#Nicosia

Cyprus was brought to a standstill on Thursday, as thousands of workers staged a nationwide strike outside the finance ministry, chanting “Hands off CoLA” and “CoLA for all workers,” demanding ...

Nicosia district court on Thursday sentenced former volunteerism commissioner Yiannakis Yiannaki to three years in prison for deliberately circulating forged documents to secure a job in the public sector. During ...

A solidarity gathering was held on Wednesday outside the central prisons in Nicosia, calling for the immediate release of Kurdish activist Kenan Ayaz. Supporters demanded his freedom either through a ...

There’s never a good time to be stranded in your car, and definitely not when it’s 43 degrees Celsius on an August afternoon. Worse still is when you have ...

A small forest fire in the community of Pera Orini, in Nicosia district, was brought under full control early on Sunday. The forestry department of the ministry of agriculture said ...

A 33-year-old man has been remanded in custody for seven days in connection with a house arson case, the Nicosia district court ruled on Friday. The case concerns a fire ...

Nicosia should be “a model of equality, inclusion, and universal accessibility”, Cyprus confederation of disability organisations (Kysoa) chairwoman Themis Anthopoulou said. Speaking after a meeting with the capital’s mayor ...

The damage to the water supply network has been repaired by the water development department (WDD), the Nicosia district government organisation (EOA) said on Thursday. “The water tanks were filled ...

A 64-year-old woman suffered leg injuries after being bitten by four guard dogs at her workplace on Monday afternoon, police said on Tuesday. According to the police, the woman had ...

A 44-year-old man filed a report with the police on Sunday afternoon, claiming to have been injured by a gunshot while working in the Pera Chorio area, Nicosia. The incident ...

A 43-year-old man arrested on Wednesday afternoon in connection with a burglary and theft case in Nicosia was remanded in custody for six days by the court on Thursday. According ...

Five days after Majed Alashtar, a 13-year-old Syrian refugee, went missing from a state-run shelter in Nicosia, concerns are growing that bullying by older teenagers may have played a role. ...

Residents of the Nicosia district are to pay a new rainwater tax, district governor Constantinos Yiorkadjis said on Wednesday, describing the tax as “necessary”. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, ...

An 11-year-old girl was injured, in a traffic accident yesterday afternoon in a village in the Nicosia district. According to police reports, the incident occurred at around 6.20pm. The girl ...

A 34-year-old man was arrested in Nicosia on Monday following a police raid linked to a drug investigation, during which authorities discovered a significant quantity of what is believed to ...

The trial-within-a-trial over the case of German estate agent Eva Isabella Kunzel continued at the Nicosia criminal court. She is accused of unlawfully handling Greek Cypriot properties in the Turkish-held ...

Serious violations of essential terms included in the demolition permit were identified after the building on Makarios Avenue collapsed on Tuesday, scattering scaffolding and rubble onto the road, the Nicosia ...

A building being demolished on Nicosia’s Makarios Avenue collapsed on Tuesday, scattering scaffolding and rubble onto the road. As a result, part of the avenue from the police station ...

The Greek Cypriot side suggested the opening of a new crossing point in Nicosia’s old town during the enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem in New York, but the ...

A fire broke out early on Thursday morning in Tseri, destroying seven parked cars outside a residential building.Police confirmed that the fire is being treated as arson, with investigators ...

Nicosia municipality and the visual artists and art theorists association Cyprus, known as ‘Phytorio’, have clashed over access to a historic arts venue in the municipal garden. The dispute centres ...

A 69-year-old man was stabbed by his 31-year-old son on Thursday in the Ayios Dhometios area of Nicosia. According to initial reports, the elderly man was rushed to Nicosia general ...

A graphology expert told a Cypriot court on Wednesday that he could not reach an “absolute conclusion” over disputed handwriting linked to a German woman accused of seizing Greek Cypriot ...

Maintenance works on Famagusta gate on Nicosia’s Venetian walls will be completed by the end of the year, in time to be used for Cyprus’ EU presidency during the ...