Cyprus News

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel on Thursday lambasted President Nikos Christodoulides’ speech at the United Nations general assembly and the accusation of “hypocrisy” he had levelled at Turkish President ...

Representatives of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) will meet Denia village mukhtar Charalambos Alexandrou on Thursday, following Wednesday’s buffer zone altercation near the Nicosia district village, ...

A 54-year-old man from Paphos was arrested after attempting to steal a boiler, the police said on Thursday. The police said the incident began after a 44-year-old man went to ...

A 26-year-old man was arrested in Limassol on Wednesday in connection with three cases of burglary and theft, as well as the suspected illegal possession of property, the police said ...

Turkey is “closely monitoring military developments on the island of Cyprus”, the country’s defence ministry’s spokesman Zeki Akturk said on Thursday, offering criticism for the Republic of Cyprus’ ...

Six people were arrested during the police’s overnight operations operations, the police said on Thursday. The arrests were made for offences including drug possession, burglary, theft and vandalism. The ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos held what he described as a “frank exchange” with Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly in New ...

President Nikos Christodoulides called for the “development” of the natural gas located under the seabed off the coast of Cyprus “as soon as possible” when he met American multinational oil ...

Rain is expected to fall in the mountains, inland, and in the southeast of the island during Thursday afternoon, following a largely clear but partially cloudy start. Temperatures are expected ...

Festivals Already happening at NiMAC, in Nicosia, is the latest edition of Queer Wave 2026, which brings film screenings, discussions, parties and installations to the heart of the city, giving the ...

As greenhouse gas emissions were decreasing across Europe, in Cyprus they increased by 67.1 per cent between 1990 and 2024, while 13 per cent of the island’s land area was affected by drought ...

A prosecution witness in the Avakoum monastery fraud trial described on Wednesday how footage from a monastery security camera showing one of the defendants apparently faking a religious trance convinced ...

Former Disy leader Averof Neofytou said on Wednesday that he will stand for president again if there is no positive movement on the Cyprus problem during talks in New York ...

The planned central prisons at Ayios Sozomenos will be situated well away from the village’s archaeological remains, the justice ministry assured on Tuesday, after a meeting between Justice Minister ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of “hypocrisy of the highest form” as he addressed the United Nations general assembly in New York. “I listened ...

Police and fire service coverage in Limassol’s wine villages came under discussion on Wednesday, with local leaders calling for more officers and changes to the way communities are divided ...

October will soon arrive with a rather rock attitude as a week-long event takes festival-goers and rock lovers to the seaside town of Protaras, extending its busy season a little ...

Direct Democracy leader Fidias Panayiotou is taking Data Protection Commissioner Maria Christofidou to the administrative court, disputing a €6,000 fine imposed over his handling of the Agora platform. Responding to the ...

For the first time, the public can explore art and antiquities at the presidential palace through a new guided visit programme, it was announced on Wednesday. The “Presidential Palace Open ...

Four defendants in the golden passport case that includes former transport minister Marios Demetriades denied 25 new charges on Tuesday. Defence lawyer Elias Stefanou told the Nicosia permanent criminal court his ...

Presidential Commissioner Marios Hartsiotis has been assigned a police guard from tomorrow, a day after the justice ministry stripped police protection from three former House presidents and two former first ...

A group of poachers in Androlykou illegally hunts hares on an almost nightly basis despite repeatedly being reported, the head of the Game and Fauna Service, Pantelis Hadjiyerou, told the ...

Nicosia-based Turkish Cypriot football club Cetinkaya on Wednesday vowed to return to the Cyprus Football Association, as it marked the 92nd anniversary of the association’s founding, at the end ...

A committee representing shopkeepers and residents in old Nicosia demanded on Wednesday that Nicosia mayor Charalambos Prountzos resign, hours after he told a Disy delegation that the municipality has drawn ...