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Restoration work has begun at the church of Ayios Demetrianos in Lapithos, with a nine-month programme of conservation aimed at preserving the historic site set to begin, the UNDP said ...

The archaeologists’ association called on Wednesday for stronger state protection of cultural heritage, warning that increasing construction activity across both the government-controlled areas and the north is placing archaeological sites ...

Maintenance works are underway at the Church of Panayia Melendrina in the north, with tenders announced for further restoration efforts aimed at preserving the 14th century structure. Co-chairman of the ...

The National Guard conducted a towing operation involving the replica vessel Kyrenia–Liberty as part of an initiative displaying Cyprus’ maritime heritage. According to an official statement issued on Monday, ...

The north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel on Thursday denied claims that he had taken a bribe of £300,000 to help facilitate the construction of a cable car in Kyrenia. The ...

Turkey has reportedly expanded its air defence network in the north with the deployment of advanced systems described as part of a so called “Steel Dome” deterrent. Regional media outlets, ...

A dead body found near Kyrenia on Sunday belonged to a man who had gone missing in Turkey almost two weeks prior. The body had been found on rocks in ...

The leaseholder of the historic Saint Phanourios church in Kyrenia, Ali Arinc, has begun a hunger strike after the foundation’s administration (Evkaf) decided not to renew his lease, with ...

The north’s electricity authority (Kib-Tek) on Tuesday afternoon denied there had been a chlorine gas leak at the Teknecik power station near Kyrenia, alleging that the report of a ...

Turkish Cypriot electricity workers will begin an indefinite strike on Tuesday at 7am at the Teknecik power station in northern Kyrenia. The union, EL-SEN, has cited concerns that current electricity ...

A fire raged on Thursday morning in Kyrenia district in the north, burning a forested area. It was later brought under control. Turkish Cypriot media said the blaze was in ...

Officials from the Turkish Cypriot Kyrenia municipality will visit the historic Saint Phanourios cave to examine its state after photographs which appear to depict acts of vandalism had circulated in ...

The north’s supreme administrative court on Friday ruled to cancel the tender which had been put out for the construction of a new marina worth €300 million in the Kyrenia ...

Renovation work has been completed at the Panaia Chrysopolitissa church in Kyrenia, the bicommunal technical committee on cultural heritage’s co-chairman Sotos Ktoris said on Monday. He said the church, ...

The Organisations of Turkic States’ (OTS) council of elders held a meeting in Kyrenia on Friday – the council’s 17th since its establishment in 2010. It was attended by council chairman ...

Nicosia criminal court said on Tuesday it would pronounce sentence next month on two Hungarian nationals who pleaded guilty to charges of promoting the ‘usurpation’ of Greek Cypriot properties in ...

Friday marked 21 years since Greek Cypriots rejected the United Nations’ Annan plan in a landmark referendum held on April 24, 2004. In a statement issued on the anniversary, the group Adouloti Keryneia ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition political party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman on Monday lit a fire outside Kyrenia town hall as nightly protests against the north’s ruling coalition’s decision to ...

The Saint George church in the Kyrenia district village of Vouno collapsed on Saturday night, prompting the village’s Turkish Cypriot mukhtar Durmus Asandir on Tuesday to take aim at ...

Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu’s lawyer Mehmet Pehlivanli on Tuesday announced that he had filed criminal charges against the three people who had signed a report which declared that the ...

The association for social reform (Opek) on Tuesday decried an “orchestrated effort of disinformation and distortion” in criticism of the Imagine programme’s organisation of events involving Greek Cypriot children ...

A free golf buggy transport service in Kyrenia, taking people between the old town hall and the old harbour, was launched by the town’s Turkish Cypriot municipality on Thursday. ...

Renovation work at the village square in the Kyrenia district village of Bellapais will be completed by the end of January, Turkish Cypriot Kyrenia mayor Murat Senkul said on Sunday. ...

The director of a hotel in the Kyrenia district was released on bail on Wednesday after being arrested in connection with the death of a hotel worker who was electrocuted. ...