#Cyprus

Aglandjia’s new ‘pay anyway’ scheme is about to defeat the purpose of its flagship recycling Pay As You Throw, as aggrieved residents are trying to find ways to make ...

Coral Bay has officially been designated a plastic-free beach, becoming the ninth beach in Cyprus and the first within the boundaries of the Akamas municipality to receive the designation. A ...

Pro-Palestinian activist Louis Allan on Saturday descended from the tree in the Nicosia suburb of Engomi, where he had spent almost a week on hunger strike to highlight the plight ...

The central offices of Disy in Nicosia were vandalised on Saturday morning, with the building’s front door being smashed. Party leader Annita Demetriou was seen evaluating the scene outside ...

The Dutch police have made public a photograph of the man they suspect of having murdered Cemil Onal, the man who made allegations of a deep money-laundering and smuggling network ...

European parliament President Roberta Metsola on Saturday described her visit to Cyprus as “a message of our commitment to this country”. Speaking upon her visit to the presidential palace, she ...

A 26-year-old man died in Limassol on Friday night after the moped he was riding was hit by a car. Limassol police officer Marios Charalambous explained that the incident took ...

A group of 22 United States congressmen have urged the country’s President Donald Trump to “bring up” Cyprus during a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which is ...

A new undersea cable linking Cyprus and Lebanon is being planned by Cyta, in a project expected to boost internet speed, emergency response, and economic growth across the region. Called ...

A national strategy to address eating disorders is being developed by the health ministry, in what officials describe as a critical step to confront one of the most concerning mental ...

Health Minister Michael Damianos, in a statement marking World Thalassaemia Day on Thursday, said that Cyprus has made significant progress in combating the disease. “Our country currently ranks first worldwide ...

“The government will not be drawn into pre-election campaigning,” President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday, dismissing criticism against his administration as political posturing. The president was responding to criticism about ...

Membership of the European Union has “undoubtedly been our greatest success”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday. Speaking at an event in Nicosia to mark Europe Day, he said Cyprus’ ...

The European Union is working towards ensuring that Turkey accepts the resumption of negotiations to solve the Cyprus problem from where they left off in Crans Montana in 2017, with the ...

Cyprus will participate in this year’s online International Low-Vision Song Contest on May 16, with the entry Pyxida, performed by Nicoletta Livadioti and Nikos Demetriou. The public is being encouraged ...

After a great deal of squabbling, lawmakers on Thursday evening threw out a bill that sought to exempt the members of the Advisory Council from scrutiny of their personal assets. ...

Planned expansion and upgrade works at the neonatal intensive care unit of Makarios hospital have been pushed back by about six months, enraged MPs heard on Thursday. Lawmakers were also ...

Commerce Minister George Papanastasiou on Thursday offered his support for the establishment of a new cooperative bank. “The government supports the initiative, and I will undertake, as an obligation, to ...

Progress is being made to use more of the recycled water produced by water treatment plants, the water development department said on Thursday. The department pointed out that between 2020 and 2023, ...

Cyprus has set in motion a complete plan for the reclamation of waste management operations and facilities and is optimistic that an EU fine can be averted, director of the ...

Members of the European parliament late on Wednesday night condemned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent visit to the north, with one describing him as “a neo-Ottoman tyrant and ...

Greek President Konstantinos Tasoulas began the second day of his official visit to Cyprus with a tour of the old town of Nicosia and a walk along the ceasefire line, ...

Two persons were being held by police for questioning on Thursday after the death of a worker, who was crushed to death by falling timber at a Paphos construction site. ...

Police on Thursday reported the arrest of a man caught cutting up a kangaroo in Famagusta. Speaking to the Cyprus Mail Ioannis Ioannou, a senior official at the state Veterinary ...