#Cyprus

A protest calling for justice over the case of Thanasis Nicolaou will be held on Saturday outside the legal service. Under the slogan Justice is Not Negotiable, buses are being ...

There have been no new migrant arrivals in Cyprus since the joint visit by President Nikos Christodoulides and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to Lebanon at the beginning ...

Cyprus team set record for highest fitness session The mountaineering team that left Cyprus last month for Nepal has set a new Guinness World Record for the highest altitude fitness ...

A 30-year-old woman jumped out of the first-floor balcony to escape her violent husband, Nicosia district court heard on Sunday. The woman was found injured on a street in Nicosia’...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting May 13: National investment promotion agency Invest Cyprus recently showcased the country’s business and investment credentials in the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will meet with Chinese ambassador Liu Yantao on Monday to discuss the ongoing and escalating spat between Chinese-led construction firm CPP-Metron Consortium Ltd (CMC) and Natural Gas ...

A total of 310 pallets of humanitarian aid were unloaded from ships onto the temporary jetty off the coast of Gaza on the first day of its operation on Friday, according ...

A waiter stabbed a customer during a dispute over the customer’s bill at a restaurant in Karavas on Friday evening. The incident took place at around 11.30pm, with the ...

People should “not turn their backs on the electoral process”, chief electoral officer Elikkos Elia said on Saturday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) with three weeks to go ...

Cyprus was given a score of just 34 per cent for the human rights situation and living standards of its LGBT population. The score was published by LGBT advocacy group Ilga-Europe, ...

Cyprus may have been inhabited long before was previously thought, according to a new study. The study, carried out by researchers at the Flinders University in the Australian city of ...

The situation for prisoners has deteriorated since 2017, while the Nicosia central prisons are “bursting at the seams”, an anti-torture report published on Friday revealed. Concerns were raised in the Council ...

Natural Gas Infrastructure Company (Etyfa) on Friday slammed what it called the “unfortunate and desperate attempt” by the consortium constructing the beleaguered natural gas terminal at Vasiliko to “mislead public ...

Cyprus is “not alone” on the matter of migration, Greek Migration Minister Dimitris Kairidis said on Friday. Speaking to journalists after an inter-ministerial summit held by representatives of the two ...

People sent to Pournara migrant reception centre were placed in containers without electricity or hot water, crammed next to each other “like sardines, in unhygienic conditions,” the Council of Europe’...

The interior ministries of eight European Union member states took a joint stance on migration and the state of Syria following a meeting in Nicosia on Friday. The ministries of ...

Auditor General Odysseas Michaelides on Friday morning filed opposition proceedings against the legal service’s motion to have him suspended from his post. The first hearing will take place on ...

The Cypriot Union of Consumers and Quality of Life has warned consumers about purchasing items from the internet platform Temu, which it says does not respect European consumer safety legislation. “...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou has rubbished an alleged proposal by far-right Elam to give passports to migrants so they would leave the country. Elam has denied saying any such thing, ...

Schools across Cyprus received bomb threats by email on Friday morning. The bomb threats are so far believed to be hoaxes, though some schools immediately took measures and evacuated children ...

Cyprus will on Friday host an international meeting of interior ministers to discuss the matter of migration, with a particular emphasis on Cyprus’ plan to declare parts of Syria safe ...

A new system deactivating mobile phones in the immediate vicinity of the central prisons will be installed and go operational one-and-a-half years from now, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis told MPs ...

The Legal Service has no intention to challenge the court verdict on Thanasis Nicolaou that ruled he was strangled, it emerged on Thursday. Sources from the service said they were ...

A UK shipment of nearly 100 tonnes of aid has left Cyprus bound for a new temporary pier in Gaza, the British Foreign Office said in a statement on Wednesday. Meanwhile, ...