#Cyprus

President Nicos Anastasiades began applying pressure on the Disy leadership to back the candidacy of Nikos Christodoulides even before the counting of the votes of Sunday’s presidential election had ...

Average temperatures recorded in January were unusually high, both in terms of daily maximum and minimum in comparison to previous years, the meteorological service said on Monday. The average daily ...

Cyprus and the US are set to carry out a series of joint military exercises between February 6 and 24 in various locations on the island, the foreign ministry announced on Monday. ...

Disy leader Averof Neophytou met the two remaining candidates on Monday as the party continued to deliberate on its course in the presidential election following Neophytou’s exclusion from the ...

The future of Disy remains to be seen as to how the party will handle the exclusion of its party leader Averof Neophytou from the final round of presidential elections, ...

Just over 72 per cent of people voted in the first round of presidential elections on Sunday, while close to 30 per cent of people abstained, a trend that has been steadily ...

Nikos Christodoulides was the clear favourite across the districts in Cyprus, leading in three of them, while his runoff opponent Andreas Mavroyiannis lead in one district and abroad, results showed ...

A Greek Cypriot farmer was allegedly shot by Turkish military officials in the north police said on Sunday, only to have the claim quickly refuted by the authorities in the ...

The Cyprus issue and the economy were at the top of London-based Cypriots’ agendas as they went to the polling stations to vote for the first round of the presidential ...

The number of presidential hopefuls was whittled down to two on Sunday leaving Nikos Christodoulides and Andreas Mavroyiannis to battle it out in the runoff next week. The results are ...

Corruption has been a major election issue but tackling it will take far more than cliched statements Veteran politician Christos Pourgourides has called on the public going into the elections ...

A slippery voter may have committed a crime as he allegedly tried to take a photograph of his ballot paper on Sunday. The incident took place at a Paphos voting ...

Cyprus’ tourism revenues for the period between January and November 2022 are estimated to have amounted to €2.3 billion, coming close to pre-pandemic levels, according to a report released this week by ...

By Charles Ellinas Following a joint-letter by the Distribution System Operator (DSO) and Transmission System Operator (TSO) on January 20 requesting suspension of licensing of new residential photovoltaic (PV) installations until ...

Cyprus discovers an average of 3,700 cancer cases per year, the health ministry said on Saturday, marking World Cancer Day. With the slogan ‘Close the Gap in Cancer Care’, the aim ...

Cyprus and the north have agreed to work together for a study that could pave the way to create a photovoltaic park in the buffer zone, government spokesman Marios Pelekanos ...

German company AVIAREPS announced on Friday that it has been appointed to be the General Sales Agent (GSA) for Cypriot airline TUS Airways, representing the company in its key European ...

Transparency International has just released its 2022 annual ‘Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI)’ report. It makes grim reading for Cyprus, dropping down the rankings yet again. This is an independently produced report, ...

Cyprus’ Industrial Turnover Index recorded an increase of 21.3 per cent year-on-year in November 2022, according to a report released on Friday by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat). According to the report, ...

Presidential candidates on Friday made their final statements to their supporters in the final run up to the first round of the 2023 presidential elections. In the morning, chief returning officer ...

The trial for David Hunter, 75, resumed on Friday with an expert witness testifying that Hunter was in no state to give statements to police after he killed his wife, due ...

The bronze statue worth €10,000 that adorned a location in Paphos but was stolen last Saturday was sold by the thieves for €85 to another suspect in the case, it emerged on ...

Cyprus’ annual rate of inflation reached 7.1 per cent in January 2023, continuing its downward trend for the third consecutive month. According to a report published on Friday by the Cyprus Statistical ...

Sixteen Greek Cypriots are seeking state assistance in resettling to the villages of Kormakitis and Ayia Triada in the north, according to the humanitarian affairs office. The state plan for ...