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Italy announced on Friday that it is suspending the application of Schengen free movement rules for arrivals from Spain following a mass influx of irregular migrants into the Spanish enclave ...

Disy vice president Yiannis Karousos on Friday criticised reports that party figures Tina Pavlou and Christos Angelides are set to join President Nikos Christodoulides’ cabinet, saying they should not accept ...

A 20-year-old man was found guilty on Thursday by the Famagusta criminal court of attempted murder and rape of a 26-year-old woman at a hotel in the district in August 2024. ...

A motorcade organised by Apoel supporters to mark the club’s 100th anniversary caused significant traffic disruption across parts of Nicosia on Thursday, with police temporarily closing key roads to ...

The Isotita (Equality) trade union on Friday described the dismissal of prison guard and union official Giorgos Maltezos as “manifestly illegal”, announcing legal action after the justice ministry terminated his ...

Marilena Raouna officially left her post as deputy European affairs minister on Friday, marking the end of her term after parliament rejected government legislation which would have extended her appointment ...

TUI and Jet2 will expand their presence in Larnaca for the next tourist season, with the two major British tour operators adding the district to their programmes. The Larnaca tourism ...

Larnaca welcomes back the Th-Eros Tradition Festival this summer which returns for its second edition. Th-Eros, a play on words on ‘love’ and ‘summer’, is a festival that cherishes tradition ...

Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas “did not care about the truth” of the fire which broke out at a firing range near the Larnaca district village of Kalo Chorio on Monday, ...

Parents’ names will return to Cyprus’ new biometric identity cards, while members of the public will also be given the option of obtaining a version omitting them. The interior ministry ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is preparing the cabinet reshuffle, with changes expected to include both internal transfers and the appointment of new figures from the centre right, according to information emerging ...

A total of five hectares of dry grass, wild vegetation, waste materials and large piles of rubbish were burned in the fire that broke out in Arsos on Thursday. Community ...

The justice ministry confirmed on Friday A prison guard employed on an indefinite contract has been dismissed for dereliction of duty, after an investigation found repeated failures to comply. The ...

The forestry department warned that the risk of forest fires will reach Red Alert level tomorrow, urging the public to exercise extreme caution to prevent fires. The department appealed to ...

The European Commission’s Cyprus envoy Raffaele Fitto on Friday said he is “here, above all, to listen” as he concluded his first visit to the island since being appointed ...

The Cypriot government “will have had a say” in the sale of the BG Group’s Cyprus unit from British multinational corporation Royal Dutch Shell to Hungarian oil and gas ...

A senior adviser to FIFA President Gianni Infantino resigned in protest at plans to sell a stake in the World Cup on Friday, as European football threatened a boycott and ...

Irregular arrivals to Cyprus fell by 92 per cent and new asylum applications dropped by 93 per cent in the first half of 2026 compared with the same period in 2022, Deputy Migration Minister ...

By Konstantina Logotheti There are moments that stay with us forever. Moments when a single sound, a single word, or a single smile is enough to make time stand still. ...

Questions over the handling of the Videogate investigation intensified on Friday after independent criminal investigator Andreas Paschalides admitted he “may have made a mistake in the wording” of statements issued ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu on Friday sharply criticised President Nikos Christodoulides’ meeting with newly appointed EU envoy for the Cyprus problem Raffaele Fitto. Referring to what he described ...

Eurobank on Friday reported €738 million in net profit for the first half of 2026, with its Cyprus operations contributing €231 million as the group raised its full-year outlook following stronger-than-expected performance. Adjusted ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) on Friday highlighted the results of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) thematic reverse stress test on geopolitical risks, which assessed how 110 euro area ...

Cyprus could lose up to half of its conventional electricity generation capacity by 2030 unless critical energy projects are completed, officials and industry representatives warned the House energy committee on Friday. ...