#Cyprus

Cypriot Twitch streamer Ahmet Sonuc, better known by his alias Jahrein, was arrested late on Thursday night in the Turkish Mediterranean city of Antalya for “obscenity”. The Antalya police headquarters ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday spoke of “progress” in talks between Nicosia and Athens regarding the Great Sea Interconnector – the mooted subsea cable connecting the electricity grids of Cyprus and ...

The government on Thursday said President Christodoulides currently receives a pension of just €600 a month, contradicting earlier reports that the amount comes to €1,000. Speaking to a television news network, deputy ...

Companies registered in Cyprus are part of an ongoing probe led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) into a €30 million VAT fraud and money-laundering scheme, it emerged on ...

Seven pharmacies that have secured an interim court order and operate as they please complained on Thursday about the ruckus being caused by the pharmacists’ association clamouring to have the ...

Cyprus issued over 30,000 residence permits in 2023, mostly to Russians, Indians, and Nepalese individuals, a Eurostat report showed on Thursday. According to the report, Cyprus gave out 34,000 residence permits last year, ...

The Republic of Cyprus’ airports recorded their largest ever passenger numbers during the first eight months of the year. In total, exactly 8,179,421 passengers passed through Cyprus’ two airports between January ...

The Pan-Cyprian Student Co-ordinating Committee (Psem) said on Thursday that the issue of installing air conditioning in schools had become a mockery because the president and others had not fulfilled ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday evening told British television channel GB News Cypriot reunification is “absolutely impossible”. Tatar appeared on a show hosted by former Member of the ...

The north’s ‘foreign ministry’ on Wednesday accused the United States of “bias” regarding the Cyprus problem, following the signing of a roadmap for bilateral defence cooperation with the US ...

The Supreme Constitutional Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal filed by a Syrian businessman against the revocation of his Cypriot citizenship after his name had appeared on a European Union ...

Scientists from the Cyens centre of excellence-affiliated software company Periopsis identified a total of 820 illegal rubbish tips between April and July, they announced on Wednesday. The tips were found as ...

US sanctions imposed on entities and individuals in Cyprus are not targeting the country but oligarchs and arms traders that enable Russia to continue waging its war in Ukraine, US ...

The appeals court on Wednesday ordered three doctors to more than double their payments to a woman who was awarded €1.3 million plus interest and expenses in compensation for medical negligence. ...

Air traffic control will finally move to its new premises in Kokkinotrimithia, a €16 million building that has been empty since it was built 15 years ago, the government announced on Wednesday. ...

Edek on Wednesday called on the government to convene a meeting with political parties over the Great Sea Interconnector asdiscussions continue with stakeholders about the future of the project. The ...

New fixed traffic cameras will be operational from Monday at the intersection of Spyros Kyprianou and Ayias Fylaxeos avenues in Limassol, police said on Wednesday. According to police, three new ...

A questionnaire issued by the education ministry’s school medical services has caused concern among parents for replacing the terms ‘mother’ and ‘father’ with ‘parent 1’ and ‘parent 2’, the House education ...

Local authorities were up in arms on Wednesday about a group of unaccompanied minors in Larnaca who have been removed from a previous facility to a state nursing home in ...

Discussions regarding the regulatory framework for the Great Sea Interconnector connecting Cyprus to Crete will carry on “for as long as it takes”, deputy government spokesman Yiannis Antoniou said on ...

Management of the Karpaz Gate Marina near the village of Ayia Triada in the Karpas peninsula has been transferred out of Israeli hands and put under the operation of Turkish ...

Police groups on Tuesday condemned allegations of sexist behaviour within the force towards female contract workers. The matter had been discussed during Monday’s House human rights committee, which was ...

Excavations in the north, at Pente Mili in Karavas, are underway to find and exhume the bodies of the first people who died during the 1974 Turkish invasion – an estimated 40 to 70 ...

Limassol general hospital is set for a €23 million facelift, which will see its A&E department expanded, new units set up and its overall space renovated, state health services (...