#Cyprus

Cyprus is expected to experience exceptionally high temperatures until Friday, met office expert Matthaios Papadakis said on Saturday. With temperatures on Saturday reaching a maximum of 43C, he said it ...

The Greek Cypriot side has given its consent to the United Nations for the appointment of a new special representative in Cyprus, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Saturday. He ...

Soldiers from the United States’ state of New Jersey’s national guard conducted training courses for non-commissioned officers from Cyprus’ national guard, according to an announcement on Saturday. The Cypriot ...

The team of experts from the United States’ Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) who are carrying out an investigation into the cause of and circumstances surrounding the ...

Student accommodation prices have reached record levels, with single rooms costing around €350 per month, while beds in dormitories remain scarce, the Cyprus Federation of Student Unions (Pofen) has said. Speaking ...

The government on Friday announced a new tender for the first phase of the road which will connect Paphos and Polis Chrysochous. The first phase will connect the village of ...

All of the north’s electricity went out on Friday morning after an explosion at a substation caused the grid to completely collapse. The explosion occurred at around 5am at ...

Omodos mukhtar Evgenios Michael on Friday said he is “satisfied” with the rate of progress being made by the government in its efforts to help the Limassol district in light ...

Turkish Cypriots on Friday travelled to the village of Kokkina to commemorate the 61st anniversary of the Battle of Tillyria. Kokkina is now controlled by the Turkish military but is ...

Bus drivers in Larnaca will return to work on August 9, ending a ten-day strike that disrupted public transport services across the city. The decision followed a morning vote in a ...

The government has received more than 500 applications from farmers and livestock breeders for financial aid in the form of “reactivation plans” in the wake of the wildfire which tore through ...

Blood supplies in Cyprus have dropped to dangerously low levels, the head of the blood centre, Androulla Panayiotou, told the Cyprus Mail on Friday.  She issued an urgent appeal for ...

Fourteen days after the devastating wildfires that ravaged Limassol district, one of Cyprus’s most cherished boutique wineries, Monolithos in Pachna, has finally been reconnected to the electricity grid, offering ...

The government on Thursday conceded that the legislation granting non-EU foreign nationals the right to purchase immovable property is riddled with loopholes, promising to repeal the current law and replace ...

Authorities said on Thursday they hope by next week to complete cataloguing the damage caused to some 700 premises during the devastating wildfires that swept through mountain communities in the Limassol ...

By Elias Hazou American investigators on Thursday visited ‘ground zero’, the site where the devastating fires of July broke out. The team of experts from the US Bureau of Alcohol, ...

The Turkish Cypriot Kyrenia municipality on Thursday said there was “no evidence of vandalism” found at the historic Saint Phanourios cave. A spokesperson for the municipality told the Cyprus Mail ...

State prosecutors on Thursday explained why a day earlier they decided to drop five of the eight charges they had filed against former volunteerism commissioner Yiannakis Yiannaki, arguing that it ...

The Court of Appeal has unanimously rejected an appeal by a convicted man found guilty of sexually abusing his 11-year-old granddaughter. The court described the case as “one of the ...

Residents whose homes were destroyed in recent wildfires will receive compensation based on current market prices to rebuild, not the reduced value of their old properties, Interior Minister, Constantinos Ioannou, ...

Ruth Keshishian, who had an encyclopedic knowledge and understanding of Cyprus’ history and literature, and owned the Moufflon Bookshop in Nicosia for decades, passed away on Wednesday night. She was 81. ...

A man sentenced to 11 years jail after being found guilty of sexually abusing a child in Paphos has lost his appeal, after the Court of Appeal upheld the original verdict ...

The transport ministry has announced a comprehensive financial assistance scheme for residents whose vehicles and machinery were damaged during the devastating wildfires that swept through Limassol’s mountainous areas on ...

A former chief fire officer has backed the current fire chief’s efforts during the recent devastating wildfire, saying he did his best with the personnel available, and instead blamed ...