#Cyprus

Police arrested two people and issued 378 traffic fines during nationwide operations on Thursday night, authorities said on Friday. A total of 682 vehicles and checked 952 drivers and passengers were pulled over, ...

Five men accused of terrorism offences connected to an alleged plot targeting Israeli interests in Cyprus were committed for trial on Thursday before the Larnaca criminal court, with proceedings set ...

Happy endings aren’t for everyone. While a perfect conclusion where everyone is happy, the good guys are triumphant and evil is vanquished is usually the order of the day ...

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi urged Bulgaria to reconsider its decision to allow the temporary deployment of U.S. military aircraft at the Bezmer air base, Iranian state media ...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres expressed “deep appreciation” for the work of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) during a visit to its anthropological laboratory in Nicosia on Wednesday. Guterres ...

The “substance” of the Cyprus problem was discussed on Wednesday for the first time since negotiations collapsed in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana in 2017, President Nikos Christodoulides said after ...

The interior ministry on Wednesday defended its decision to remove parents’ names from Cyprus’ new biometric identity cards, saying the move was based on recommendations from the children’s rights ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ personal envoy on Cyprus, Maria Angela Holguin, met the European Union’s newly appointed envoy for Cyprus and European Commission Executive Vice-President Raffaele Fitto, as well ...

Cyprus’ electricity system is operating with limited reserves after all-time high demand was recorded on Wednesday, with the prolonged heatwave and production unit failures increasing pressure on the grid. National ...

Residents of Limassol are preparing to protest against the planned shopping mall in Ayios Athanasios, after the cabinet approved a planning dispensation for the new shopping centre estimated to cost €95 ...

The government on Wednesday approved the allocation of €1.65 million worth of funding for pig farmers whose animals were culled in response to an outbreak of foot and mouth disease earlier ...

The fire brigade and the police are investigating the cause of the fire that broke out in the Ergates industrial area of Nicosia on Tuesday. The fire broke out on ...

A parked vehicle belonging to a 34-year-old woman was destroyed in a fire on Wednesday morning. According to the police, the fire broke out at around 4.40am in an open ...

Kyrenia mayor Akis Violaris renewed calls for the return of displaced people and the resolution of the missing persons issue in a message marking the 52nd anniversary of the Turkish ...

The Cyprus petrol station owners’ association on Monday called on President Nikos Christodoulides to intervene over a transport ministry decree that will see at least 80 per cent of petrol tankers ...

The foreign ministry on Monday condemned the visit of Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz to the north on the occasion of the Turkish invasion in 1974. “We remain committed to the ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman stressed the need for “results” to be achieved at the next enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem in his speech marking the 52nd anniversary of ...

Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz on Monday said that Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus in 1974 brought peace not only to Turkish Cypriots and to the north of the island, but ...

Turkey will be required to exhibit flexibility in its position regarding the Cyprus problem, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Wednesday, as he faced questions over the day’s Nato ...

Relatives, friends and politicians gathered for the funeral of businessman Nikos Shacolas in Strovolos on Monday.  Among the attendees were President Nikos Christodoulides, House president Annita Demetriou and Archbishop Georgios, ...

Defence attorneys on Monday grilled a nursery schoolteacher who had supervised the class of Stylianos Constantinou, the boy who took his own life at the age of 14. The case before ...

Three fire fighters were hospitalised following the outbreak of a fire in a frozen food factory in Aradippou on Monday afternoon. “During the operation, three members of the fire service, ...

The government on Thursday again sought to distance itself from the upcoming meeting in Cyprus of the Gaza Executive Board, with Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos stressing that the island is ...

Cyprus has expressed solidarity with Venezuela after two powerful earthquakes killed at least 164 people and caused widespread destruction. In its statement issued on Thursday, the foreign ministry said it was “...