Cyprus

Minister of Energy, Commerce and Industry, George Papanastasiou is expected to announce the official launch of the e-Kalathi electronic platform on Wednesday. But it won’t be online for the ...

Limassol police on Tuesday arrested, charged, fined and released a 44-year-old man caught with a large quantity of contraband cigarettes, tobacco and heets, they said. During a traffic stop in ...

Drug squad officers arrested a 46-year-old man in Nicosia on Tuesday night on suspicion of cocaine possession, they said. Around 7pm the suspect was stopped for a routine check in ...

An explosion occurred in the early hours of Wednesday at a cafe on Piraeus Street, in Nicosia, police said. No one was injured in the blast that police said was ...

Police and customs at Paphos airport seized almost 17 kilos of cannabis from an inbound passenger late Tuesday, they said. The 23-year-old man who flew in from another European country was ...

Early morning fog and cloud cover on Wednesday will give away to temperatures of 38C inland, the met office said, while those around the coast will vary from 31C on ...

An international solidarity march for Gaza is in its final stages of preparation, one of the members of the Greek delegation told the Cyprus Mail on Tuesday, as a handful ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday night said he was “devastated” by the school shooting which took place in the Austrian city of Graz earlier in the day. “My thoughts are ...

Both Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar and the north’s ‘foreign ministry’ on Tuesday night expressed broad satisfaction with a European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruling regarding Greek Cypriot-owned ...

Nicosia mayor Charalambos Prountzos on Tuesday called on the state to expropriate Turkish Cypriot buildings that are in bad shape, in a move that would revitalise the old part of ...

House energy committee chairman and Disy MP Kyriakos Hadjiyiannis on Tuesday lambasted President Nikos Christodoulides’ “highly illegal” intervention over the matter of forthcoming rises in electricity bills, describing it as ...

A 47-year-old man died after falling 23 metres from an under-construction building in Limassol on Tuesday, police said. The man, named as Georgian national Gela Katsidis, was working on the building’...

A Greek Cypriot man has been arrested in the north after allegedly having stolen a bicycle in the Republic, taken it to the north, and then traded it for a ...

Turkey’s environment ministry is to put out a tender to create a three-dimensional “digital twin” of the north, with the aim of the model being used to facilitate the ...

Preserving dry stone walls in buildings is an opportunity to promote Cyprus as a model of sustainable development, strengthen the local economy through the creation of new jobs and keep ...

The federation of Cyprus patients’ associations (Osak) on Tuesday called for improved quality of health services and personalised care following the holding of its AGM. While positive developments had been ...

A 26-year-old Greek Cypriot was arrested at Paphos Airport on Tuesday after customs officers discovered 119 boxes of cigarettes in his luggage during a routine check. He was due to travel ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli on Tuesday said the Turkish Cypriot authorities would begin to issue arrest warrants for people they accuse of using Turkish Cypriot property in ...

The private electricity industry on Tuesday censured the energy minister for remarks which, in its opinion, undermine confidence in the coming opening up of the electricity market. The Electricity Market ...

I’d been to Kolla before, so I knew what to expect. Or at least I thought I did. This time, it was Sunday evening at the start of summer ...

Three cases of theft of personal property were reported during the three-day Katakylosmos celebrations on a busy beach in Protaras, police said on Tuesday. The three incidents were reported across ...

The value of archived materials in deepening the understanding of the 1955 to 1959 Eoka struggle was outlined by Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis on Tuesday, marking its 70th anniversary. “The state archives, ...

The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday ordered Turkey to pay compensation for moral damage to Cypriot company KV Mediterranean Tours Limited for loss of use of property. The ...

The ghost rider who entered the Limassol-Nicosia highway in the wrong direction on Sunday, terrifying drivers, had not been arrested as of Tuesday. “There has not been an arrest on ...