Cyprus

Three 18-year-olds were arrested on Monday morning in the Strovolos area of Nicosia after harmful devices were found inside their vehicles, police said on Monday. The teens were stopped for ...

The north will be cut off from Turkish water for four days from Tuesday due to a fault at the pumping station in the Kyrenia district village of Panagra, where ...

A 52-year-old man was arrested in Paralimni in connection with the illegal possession of property and burglary tools, police said on Monday. Police said he was located and detained shortly ...

A 32-year-old man was remanded in custody for six days by the Limassol district court on Monday after a fire last week in the Troodos state forest. Police told the ...

A 59-year-old man was arrested on Sunday in Paphos in connection with the theft of a rental vehicle, police said on Monday. The vehicle was reported missing on September 4 by ...

A 41-year-old man was arrested and charged in writing for causing malicious damage to two vehicles in Paralimni, police said on Monday. He was later released and will be summoned ...

Two minors were hospitalised with non-life-threatening injuries following a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of Spyros Kyprianou avenue and Spyros Sotirakis avenue in Paphos on Sunday. The crash involved a ...

By Michele Kambas Cyprus has approached the United Arab Emirates for possible cooperation on an EU-financed subsea power cable linking Europe to the eastern Mediterranean region, it said on Monday, ...

Primary schools reopened on Monday, marking the end of the summer holidays and the beginning of the new school year, with over 50,000 children enrolled at primary schools across the island ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday pledged his government’s commitment to constructing the Great Sea Interconnector, saying he was doing so for “the umpteenth time”. The project, if completed, will ...

Questions have been raised after one of the five Greek Cypriots who remain in custody after having been arrested in the north in July was not provided with medicine “for ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel told members of his party the UBP who work in the north’s public sector to ensure that polling stations are staffed with supporters ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will make his annual speech at the United Nations general assembly in New York on September 24, according to the provisional list of speakers published by the UN. ...

Monday’s weather is expected to be mostly warm with a sunny start to the day, though increased cloud cover and even isolated rain will be possible. This rain will ...

It has been a tumultuous week for energy in Cyprus. Its two biggest projects, the import of LNG at Vasilikos and the GSI electrical interconnector, were in the limelight mostly ...

A large fire that broke out near Mouttayiaka in Limassol on Sunday around noon and moved towards the village was contained by around 6pm, the fire service said. From around ...

In the Limassol hills, the village school has long been the heart of the community. But falling pupil numbers in general and fears stirred by recent wildfires are raising urgent ...

Cyprus supports Albania’s accession to the EU, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Sunday, adding that the EU’s enlargement into the Western Balkans is a geopolitical necessity in ...

A 44-year-old man was on Sunday remanded in police custody for eight days by the Larnaca district court in connection with the arson of a car in the early hours ...

After the heavy frosting our garden had earlier in the year, I thought that we had lost our lovely bougainvillea, which scrambles across the front veranda railing competing for space ...

September brings with it a new wave of cultural events. One to mark down is the Laou Laou Open Streets event happening in Limassol on September 20 and in Nicosia on ...

A total of 60 per cent of people will not pay tax according to the tax reform put forward by the government, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said on Sunday. This is ...

President Nikos Christodoulides proudly announced on Wednesday that 95 per cent of families displaced by Limassol’s wildfire in July have now received a lump sum payment, and the general consensus ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday he is ready to meet UN envoy Maria Angela Holguin this week and has “some concrete ideas on how to proceed”. “I consider it particularly ...