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Hunters took to the countryside in Paphos at first light on Sunday for the first summer wood pigeon hunt of the year, marking the start of the hunting season. Despite ...

The Republic of Cyprus’ permanent representative to the United Nations Maria Michael has penned a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres protesting the agreement reached between Turkey and the Turkish ...

A Lithuanian estate agent who stands accused of having “usurped” Greek Cypriot-owned property in northern Cyprus is to be extradited to the island after having been arrested in France pursuant ...

The electronic passport control scanners at the Larnaca and Paphos airports are to be abolished and replaced with full-scale automated passport control gates as Cyprus prepares to enter Europe’s ...

A 40-year-old man was arrested on Saturday after arriving at Larnaca airport on an international inbound flight with 25 kilograms of cannabis in his suitcase, police said. The cannabis was found ...

A “series of attacks” was carried out on shops in the Paphos district on Friday night, hours after the police had concluded overnight patrol in the town’s central Moutallos ...

Power cuts in “various areas” of Cyprus experienced on Saturday morning was caused by a fault in the north, the transmission system operator said. It said the fault had occurred ...

The presidential palace on Saturday acclaimed the current level of cooperation between the governments of Cyprus and Greece, saying that the holding of regular intergovernmental summits between the two countries ...

Israel’s foreign ministry has defended the country’s decision to close the investigation into the killing of seven aid workers who were transporting humanitarian goods sent from Cyprus to ...

The internationally unrecognised ‘Republic of Somaliland’ has called on both Cyprus and Greece to consider recognising it, after the new parliament speaker of Somalia, the country from which it has ...

Turkey’s presidential communications directorate has described Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments on its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s policies in Cyprus and Syria as a “groundless rant” ...

Turkish Cypriot Kyrenia mayor Murat Senkul on Friday warned that political pressure exerted to bring about the cancellation of the Nexus electronic music festival in his town serves only to “...

Seven farmers have yet to receive full compensation for losses caused by this year’s foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak, while delays have also been reported in restocking affected farms, head ...

A “weird slime” was reported floating in the sea in Limassol over the past few days, prompting the Ecologists Movement’s Limassol district chairman, Andreas Mavrikios, to call on those ...

Almost 145 tonnes of the silver-cheeked toadfish, known locally as hare’s head, have been caught in Cypriot seas over the past two years, fisheries department marine research officer Nikoletta Varnava ...

Somalia’s foreign ministry on Friday denied having recognised northern Cyprus as an independent country, following the publication of a now deleted social media post by the country’s new ...

The Paphos municipality is taking precautionary measures to combat mosquitoes, municipal health officer Christos Christou said on Friday. Asked by the Cyprus News Agency about the measures being taken following ...

The technical problem which caused power cuts in various areas across the island on Friday morning has “not yet been solved”, transmission system operator spokeswoman Chara Kousiappa said, though the ...

The 65-year-old father of an 11-year-old girl who was left alone at their Paphos home while he travelled to Albania to watch a football match was arrested upon his return ...

The Turkish Cypriot authorities have requested “concrete information” from the BBC over reports that as many as 30 children may have been conceived through in vitro fertilisation using the wrong sperm ...

The police are investigating an attempted murder after shots were fired at a 33-year-old man in Ayia Napa in the early hours of Friday. “No one was injured in the ...

Nicosia municipality has launched an architectural competition for the regeneration of the historic Municipal Gardens, with entries for the first stage due by November 10. The competition seeks proposals for the ...

Iranian diplomatic sources said Thursday that Cyprus faces no threat as long as British bases on the island are not used in operations against the Islamic Republic. The official comments, ...

Both sides of Cyprus’ divide agree in principle that meetings between President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman should take place on a more frequent basis going forward, ...