#Cyprus

Government rushes to pass bill to prevent takeover of systemic bank The government is faced with a race against time to ensure it has the legal power to prevent the ...

The traditional village of Choulou in Paphos is set for significant renovation and beautification works to maintain and showcase its history – most notably the mediaeval fountain. Paphos district officer Mary ...

Ykan (drug squad) officers carried out a series of busts across Nicosia, Paphos and Limassol as four arrests were made, and various substances were identified – ranging from cannabis and cocaine ...

Bones believed to be the human remains of three Turkish Cypriots missing since 1963 have been found in a well in Troulli. According to the Turkish Cypriot representative from the committee ...

The 13-year-old who was seriously injured during a car crash in Limassol in the early hours of Friday remained intubated in critical condition at Nicosia general hospital on Saturday. The ...

The state is to tighten its purse strings and get tougher on how benefits are handed out to migrants and asylum seekers, but those seeking protection are set for some ...

A 40-year-old British tourist was arrested at Larnaca airport on Friday night after being accused of deliberately ramming his car into another man – having previously challenged him to a fight. ...

Green groups breathed a sigh of relief on Friday after the environment department’s long-awaited opinion on the Akamas local development plan came to light. “We managed to block the ...

The Italian navy ship Mimbelli was spotted sailing near the ENI drill ship, in Block 6 of Cyprus exclusive economic zone (EEZ) on Friday. In a post on twitter, the Italian ...

The Limassol criminal court on Friday imposed a prison sentence of 18 years on two persons in connection with a case of importing and possessing cannabis, weighing 72 kg, for the purposes ...

By Iole Damaskinos and Nick Theodoulou Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides in a rare outburst on Friday said the public debate surrounding the citizenship by investment scheme revealed “political hypocrisy exposed ...

The National Guard on Friday completed an international joint exercise ‘Tams-Heracles’ in Egypt, it said. In addition to the host country and Cyprus, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and ...

Vasiliko and Mitsero area community leaders have agreed to allow the government an extension until October to come up with a solutions to the controversial relocation of asphalt plants to ...

An 18-year-old man without a travel history has tested positive for monkeypox, the fifth case seen in Cyprus so far, the health ministry said on Friday. The patient is being ...

Cybercrime police on Friday warned the public about messages that attempt to intercept user’s login credentials on social media, especially on Instagram. Specifically, users receive a message from a ...

Famagusta district court on Friday issued an eight-day detention order against five Syrian nationals aged 53, 51, 46, 50 and 49 to facilitate investigations in connection with assisting a third country national to illegally enter ...

Israel will not let the warming up of its relations with Turkey affect its relations with Cyprus and Greece, Israeli Ambassador in Nicosia Oren Anolik told the Cyprus News Agency (...

Sixteen new coronavirus deaths were announced by the health ministry on Friday as 2,154 infections were recorded in the past week. The cases were detected from 60,841 rapid and PCR tests carried ...

Latest data on asylum applications released by Eurostat on Thursday concerning May, show that numbers in Cyprus more than doubled over the same month in 2021, and May also saw more ...

By Christodoulos Mavroudis and Nick Theodoulou The citizenship by investment scheme sparked a blazing row on Thursday at the House watchdog committee as Interior Minister Nicos Nouris branded the auditor-general’...

Feeding sea turtles is considered harassment of marine life which is punishable by law, the fisheries and environment departments of the agriculture ministry said on Thursday, citing relevant complaints. In ...

Larnaca airport is selling homemade lemonade made from the lemon trees located at its premises in a new sustainable initiative to protect the environment. Hermes Airports staff collected lemons from 120 ...

Lawmakers on Thursday were quick to demand that those behind the golden passport scandal be brought to justice, while others voiced their concern that the interior ministry failed to grasp ...

Doctors at the Limassol’s general hospital A&E department will hold a two-hour work stoppage early on Friday to protest the alleged attack on a physician by a ...