#Cyprus

The new stadium safety bill will “give the key to safer stadiums to the state”, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said on Wednesday. Addressing the day’s House legal affairs committee ...

Cyprus has become a vital transit point as hostilities escalate between Israel and Iran, with people fleeing Israel and others seeking to return. The island is facilitating travel in both ...

The cabinet on Wednesday approved amendments to the bill regulating multiple pensions for state officials, removing a provision that would have taxed retirement lump sums. Following the meeting, Government Spokesman ...

An audit office investigation into student grants awarded in 2023 uncovered multiple irregularities, including grants being awarded for longer than permitted, amounts being “gifted” without legal basis, and applications being accepted ...

Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis, Deputy Migration Minister Nicholas Ioannides and Limassol mayor Yiannis Armeftis discussed coordinated measures to tackle delinquency and crime on Tuesday. “The results of the effort in ...

Foreign Ministry urges vigilance for Cypriots in the Middle East Due to ongoing instability in the wider Middle East, the Foreign Ministry has advised Cypriot citizens in the region to ...

The defence in the ‘golden passports’ trial pushed hard on Tuesday to establish the impression that the cabinet, when approving applications for naturalisation of foreign investors, had essentially become a ...

Investigations are ongoing into the unlawful removal of a massive trove of documents from the central prisons, reports said on Tuesday, with the ex-governor of the prisons also having been ...

Consumers will have to wait two more weeks to find out if the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) hikes its tariffs by 3 per cent, reports said on Tuesday. The matter ...

While police HQ and Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis are busy monitoring the explosive situation and exchange of missiles in the nearby Middle East, police officers are taking a break to ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday addressed a behind-closed-doors session of the north’s ‘parliament’ and spoke about the matter of property, in light of the recent arrests made ...

The situation in the Middle East “remains extremely critical”, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos told an extraordinary meeting of the European Union’s foreign affairs council on Tuesday. He also told ...

A total of 50 Cypriot citizens located in Israel and five who are located in Iran have requested to be repatriated, foreign ministry spokesman Theodoros Gotsis said on Tuesday. Speaking to ...

A 16-year-old boy was on Tuesday remanded in custody after assaulting a waiter and robbing his possessions. The incident occurred in the early hours of Monday morning, with the police ...

Turkish Cypriot property in the south will no longer be made available through bidding, a practice that in the past allowed them to be allocated as holiday homes, the House ...

A 76-year-old man who travelled to Cyprus for a holiday in April was on Tuesday sentenced to six years in jail for sexually abusing a six-year-old child. According to newspaper ...

There has been “no wave of cancellations” of tourist bookings in Cyprus in recent days while the conflict Israel and Iran has escalated, Cyprus chamber of commerce and industry (Keve) ...

Wizz Air is suspending all flights to and from Tel Aviv, Israel, and European flights to Amman, Jordan, effective immediately, until 15 September 2025, the airline announced on Tuesday. It also said ...

Deputy research ministry handed out funds without due diligence, audit office says By Tom Cleaver The deputy research ministry handed out funds without conducting the correct due diligence, an audit ...

The foreign ministers of Cyprus and Germany on Monday jointly called for a de-escalation of the crisis in the region during a meeting they had at the old Larnaca airport. ...

A woman who worked as a filing clerk for the Cyprus Youth Organisation (Onek), told the Nicosia district court on Monday that it wasn’t her job to check the ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Monday attacked opposition political parties over the Iranian government’s denial of assertions made by President Nikos Christodoulides that the country had asked Cyprus to ...

There may be one airlift today and several tomorrow carrying Cypriot patients and their escorts from Israel to the island, Health Minister Michalis Damianos said on Monday. According to Damianos, ...

The courts “must make the final decision” over whether there exists criminal liability over the alleged coverup of the death of conscript Thanasis Nicolaou, who was killed in 2005, lawyer Thanasis ...