#Cyprus

A total of 36 Cyprus antiquities have been repatriated from Australia to the island, it was announced on Wednesday. The move follows an initiative carried out by Australian government in cooperation ...

Around a third of tourist nights spent in Cyprus, and the EU, in 2022 were recorded in July and August, data released by Eurostat on Wednesday showed. On an EU wide ...

A large number of Turkish Cypriot properties on the island are currently mismanaged, the audit service said in a special report on Wednesday. The report, available on the audit service’...

The island needs more checkpoints with easier access for both drivers and pedestrians, Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot political parties and commercial organisations said on Wednesday. “The current crossing points ...

Military personnel from the UK and Cyprus have concluded a joint an air defence exercise on the island, the National Guard announced on Wednesday. The purpose of the exercise – Aphrodite ...

A 67-year-old man was on Wednesday found guilty of causing the catastrophic fires of July 2021 which left four dead and forced the evacuation of ten villages. Limassol criminal court found ...

The church has agreed with the bill banning conversion therapies after changes were inserted, chairman of the House legal committee Nikos Tornaritis said on Wednesday. The ongoing debate on the ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos and trade unions reiterated on Wednesday the need to hire more civil servants after the House finance committee this week refused to approve over 1,800 positions. The ...

Hiring almost 2,000 employees to the civil service would be a step backward, opposition Disy MP and former finance minister Harris Georgiades said on Tuesday, a day after the House finance ...

Twenty complexes in refugee housing estates have critical stability issues and will need to be evacuated immediately, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Tuesday. He was speaking at a press ...

SpaceX’s Starlink is ‘coming soon’ to Cyprus with works starting in Q3 of 2023, meaning the public will have even greater market choice in how it accesses the internet. Cyprus ...

A 33-year-old woman was sentenced to 12 years in jail on Tuesday after she was found guilty of importing almost 13kg of cannabis resin, as a second woman aged 42, was jailed ...

Gender is determined by the body’s physiology, the Holy Synod said on Tuesday, calling on MPs to vote against a bill aiming to put an end to conversion therapies ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar again stated that the north is ready for a solution as he attended a ceremony celebrating the release of his book titled Vision for Two ...

President Nikos Christodoulides pledged to gradually restore shift allowances and overtime pay for civil servants by 2025 on Tuesday. Addressing the annual conference of civil servants union Pasydy, he said efforts ...

The audit service is engaging in character assassination and overstepping the limits of free speech, Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides said on Tuesday, as the two offices continued to exchange barbs. “We ...

Cyprus must be cautious on the matter of sanctions as the country’s credibility is being judged abroad, Attorney General Georgios Savvides told reporters on Tuesday. Asked what the situation ...

Sharing knowledge and fostering regional collaborations on desalination can help create a more resilient and water-secure future for all, Agriculture Minister Petros Xenophontos said on Tuesday. Speaking at the European ...

Cruise ship Europa 2, flying the Maltese flag, arrived on Tuesday morning at Kato Paphos port with 477 passengers. Port authorities said the cruise ship is on a journey through the Mediterranean ...

Retired British miner David Hunter did everything he could to help his terminally ill wife Janice as her condition deteriorated in the last few years of her life and became ...

The island’s wines will once again be the focus of attention by international experts at the 14th Cyprus Wine Competition in Limassol this week. Speaking at a press conference ...

Last year the ‘cabinet’ in the north granted permits for the purchase of real estate to 2,810 foreign nationals, while during the first three months of 2023 alone about 1,000 such permits were ...

Interior minister Constantinos Ioannou informed on Monday European Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas about the migration policy being followed by Cyprus to tackle issues of illegal migration. Ioannou said that ...

All students who sat a physics paper that has been mired in outrage will be given full marks for the questions that appear not to have been part of the ...