#Cyprus

Halloumi producers are battling to safeguard its iconic cheese as US tariffs and strict EU regulations put its prized export at risk. The Cyprus dairy producers’ association warned on Wednesday ...

A team of US experts has wrapped up a critical assessment of Cyprus’ security systems, bringing the island nation a step closer to joining America’s Visa Waiver Programme. If ...

Authorities are turning a blind eye to a Nicosia event venue that has been operating without an approval certificate, the Audit Office said on Tuesday, warning that public health and ...

The north’s ruling coalition was described as “Ankara’s parrot” by one speaker as fires were lit outside ‘parliament’ for the second day in a row in protest against ...

Over 200 alien marine species have been recorded in the waters off Cyprus, fisheries department officer Katerina Georgiou said on Tuesday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, she said the two ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar called on central Asian Turkic states to “be more careful”, amid a wave of anger in Turkey after five central Asian countries signed a joint ...

Athens is getting cold feet in relation to a planned subsea electricity cable linking Greece to Cyprus, Turkish media reported on Tuesday. Turkish daily Milliyet, which led with a story ...

Cyprus’ economic future is in the hands of a bold, tech-savvy generation, President Nikos Christodoulides declared on Tuesday at the Nicosia Economic Congress, which this year focused on the millennial ...

As Cyprus recovers from the disappointment over the failure to find commercially viable natural gas at the Electra-1 target, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou has said the outcome is not as ...

Cyprus has moved a step closer to joining the United States Visa Waiver Programme (VWP), following what President Nikos Christodoulides described as “absolutely constructive” talks with a visiting American delegation. ...

Recommendations included in the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) report on Cyprus reaffirm the government’s “responsible fiscal policy”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday. Many of the IMF recommendations ...

President Nikos Christodoulides confirmed on Tuesday he will meet Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on May 5 and expressed hope for progress on appointing a new UN envoy to support future ...

An estimated 2,000 Turkish Cypriots gathered outside the north’s ‘parliament’ on Monday evening for the first of the planned nightly lighting of fires to protest against the ruling coalition’s ...

A child who was turned away from a school in northern Nicosia when attempting to go to class wearing a hijab on Monday officially left the school. The girl had ...

Drilling at the Elektra-1 well offshore Cyprus has found natural gas but not in marketable quantities, the energy ministry stated on Monday. “Well data and preliminary evaluation work indicate the ...

A man was handed concurrent prison sentences, the longest of five years, for aiding and abetting 31 illegal immigrants from Syria entering the Republic of Cyprus by sea. The attorney-general’s ...

A 35-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in the Paphos district village of Chlorakas on Monday after stabbing two women in a pharmacy. According to the police, ...

Cyprus is “shocked and horrified by Russia’s strike targeting Sumy on Palm Sunday,” the foreign ministry said on Sunday night. In a post on X, the ministry said “such ...

Discussions about changing the dress code in secondary schools in the north under the ‘ministry of education’ are being politicised, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said on Sunday. According to ...

In 2019, a group of mates in Paphos set up a walking football club to keep fit, meet new people and continue playing football after the age of 50. Today, Pafos United ...

Police on Sunday arrested one more person in connection with the attempted eviction of a group of third-country nationals from a block of flats in Oroklini on April 5, which turned ...

A total of 11 Cypriots living in the UK were arrested in 2024 and the first two months of this year for sexual offences, a survey carried out by the Daily Mail ...

A team of experts from the US will visit Cyprus this week as part of ongoing efforts to include residents of the island in the Visa Waver Program (VWP), the ...

Wishing to correct “all the distorted things that are written and repeated,” former president Nicos Anastasiades on Sunday published an article outlining his view of what happened during the Cyprus ...