Cyprus

A village festival this weekend celebrates one of Cyprus’ riches – olive trees. Seeking to celebrate this staple ingredient of the Cypriot diet and honour its religious heritage, the Ancient Olive ...

A total of 18 high-tech showers have been installed across the main beaches of Protaras, the Paralimini-Derynia municipality announced on Saturday. It said one shower has been placed on each of ...

Despite scattered rainfall in several forest areas this week, Cyprus wildlife’s need for water remains at its highest level, the forestry department said on Saturday. Officials said that while ...

Documentary filmmaker David Castillo claimed on Saturday he was banned from entering the north Cyprus while working on his recently released film Cyprus: A Divided Island. “Even though we had ...

This week, the International Short Film Festival of Cyprus launches its 15th edition, bringing screenings, and parallel events to Limassol from Saturday to October 17. Alongside its international and national competition ...

Resolving differences over the Great Sea Interconnector “builds trust and demonstrates Cyprus’ official interest in the project,” Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Saturday, one fay after the government officially ...

The list of vehicles fitted with faulty airbags was known to authorities the north for more than a year before a fatal crash last week, head of the Turkish Cypriot ...

Customs officers seized around 300kg of raw meat during a routine vehicle inspection at the Ayios Dhometios crossing on Friday. Meat, consisting of animal bones and skins, was found in ...

Cyprus’ commitment to advancing gender equality and eliminating discrimination and violence against women and girls was reiterated at the 80th session of the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee by ...

From the ruins of invasion, football became an act of resistance and hope, Larnaca mayor Andreas Vyras said on Friday night at a tribute to refugee football clubs, legendary players ...

A 59-year-old man is in serious condition at Nicosia general hospital after an accident involving an e-scooter early on Saturday morning in Paralimni. According to police, the incident happened at ...

The weather across Cyprus will remain mostly clear on Saturday, with some local clouds expected in the afternoon, according to the meteorological service. Winds will start light and variable, around 3 ...

Eurobank Limited on Friday announced the completion of the merger of its Cypriot insurance subsidiaries, marking a significant development in the consolidation of its insurance operations in Cyprus. The merger, ...

No independent investigator has been appointed to probe allegations of rape at the central prison after the legal service did not offer a positive response to a request for one ...

The municipality of Strovolos will be working with neighbourhood social workers to establish a direct line of communication with school administrators, Strovolos mayor Stavros Stavrinidis said during a meeting with ...

A tender has been issued for the construction of a 9.4-kilometre section of the Nicosia highway between Anthoupoli and Anagyia, the transport ministry announced on Friday. The €95 million project is ...

Products with a reduced ecological footprint, labelled with the EU Ecolabel, are barely available in Cyprus, where their market share stands at just two per cent, according to a new ...

A driver has allegedly been fined €2,000 after entering the Larnaca salt lake in a car, leaving two vehicles stranded for days inside one of Cyprus’ most sensitive natural habitats. According ...

Mental health departments are operating at the limits of their capacity, with an overcrowding rate of 140 per cent and an urgent need for more staff, the mental health nursing branch ...

The severe traffic congestion that paralysed Nicosia on Wednesday is the result of “a state failure to create an effective public transport system,” Nicosia mayor Charalambos Prountzos told the Cyprus ...

Cyprus’ Joint Rescue and Coordination Centre (JRCC) is a hub of cooperation and a model for other countries in the region seeking to develop similar facilities, Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas ...

Cyprus has joined a European pilot project to develop a secure and interoperable system for verifying users’ age online, Deputy Innovation Minister Nicodemos Damianou announced on Friday. The initiative, led ...

A total of 4.37 million non-EU citizens who fled Ukraine were under temporary protection status by the end of August, with Cyprus recording the third-highest ratio of Ukrainians within the EU — 25 ...

Talk of slander and mounting political tension surrounded the Alma movement on Friday, as its leader – the former auditor-general – Odysseas Michaelides and former University of Cyprus rector Constantinos Christofides lashed ...