A comprehensive overview of current news in Cyprus, covering everything from local events and political developments to social issues and community highlights
Wednesday will begin with mostly clear skies across most of the island, but in the afternoon, cloud cover is expected to increase both inland and in the mountains, with isolated ...
By Antrea Panagiotou
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday met and discussed the Cyprus problem, among other issues, on the sidelines of the UN general assembly ...
Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar and his opposition-backed election challenger Tufan Erhurman both held large rallies on Tuesday night as the Turkish Cypriot leadership election draws closer.
Tatar’s rally ...
President Nikos Christodoulides pledged his support for a “safe and stable Lebanon” on Tuesday, during a meeting with the country’s President Joseph Aoun held on the sidelines of the ...
Energy was the main focus of a meeting held between President Nikos Christodoulides and Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly Tuesday.
According ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday told the United Nations general assembly that a solution to the Cyprus problem “cannot be built on the federal model”.
This, he said, ...
“Intensive policing” on the Larnaca beachfront will continue, with the aim of deterring thefts and other petty crimes and “further enhancing” people’s “sense of security”, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis ...
Cyprus and Greece are both “fully committed” to the Great Sea Interconnector project, which will link the two countries’ energy grids, as well as that of Israel, according to a ...
The total cost of restoring structures damaged during July’s inferno in Limassol district comes to around €40 million, the Scientific and Technical Chamber (Etek) said on Tuesday.
In a statement, ...
The water desalination plant in the Paphos district village of Kouklia returned to full working order, ten months after burning down, the water development department said on Tuesday.
The plant ...
A fire that broke out on Tuesday morning in a riverbed near the Ayios Silas industrial area in Limassol has been brought under control.
The fire spread quickly and threatened ...
Models of vehicles from well-known brands have been deemed dangerous and were recalled by the European warning system, Safety Gate, the road transport department (TOM) said on Tuesday.
The dangerous ...
The antiquities department has updated the guided tour experience of archaeological sites by launching a new digital platform and placing QR codes at ancient monuments, the deputy ministry of culture ...
Two teenage girls were remanded in custody by Larnaca District Court on Tuesday in connection with the theft of a rented vehicle and the €8,000 in it.
An 18-year-old was remanded ...
The House labour committee on Tuesday discussed plans to amend the current stipulation that parents accrue five years of residence in Cyprus before being able to claim child benefit, with ...
Foreign nationals are increasingly snapping up immovable property in Cyprus, accounting for over a quarter of all property sales in 2024, although that ratio is likely an undercount, a report released ...
New concerns about the construction of an aquaculture port on the Pentakomo coastline, home to one of the Mediterranean’s rarest marine mammals, were raised on Tuesday by Birdlife Cyprus.
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Sixty five survivors of childhood sexual abuse and exploitation have been helped by the Nima Support and Treatment Centre in its first two years of operation, the family planning association ...
Repair work will start on Wednesday on the Limassol – Nicosia motorway between Mouttagiaka and Parekklisia, in the direction of Nicosia, the public works department announced on Tuesday.
The maintenance will ...
The liquefied natural gas terminal at Vasiliko will be completed, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou promised on Tuesday.
Addressing the House energy committee, he said the project “is feasible, should be ...
Ghost Flight by Eva Asprakis explores a “time of new beginnings” amid the “horrifying contrast” of abrupt loss brought about by the doomed Helios Airways flight in 2005 that saw 121 people ...
Approximately 30 cats were found dead with foam around their mouths and poison found at Sfalayiotissa cemetery in Limassol, the Greens action group for animals said on Tuesday.
The group said ...
Volunteers with the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (Cabs) currently carrying out a protest to protect birds in Maroni on Tuesday reported they were attacked by a local poacher.
“We’ve ...