#Cyprus

Evenings of exciting music are approaching soon, taking music lovers all over Cyprus this April. A handpan, lyra and double bass concert by the Gaba Project will take place in ...

Health Minister Michael Damianos issued instructions on Friday for the immediate preparation of a report on the process followed for the rental of the pharmaceutical services warehouse which flooded during ...

Decisions on migration might be made that “are not liked”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday, after it was announced Lebanon would not be taking migrants back from Cyprus. “I ...

A meeting between UN Secretary-General and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Friday finished after an hour, following the latter’s comments that only a state solution can be the ...

Lebanon is struggling to deal with over two million Syrian migrants within its own borders, and is no longer accepting returns from Cyprus, the interior ministry said on Friday. Lebanon ...

A 24-year-old suspect was arrested in Paphos on Friday for allegedly setting fire to barber shop the night before. According to Paphos police, the man was arrested after police received ...

Turkish Cypriot pupils in the north have dropped by more than 50 per cent, head of Turkish Cypriot teaching union (Ktos) Burak Mavis said on Friday. According to Mavis, the number ...

Limassol’s central Anexartisias street will become a one-way street from the end of 2025, the city’s council decided on Thursday. Preparations for the road to become a one-way street ...

A total of four migrant boats were spotted off the coast of Cape Greco at around midday on Friday, according to reports. The first was brought ashore at the Golden ...

Firefighters’ association Sypyk on Friday demanded the fire brigade pay its frontline employees an extra allowance due to the dangerous nature of their job. Sypyk chairman said the fire brigade ...

A dog shelter covering six Nicosia municipalities is set to be upgraded and expanded, they announced on Friday to mark World Stray Animals Day. The day is recognised around the ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said in an interview with British newspaper the Daily Telegraph that “one tiny mistake” could turn Cyprus into “a new Gaza”. He said, “a mistake ...

The temporary jetty which is being constructed off the coast of Gaza to facilitate the receipt of aid under Cyprus’ Amalthea plan “will be completed within 15 days”, it was learned ...

The House on Thursday passed a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and for continued support to the maritime aid corridor known as ‘Amalthea’ despite the Israeli military’s ...

Spanish nongovernmental organization (NGO) Open Arms said it and U.S. charity World Central Kitchen (WCK) were suspending attempts to get aid to Gaza via sea after seven WCK workers ...

By Nikolaos Prakas and Elias Hazou Lawmakers heard on Thursday that a warehouse where medicines were being stored and which was recently flooded, was unfit for purpose – a fact known ...

Cyprus is looking for “immediate solutions” to deal with the migration crisis, House president Annita Demetriou said on Thursday, in a meeting with Lebanese ambassador Claude El Hajal. The meeting ...

A monument to the Cypriot mule corps, which fought on the side of the British during the first and second world wars, was unveiled at the Karafa bastion of Nicosia’...

More than €8 billion of major developments have been planned to be carried out in Cyprus, the Association of Large Investment Projects’ chairman Andreas Demetriades said on Thursday. Demetriades was speaking ...

A Singapore court on Thursday jailed a second defendant in its biggest-ever money laundering probe, news outlet The Straits Times reported, a case that has seen the seizure or freezing ...

Two flamingos observed at the Larnaca salt lake have been determined to be living to a ripe old age, environmental NGO BirdLife Cyprus reported. In a post on social media ...

Promises have been received from the archbishopric regarding the illegal construction of a church in Ayia Napa, the interior minister said on Thursday. Meanwhile, parties have called for investigation by ...

The government may begin sending migrants to army camps across Nicosia if arrivals do not slow down, it emerged on Thursday. Currently, over 1,300 people are at Pournara reception centre with ...

MPs on Wednesday repeated a variation of ‘show me the money’ during a House ethics committee discussing the amount of cash flowing into the country, amid fears of ongoing money ...