#Nicosia

Nicosia will receive support for its green and digital transition through its inclusion in a European Commission initiative, the municipality announced on Thursday. The Cypriot capital has been selected to ...

By Iole Damaskinos and Nikolaos Prakas Police are certain that the image released of two men shows the murderers of Thanasis Kalogeropoulos, who was gunned down in Limassol earlier in ...

By Iole Damaskinos and Nikolaos Prakas Further measures will be taken by police, following two high-profile Cyprus gangland murders almost 36 hours apart, police said after a meeting on Wednesday. The ...

Left-wing groups are organising a pro-Palestinian event titled ‘Not in our name! Stop Genocide! Free Palestine!’ to be held on Tuesday outside the interior ministry. Cyprus has hosted a series ...

Nicosia, Limassol and Larnaca are all jostling to follow in Paphos’ footsteps In the wake of Paphos’ remarkable achievement in 2017, when the city took the spotlight as a European Capital ...

Eleni Philippou looks at events coming from Friday onwards The last weekend of October is here and it is bringing plenty of Halloween fun, screenings, plays and exciting events that ...

Police on Thursday are investigating a fire that broke out in the early morning hours in a parked car in Strovolos area. According to the police, fire services extinguished the ...

An emblematic clock that used to tell the time at the old GSP stadium in the city centre of Nicosia has been placed back in the same area, the Nicosia ...

Police on Sunday arrested a 28-year-old man wanted for cases of burglary and theft in Nicosia. According to a police statement, shortly before midnight on Sunday police identified a car ...

The building of the legal service of a state is a point of reference in the capital and must have a high aesthetic image and functionality, the architect Eleni Pattichis, ...

According to the police a 32-year-old woman in Nicosia admitted to committing a total of seven burglaries and thefts in churches, a hospital, and a residence in the last few ...

Nicosia was the epicentre of a small earthquake on Saturday morning, according to Istanbul’s Bogazici University’s Kandilli observatory. The earthquake occurred at 5:59am with a magnitude of 2.4 on ...

A Christmas village is to be held in the downtown Nicosia area of “Laiki Geitonia” it was announced on Wednesday. The village will be organised by the municipality after its ...

A forest fire was brought under full control at 8.15am on Monday in the “Alakati” location of Kambia community in Nicosia. According to a statement from the forestry department, the ...

Cyprus’ capital city boasts just four per cent of tree coverage Whenever a data collection company releases a table of statistics regarding tree coverage or green spaces in European cities, ...

Larnaca and Nicosia have been included in the top 20 European cities with the highest number of castles, according to German website Ubuy. Larnaca, with five castles, was listed joint 12th ...

Police arrested a 56-year-old for smuggling cigarettes from the north and fined him over €2,000, customs said on Thursday. According to police, the man was found during an operation carried out ...

Power outages in Ayioi Trimithias, Kokkinotrimithia and Palaiometocho are due to a fault in power distribution lines, the electricity authority (EAC) announced on Thursday. Spokeswoman for the authority Christina Papadopoulou ...

Police on Thursday in Nicosia arrested another suspect, a 55-year-old man, suspected of involvement in an ongoing arson investigation. According to police statement, the case concerns the fire which broke ...

The interior ministry on Wednesday presented plans to revitalise old Nicosia, including grants to boost business activity, student accommodation grants, town planning incentives and housing arrangements, and home ownership grants. ...

Police on Tuesday night arrested two persons for an investigated case of drugs possession with intent to supply and money laundering. Police intercepted the suspects, a 39-year-old man and a 34...

Fire services on Monday were called to put out a fire that broke out in an apartment in Nicosia, which was caused by an electrical device. According to a post ...

A 61-year-old man has been remanded in police custody for eight-days after he was arrested in connection with a suspected arson case. According to a statement released by the police, ...

A fire broke out in a Nicosia private university’s basement stairwell, necessitating the need of three engines to deal with the blaze, the fire service said on Thursday. In ...