#Cyprus

“States which pose a threat to European Union member states” cannot join the European Union’s Security Action for Europe (Safe) defence procurement programme, Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas said on ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday held a telephone call with the United Arab Emirates’ President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan ahead of Monday’s summit in Egypt on the future ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is to travel to Egypt on Monday to attend a summit on the future of Gaza, and said on Sunday that he will demand that Cyprus have ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday said he is “cautiously optimistic” over the prospects for the Cyprus problem. “Without downplaying the challenges and the difficulties, I believe that the small steps ...

The number of Greek Cypriots using Cyprus’ nine crossing points to cross to the north fell by more than 15 per cent in the second quarter of the year compared to ...

Two traffic accidents in Nicosia different parts of Nicosia on Saturday afternoon left and elderly man and an elderly woman dead. The first accident happened around 1pm on Gregoris Afxentiou ...

Despite scattered rainfall in several forest areas this week, Cyprus wildlife’s need for water remains at its highest level, the forestry department said on Saturday. Officials said that while ...

Documentary filmmaker David Castillo claimed on Saturday he was banned from entering the north Cyprus while working on his recently released film Cyprus: A Divided Island. “Even though we had ...

Resolving differences over the Great Sea Interconnector “builds trust and demonstrates Cyprus’ official interest in the project,” Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Saturday, one fay after the government officially ...

The list of vehicles fitted with faulty airbags was known to authorities the north for more than a year before a fatal crash last week, head of the Turkish Cypriot ...

Customs officers seized around 300kg of raw meat during a routine vehicle inspection at the Ayios Dhometios crossing on Friday. Meat, consisting of animal bones and skins, was found in ...

From the ruins of invasion, football became an act of resistance and hope, Larnaca mayor Andreas Vyras said on Friday night at a tribute to refugee football clubs, legendary players ...

No independent investigator has been appointed to probe allegations of rape at the central prison after the legal service did not offer a positive response to a request for one ...

The municipality of Strovolos will be working with neighbourhood social workers to establish a direct line of communication with school administrators, Strovolos mayor Stavros Stavrinidis said during a meeting with ...

A tender has been issued for the construction of a 9.4-kilometre section of the Nicosia highway between Anthoupoli and Anagyia, the transport ministry announced on Friday. The €95 million project is ...

Products with a reduced ecological footprint, labelled with the EU Ecolabel, are barely available in Cyprus, where their market share stands at just two per cent, according to a new ...

A driver has allegedly been fined €2,000 after entering the Larnaca salt lake in a car, leaving two vehicles stranded for days inside one of Cyprus’ most sensitive natural habitats. According ...

Mental health departments are operating at the limits of their capacity, with an overcrowding rate of 140 per cent and an urgent need for more staff, the mental health nursing branch ...

The severe traffic congestion that paralysed Nicosia on Wednesday is the result of “a state failure to create an effective public transport system,” Nicosia mayor Charalambos Prountzos told the Cyprus ...

Cyprus has joined a European pilot project to develop a secure and interoperable system for verifying users’ age online, Deputy Innovation Minister Nicodemos Damianou announced on Friday. The initiative, led ...

A total of 4.37 million non-EU citizens who fled Ukraine were under temporary protection status by the end of August, with Cyprus recording the third-highest ratio of Ukrainians within the EU — 25 ...

The Nicosia criminal court on Friday rejected the prosecution’s request to cross-examine lawyer Andreas Pittadjis as part of the trial of two former MPs facing criminal charges over a ...

Cyprus’ energy regulatory authority (Cera) on Friday formally handed over two permits related to the construction of the Great Sea Interconnector to Greece’s independent transmission system operator Admie. The ...

The new A&E departments at state hospitals demonstrate the government’s commitment to upgrading public healthcare, Health Minister Michael Damianos said on Friday. He added that the introduction ...