Cyprus News

The cabinet has approved a national strategy for multiple sclerosis, Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides announced on Tuesday. Speaking at the presidential palace following the morning cabinet meeting, Charalambides described the ...

A 22-year-old German tourist has died after being pulled unconscious from the swimming pool of an apartment complex in the Famagusta district yesterday night. The man was recovered from the ...

An 18-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of possessing and circulating counterfeit banknotes, police said on Tuesday. Officers in the Famagusta district acted on a tip-off concerning two €50 notes ...

The Nicosia district government on Tuesday signed a contract with the Thessaloniki water supply and sewerage company (Eyath) to be provided with “expertise” in “the field of geographic information systems”. ...

A criminal investigation is under way into a general practitioner and an orthopaedic surgeon after the audit office found evidence suggesting collusion between doctors and prison officers over falsifying sick ...

While Cyprus is preparing to introduce its ‘pay as you throw system’, wherein people are forced to pay for special issue rubbish bags to have their rubbish collected, early next ...

The Greek Cypriot side has “always avoided” cooperating with the Turkish Cypriots, former Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat said on Tuesday, with his successor Tufan Erhurman and President Nikos ...

An 18-year-old male has been arrested over the alleged possession and circulation of counterfeit banknotes, the police said on Tuesday. Officers in the Famagusta district acted on a tip-off regarding ...

Six people were arrested during overnight police operations for offences including car theft, living in Cyprus without the requisite residence documents, and drug possession, the police said on Tuesday. Officers ...

A Cypriot company attempted to sell speed cameras with hidden Russian SIM cards to the Slovak government, falsely claiming that the cameras had been manufactured in Cyprus, according to reports ...

Cypriot ultra-runner Andreas Nikolaou became the first recorded person to run the entire coastline of Cyprus, covering a bit over 700 kilometres in seven days, 22 hours and 35 minutes while raising money ...

At least 150,000 people currently live in Kyrenia, the town’s Turkish Cypriot mayor Murat Senkul has said, stressing that the overall population of the north is likely much larger than ...

Firefighters were required to extricate a man from a pickup truck after it collided with a wall in the Nicosia district village of Potami, the fire brigade said on Tuesday. ...

The government’s plans to transform the village of Kato Pyrgos and the wider Tillyria region into a “model green community” have become “entangled in bureaucracy” and have also been ...

Tuesday’s weather is expected to be mostly clear across most of the island for most of the day, though increased cloud cover and rain is expected to hit in ...

Cyprus’ bid to join the United States’ visa waiver programme remains on hold, as Washington undertakes a re-evaluation of the scheme and continues to withhold new admissions. According to competent ...

The Turkish Cypriot authorities are to introduce an e-visa for citizens of Armenia, Nigeria, and Syria who wish to visit the north, ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel has said, bringing to ...

Swimmer Kalia Antoniou on Monday night won Cyprus’ first gold medal of this year’s Mediterranean Games in the Italian city of Taranto, winning the 100m freestyle final for the ...

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis on Monday stressed that Greece will “fully exercise its sovereign rights” in the eastern Mediterranean, with it foreseen that the country’s plans to build ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday stressed his support for “the independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of Ukraine, within its internationally recognised borders” as he partook in a videoconference of the ‘...

The amount of water currently held in the island’s reservoirs is more than double that held at the same time last year, figures from the Water Development Department showed ...

The government announced on Monday that €95 million has been approved for major upgrades of the national electricity grid, with the associated targeted actions expected to expand the grid’s capacity ...

Elam on Monday slammed a football training camp for youths organised in the north of the island by Spanish club FC Barcelona, with the party especially outraged with the term ‘...

The University of Cyprus Formula racing team secured second place overall at Formula Student Romania with its student-built Odysseia single-seater. The team was established in 2019 by students from the university’...