday will be mostly cloudy with isolated rains and storms expected. Temperatures will rise to 20C inland and on the coasts and 11C in the higher mountains. Winds will initially ...

Amid great fanfare and pledges of transparency and change, 2023 saw a new president elected. And though the ‘new broom’ promised to sweep clean, Nikos Christodoulides’ administration soon became clogged by ...

Life would be so much simpler without the views. I’ve been writing profiles for years – I interviewed 45 people for the Living section of the Sunday Mail in 2023, including today’...