Cyprus

Dust levels will increase during Wednesday, the Air Quality Monitoring Network of the labour department has announced. “The dust contains inhalable particles, that might have an impact on people’s ...

A civil servant, who had been off work for years due to health issues, returned to work on Wednesday and assaulted his supervisor. Paphos police are investigating malicious damage, assault ...

The trial of a 49-year-old German woman who stands accused of having sold Greek Cypriot property in the north began on Wednesday, nine months after her initial arrest. The Nicosia ...

Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Wednesday gave testimony that his transfer from a university in the north to a university in Turkey was legal and that his studies in Cyprus ...

A revised bill on parental custody legislation was discussed at the House legal committee on Wednesday, with parents saying they are currently living a nightmare over the right to see ...

Yeroskipou’s derelict Olympic specification swimming pool, which cost €7 million and remains closed since May 2022, is in the process of getting a €360,000 revamp. The call for tenders closed on February 28 ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday stressed the importance of taking foreign dignitaries to the buffer zone, as he took the Dutch King Willem-Alexander to the Green Line in Nicosia. “For ...

The Audit Service is working to clarify the circumstances that led to the mishandling of the state health plan for referring patients to specialist facilities abroad, spokeswoman Yiota Michael said ...

Ukraine and EU defence will be dominating Thursday’s European Council in Brussels, with the online participation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. President Nikos Christodoulides will be flying to Brussels ...

The 30-year-old man who was arrested after getting into an argument and running two people with his car was remanded in custody for four days on Wednesday. Larnaca police spokesman ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday night promised that the Turkish Cypriots “will not forget” Gaza. “This country is part of the Islamic world, and we are happy to ...

Municipalities are in the dark as to the extent and nature of expected water cuts over the summer, Cyprus Mail learned on Wednesday, while the Paphos district administration head said ...

British authorities have arrested a man wanted for the murder of a 63-year-old London Cypriot, it was reported on Wednesday. The suspect was named as 42-year-old Paul Talland who had ...

The fire department announced on Wednesday that it will conduct a preparedness drill at Larnaca airport. The drill concerns the potential need to extinguish of a chemical fire on site, ...

A second is in police custody on Wednesday for an investigated case of robbery and assault committed in Limassol on Christmas Eve. Police on Tuesday arrested the 29-year-old man who ...

A huge fire broke out in a house in Engomi overnight with authorities on Wednesday investigating its causes. Six fully staffed fire engines were dispatched to put out the blaze ...

Wednesday will be mainly clear with occasional high clouds. Temperatures will reach 21C inland and on the coasts and 12C in the higher mountains. Winds will be moderate to strong ...

A new legislative proposal aims to end what campaigners call an unfair financial burden on elderly drivers, who face significantly higher insurance premiums due to their age. The proposal, submitted ...

Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu’s lawyer Mehmet Pehlivanli on Tuesday announced that he had filed criminal charges against the three people who had signed a report which declared that the ...

A 30-year-old has been arrested after running two people over after an argument in Larnaca, the police said on Tuesday. Larnaca police spokesman Christodoulos Konsolos explained that the incident had ...

The north’s authorities “have blood on their hands” over the death of a 25-year-old worker at a “nightclub” in the village of Yerolakkos, Turkish Cypriot opposition party CTP ‘MP’ ...

The government on Tuesday received an official invitation from United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to attend the enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem which is set to take place on ...

Thousands of megawatt-hours of power generated by renewables get discarded each day because Cyprus lacks the storage systems, MPs heard on Tuesday. The House energy committee discussed energy storage in ...

Employees of the Paphos district government are to engage in a two-hour strike on March 13 to protest against the EOA’s apparent refusal to enter into a collective labour agreement. ...