#Cyprus

Three people were arrested on Monday afternoon after a boat carrying a total of 50 irregular migrants was spotted in the early hours of the morning by coast guards in the ...

Two children have escaped largely unharmed after a fire broke out in their home in Lakatamia on Monday. According to the fire brigade, the fire began at about 9:10am in ...

Paphos police have arrested a man they said has been illegally residing in Cyprus for the past ten years. According to police the man stayed on after his employment contract ...

The government is due to announce stricter controls at crossings to clamp down on abuses related to the purchase of fuel from the north, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on ...

Cyprus risks missing targets of 55 per cent for recycling municipal waste and recycling 65 per cent of packaging waste by 2025, according to an EU early warning report sent to the government. ...

Resistance to reforms and changes promoted comes from the effort to protect specific interests but the government will not succumb to such pressures, Justice Minister Anna Koukkides Procopiou said on ...

Willingness to compromise on the Cyprus issue is important to move forward, German Ambassador to Cyprus, Anke Schlimm, said in an interview published in the Sunday edition of Politis newspaper. ...

By Ioanna Achilleos Zavitsanaki Over the years, society has become increasingly demotivated in talking about the Cyprus problem. Reasons include the length of time that has passed without progress, the ...

All the efforts of President, Nikos Christodoulides, are focused on the liberation and reunification of Cyprus, to break the impasse that has arisen and to create the conditions that will ...

Local voices discuss the labour and business implications of artificial intelligence By Kyriacos Nicolaou The seemingly sudden yet profound market penetration of artificial intelligence has caused tremors in both the ...

I read your ‘Anti-LGBTI comments are nasty but are part of free speech’ (Our View, June 15) in both shock and disbelief. You argued that “nasty” comments should not warrant investigation ...

There was slightly reduced interest by Greek nationals living in Cyprus to cast their vote for the Greek Parliamentary repeat elections on Sunday compared with May’s elections. Of the 1,543 ...

Authorities prevented a terrorist attack which was believed to have been aimed at Israeli residents of the Republic of Cyprus, it emerged on Sunday. The perpetrators were reportedly the intelligence ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos departed today for Luxembourg, where he will participate in the meetings of the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) and the General Affairs Council (GAC) of the EU ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou on Saturday said that the foundations have been laid for the modernisation of the school curriculum, an effort which is seen as particularly significant by the ...

Cyprus must fully embrace the ‘Fit for 55’ package, a set of proposals aimed at revising and updating laws within EU member states to bring policies in line with a of ...

The University of Cyprus (UCy) will be forced to halt payments if its supplementary budget is not passed, rector Tassos Christofides said on Friday. During a visit by the house ...

Solar energy parks are sprouting up like mushrooms, House agriculture committee chair Yiannakis Gavriel said on Friday during a session on the issue after it emerged that 47 facilities had been ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday convened a meeting at the presidential palace to discuss the issues facing the operation and implementation of national health scheme Gesy. Alongside Gesy operator Health ...

Interim measures to deal with issues in the management of Turkish Cypriot properties were announced by the interior ministry on Friday, a day after more mismanagement claims surfaced during a ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Friday that female and male diplomats “now have the same opportunities and the same access to leadership positions” in Cyprus. Even so, speaking at ...

Excavations near Hala Sultan Tekke have unearthed tombs containing an array of impressive burial items, including locally produced pottery, ornaments and imported jewellery, according to the antiquities department. It announced ...

Cypriot-flagged ships are the eighth-most trustworthy in the world, according to the secretariat of the Paris Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The MoU measures the performance of ships bearing the flags ...

Police confirmed on Friday that an operation by the Joint Rescue centre picked up 45 irregular migrants on two boats in the Famagusta region on Thursday evening. The migrants were transported ...