Cyprus News

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday travelled to Ramallah, Palestine, where he met with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and agreed to a trilateral summit with Greece. According to an official ...

Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (Cyta) will be carrying out cable works on the highway from the Rizoelia roundabout to the Livadia exit in Larnaca on Wednesday and Thursday. The works will ...

Police identified and picked up two groups of illegal migrants from streets after they landed undetected and were found walking in two coastal areas. According to police spokesman Christos Andreou, ...

Police on Tuesday arrested a 37-year-old man and his parents, aged 65 and 68, for a case of illegal drugs possession with intent to supply. According to the police, members of the ...

In an official statement released by Hellenic Bank this week, it has been confirmed that the bank has retained its position as the most adequately capitalised systemic bank in Cyprus, ...

A yellow warning for high temperatures has been issued for Wednesday, in force from midday until 5pm. The weather will be clear with a high of 40C inland, 35C on ...

Even with the known risks to health and ecosystems, conventional agriculture is hooked on chemical pesticides Things are better than they used to be on the pesticides front. For example, ...

A mobile traffic camera operator in Limassol was found positive to a preliminary narcotest, police said on Tuesday night. According to authorities, a citizen complained to them that the vehicle ...

The United States will continue to support the agreed Security Council framework for a bizonal, bicommunal federation with political equality and will continue to urge the parties to resume negotiations, ...

Officials and farmers said on Tuesday they do not anticipate either a spike in grain prices or immediate shortages after the lapse of the Black Sea grain deal last month. ...

Work has been completed on the excavation of a monumental fortress at the Laona-Palaepaphos ancient site, dating to the Cypro-Classical period (5th–4th c. BC), the antiquities department said on ...

The north’s current ‘labour minister’ Hasan Tacoy announced on Tuesday his intention to challenge ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel for the leadership of the UBP. Speaking in a televised interview, ...

Teens from across the divide met and participated in a Cyprus Friendship Programme intercommunal student camp last week, where they were visited by the deputy British High Commsioner. The camp, ...

Nikos Christodoulides’ presidential campaign office was hit with a €36,000 fine on Tuesday for violating the election rules in the run up to the elections. The fine came from personal data ...

Officials have given assurances that by September Cyprus will do a test run of an ultimate beneficial owners (UBO) register for companies, and that by the end of the year ...

Controversial barbed wire fencing along stretches of the buffer zone may start being removed in September, reports said on Tuesday. The news was welcomed by residents of the impacted villages, ...

Larnaca officials on Tuesday gave the government an ultimatum: either the Koshi landfill stays or the asphalt plant. Both cannot coexist in the same area. Refineries have left parts of ...

The Labour inspection department announced that not a single worker was found to have suffered from heatstroke during the latest heatwave, but said it had received “a small number of ...

The finance ministry on Tuesday reminded municipalities and sewerage boards to prepare their budgets for the first half of 2024 “with prudence and rationality” given the coming transition to the new ...

Turkish Cypriot economists fear a “blow” to the north’s tourism industry after Turkey introduced new regulations on overseas credit card spending for its citizens. On Monday night, Turkey’s ...

BirdLife Cyprus is celebrating the success of artificial nests placed in the area surrounding the village of Androlykou. The nests were placed in the area as it is home to ...

Cyprus’ retail trade boomed in June 2023, with both volume and value seeing a significant increase when compared to the same month in 2022. The Retail Trade Value Index rose by 8.4 per ...

Bilateral relations were underlined on Tuesday as President Nikos Christodoulides met Jordanian King Abdullah II in Amman. Christodoulides arrived at the Al Husseiniya palace at around midday and was received ...