Cyprus News

By Nikolaos Prakas and Tom Cleaver The government will legislate to give itself the power to order football matches be played behind closed doors, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis on Friday, ...

Lawyers across the country held a one-hour protest outside district courts on Friday, over the mess which has beset the e-justice system. This is the second protest this week, where ...

A doctor, who was found guilty of indecent acts, will have to now appear in front of a disciplinary board of the Cyprus Medical Association (CyMA), which could strip him ...

The ‘TRNC’ has a right to 462,000 square kilometres of Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) including continental shelf, territorial waters and maritime areas of jurisdiction, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar has ...

The president of the Cyprus Ports Authority (Alk) Antonis Stylianou this week presented a strategic development model, which is aimed at addressing the evolving conditions in the modern port environment. ...

The crisis in the Middle East and the situation in the wider area were discussed on Friday in a meeting between President Nikos Christodoulides and Deputy Prime Minister Mons Edgar ...

Around €300 million is owed from almost 300,000 unpaid fines dating from 1980, of which €256 million was due to enter state coffers, it emerged on Friday. Some 252 fines totalling €277,852 will never be collected ...

The chief of staff for the US National Security Council (NSC) was on the island for discussions with Cypriot and Israeli officials on Cyprus’ initiative to create a humanitarian maritime ...

A burglary suspect who removed loose glass bricks to get out of a police detention cell in Lakatamia in Nicosia on Thursday night was named on Friday by police who ...

A second-floor balcony collapsed and fell from an apartment building in Germasogeia early on Friday morning, just over a month after a previous incident, also in the Limassol area. It ...

Two stand-up shows in English are coming up to entertain those in Nicosia and Limassol. Comic performances have seen an increase recently on the island yet those in English are ...

Another migrant child was taken to Makarios hospital’s ICU from the Pournara reception centre, state health services organisation (Okypy) spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said on Friday. The child, who has ...

Cypriot MPs Yiorgos Loukaides and Christiana Erotokritou spoke about the importance of freedom of speech and on the increasing use of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) in Europe, during ...

Cloudy weather with isolated storms will be on the menu for weather on Friday, the met office announced. According to the met office, snow is expected to fall in the ...

Cyprus’ Research and Innovation Foundation (Idek) is set to host a pioneering Partner Day on Friday, February 9, at the Hilton Hotel in Nicosia. Under the theme “Innovation, Collaboration, Development,” the ...

Just a third of the north’s workforce are women, according to the latest figures released by the north’s Statistics institute. The statistics, revealed as part of the institute’...

Authorities on Thursday evening were reportedly hunting for a man who escaped police custody at a detention centre in Nicosia. According to Sigma, the man escaped from the Lakatamia police ...

The time has come for the international community to take a different approach to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute and to the ongoing crisis in Gaza, the Palestine Embassy in Cyprus said ...

Parliament on Thursday passed a law making it a criminal offence to damage, deface or in any way alter a traffic sign. The legislation, amending the Road Safety Law, provides ...

By a unanimous vote the House on Thursday passed legislation that provides for halting the auctioning off of properties where the mortgage debtor has applied for the ‘Mortgage to Rent’ ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said Thursday that Cyprus stands to receive the first tranche worth €20.9 million from the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility, as an advance payment for implementing ...

A 34-year-old suspect, accused of attempted murder in Paphos, will remain in custody until the next trial on February 19, as decided by the court on Thursday. The court’s decision ...

The arrival of the UN secretary-general’s personal envoy to Cyprus Maria Angela Holguin Cuellar will mark the beginning of a period of diplomatic activity, according to government spokesperson Konstantinos ...

The Greek national who appeared in court in the north on Monday apologising for an anti-Turkish rant was arrested again on Wednesday after entering a Turkish military restricted area. The ...