One of the five people who filed complaints to the police leading to the arrest and subsequent detention of five Greek Cypriots in the north on Thursday night withdrew her ...
Opposition Turkish Cypriot leadership election candidate Tufan Erhurman holds a four-point lead over incumbent Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar ahead of next month’s election, according to a poll released ...
On Thursday, the European Parliament overwhelmingly adopted a resolution condemning the illegal and continued detention of five Greek Cypriots in the north, calling for their immediate and unconditional release.
The ...
The two defendants in the ongoing ‘golden passports’ trial insisted on Thursday that they are innocent of all charges, that they broke no law nor done anything untoward.
Former House ...
Overall tax revenues have risen considerably over the last few years, although tax arrears continue to be high, MPs heard on Thursday.
The House audit committee was discussing the auditor-general’...
Nicosia district court on Thursday sentenced former volunteerism commissioner Yiannakis Yiannaki to three years in prison for deliberately circulating forged documents to secure a job in the public sector.
During ...
MEPs from Cyprus and Greece called for the release of five Greek Cypriots arrested in the north in July and demanded measures be taken against Turkey, during a debate at ...
Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos and United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday held a telephone conversation in which they discussed, among other things, “cooperation on security and defence”.
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EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said in a speech on Wednesday that the commission intended to propose the creation of a new European firefighting hub based in Cyprus, ...
British actor Paul Anderson, best known for his role as Arthur Shelby in the acclaimed BBC/Netflix series Peaky Blinders, will be a special guest at this year’s Cyprus ...
Three of the five Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the north in July were released on bail on Wednesday.
All five appeared at a military court in Nicosia, where ...
Cyprus will spend the €1.1 billion loan from the EU’s SAFE programme over the next five years to help boost its defence industry, Defence Minister Vassilis Palmas announced on Wednesday ...
The parents of an infant hospitalised with a brain haemorrhage were remanded in custody for four days on Wednesday, after doctors said they were looking into shaken baby syndrome.
The ...
Veyzi Bandur was on Wednesday sentenced to life in prison for the premeditated murder of Turkish Cypriot Tansu Cidan, who died in the central prison in 2022.
Bandur had been found ...
More than 50 flights at Larnaca and Paphos airports will be affected by the three-hour strike on Thursday, Hermes Airports told the Cyprus News Agency on Wednesday.
A representative said that “...
The government’s reform of the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA) is “a huge reform”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday, just a day before a three-hour general strike called by the ...
Cyprus, as the host country of one of the longest-running peacekeeping operations in the world, is fully aware of the necessity of sustaining a UN force to prevent the recurrence ...
By Athena Eftychiou
Similar to the rest of the Mediterranean and even the east coast of the UK from where I’m currently writing this, Cyprus has been experiencing some ...
Energy Minister George Papanastasiou on Tuesday met Egypt’s Petroleum Minister Karim Badawi for a “results-oriented discussion” regarding the two countries’ efforts to exploit natural gas from under the seabed ...
Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday night issued a 1,000-word statement – his second of this year’s election campaign so far – criticising efforts towards a federal solution to the ...
Turkish Cypriot journalist Canan Onurer said she has received death threats after refusing to retract a report on alleged criminal activity involving individuals who had recently arrived on the island ...
The European Commission on Thursday approved the disbursement of over €1 billion to Cyprus as part of its Security Action for Europe (Safe) programme.
In total, Cyprus will receive exactly €1,181,503,924, while 18 ...
MPs on Tuesday gave the government a two-week deadline to enforce the law – which they say obliges car dealers to check and replace faulty Takata airbags free of charge – otherwise ...
Former House president Demetris Syllouris will not take the stand in the ongoing golden passports trial against him, his lawyer Chris Triantafyllides told the Nicosia criminal court on Tuesday.
Instead, ...