Cyprus

The police conducted a wide sweep of premises in Larnaca on Thursday and also stepped up traffic checks in an operation aimed at combating undeclared work and illegal residency, they ...

Firefighters in Nicosia responded to two incidents on Thursday afternoon, one involving a fire emanating from oxygen tanks stored on a roof in the suburb of Strovolos and a second ...

Law commissioner Louiza Christodoulou Zannetou on Friday handed over to Migration deputy minister Nicholas Ioannides a draft bill on the modernisation of the refugee law of 2000, which is said to ...

The energy regulatory authority (Cera) has approved in principle an application from the Cyprus Transmission System Operator (TSO) to develop energy storage systems, it emerged on Friday.  The request was ...

Five vehicles were destroyed and two others damaged in a fire at an apartment block parking area in the early hours of Friday.    According to early reports, explosions were heard ...

Lithuania stands in solidarity with Cyprus’ positions on the island’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, the country’s president, Gitana Nauseda said on Friday. In joint statements with President Nikos ...

Temperatures on Friday are expected to be around 39C inland, 31C on the west coast, 34C on the southern and eastern coastline and a cooler 30C in the higher mountains, ...

Hotels operating without a full permit got another extension on Thursday, after MPs granted them one more year to comply. The relevant act was passed by unanimous vote at the ...

Police on Thursday again advised the public to exercise caution when receiving phone calls from individuals pretending to be government officials and asking for credit card and bank account information. ...

We spoke to Israelis at Larnaka Airport who’ve been trapped overseas by the war and are now returning through Cyprus – as well as a group of American Jews who’...

Sixteen Israelis and two Cypriot crew members were rescued off the coast of Lebanon on Thursday after their boat stalled due to engine failure. According to the Times of Israel, ...

As promised, the government on Thursday launched an online platform where people losing their savings in the 2013 bank bail-in can apply for partial compensation. It concerns losses to uninsured savings – ...

The Limassol District Court has issued a six-day detention order for a 22-year-old man suspected of involvement in two separate bombing incidents — one at a bar and another targeting a ...

New legislation on the welfare of hunting dogs constitutes “an important step towards a clear and functional legal framework regarding the proper operation of private hunting dog exercise areas and ...

Thousands of people converged on Cyprus on Thursday as the island became a transport hub, both for Israelis attempting to return to the country, and for others attempting to flee ...

One person was arrested for living in Cyprus without the requisite papers on Wednesday night as the police conducted their latest operation in Nicosia’s old town. The police said ...

Cyprus is on “the right side of history” when it comes to Ukraine and firmly supports sanctions on Russia, while in the Middle East it is working to be “part ...

The House audit committee on Thursday examined the case of a plot of land which was seized by the state in 1996 for the purpose of building a primary school, but ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer something far-reaching. Even though some consider it to be a novelty, It is already changing how people live, shop, study, and work. From customer ...

Each year, thousands of our island’s homes are quietly inherited. Usually, they belonged to grandma – women live longer than men; 85 years as opposed to 79. So when the end comes, ...

The prosecution’s testimony will conclude at the next hearing of the trial of the two former MPs facing criminal charges over a report by Al Jazeera into the alleged ...

The motorway in the area of the Paphos tunnel closed due to a fire in the area on Thursday and was reopened just after 2pm. During the time it was ...

Trade unions on Thursday called for better training of delivery drivers, following a meeting between union representatives, representatives of the employers’ and industrialists’ federation (OEV), and food delivery companies Bolt, ...

On-site measurements of developments built by the Afik group are to be submitted as evidence in the trial of its founder, Israeli property developer Simon Mistriel Aykut, who stands accused ...