#Cyprus

Eight vultures were released into the wild on Wednesday after being sent to the island from Spain to help boost the population here, BirdLife said. They are expected to be ...

Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos assured students at a primary school in Limassol that the installation of sound barriers to permanently solve the problem of noise pollution from vehicles on the ...

Cyprus’ first crematorium is set to begin operations by 2024, eight years after the relevant law was first passed, it emerged on Wednesday. The environment department approved the application for the ...

A 27-year-old man was remanded for eight days by the Paphos district court on Wednesday after he allegedly attempted to murder another man, aged 36, in the early hours of Tuesday. ...

Independent candidate for the 2023 presidential elections Achilleas Demetriades put fighting corruption and the need for more transparency at the top of his agenda as he set out his key proposals ...

A giant piano fountain, bingo, great food, a wedding, and dozens of African migrants daily chanting ‘Anna Queen of the Prison’ prompted filmmaker Raphael Rowe of Netflix’s Inside the ...

Police are to carry out a risk assessment on security issues to his person, raised by state medical examiner Panicos Stavrianos in connection with the death of national guardsman Thanasis ...

The four independent presidential candidates will get together again on Wednesday for more talks on forging a possible alliance that might garner enough support to push them into the second ...

The government said on Tuesday it would cease talks with the Hermes consortium over expansion works at the two airports due to the toxic climate in the country caused by ...

All signs are pointing towards a return to normality within the tourism industry, president of the Cyprus Hotels Association (Pasyxe), Haris Loizides said on Tuesday, marked internationally as World Tourism ...

Imprisoned in the north over the use of walkie talkies and taking photographs of a military area, Andreas Soudjis will be released on October 7, a military court decided on Tuesday. ...

Over 250 students at Limassol’s state university of technology (Tepak) will receive up to €2,500 each to help cover rent this academic year, the university announced on Tuesday. Saying that housing ...

Nobel prize laureate Christopher Pissarides has strongly criticised presidential candidate Nikos Christodoulides and called on him to step down following a series of recent leaks – with further damaging allegations emerging ...

The EU tourism industry, and that of Cypurs, is bouncing strongly back from the Covid-19 pandemic, with data for 2022 closely mirroring that for 2019, a report released by Eurostat on Tuesday ...

An app to alert the authorities of problems in the road, called Fix Cyprus, was launched on Tuesday by the Cyprus Centre for Research and Excellence (Kios) in the presence ...

Business owners on Tuesday called on the government to take swift action to remedy the energy cost crisis, deploring the high fines imposed by the EU and passed on to ...

The University of Cyprus (UCY) has made public a film titled “Universities: Back to normal?” which explores the impacts of Covid-19 on the field of higher education, taking in its ...

Commissioner for health and food safety, Stella Kyriakidou, said there is a need for EU member states to promptly agree on regulations for agricultural pesticide use. Speaking on Monday in ...

A 27-year-old man was arrested early on Tuesday in connection with the attempted murder of another man in Paphos. The victim was found at his apartment in the early morning ...

A 21-year-old man was remanded for eight days by the Larnaca district court on Monday after he was detained at Larnaca airport on Sunday in connection with possession of close ...

Assistant UN Secretary General Rosemary Di Carlo will visit Cyprus this autumn for a fact-finding mission on the instruction of UNSG Antonio Guterres, government spokesman Marios Pelekanos announced on Monday. ...

A fifth Covid vaccine dose could be available by the end of October, while the cabinet just under two weeks ago approved the new bivalent jabs for fourth shots. Medical ...

In today’s episode, around 70 ground staff at Paphos Airport staged a lightning two-hour strike on Saturday night over possible redundancies, affecting a total of eight flights where passengers could ...

On Monday the weather will be mostly clear. Winds will initially be variable and light, up to 3 Beaufort, becoming mainly south-westerly to north-westerly, light to moderate, up to 4 Beaufort, in ...