#Cyprus

A record 15,000 runners took part in this year’s two-day Opap Limassol Marathon, which ended on Sunday afternoon. According to the organisers, the largest sporting event in Cyprus welcomed runners ...

Latest version of bill on ambulances gathering dust since 2019 Despite promises, the long-awaited bill regulating the ambulance services has been delayed again, three years after it was submitted to parliament. ...

President Nikos Christodoulides’ proposal for more EU involvement in the Cyprus issue has not yet been received in Brussels Director General of the DG Structural Reform Support in the EU, ...

Ten years ago almost to the day, international lenders made Cyprus an offer it couldn’t refuse – close your second largest commercial bank and seize almost half of uninsured deposits ...

The national guard has just completed a military exercise with the US armed forces that began on February 20, it was announced on Sunday. The exercise, ‘Proteas’ included the army and ...

Cyprus and Israel have signed a bilateral defence cooperation programme between the national guard and the armed forces of Israel (IDF) in Tel Aviv, as well as a corresponding tripartite ...

A woman aged 33 was arrested at Larnaca airport on Saturday night after police said they found almost 17 kilos of cannabis in her luggage, they said. Police did not provide information ...

The met office issued another yellow warning as storms are likely on Sunday from 11am through to 5pm It warned that rain intensity is set to exceed 35mm per hour ...

The state of certain refugee housing units is so desperate that some apartments will have to be demolished as they are beyond repair, head of the House refugee committee Nicos ...

Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou on Saturday said that the next steps in the ongoing CoLA dispute is to hold a meeting with all relevant stakeholders. Speaking to CyBC radio, Panayiotou ...

The Kurdish Cultural Centre on Saturday called on the public to join a gathering outside the justice ministry on Monday at 11am to demonstrate against Germany’s extradition request of ...

Short power cuts took place on Saturday morning as the Cyprus transmission system operator overestimated the amount of energy which was to be produced through photovoltaics. The winter weather caught ...

Winter has returned and gripped the island as the met office issued a yellow alert in effect until 5pm Saturday, with snow on the mountains and police urging caution on ...

Residents in dangerous refugee apartment buildings that will undergo renovation or be completely rebuilt are set to receive a lump sum to pay rent elsewhere, as the state will take ...

The union of petrol station owners has called for an urgent meeting with the president to finally resolve what they say is the unacceptable purchasing of petrol from the north. ...

University of Cyprus rector Tasos Christofides on Friday denied allegations of conflict of interest surrounding the employment of his daughter, calling on the auditor-general to show some respect on the ...

Six Covid-19 deaths and 1,281 infections were recorded in the last week, the health ministry said on Friday. At the same time, 41 Covid-19 patients remain hospitalised. Ten of these are in ...

A total of 14 people have died from the flu in Cyprus in this winter, authorities said on Thursday releasing figures. Among the deaths was an 8-year-old girl with no other ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Finance Minister Makis Keravnos are in constant contact with the governor of the Cyprus Central Bank as of Thursday, following a 30 per cent slump in shares ...

No signs of strangulation were found on the body of a 28-year-old woman, private medical examiner Marios Matsakis said on Thursday, after conducting a second post-mortem on her body, at ...

The second postmortem on the body of 28-year-old Lesya Bykova, who was found dead on Saturday near Petra tou Romiou, was completed on Wednesday, with officials saying no statements would ...

Cabinet on Wednesday approved a bill aiming to facilitate strategic investments, simplifying procedures and reducing bureaucracy. Strategic investments are those which amount to €20 million, of which at least 75 per cent ...

A bill on rolling out body cams on police officers and their vehicles is rife with “contradictions, inconsistencies and has serious potential for being unconstitutional”, Akel MP Aristos Damianou said ...

Between 60,000 and 100,000 people in Cyprus are estimated to be suffering from long Covid-19, the federation of patients’ associations (Osak) said on Wednesday as it announced the publication of manuals to ...