#Cyprus

An underage teenager was found driving his parents’ car down a main road in Paphos on Thursday night, police said on Friday. During routine checks, traffic police officers spotted a ...

Cyprus has recorded a 275.5 per cent increase in bloodstream infections caused by Enterobacterales resistant to carbapenem antibiotics, placing it fourth among EU countries facing this growing healthcare threat. According to ...

MPs expressed general support on Thursday for a bill introducing automatic voter registration, though some raised concerns about allowing 17-year-olds to vote. Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou told the House internal ...

Following the heavy snowfall that led to school and road closures across Cyprus’ mountainous regions on Thursday, the forestry department has been at the forefront of efforts to ensure safe ...

Turkish Cypriots on Thursday commemorated the second anniversary of the two devastating earthquakes which hit southeastern Turkey in 2023. A total of 49 Cypriots were among the more than 50,000 people recorded dead ...

The Cyprus Jewish community is engaged in discussions relating to its growth on the island, including its concerns over security, diplomacy, education and antisemitism. Meanwhile, owing to the rapid influx ...

The new migrant centre in Limnes, near the Larnaca district village of Menoyia, is to be completed by the end of the year, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Wednesday. ...

Cyprus has recorded the highest ratio of departures to arrivals among EU member states in 2024, with a rate of 179 per cent. A total of 10,941 people left the country in the ...

The Greek defence minister met with his counterpart in Cyprus to discuss bilateral cooperation and upgrading the Republic’s defence infrastructures on Wednesday. The meeting came in the wake of ...

Car dealerships in Cyprus are set to collect millions by charging administrative costs or free airbag replacements in affected cars. Toyota’s dealership, which has the largest number of cars ...

The government on Wednesday approved a bill to itself the power to ban away fans from football matches “in exceptional cases”. Speaking after the day’s cabinet meeting, Justice Minister ...

The road transport department (TOM) and a car importer could face legal action if the attorney-general’s office determines they bear criminal liability for the death of 24-year-old Kyriakos Oxinos, ...

Cyprus lost 167,000 megawatt hours of renewable energy in 2024 due to a lack of storage facilities, outraged MPs were told on Tuesday, as households continue to face soaring electricity bills. MPs ...

The threats made to President Nikos Christodoulides over social media may have originated from somewhere in the north, reports said on Tuesday. Daily Phileleftheros said the threats were made via ...

More than 1,500 cancer-related deaths and 4,000 new cases of the disease are reported in Cyprus every year, the Pancyprian Association of Nurses said on Tuesday, World Cancer Day. In Cyprus, around ...

The road transport department on Tuesday apologised after sending text messages to the families of people who had died in traffic accidents, informing them that their cars are subject to ...

Exploration activities in three offshore blocks inside Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) have come to an end after the licenses expired without renewal, the government said on Tuesday. Licenses to ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday said he is “absolutely satisfied” with the European Council’s resolution the previous day to spend more on defence. At Monday’s European Council retreat ...

By Michele Kambas Researchers in Cyprus have discovered a hidden portrait that lay undetected for centuries beneath a 1570 oil painting by Renaissance master Titian, a rendering of which is now ...

The pursuit of a solution to the Cyprus problem is not high in Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s order of priorities, former UK special representative for Cyprus Lord David ...

Nicosia criminal court on Monday agreed to hear by videoconference the testimony of a key prosecution witness in the ongoing trial relating to Cyprus’ now-defunct citizenship-by-investment programme. In the case ...

Two men were on Monday handed prison sentences of 45,376 and a half years each in Turkey for operating a ponzi scheme which funnelled part of its earnings through northern Cyprus. ...

Anti-fascist movement Antifa and far-right political party Elam are to stage simultaneous protests in Limassol on Friday. Antifa announced that their gathering would begin at 7pm on the Molos coastal ...

The Cyprus Architects Association on Monday slammed the recent demolition of an iconic Nicosia 1930s home, calling for an improved mechanism to evaluate and list historic buildings, including modernist ones. ...