#Cyprus

Cypriot pilgrims left for Jerusalem barely an hour after Hamas fired rockets into Israel even though it was known the attack had started, the groups’ travel agent said on Tuesday. “...

Two men, aged 35 and 29, were remanded in custody for eight days on Tuesday after posing as doctors to scam thousands of euros out of the elderly in Limassol. The pair ...

The Audit Office on Tuesday added fuel to the fire after Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos once again criticised the city’s airport, speaking of “unacceptable manipulations” on behalf of the ...

Four months after the implementation of an electronic patient satisfaction survey, beneficiaries of the national health service Gesy rated inpatient healthcare services at an impressive 8.8 out of 10. According to a ...

Cyprus’ foreign ministry on Monday raised the Israeli flag outside its building as a show of solidarity after the neighbouring country suffered a major attack from Hamas. In a post ...

Construction on the road between the villages of Pyla and Arsos is set to begin later this month after a “mutual understanding” was found to solve the buffer zone dispute ...

An anonymous Turkish businessman who has taken ownership of a number of hotels in Varosha is to hold a tender for their reconstruction and structural reinforcement within the next six ...

All non-Israeli players of the Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team, along with their families, have arrived in Cyprus, president of the Cyprus Basketball Federation Andreas Mouzourides said on Monday. Mouzourides ...

Paphos beaches are facing a huge problem of seaweed accumulation, Yeroskipou Mayor Kyriakos Hadjivasilis said on Monday. A solution for a place to deposit the seaweed, which is removed, must ...

On Saturday, the world’s strongest men descended on Limassol to pull municipal buses, hoist 200kg stones, and lift diplocambinos clean off the ground! In a historic moment for the ...

By Iole Damaskinos and Jonathan Shkurko President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday reiterated his deep concern regarding the unfolding situation in Israel, underlining the shock and sympathy felt by the whole ...

Two groups of Cypriot tourists in Israel are returning on Sunday, the foreign ministry said, after fighting broke out when Israeli forces clashed with Hamas, after the latter launched a ...

A 40-year-old is being treated with a severe head injury in Limassol, police said on Sunday, following a fight the night before. According to police the man arranged to meet ...

A foreign national was arrested and remanded for five days by the Limassol district court, after walking into a military airbase in Troodos, police said on Sunday. According to police, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday denied commenting on the matter of the Russian journalist sent back to Moscow, following his detainment in Nicosia a few days ago. The journalist’s ...

Cyprus will begin collecting and send humanitarian aid to Armenia to deal with thousands of refugees flooding into the country from Nagorno-Karabakh, an announcement said on Sunday. According to an ...

Exhibition features important photographs from Harvard University archives finds ELENI PHILIPPOU An exhibition of photographs of the Church of Panayia Kanakaria from the archive of Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University, has ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday that the Republic of Cyprus has given the UN the all-clear to appoint UN adviser to evaluate the prospects of restarting talks on the ...

A 34-year-old man was remanded for two days by the Paphos district court, under suspicion of drug possession and for drink driving, police said on Sunday. According to Paphos police, ...

A training centre in Greece teaching agents how to use the highly invasive surveillance software Predator was run by a Greek Cypriot man, a global investigation claimed this week. The ...

President Nikos Christodoulides condemned on Saturday the “horrifying terrorist attacks against Israel from Gaza” and underlined Nicosia’s solidarity with Israel. Earlier in the day, Hamas launched a major rocket ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said on Friday he is “in favour of targeted measures to help mostly vulnerable groups from the wave of rising costs and inflation.” He made the ...

Turkish Cypriot politicians have found themselves divided over a potential name change for the north. The idea gained traction on Wednesday when Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar described the ideas ...

Mean temperatures for summer days in Cyprus are set to exceed 38 degrees C in the coming decades, and summers will last longer by two weeks, Agriculture Minister Petros Xenophontos said ...