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Nicosia has taken first place as Europe’s Best Cultural Capital for 2026 in the European Best Destinations rankings, the Nicosia tourism board (Etap) announced Thursday. This recognition was based on ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman late on Wednesday night published a photograph of his Cyprus problem negotiating team following what he described as a “preparatory meeting” with them. Alongside Erhurman ...

Former president George Vassiliou has been hospitalised since January 6 in critical condition with a chest infection and is receiving all necessary medical treatment, Okypy said on Thursday. Health Minister Neophytos ...

Evidence of a vast harbour, alongside more than 700 kilograms of Late Roman amphora fragments, has been uncovered during excavations at the ancient port of Peyia, the antiquities department announced on ...

Cyprus’ EU presidency aims at an EU that will combine its strategic autonomy with its international extroversion, defending its interests and its people, while at the same time operating as ...

New prisons are to be constructed on the outskirts of Nicosia, Justice Minister Costas Fitiris announced on Wednesday, confirming that plans to expand the existing central prisons have been suspended. ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday pressed allies for ironclad security guarantees against any renewed Russian attack while also seeking progress on EU membership talks and tougher sanctions on Moscow. ...

Just a couple of hours before Cyprus officially assumes the EU presidency on Wednesday, Nikos Christodoulides hosted a meeting at the presidential palace with the participation of the presidents of ...

United Nations special representative in Cyprus Khassim Diagne has arrived in New York and is set to brief the security council regarding the state of affairs on the island, according ...

The budget of the United Nations’ good offices in Cyprus is to be cut by more than a third this year, with the proposed budget for next year $1.2 million (€1m) ...

A complaint of assault filed against Disy MP Nikos Sykas by his own wife has allegedly been withdrawn local media reported on Wednesday. The complaint had been filed on January 4 ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday promised to bring the European Union “closer to Egypt” during Cyprus’ six-month term as the holder of the Council of the EU’s rotating presidency. “...

The trial of German real estate agent Eva Isabella Kunzel – who faces charges of usurping Greek Cypriot property in the north – continued on Wednesday in Nicosia, with objections being raised ...

Hundreds of below-market price homes are on the way across Cyprus, with construction already under way on part of the 439-unit affordable housing programme by the Cyprus Land Development Organisation (...

The decision by former Bishop Tychikos to appeal to the civil courts over his removal from the Paphos bishopric constitutes an act of disobedience to the church, the archdiocese said ...

French cable manufacturer Nexans on Tuesday formally acknowledged that the delivery schedule for the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) linking Greece and Cyprus’ power supplies is being renegotiated with its client, ...

Railway industry group the European rail supply industry association (Unife) on Wednesday called for trains to return to Cyprus for the first time in over seven decades, citing the island’...

Traditional Greek Cypriot epiphany celebrations were held in the Karpas peninsula village of Ayia Triada on Tuesday, with a holy cross thrown into the sea next to the Ayios Thyrsos ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has recommended that the mandate of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp) be renewed for a further 12 months, until January 31, 2027, while expressing concern over ...

Cyprus, which officially takes over the rotating EU Council presidency tomorrow, will use it to demonstrate what it can offer Europe, including its geostrategic importance, experience in security and cooperation ...

Epiphany was celebrated with traditional splendour in Cyprus on Monday, with official events held across the island, attended by state and church officials. This year’s official Epiphany celebrations – which ...

An Epiphany Day ceremony in Limassol was briefly overshadowed by confusion after the Holy Cross went missing following its immersion into the sea at the city’s old port on ...

The clinical condition of all four people hospitalised at Larnaca general hospital after consuming water from a water cooler has improved, with one of the patients, who had been intubated, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday that “the time for serious business has come” on the Cyprus issue, stressing that the Greek Cypriot side is fully prepared to respond “whenever ...