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The international Blue Flag programme has awarded Cyprus 56 Blue Flags for 2026, down from 64 beaches in the previous year. Speaking to Alphanews, president of the national Blue Flag organisation and general ...

Cyprus has protocols in place to deal with Ebola cases and would follow established procedures in the event of an infection, epidemiologist Petros Karayiannis said on Saturday. Speaking to CNA ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will on Tuesday holdtwo consecutive meetings on the current developments surrounding the foot and mouth (FMD) disease, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Saturday. During the first ...

Residents of Akrotiri are preparing legal action against plans by the British Bases to install 32 additional antennas in the area, with local authorities examining the possibility of taking the case ...

Former British high commissioner in Cyprus Stephen Lillie has been named as the United Kingdom’s ambassador in Athens. Lillie served in Nicosia between 2018 and 2022, and said that he was “...

Two late goals saw Pafos FC beat Apollon to win the Cyprus Cup at Nicosia’s GSP Stadium on Friday night, with the west coast-based side winning the island’s ...

The Turkish Cypriot ‘foreign ministry’ on Friday dismissed President Nikos Christodoulides’ assertion that there is a “window of opportunity” for a resumption of negotiations aimed at solving the Cyprus problem ...

Cyprus will begin operating its new CY Alert population warning system from June 2, with authorities set to conduct a series of test notifications across the island before a nationwide exercise ...

The Cyprus-Greece ferry connection for the summer season launched on Friday with the AF Marina departing Limassol for Piraeus, marking the first sailing of the year on the route. The ...

Excavators returned overnight on Thursday to excavate pits for the burial of culled animals in close proximity to residential homes, Kokkinotrimithia community leader Christakis Meleties told the Cyprus Mail on ...

Researcher and ethnomusicologist Nicoletta Demetriou has been awarded at the European Cultural Heritage Awards and Europa Nostra Awards for her The Cypriot Fiddler project. Demetriou’s work won in the ...

A man’s body was located in the unclaimed section of the morgue at Larnaca general hospital nearly two months after his death, it was reported on Friday. Speaking to ...

Police will postpone decisions on security arrangements for political leaders and state officials until after the election of the new House president next Thursday, when the security committee will assess ...

Only 66 of the 168 innovative medicinal treatments approved by EU authorities from 2021 to 2024 were available in Cyprus, a survey has shown. Carried out by the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and ...

European Affairs Deputy Minister Marilena Raouna on Thursday said she is “cautiously optimistic” that the European Union’s 27 member states could reach an agreement to commence accession negotiations with both ...

President Nikos Christodoulides expressed optimism on Thursday that there is a “window of opportunity” for the resumption of Cyprus problem talks before the end of the year. Speaking after a ...

Alma leader Odysseas Michaelides ruled out supporting Diko leader Nikolas Papadopoulos for House president on Thursday, while floating a potential alternative coalition involving Akel, Elam and the party’s most ...

Complaints have been raised by residents in Larnaca over the burial of livestock culled as part of efforts to contain foot and mouth disease, with concerns focusing on the handling ...

Fresh delays have emerged in the high-profile case involving suspended Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos after judge Nikodemos Fakontis requested to recuse himself on Thursday from the three-member permanent criminal court ...

The Nicosia district court has frozen a property in Parekklisia owned by Bangladeshi businessman Mohammed Saiful Alam and his wife following a request submitted by Bangladeshi authorities as part of ...

A regular passenger ferry service between Cyprus and Lebanon will begin operating on June 9, marking the return of scheduled international passenger ferry services from Lebanon after almost two decades of ...

Suspended Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos is due to appear before Paphos criminal court on Thursday in connection with an alleged rape case. During the hearing, charges are expected to be ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday said that his meeting with United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin next week will not be the first to have taken place since UN Secretary-General ...

Discussion over Volt’s electoral defeat and the party’s future direction began on Wednesday following meetings of its collective bodies, with former MP Alexandra Attalides saying the new House ...