Cyprus

Turkish sporting giants Besiktas JK on Sunday night named Cypriot businessman Serdal Adali as the club’s new chairman. Adali secured a club record total of 8,901 votes among the club’...

A 49-year-old man was arrested in Limassol on Sunday night after police found a loaded pistol in his car. The police found the pistol, which had seven full cartridges in ...

Yet more snow is expected to fall atop the Troodos mountains on Monday and overnight into Tuesday, with hailstones and rain expected in lower ground across other parts of the ...

The Cyprus problem in 2024 started with a bang or two, then a whimper, then another bang and wimped out again by December, mid-year coming as it did on the 50th ...

To call it a milepost year in anti-free speech might be taking it too far, but definitely 2024 had its fair share of such troubling incidents. But the more precedents are ...

Thirty-five years ago, I was strapped into a parachute and yanked skywards by a speedboat. After the initial shock, I was floating in nothingness, a complete and total silence, viewing ...

Cyprus’ foreign ministry on Sunday said it was “deeply saddened” by the aeroplane crash which occurred in South Korea earlier in the day and killed almost 180 people. It offered its “...

The Ierokipia municipality on Sunday announced it is taking legal action against the Paphos district government and the consortium which operates the Paphos water treatment plant, near the village of ...

THE HORRORS inflicted upon Gaza in the last 15 months have invoked an urge to do something to feel like one is not simply a bystander and is on the right ...

Paphos on Saturday night hosted a Christmas classic car parade, with cars making their way from the town hall square around the local streets. The municipality said the parade “filled ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday said some of his fiercest critics “have never accepted the Cypriot people’s verdict in the 2023 presidential elections”. Speaking to newspaper Phileleftheros, he said his ...

I wrote a number of stories in 2024 that meant a lot to me (the one about the growing use of antidepressants was an eye-opener). In the end, though, the one ...

Renovation work at the village square in the Kyrenia district village of Bellapais will be completed by the end of January, Turkish Cypriot Kyrenia mayor Murat Senkul said on Sunday. ...

Investigations into the circumstances surrounding the death of 62-year-old Vitaly Shostak in his apartment in Limassol are continuing on Sunday, the police said. Shostak died after being stabbed once in ...

A 38-year-old man is in a critical condition after being involved in a road traffic collision on the motorway between Limassol and Nicosia in the early hours of Sunday morning. ...

A woman was attacked by a dog in the Kyrenia district village of Thermia, the Turkish Cypriot police said on Sunday. The woman, aged 52, was walking along a street in ...

More snow is expected in Cyprus’ most elevated regions on Sunday, with the rest of the island set to see clouds, rain, and the odd isolated storm. Temperatures will rise ...

Sometimes in moments of boredom, retired old Cyprob junkies with nothing better to do and to keep themselves amused however briefly on a rainy December morning might decide to ask ...

The north’s ‘foreign ministry’ on Saturday reacted with upset over the Republic’s stated plans to recommence drilling for natural gas in the seas off the coast of Cyprus ...

The Kyrenia district village of Karpasha is a “point of reference” for tradition and cultural heritage during the Christmas period, humanitarian affairs commissioner Anna Aristotelous said on Saturday. Speaking at ...

A 30-year-old man appeared in court on Saturday charged with having deliberately started a fire in an apartment which led to his 70-year-old mother being admitted to intensive care with ...

The Greek Cypriot side is “awaiting an official response” regarding a meeting of President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar over the prospect of opening new crossing points ...

A dead body was found on a construction site in the Paphos district village of Kissonerga on Saturday. Paphos police assistant operations director Michalis Nikolaou said the body was found ...

“There is no Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, but a Turkish Republic of Cyprus,” Turkish parliamentary defence committee chairman and ruling AK Party MP Hulusi Akar said on Saturday. Akar, ...