Cyprus News

Turkish Cypriot opposition political party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman on Thursday night challenged Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar to a television debate, as their back-and-forth disagreement over the Cyprus problem ...

Conservation work at the mosque in the Larnaca district village of Alaminos is set to begin in the near future, Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage co-chairman Ali Tuncay said. He ...

A 46-year-old man from the Famagusta district was arrested on Thursday night after having allegedly attacked someone with a knife inside a coffee shop. The police said a 41-year-old man ...

By Tom Cleaver Students from the Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) discussed matters related to the new student dormitories in Paphos with the town’s mayor Phedonas Phedonos on Thursday. ...

Once the early morning mist, fog, and low cloud have cleared, Friday will be another warm and sunny summer’s day for the most part. Temperatures will rise to 38 degrees ...

Environmentalists in central Cyprus have stated their opposition to plans to build a solar farm near the villages of Lythrodontas, Kataliontas and Mathiatis. The Cyprus Environmental Movement said on Tuesday ...

Vera Tugolukova took 16th place on Thursday in the rhythmic gymnastics competition at the 33rd Olympics, becoming the last Cypriot athlete to feature in the Paris Games. She is the ...

In a special session held on Thursday, the House accepted in part the president’s referral back to it of a law relating to how legal entities collect royalties for ...

A Greek Cypriot was sentenced in the north on Thursday to 60 days in prison for attempting to help an accomplice cross to the Republic from the north with a fake ...

The European Commission on Thursday stressed that Cyprus has an obligation to provide access to asylum proceedings, as 70 migrants remain stranded in the buffer zone, unable to apply for asylum ...

Residents living in the buffer zone have decried the 14km fence stretching across the Green Line, calling it useless, as Deputy Minister of Migration Nicholas Ioannides visited the site on ...

By the first week of September Nicosia will respond in writing to Brussels regarding the latter’s request to be refunded for the €69 million in EU grants already disbursed for ...

Analysis of the seawater off the coast of Yeroskipou has proven it to be clean, the Eastern Paphos municipality said on Thursday. The municipality said bathers had reported that “brown ...

The forestry department has strengthened its workforce by hiring 118 new forest firefighters to be stationed across districts in Cyprus. According to a statement released on Thursday, a total of 30 firefighters ...

The US amphibious assault ship, USS Wasp, arrived in Limassol on Wednesday, Petty Officer 2nd Class Sydney Milligan reported. According to the publication by the Defence Visual Information Distribution Service, ...

Turkish Cypriots on Thursday commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Tillyria in the village of Kokkina. The village of Kokkina is now controlled by the Turkish military but ...

Political leaders from the Famagusta district on Thursday called on President Nikos Christodoulides to meet with them with the aim of allowing the district to host conferences and other events ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Thursday hit back at opposition party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman over the latter’s statements on the Cyprus problem, insisting that diplomacy on the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday held a telephone conversation with Jordanian King Abdullah II, during which they spoke about the “evolving situation” in the Middle East. Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis ...

Turkey “has problems with all its neighbours”, Cyprus’ President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday. Speaking to French newspaper Le Figaro, he referenced former Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s foreign ...

With more and more people engaging in DIY investment, governments have recognised the need for greater financial literacy that is at relatively low levels in most countries. The August 11 issue ...

None of the police officers involved in a migration raid that ended with a Bangladeshi man’s death committed criminal or disciplinary offences, an independent investigation into the matter has ...

There are “no disagreements with the government regarding fan movement at football matches,” president of Cyprus Football Association (CFA) Giorgos Koumas said on Thursday. Last month, the CFA board of ...

A six-year-old child was left alone on a bus for around an hour after falling asleep on a school trip, police said on Thursday. Larnaca police spokesman Spyros Chrysostomou explained ...