#Cyprus

The European Commission on Friday announced the launch of the EU Scholarship Programme for the Turkish Cypriot community for the Academic Year 2025/26, funded under the Aid Programme. It said that ...

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on Thursday cited Cyprus among a number of issues facing Turkey’s candidacy to join the EU. Speaking to Turkey’s Anadolu Agency ...

Nicosia criminal court on Thursday acquitted most of the defendants in a case relating to the now-defunct citizenship-via-investment scheme, finding that the charges of conspiracy to defraud the state were ...

The government said Thursday that sometime over the next few weeks it will unveil a ‘strategic plan’ for attracting foreign investment to Cyprus, while also asking local businesspeople and industrialists ...

The man who was arrested at the Kyrenia port in connection with the death of 24-year-old Shoaib Khan was released on bail in court in the north on Thursday. The ...

The police found a staggering haul of tobacco products worth over €200,000 which had been smuggled into the Republic of Cyprus from the north in a shed which was hidden behind ...

Cypriot member of the European parliament Fidias Panayiotou on Thursday denied being “Elon Musk’s puppet”. He posted a video on X entitled “Am I Elon Musk’s puppet?”, in ...

Technocrats from the United States visiting the Andreas Papandreou airbase in Paphos on Thursday morning are to inspect the facility and prepare a study for its upgrade, deputy government spokesman ...

A roadmap for the future of the “pay as you throw” scheme, wherein people are forced to pay for special issue rubbish bags to have their rubbish collected, was agreed ...

The Mavrokolymbos reservoir was to be completely drained by Thursday or Friday, according to the agriculture ministry while the Paphos district authority is calling for the construction of two new ...

Police on Thursday have identified and located the Limassol man who abused a bicycle delivery driver and stole his mobile device after a TikTok video of the incident shared with ...

The government is on the right track to be able to solve problems faced by Cyprus’ estimated 9,497 “trapped buyers”, interior ministry permanent secretary Elikkos Elia said on Wednesday. Speaking after ...

The damaged Mavrokolympos reservoir in the Paphos district is expected to be emptied by Friday, the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday. With the door to evacuating the reservoir opening on ...

As the Takata airbag recall crisis continues to unfold in Cyprus, MEP Michalis Hadjipantelas is leading an urgent call for immediate European action to address the defective airbags, which have ...

Police released a statement on Wednesday afternoon after shocking footage of a man in Limassol verbally and physically abusing a delivery driver sparked public outrage on social media. In their ...

Five football clubs on Wednesday offered to pay a third of the tax debt they owe to the government immediately. The proposal was made by Ael, Apoel, Apollon, Anorthosis and ...

Roadworks and other projects in Akamas are set to be scrutinised as a study is set to be presented on the implementation of terms set by the ad hoc committee, ...

A fierce disagreement has erupted between Paphos Metropolitan Tychikos and Archbishop Georgios over relics of the Saint Paul, the apostle. At the heart of the dispute is Tychikos’ refusal to ...

Police forces have launched major investigations in Nicosia and Paphos, raiding two shops and seizing hundreds of products suspected to contain controlled medicinal and narcotic substances. The operations, which took ...

The police on Tuesday clarified the circumstances surrounding attacks on Nicosia’s Bayraktar mosque following media reports. Turkey’s Anadolu Agency had reported earlier in the day that two attackers ...

Citizens over the age of 18 will be able to apply for a new national electronic identity card (eID) as of January 27, Deputy Research and Innovation Minister Nicodemos Damianou said on ...

A balcony on the second floor of an apartment building in the Limassol suburb of Yermasoyia collapsed and fell on to the first-floor balcony below it on Tuesday. The balcony ...

A 61-year-old man arrested on suspicion of animal cruelty was released on Tuesday with no charges. The man was questioned and released, in connection with a case involving a dog ...

The prisons department on Tuesday denied allegations that the new Wing 11 at the central prison has security issues after reports surfaced of an inmate being beaten with a padlock. “We ...