Cyprus

A wildfire broke out near the Limassol district of Omodos on Friday afternoon, and was contained shortly afterwards. Fire brigade spokesman Andreas Kettis said a total of eight fire engines ...

A bus company has been fined €4,000 for failing to implement preventive and precautionary safety measures following a risk assessment, particularly in relation to the operation and use of Kinglong buses, ...

Blood supplies in Cyprus have dropped to dangerously low levels, the head of the blood centre, Androulla Panayiotou, told the Cyprus Mail on Friday.  She issued an urgent appeal for ...

President Nikos Christodoulides expressed his shock and deep sorrow on Friday for the death of Lena Samara, daughter of former prime minister of Greece Antonis Samaras. Lena Samara died of ...

The forestry department issued a red alert warning for forest fires on Friday, in view of the extremely high temperatures expected on Saturday. It also reminded the public that starting ...

A 23-year-old woman was caught on Friday driving under the influence of alcohol at an extremely high speed on the Nicosia–Larnaca highway near Koshi. Police stopped the vehicle at ...

Britain’s near-daily surveillance flights over Gaza, flown from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, have prompted fresh questions about how the intelligence gathered is used and whether it is being passed ...

Shots were fired on Friday at 4am at a vehicle belonging to a 25-year-old woman in Oroklini. The woman alerted the police, after she heard loud noises resembling gunshots, while ...

The Larnaca bus driver strike entered its tenth day on Friday. Following a lengthy meeting on Thursday between union representatives and Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou, the drivers are set to ...

Around 900 to 1,000 Turkish Cypriots travelled by bus through the Limnitis crossing point on Friday to attend August 8 ceremony marking 61 years since the deadly bombing of Tillyria in 1964. The passage of ...

A large street fight in Limassol on Thursday night led to the arrest of seven people, police said. All are due in court this morning. According to the police, the ...

Cyprus is experiencing a spell of hot and settled weather as a seasonal low-pressure system and warm air mass continue to affect the region. On Friday, skies will be mostly ...

Fourteen days after the devastating wildfires that ravaged Limassol district, one of Cyprus’s most cherished boutique wineries, Monolithos in Pachna, has finally been reconnected to the electricity grid, offering ...

There is currently no immediate threat to Cyprus from the chikungunya virus, according to Professor of microbiology and molecular virology Dr Petros Karayiannis. Speaking to CNA, Karayiannis emphasised that while ...

The government on Thursday conceded that the legislation granting non-EU foreign nationals the right to purchase immovable property is riddled with loopholes, promising to repeal the current law and replace ...

Authorities said on Thursday they hope by next week to complete cataloguing the damage caused to some 700 premises during the devastating wildfires that swept through mountain communities in the Limassol ...

By Elias Hazou American investigators on Thursday visited ‘ground zero’, the site where the devastating fires of July broke out. The team of experts from the US Bureau of Alcohol, ...

The Turkish Cypriot Kyrenia municipality on Thursday said there was “no evidence of vandalism” found at the historic Saint Phanourios cave. A spokesperson for the municipality told the Cyprus Mail ...

State prosecutors on Thursday explained why a day earlier they decided to drop five of the eight charges they had filed against former volunteerism commissioner Yiannakis Yiannaki, arguing that it ...

The Court of Appeal has unanimously rejected an appeal by a convicted man found guilty of sexually abusing his 11-year-old granddaughter. The court described the case as “one of the ...

The much-anticipated tender for the construction of the Paphos marina at Potima is expected to be launched by early September, according to president of the association of large-scale property developers ...

Residents whose homes were destroyed in recent wildfires will receive compensation based on current market prices to rebuild, not the reduced value of their old properties, Interior Minister, Constantinos Ioannou, ...

The commander and crew members of the Italian Navy cruiser Francesco Mimbelli, along with a group of cadets from the Italian Naval Academy, paid an official visit to the Larnaca ...

The government has approved a new plan to upgrade and restructure the Civil defence, aiming to improve crisis response and coordination following the recent wildfire in the hills of Limassol ...