#Cyprus

Rainfall for October so far was 90 per cent higher than the average, the met office said on Tuesday, publishing preliminary results for the first half of the month. According to ...

Four thousand fewer people in Cyprus are classed as being at risk of poverty or social exclusion than last year, the statistical service said on Tuesday. Its report on poverty ...

The House commerce committee heard on Tuesday that vehicles with parts deemed faulty or unsafe will be called in to retest for an MOT if the owner fails to make ...

Cyprus is the EU’s closest member state to the ongoing crisis in neighbouring Israel, but President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday said he does not see the bloc taking a ...

The Presidential palace “seeks to be a beacon of ecological awareness”, First lady Philippa Karsera Christodoulides said on Tuesday launching a campaign to reduce landfill waste. The overall aim appears ...

An anti-war protest is set to take place in Nicosia’s central Eleftheria Square on Friday evening. The event, at 6.30pm, has been organised by the Cyprus Peace Council, which ...

Paphos court is to announce sentence against the 47-year-old Syrian man who threatened to “turn Paphos upside down” in relation to the Chlorakas incidents during the summer on October 30. The 47...

A 42-year-old woman was sentenced to 12 months in prison by the Paphos district court on Tuesday, after her 10-year-old daughter drowned in the swimming pool of their villa in the ...

Migrants living in a condemned apartment building without electricity or water has been cleared after the Paphos mayor intervened and expressed his outrage over the situation. “It’s situations such ...

The situation in Pyla has “returned to the status quo before the illegal actions of the Turkish army which led to the incidents with the peacekeepers”, President Nikos Christodoulides said ...

The government on Monday pledged to bring legislation regulating the controversial matter of multiple pensions paid out to state officials, but wouldn’t commit to a timeline. In parliament, finance ...

Limassol police are investigating a fraud case after a 39-year-old man reported that he was scammed out of €9,500. The police on Monday explained that the incident unfolded after the complainant ...

The Larnaca municipality on Monday said it was not to blame for the unpleasant stench affecting the area. It said the problem was caused by neighbouring municipalities and communities transporting ...

Five Israeli men on trial for the alleged gang rape of a 20-year-old British tourist in Ayia Napa pleaded not guilty on Monday to the charges read out at Famagusta ...

State doctors’ union (Pasyki) lamented the absence of comprehensive planning and coordination between the competent authorities after the Limassol general hospital was downgraded on Friday. The hospital was downgraded to “...

Former Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Sibel Siber was released on bail on Monday after having been arrested as part of the ongoing ‘fake prescription’ scandal on Thursday. The exact amount ...

Cyprus has received 26 requests from 26 countries for support in transporting foreign nationals currently in Gaza or Israel to their home countries via the island, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on ...

Cyprus is ready to contribute in any possible for the de-escalation of the situation in Israel, President Nikos Christodoulides told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday evening. Government Spokesman ...

The government scheme for ‘a solar panel on every rooftop’ is still ‘alive’ and it’s coming – though not in the autumn as earlier promised, but at the turn of ...

Olives are the primary tree crop in Cyprus, Agriculture Minister Petros Xenophontos said on Sunday, underlining they cover one million square metres around the island. The production value of the ...

A 41-year-old man wanted in connection with the stabbing of a second man, aged 25, was arrested on Sunday. Police said the man was injured in an attack on June 30 in ...

With three gold and two silver medals, Cyprus ranked third in The Economist’s economic pentathlon which calculated how the 27 EU member states perform on the five major challenges facing ...

The 92-year-old hotel hasn’t accepted a booking in over 40 years. All that’s set to change Berengaria’s back. No, not Richard the Lionheart’s wife – she’d be ...

Government support is coming for women in agriculture, Commissioner for Gender Equality Josi Christodoulou said on Sunday, saying their role in the sector lags behind that of men both on ...