Cyprus

Concerns were raised on Friday regarding “unusual movements” undertaken by an American military transport aircraft in and around Cypriot airspace. The aircraft, a Boeing C-17 which belongs to the United ...

Foreign ministers from European countries – including Cyprus – Australia and Britain on Friday jointly condemned Israel’s plans to construct a settlement east of Jerusalem. Israel immediately dismissed the statement. The ...

The reunification of Cyprus is a “non-negotiable goal” for the government, Deputy Culture Minister Vasiliki Kassianidou said on Friday. She added that “the current unacceptable state of affairs in Cyprus ...

The forestry department warned the public on Friday to stay away from the ancient oak tree in Lania to avoid injury. It said branches were falling off the centuries-old “natural ...

The Meteorological Department has issued a yellow warning for Saturday, when temperatures are expected to peak at 42C inland, 35C along the coast and 32C in the highest mountains. The ...

Areas of dense vegetation currently pose an increased risk of poisonous snakes, the civil defence warned on Friday, urging outdoor enthusiasts to be particularly cautious after a man was recently ...

Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker on Friday visited the Green Line which separates Cyprus’ two sides. He was accompanied on his visit by President Nikos Christodoulides and Nicosia mayor Charalambos Prountzos, ...

Cyprus was third among EU member states for the number of tertiary students from abroad with almost one in four in the country’s universities being an international student, Eurostat ...

The strike called on by employees of the north’s Koop Bank and its subsidiaries last week was brought to an end on Friday as a deal was struck by ...

Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos questioned the validity of online university courses on Thursday, saying that people were buying degrees by the thousands in Africa without actually having attended the courses. ...

The death of 31-year-old Antonis Kourras, who was killed in a paragliding accident in Kiti on Thursday morning, was caused by multiple injuries to the body and vital organs, a ...

The four-year-old boy who was pulled unconscious from a hotel swimming pool in Paphos on Thursday afternoon has been airlifted to Israel for further treatment. The police said that the ...

A report detailing the extent of the damage and the funds required to restore the Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) farm in Lofou has already been submitted to the university’...

Every corner of Cyprus “will be Europe”, opposition candidate at October’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election Tufan Erhurman said at a campaign rally at Kyrenia port on Thursday night. “I ...

An autopsy on the body of a 20-year-old taken to a private hospital in Limassol on Thursday night failed to establish the cause of death and police are now awaiting ...

Over 15,000 teachers have been employed and are ready to return to public schools with the start of the new academic year in September, the education ministry said on Friday. According ...

The paper processing factory which burned down in Ypsonas earlier this week will not reopen as it did not have the correct licences to operate, Curium mayor Pantelis Georgiou said ...

A 45-year-old man has been arrested for theft of building materials in Limassol, police said on Friday. Police received a complaint from the owner of a construction company over the ...

A 19-year-old from a European country was arrested on Friday in connection to a case of conspiracy to murder, conspiracy to commit a felony, attempted murder, arson, illegal possession of ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday praised the “more than 10,000 Austrians” who have served in the United Nations’ peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) since its creation in 1964. He was speaking on ...

There is “no artificial holdup” in the transfer of the 1,200 tonnes of humanitarian aid sent from Cyprus to Gaza earlier this week, presidential press office director Victor Papadopoulos said on ...

The north’s ‘labour minister’ Sadik Gardiyanoglu was sacked and replaced by Oguzhan Hasipoglu late on Thursday night, amid widespread reports of a rift inside the ruling coalition’s largest ...

Temperatures on Friday will once again surpass the 40-degree-Celsius mark, with a maximum of 41 degrees Celsius forecast inland. Elsewhere, temperatures on the southeast, south, and north coasts are expected to ...

Ten per cent of people in Cyprus work long hours, making it the second-worst country in the EU after Greece, Eurostat said on Thursday. The EU average stood at 6.6 per ...