#Cyprus

Billionaire Elon Musk has congratulated Fidias Panayiotou on being elected to the EU parliament as a Cypriot MEP, it emerged on Saturday. Musk posted on his platform X to congratulate ...

A 50-year-old man suspected of killing his 43-year-old brother-in-law in Peyia was released from Athalassa Psychiatric Hospital, rearrested and remanded for six days, police said on Saturday. Police in Paphos ...

Were people members of a cult 4,000 years ago in Bronze Age Cyprus, and did they use monoliths like the mysterious one found in Erimi? Is a skeleton with a bludgeoned ...

A 17-year-old conscript was admitted to Nicosia General’s intensive care unit on Saturday after feeling fatigue the day before shortly after he had started his national service. The defence ...

An 18-year-old boy was remanded for two days by Larnaca District Court on Saturday for stealing mobile phones on the beach, police said. The teen was stopped for a check ...

Police arrested a 48-year-old man on Saturday who was wanted in connection with the ‘Metamax’ pyramid scheme fraud. The man, from Paphos was named by two individuals who claimed he ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he will exhaust all possibilities for the resumption of Cyprus negotiations, diplomatic sources said following his meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. After the ...

A buzzard shot down by illegal hunters is added to the long list of violations at Achna reservoir, where one can maybe find a wildflower amid the household rubbish, animal ...

The government announced on Friday it would increase pension payments for some early retirees, reducing the 12 per cent drop in pension payments for those who retire before the age of 65 ...

Bickering between the government and opposition Disy continued Friday over a letter published by party leader Annita Demetriou after a National Council meeting last week. In her letter, Demetriou voiced ...

A US decision to shut down the humanitarian pier off the coast of Gaza “does not affect the continuation of the Amalthea initiative at all,” government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said ...

A 28-year-old man arrested in connection with the murder of Demetris Andronicou, AKA ‘Demetroui’, was released on Friday after authorities learned the gangland shooting occurred on his wedding day. According ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has received the report by his personal envoy to Cyprus and is studying it, a spokesperson for the UN chief confirmed late on Thursday. “The secretary-general ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou on Thursday took formal delivery of a cost-benefit analysis for the Great Sea Interconnector project – the mooted subsea electric cable linking Cyprus to Greece. The dossier ...

The Mari blast was a murder that killed the hopes and dreams of the young, Popi Christoforou, mother of the twins Christos and Miltos said on Thursday during the memorial ...

The lawyers of a man arrested on suspicion of operating a pyramid scheme on Thursday hit out at the media, insisting their client is innocent and that the media had ...

Nursing and midwifery unions on Thursday called on the state to help improve the image of their profession by tackling working conditions, wage scales and other terms of employment through ...

Humanitarian aid sent from Cyprus towards Gaza will dock at the Israeli port Ashdod when the temporary jetty constructed to facilitate the delivery of aid directly into Gaza from the ...

The government on Thursday conveyed its strong annoyance with opposition Disy leader Annita Demetriou over a scathing letter she sent the president concerning the Cyprus issue and the fatigue of ...

President Nikos Christodoulides lamented “tragic mistakes” made by the state on the 13th anniversary of the Mari explosion, which killed 13, on Thursday. Speaking to journalists ahead of a memorial service ...

United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp) chief Colin Stewart is to brief the UN Security Council on the latest state of the Cyprus problem on Thursday. Stewart will address ...

Mediterranean monk seals, the most rare and endangered marine mammal in Europe, will be once again using Cyprus’ sea caves to give birth between September and December, after a 10-month ...

Strong storms on Wednesday caused some power outages in areas of Nicosia, where trees fell. According to the electricity authority (EAC) spokeswoman Christina Papadopoulou, trees fell in Kaimakli in two ...

Parliament is looking to change a 2019 law amendment that excluded taxi drivers with a criminal record from holding a licence, which MPs say needs to be modified to take account ...