Cyprus

Supermarkets, shops and malls will stay open on Good Friday and Easter Saturday until 6pm. On Easter Sunday and Monday all shops and supermarkets will be closed including the ones ...

Passengers and drivers arriving at Larnaca airport are reminded of special arrangements to facilitate traffic, in view of the Easter holidays, the summer season and the commencement of phase B ...

Microplastics are everywhere: in our seas, in the air we breathe, and even in the food we consume. Although they are nearly invisible to the naked eye, their impact on ...

A fire in the early hours of Thursday caused extensive damage to an abandoned warehouse in Ayios Dhometios, Nicosia. Fire department spokesman Andreas Kettis said on X that a call ...

The three-member committee appointed to examine the recalls process for cars – faulty Takata airbags in particular – imported from the EU and third countries continues its hearings on Thursday. At the ...

Foreign ministry permanent secretary, ambassador Andreas Kakouris, will most probably be Cyprus’ candidate for the position of president of the UN General Assembly, after he retires from his ministry post ...

The electrical interconnection between Greece and Cyprus will move forward at the right time and according to plans, Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis said late on Wednesday night. Speaking on ...

A second person was arrested on Wednesday in connection with firecrackers and a pistol found in Nicosia. The police said they arrested a 24-year-old man from Nicosia. On Monday, the ...

Fire fighters in Paphos freed a person on Thursday who had been trapped in a vehicle after an accident. Fire department spokesman Andreas Kettis said on X that a call ...

Mainly fine weather can be expected over the next four days, with possible fine dust in the atmosphere from Friday onwards. Thursday will be mainly fine with a northeast to ...

A 23-year-old biker was killed at around 1.15am on Thursday in Larnaca when he lost control of his powerful motorcycle, hitting the curb and then a bus stop. The police ...

EU member states, including Cyprus, are expected to draw up a common list of so-called safe countries of origin when they process asylum applications, the European Commission announced on Wednesday....

The north’s ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu on Wednesday evening said the Greek Cypriots are “using the European Union as a weapon”. He was speaking to the north’s public ...

The 32 members of the new bicommunal technical committee on youth were officially named on Wednesday by President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar. The leaders named 16 people each ...

Former Turkish Cypriot ‘education minister’ Ahmet Derya took to the stage outside the north’s ‘parliament’ to condemn the incumbent ruling coalition as fires were lit for the third day ...

The first hearing of a defamation lawsuit Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar had filed against pro-opposition Turkish Cypriot newspaper Yeniduzenwas heard at court in northern Nicosia on Wednesday. Tatar is ...

Ankara mayor Mansur Yavas on Wednesday said the Turkish government’s “silence” over the signing of a joint declaration by five central Asian states and the European Union which ruled ...

Families preparing their Easter feasts this year will face higher prices at the checkout, with some vegetables nearly tripling in cost, according to new data. The Consumer Protection Service’s ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, and former prime minister Binali Yildirim were all accused of partaking in “filthy” corruption in northern Cyprus, linked to assassinated Turkish ...

The government is to create a national unit for the implementation of financial sanctions, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said on Wednesday. Speaking after the day’s cabinet meeting, he said ...

The latest hearing in the case against 22 Turkish Cypriot teachers who stand accused of “battering” police officers during a protest in 2022 took place in northern Nicosia on Wednesday. Little progress ...

The Great Sea Interconnector project was absent from announcements and discussions in Greece following a meeting of the country’s National Security Council (Kysea) on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, ...

A cardboard box with a large amount of duty-free tobacco products was found by Limassol police in a car stopped for inspection on Tuesday, while the driver was found to ...

The governmental press office on Wednesday announced the official translation and unification of the Republic’s updated constitution into English. The publication will include “a comprehensive, consolidated text of the ...