#Cyprus

On Saturday, the weather will remain overwhelmingly clear with temperatures rising up to 34 degrees Celsius inland, around 29 degrees on the west coast, 31 degrees in the remaining coastal areas and up ...

Young people in Cyprus move out of the family home at the average age of 27.2, making them some of the oldest youngsters to leave home within the EU, Eurostat data ...

A convict who claims he was repeatedly raped by fellow inmates in Nicosia central prison has accused prison authorities of delaying action, covering up criminal acts and failing to protect ...

Members of the Cyprus customs agents association, who began an indefinite strike on Friday morning over concerns surrounding the new automated import system (AIS), held a meeting with the finance ...

Akel on Friday blasted the government of former president Nicos Anastasiades for “criminally erroneous and suspicious decisions” and of incumbent Nikos Christodoulides for “incompetence and irresponsibility” regarding the Vasiliko liquefied ...

Health Minister Michael Damianos said on Friday that people with thalassaemia account for 34 per cent of all blood transfusions in Cyprus. Speaking at a press conference ahead of the launch ...

The legal service on Friday confirmed that it had filed an appeal against the sentence handed down to former volunteer commissioner Yiannakis Yiannaki, who pled guilty to three charges related ...

The prosecution in the civilian court case of the five Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the north in July named the witnesses it intends to call to testify against ...

Maintenance works on the Limassol-Nicosia motorway will be carried out in the direction of Nicosia from 8 pm until 5:30 am and will be completed by Thursday, October 2. Due to a machine ...

The five Greek Cypriots who had been arrested in the north in July and were later accused of privacy violations, trespassing and breaching the peace, are scheduled to appear before ...

On Friday, the weather will remain mainly clear with temperatures rising up to 35 degrees Celsius inland, 29 degrees on the west coast, around 32 degrees on the remaining coastal areas and up ...

The latest Eurobarometer survey on food safety shows that 95 per cent of Cypriots are interested in food-safety issues and other factors influencing food choices – far above the EU average of 72 ...

Deputy Research Minister Nicodemos Damianou on Thursday rejected allegations of impropriety over the awarding of the new electronic ID (eID) contract to JCC, the company he once managed, insisting “nothing ...

The third enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem, involving Cyprus’ two sides, the UN and the island’s three guarantor powers – Greece, Turkey and the United Kingdom – will take place ...

A man in police custody was subjected to “inhumane and humiliating treatment and punishment”, ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottides said on Thursday. In her capacity as head of the national mechanism to ...

The recall of faulty Takata airbags has reached 76 per cent of affected vehicles, according to data presented on Thursday during a meeting of the House transport committee. Around 19,000 cars remain ...

The government is now pondering its options for appeal after the European Commission gave it until November 6 to repay a total of €67.2 million handed out in grants for the construction ...

A joint event celebrating the vital role of athletes with disabilities in the Olympics was held on Wednesday by the Nicosia Lions NGO, Cyprus Special Olympics, and the European University ...

The Republic of Cyprus will pay the €25 million demanded of it by Greece’s independent transmission system operator (Admie) when the Great Sea Interconnector project is being “implemented it in ...

The dredging of Larnaca’s marina, budgeted at €900,000, is “proceeding as scheduled” and is expected to be completed by December, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Thursday. Speaking during a ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos continued his series of meetings with his counterparts on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly in New York over the course of Thursday night. ...

President Nikos Christodoulides met the Ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholemew, on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly in New York. During the meeting, Christodoulides informed Bartholemew about the ...

Animal welfare commissioner Antonia Theodosiou announced a seven-year action plan for the mass-sterilisation the island’s more than 1 million stray cats in an effort to control their population. “We support ...

Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot parties in a bicommunal meeting on Wednesday called on UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to resume talks on the Cyprus problem, stressing that the division of ...