Cyprus News

Police arrested five people during islandwide checks on Tuesday night, carried out through organised patrols at key locations in urban areas. According to a police statement, the arrests concerned offences ...

Four of the six Cypriot members of the European Parliament on Tuesday voted in favour of the creation of the European Union’s new Agile programme, through which €115 million will ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Tuesday said that complaints he had raised regarding initiatives undertaken by the Greek Cypriot side to bring about the cancellation of international events organised ...

Lebanese security forces on Tuesday arrested nine Syrians suspected of involvement in a plot to smuggle Syrian migrants by boat to Cyprus from Al-Aboudiya in northern Lebanon. According to the ...

The trial of suspended Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos, accused of rape, continued on Tuesday with the testimony of a key prosecution witness. According to the Cyprus News Agency, the witness ...

The Ktizo scheme, affording refugees the option to move into better and safer housing, is proceeding at a snail’s pace, MPs said on Tuesday. In April 2023, amid much fanfare ...

A bilateral memorandum aimed at further strengthening educational cooperation between Cyprus and Greece was signed at the Holy Archdiocese in Nicosia on Tuesday. The memorandum was signed by Education Minister ...

The institutional care of parents and spouses of missing persons is covered by a new law, presidential commissioner Marios Hartsiotis said on Tuesday. Hartsiotis told MPs of the House refugee ...

Retail fuel prices in Cyprus are currently at “acceptable levels”, taking into account the global uptick and compared to other EU countries, government officials told incredulous MPs on Tuesday. Director ...

A 33-year-old man was on Tuesday arrested for the possession of child sexual abuse material in Larnaca. According to the police, the investigation into the case began following information received ...

Israeli basketball team Maccabi Tel Aviv will play its home Euroleague matches in Limassol, Cyprus Sports Organisation (KOA) chairman Yiannis Ioannou said on Tuesday, following a meeting of stakeholders and ...

Acting Paphos mayor Angelos Onisiforou on Tuesday defended his town council’s decision to rename the central Moutallos neighbourhood’s Kemal Ataturk Street, describing the move as “a choice imbued ...

Significant differences in access to living donor kidney transplantation across Europe are highlighted in a new publication led by assistant professor Andreas Kousios of the European University’s (EUC) school ...

Objections to the locating of a new central prison in their area were raised on Tuesday by representatives of the municipalities of South Nicosia-Dali and Yeri-Latsia during a meeting with ...

A third arrest linked to the death of a cat in Paphos that was found to have been shot with 13 pellets was announced by police on Tuesday. Initially an 18-year-old ...

Cyprus has established links with Estonia as part of efforts to expand electronic cross border health services and improve access to digital healthcare for citizens of both countries, the National ...

Investing in prevention is an integral part of addressing chronic diseases, by minimising the burden on patients, families and the health system itself, Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides said on Tuesday. ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday insisted he has “no disagreement” with Attorney-General George Savvides over the government’s planned reforms to the legal service, as debate continues over plans to ...

For a journalist of Irish heritage living in Cyprus for decades, it might seem natural that reading a novel whose backdrop is both The Troubles in Northern Ireland and the ...

Larnaca airport was placed on alert on Monday evening after a passenger was found on board an airplane bound for Tel Aviv without being on the flight’s manifest, police ...

The British father who pleaded guilty to negligence after the fatal fall of his three-year-old son from a Paphos hotel will learn his sentence on October 16, Paphos district court ruled ...

Cyprus had a working-age population of 61.6 per cent on January 1, 2025, placing the country above the European Union average of 58.3 per cent, according to Eurostat. The figures show that people aged ...

The Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) will introduce a new identity verification procedure for calls to the Gesy service centre from Wednesday to strengthen the protection of beneficiaries’ personal data. The ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou on Tuesday presented the government’s latest plan to reform the way in which teachers are appointed to trade union leaders, though she admitted that she ...