#Cyprus

A ministerial meeting chaired by President Nikos Christodoulides was held on Thursday in Nicosia, focusing on how Cyprus can make use of EU financial tools and American defence programmes that ...

British holidaymakers heading to Cyprus this summer are facing steep price rises for all-inclusive packages, with costs up by almost a quarter compared with last year, according to figures reported ...

Cyprus plans to start pumping desalinated water from new units in Moni into the network on July 22, officials said on Wednesday, as concerns grow over low water reserves. George Kazadjis, ...

Diko MP Pavlos Mylonas, who chairs the education committee, said on Wednesday that students raised serious concerns about soaring costs for studying in Greece.  Top of their list were the ...

The bus driver involved in a circulating video capturing a dispute between him and some teenage passengers has been suspended, transport company Emel said on Wednesday. A video of the ...

Maintenance works on Famagusta gate on Nicosia’s Venetian walls will be completed by the end of the year, in time to be used for Cyprus’ EU presidency during the ...

A retired couple was sentenced to four years in prison at Larnaca district court on Wednesday for scamming three elderly women out of over €100,000 by pretending to be medical professionals ...

The observatory in the case of Kenan Ayaz, who was convicted last year of being a member of a proscribed terrorist organisation after being extradited from Cyprus to Germany, has ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday extolled the “excellent relations” between Cyprus and Lebanon upon the arrival of his Lebanese counterpart Joseph Aoun at the presidential palace in Nicosia. “We have ...

The Limassol criminal court on Wednesday sentenced a former Pattichion theatre director to five-and-a-half years in prison for theft and money laundering, between 2017 and 2020. The former director Vasos Argyrides, 65, was ...

The deputy shipping ministry, although aware of reports that regular passenger ferry cruises linking Cyprus and Lebanon were about to be launched, said it could not comment on their veracity ...

A request was submitted on Wednesday at the Nicosia criminal court to change the conditions in which Israeli property developer Simon Aykut, accused of developing and selling property on Greek ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Wednesday held a meeting with Tanzanian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Thabit Kombo. Kombos attended the meeting on behalf of the European Union’s foreign affairs chief ...

The north’s population is 590,000, excluding foreign students and Turkish soldiers, ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel said on Tuesday night. Speaking to Diyalog TV, he said the ruling coalition is working ...

By Kristina Cernakevica Two weeks ago, something quite revolutionary happened in the heart of Limassol. University Square – often a site of casual weekend strolls – became the stage for Cyprus’s ...

President Nikos Christodoulides speaking at the 30th anniversary event of the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) emphasised it’s crucial role in the ‘security architecture’ of the Eastern Mediterranean and ...

Currently there are around 89 programs and residences in place facilitating approximately 1,000 disabled people, the Deputy Welfare Ministry said on Monday, responding to concerns raised by the labour committee earlier in ...

A 57-year-old Nicosia businessman fell victim to a phone scam that saw him lose €14,500 on Monday afternoon, police reported on Tuesday. The man first received a phone call from an ...

The energy regulator (Cera) said on Tuesday it’s awaiting a response from the finance ministry on whether to include a tariff on electricity bills for the first €25 million that ...

The water of Memi lake in the Xyliatos area could not be used for interrogation purposes due to environmental concerns, experts from the agriculture ministry told the House agriculture committee ...

MPs hauled government officials over the coals on Tuesday after learning that the LNG import project at Vasiliko not only would not be ready by year’s end, as previously ...

MPs on Tuesday said they were concerned about living conditions of disabled people both private and state care homes. “Poor hygiene conditions, inadequate medical care, lack of adequate staffing and ...

The discovery of a natural gas reservoir at the Pegasus-1 site offshore Cyprus is “encouraging”, the energy minister said on Tuesday, a day after the government announced that drilling had ...

The validity of records of property ownership in northern Cyprus prior to 1974 in the hands of the land registry was called into question during Tuesday’s hearing of the trial ...