Cyprus News

Cyprus and India are seeking to strengthen defence cooperation, with discussions on Tuesday covering defence industry partnerships, cybersecurity, emerging technologies and closer naval ties, including maritime security, joint training and ...

Cost of living measures must be aimed at vulnerable households, the Central Bank warned on Tuesday, warning that blanket support risks pushing prices higher by raising demand. “If they are ...

Mikis Theodorakis had an “indestructible relationship with Cyprus”, Culture Deputy Minister Clea Hadjistefanou-Papaellina said on Tuesday at the presentation of a new biography. Papaellina spoke at the launch of “The ...

The parents of Cypriot student Kyprianos Papaioannou, who died in the 2023 Tempi train crash in Greece, testified on Tuesday at the trial of those accused over the disaster. The crash ...

A delegation from the Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (Greco) met Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Tuesday as part of a four-day visit to Cyprus to ...

Five agricultural organisations on Tuesday called on Agriculture Minister Christos Senekis and Energy Minister Michael Damianos to extend the licence for grain storage at Larnaca port, which is due to ...

Presidential hopeful George Pamboridis said on Tuesday that Disy should pursue a “natural alliance” with Diko ahead of the 2028 presidential election, and that he will stay in the race for ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday that the government is weighing further support measures on top of more than €1 billion of aid already announced and being implemented. Arriving at the ...

Varosha is a largely abandoned quarter of Famagusta on Cyprus’s east coast. Once the island’s leading seaside resort, it was sealed off by the Turkish military after its ...

Economist Tassos Yiasemides, a partner at KPMG Cyprus, is among the names discussed within Akel as a possible presidential candidate the party could back. Local media reported that Yiasemides’ name ...

A senior civil servant has been paid about €280,000 over six and a half years while on temporary leave and not working, according to the public service commission’s annual report ...

Four people were arrested for various offenses, including illegal stay in the territory of the Republic, causing malicious damage, theft and drink driving as part of preventive police operations on ...

Downtown Nicosia will welcome interactive art, installations, exhibitions and performances as the latest WIP (Work in Progress) Festival launches on October 16. The annual arts and technology event, organised by the ...

Three robberies were committed within the course of 1.5 hours in Limassol on Tuesday morning. According to the police, the first incident took place at around 3.30am, when a 23-year-old cyclist ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman are scheduled to meet at the offices of the United Nations at the site of the old Nicosia airport on 3.30pm ...

On Tuesday, it will be partly cloudy with isolated showers and storms, which are expected begin in at noon in the higher mountains, inland and in the north. The weather ...

A new book examining the 1967 bombing of Cyprus Airways flight CY284 has revived questions over the deaths of 66 people and the suspected political motive behind the attack, with its author ...

A memorandum of cooperation between Cyprus and Saudia Arabia was signed by Energy Minister Michael Damianos and his Saudi Arabian counterpart Prince Abdulaziz Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in ...

An additional 2,000 animals from livestock units will be culled due to the foot and mouth disease (FMD), director general of the ministry of agriculture and rural development, Andreas Gregoriou said ...

The Pancyprian Medical Association (CyMA) on Monday said it was awaiting the results of investigations by the authorities after serious allegations were made against a gynaecologist over delayed diagnoses, unnecessary ...

Authorities in Larnaca have issued eviction orders for one of the oldest buildings in the coastal city, deemed extremely dangerous due to structural risk, reports said on Monday. The building ...

Some lives are so extraordinary, they could inspire novels, films and TV series. Barry Appleton’s life is one of them. A police officer at the Metropolitan Police and a ...

Fourteen per cent of children in Cyprus were at risk of poverty in 2025, a fall of by 8.1 per cent from 22.1 per cent in 2019, according to findings of a study examining ...

The police chief on Monday ordered an administrative investigation into the circumstances of the escape of a teenager from police custody but was later re-apprehended. The 18-year-old had managed to ...