#Cyprus news

More young voices need to be heard at the annual diaspora conference, the World Organisation of Young Overseas Cypriots Nepomak said on Sunday. The 21st World Conference of Diaspora Cypriots ...

Those who seek to create tension and a negative climate do not reflect the desire of the overwhelming majority of Greek and Turkish Cypriots to reunite the island, President Nikos ...

The Cypriot firefighting mission in Greece relocated to a “large and dangerous” front in Evros on Sunday. The 31-member team travelled to Alexandroupolis on Sunday together with the Special Forest ...

US Senator Robert Menendez proposed sanctions be imposed against Turkey if the country proceeds with further developments in the fenced-off area in Famagusta. The carrot and stick motivational approach could ...

The met service said storms are expected on Sunday, less than a week before the end of August. Isolated showers or thunderstorms will affect mainly the mountains and eastern half ...

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 ...

Cyprus on Friday welcomed the extension of the lifting of the US arms embargo for the 2024 fiscal year. Following the decision of the US state department that will continue to ...

Asylum applications in Cyprus were down by over 70 per cent in April this year compared to the same month in 2022, Eurostat data showed on Tuesday. According to the EU’s ...

Archaeologists in Larnaca have unearthed a collection of royal tombs dating back to the Bronze Age, considered among the most luxurious in the Mediterranean. The excavation, conducted near Alyki Larnaca ...

The resumption of a new effort for a Cyprus settlement has been set as a priority by the Government of Nikos Christodoulides, the Minister of Justice and Public Order, Anna ...

Defence Minister Michalis Georgallas on Sunday welcomed the US Senator Robert Menendez’s proposed amendment to the National Defence Appropriations Act (NDAA) extending to three years from one the renewal ...

The impact of Turkey’s economic embargo on the Republic of Cyprus amounts to around one percentage point of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) annually. According to the data collected ...

The Cyprus-Greece-Israel trilateral meeting scheduled for Wednesday has been postponed, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu underwent surgery on Saturday. The prime minister’s office said planned trips to Cyprus ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday said he will not engage in “public confrontation games” after the Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said Turkey stopped Cyprus union with Greece in 1974. Speaking ...

A new photovoltaic park at Larnaca airport will prevent the emission of over 3,850 tonnes of CO₂ per annum, Hermes Airports said on Wednesday. The company added that together with their ...

Six people are hospitalised with heatstroke, including one who is intubated, state health services organisation (Okypy) said on Wednesday as soaring temperatures continue. After one patient was discharged, an 89-year-old ...

Four people suspected of transporting 114 irregular migrants from Syria to the Republic have been arrested, police said on Wednesday as officials seek measures to curb arrivals from the West-Asian country. ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday expressed the conviction that France would continue to be Cyprus’ solid partner to efforts to reunify the country, for the benefit of all Cypriots. In ...

Australian MP and Chair of the Australia/Cyprus Parliamentary Friendship Group, Maria Vamvakinou paid a visit to Cyprus last week, opening the discourse on human rights, migration and peace, the ...

The Larnaca-based British University of Cyprus promotes social responsibility in sports with a joint leadership of Unesco chair on governance and social responsibility in sport. The Cyprus campus of the ...

Attracting productive direct investments in our country is of paramount importance for the Government, Cyprus’ President Nikos Christodoulides said in his address at the 11th Invest Cyprus International Investments Awards ...

The death of six-year-old girl, who was critically injured during a jet-ski accident at Lady’s Mile over the weekend, was attributed to a severe head injury, state pathologists said ...

Authorities in the north have called for the establishment of an Azerbaijani ‘embassy’ in an effort to establish diplomatic relations, Turkish Cypriot media said on Tuesday. The chairman of the “...

A couple was arrested on Friday afternoon in Larnaca on suspicion of posing as doctors to extort money from an elderly woman, a crime that cost over €100,000 to pensioners of ...