Cyprus

On Wednesday, the weather is mainly cloudy. Local rain is expected at times, with isolated thunderstorms. Hail may fall during some storms. Winds are mainly northerly to north-easterly. They are ...

An infrastructural ‘tsunami’ is creeping in across the northern part of the peninsula By the BirdLife Cyprus team There is something deeply troubling in watching one of our island’s ...

A box containing more than two kilograms of cocaine and more than nine kilograms of cannabis was found in the storage area of a courier company’s premises in Limassol, ...

Opposition members of the north’s ‘parliament’ expressed their confusion on Tuesday after the Turkish Cypriot legislature convened despite residential neighbourhoods within a 15-minute walk of the ‘parliament’ in the ...

Efforts to get trucks transporting debris to install GPS – so that the vehicles can be tracked to ensure they don’t unload the rubble in illegal dumps – have come to ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Tuesday called for an end to the “inhumane embargo” placed on Turkish Cypriots as he addressed his country’s parliament during discussions over his ...

The police branch of the union Isotita on Tuesday challenged a decision by police chief Themistos Arnaoutis to reduce police officers’ rest days, warning it is prepared to pursue legal ...

Excavations are being carried out at seven locations across Cyprus in search of people who went missing during intercommunal conflicts between 1963 and 1974, House refugees committee chairman and Akel MP Nikos ...

French telecoms company Nexans has reportedly withdrawn tenders linked to the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), informing interested companies that the project is not moving forward on its existing timetable. Sources ...

The government is “willing to accept some increase” in the income tax-free threshold from its initially planned figure of €20,500 per year, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said on Tuesday. Speaking after ...

Alarm over serious ecological degradation at the Akrotiri wetlands was raised by BirdLife Cyprus on Tuesday, which urged an immediate official investigation into abnormal water inflows and pollution detected in ...

Poor bookkeeping and inadequate internal audits at the transport ministry and the Road Transport Department have led to a situation where the government doesn’t have a handle on what ...

Auditor-general Andreas Papaconstantinou boarded a bus wearing a wig, with photographs of his escapade having been leaked into the public domain on Tuesday. Later in the day, audit office spokeswoman ...

Cyprus is experiencing a dramatic decline in trust in institutions, a deep gap between democratic values and their implementation in practice, as well as one of the highest levels of ...

A pioneering early literacy initiative aimed at newborns to three-year-olds, has been launched by the University of Cyprus, it announced on Tuesday, positioning the institution at the forefront of childhood ...

A pack of dogs was seen roaming on the Nicosia to Limassol highway, police said on Tuesday, urging the public to exercise caution when passing through the area. The pack ...

Construction has officially started on a new British High Commission in Nicosia, located on the site of the former central prisons compound, it announced on Tuesday. The €40 million-plus project, the ...

An investigation is already underway into the growth of algae on Nissi Beach, control of which the municipality said on Tuesday is crucial to maintaining quality on the popular location. ...

The meteorological office on Tuesday afternoon upgraded a warning for Storm Byron, which has brought great devastation to north and the west coast, from yellow to orange. The warning will ...

Two Cypriot antiquities have been repatriated from the United States, the antiquities department said on Tuesday. The antiquities were delivered to the Cyprus embassy in Washington in November. They had ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday his priority for an upcoming meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman is to explore how to return to substantive negotiations. Speaking to reporters, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides vehemently denied on Tuesday claims that the government’s recent reshuffle is a shift towards the far right. Responding to opposition claims that the reshuffle signals a ...

The recent loss of a griffon vulture, fatally electrocuted less than a day after its release following six weeks of rehabilitation, has “devastated” conservationists in Cyprus. “We are devastated by ...

Edek will remain part of the governing coalition, its leader Nikos Anastasiou confirmed on Tuesday following a brief meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides. After the meeting at the presidential palace, ...