#Cyprus

MPs on Tuesday heard that thousands of cars installed with faulty airbags could make for a “ticking time bomb” while one former official called for such vehicles to be temporarily ...

One in three people in Cyprus smoke, multinational tobacco company Philip Morris said on Tuesday presenting the results of its latest survey. It added that most of these smokers are ...

After an almost two-year delay, the government announced on Tuesday the termination of an €8 million contract for the Liopetri River and fishing shelter project. Despite 22 months of extensions, progress on ...

Addressing the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday called for coordinated international action to tackle climate change. He emphasised that the need to urgently address ...

Cyprus had the fourth largest consumption of plastic bags in the EU in 2022, according to data on lightweight plastic carrier bags (LPCBs) published by Eurostat on Tuesday. The figures reveal ...

Cypriot authorities are “unable to respond and prevent any environmental disasters”, non-governmental organisation Terra Cypria said on Tuesday. The organisation was responding to confirmation from the environment department the previous ...

Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades on Tuesday promised that the highway connecting Paphos and Polis Chrysochous will be ready within the next three years, as local residents questioned the viability of ...

A six-year jail term for a child rape conviction was “manifestly inadequate” the Supreme Court ruled as it moved to increase the jail time to nine years, it emerged on ...

“All parties” have given their consent for an enlarged meeting to be held on the Cyprus problem, according to reports on Monday. The Cyprus News Agency reported that a “brief ...

By Tom Cleaver The ‘No child without a coat’ campaign was launched by the Aglandjia municipality and the Alkinoos Artemiou foundation for the third successive year on Monday. The foundation ...

The government said Monday it is doing what it can to return a sense of safety to the wider public and to crack down on organised crime, part of it ...

A memorial ceremony was held in Nicosia on Monday to honour the people who died in the two World Wars. Organised by the Nicosia municipality at the Cyprus memorial for ...

The “isolated incidents” of flooding seen in Limassol during storms on Sunday were caused by foreign objects, many of which constitute litter, becoming stuck in drains, the public works department’...

BirdLife Cyprus on Monday expressed its strong opposition to the environment department expanding the Electricity Authority’s (EAC) overhead network in the protected territory of the endangered Griffon vulture, at ...

The ready mixed concrete producers’ association will propose a full lifting of its ongoing strike at its general assembly on Monday as the industry-wide strike by unions enters its sixth ...

A government contract with Intrakat for the study and construction of the first phase of the Paphos-Polis highway has been terminated, the public works department announced on Monday. A notice ...

A British Royal Air Force reservist was sacked after sending photographs of his penis – known as ‘dick pics’ – to a female colleague while he was deployed in Cyprus. The man, ...

Disy is ready to collaborate with the President of the Republic and anyone else from the political sphere who has positive policies for the country, party leader Annita Demetriou said ...

A photo, taken in the Turkish Cypriot enclave of northern Nicosia in the late 1960s, shows 15-year-old Suleyman posing with his rifle and his best friend, the two lads having ...

The bicommunal Buyuk Han Saturday morning coffee club, colloquially known as the “traitors’ club”, celebrated 20 years of existence on Saturday. The group, which consists of Turkish Cypriots, Greek Cypriots, and ...

The fire service has rescued two people who were injured in separate incidents, one falling from a block of flats onto a garage roof and another while cleaning photovoltaic panels, ...

Former Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides lashed out at President Nikos Christodoulides on Saturday, saying he was “not telling the truth” about developments leading up to his dismissal from the Audit Office. “...

Human bones belonging to those who died in 1974, as well as people missing from as far back as 1964, have been placed in boxes and left among furniture in a warehouse ...

Human Rights Commissioner Maria Stylianou Lottides on Friday raised concerns over the rising number of racially motivated attacks against foreign food delivery workers, despite the existence of laws and regulations ...