#Cyprus

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 ...

Artificial intelligence is “not a competitor, but a power multiplier for the media”, the European Commission’s director-general for translation Christos Ellinides said on Friday. Speaking to the Cyprus News ...

Cyprus is “proof of the vital importance of respect for international law”, the country’s permanent representative to the United Nations Maria Michael said. Addressing the UN general assembly’s ...

The appeal hearing of deposed Paphos bishop Tychikos against his dismissal is expected to take place at the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople on October 17, according to reports on Friday. The ...

Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz on Thursday night made his third visit to Cyprus since the start of August and reiterated his and his government’s demand for a two-state ...

The social workers’ branch of trade union Pasydy on Thursday decried “inaccurate information being circulated” regarding the case of a 79-year-old woman who was allegedly locked inside her house for ...

Cyprus has become a ‘free-for-all’ as non-EU foreign nationals are snapping up real estate in quantities vastly disproportionate to their numbers, some MPs warned on Thursday. Parliamentarians were discussing a ...

MPs on Thursday asked questions about the contractor’s request for 500 extra days to finish the new archaeological museum in Nicosia, with the July 2026 timetable for completion now looking unattainable. ...

The recently introduced automated import system (AIS), which officially went live on September 29, continues to malfunction, causing significant delays in the clearance of goods, the head of the customs agents ...

Anti-corruption champion Andreas Hasapopoulos has reproved former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides, saying he has allowed “corrupt individuals who should be jailed” positions in his Alma movement leadership. Hasapopoulos, the administrator of ...

Nicosia district government general manager Constantinos Parmaklis may have committed abuses of his powers in his previous role as general manager of the district’s water board, as well as “...

The continuous upgrading of the National Guard and the strengthening of Cyprus’ deterrent power is a priority for the government, President Nikos Christodoulides said during the swearing-in ceremony of the ...

The signing of two projects concerning the construction of an outdoor Amphitheater in Avgorou and the creation of an outdoor sports area in Achna worth over € 4.5 million were announced by ...

The Turkish military invasion of Cyprus in 1974 constitutes a blatant violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Cyprus, Greek diplomats said, responding to a statement made ...

A loaded pistol was found wrapped in nylon inside an empty plastic container in Droushia in the Paphos area on Wednesday afternoon, police said on Thursday. According to the police, ...

Limassol district court on Thursday ordered remanded in police custody a 43-year-old man from Nicosia, in connection with the firing of shots at an office building in Limassol earlier this ...

On Thursday, the weather will remain partly cloudy with local rains and isolated storms expected first in the west and north before expanding to the rest of the island. Temperatures ...