Famagusta Gazette

• African desert warbler sighted for first time in Cyprus

  21 hours ago FamagustaGazette

  A new species of the warbler family of birds, the African desert warbler (Curruca deserti), has been spotted for the first time ever in...

• Cyprus to buy 6 Airbus light attack helicopters

  1 week ago FamagustaGazette

  Cyprus is purchasing six Airbus light attack helicopters with a view to replacing its aging Russian fleet of armament, a Defense Ministry...

• EU might convene extraordinary summit on energy: Italian PM

  1 week ago FamagustaGazette

  Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said Friday that the European Union (EU) would hold an extraordinary energy summit if natural gas...

• Two Israeli airplanes join firefighting efforts in Turkish controlled part of Cyprus

  1 week ago FamagustaGazette

  Israel has sent two firefighting airplanes at the request of the Cypriot government to help put out a fire raging for a third day in the...

• Multiple drugs arrests by Bases Police in Cyprus

  3 weeks ago FamagustaGazette

  Ormideia is a village in Larnaca District in south-eastern Cyprus.It is one of the four exclaves surrounded by the Eastern Sovereign Base Area...

• Countries from Mediterranean region agree to cooperate to tackle food challenges

  3 weeks ago FamagustaGazette

  The Italian capital on Wednesday hosted the first-ever Mediterranean Ministerial Dialogue on the Food Security Crisis, which ended with an...

• Cyprus reports surge in illegal migration

  1-6-2022 FamagustaGazette

  The authorities in Cyprus reported on Monday a recent surge of refugees, with three boatloads of clandestine migrants arriving on the...

• Cyprus, Israel kick off joint military exercise

  1-6-2022 FamagustaGazette

  Cyprus and Israel have kicked-off their “biggest ever” joint military exercise in the Cypriot air, sea and land territory, a Defense...

• Eurozone inflation hits record 8.1 pct in May: Eurostat

  1-6-2022 FamagustaGazette

  Inflation in the eurozone in May reached its highest annual level since the creation of the common currency, with consumer prices rising a...

• New natural gas drilling begins in Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone

  24-5-2022 FamagustaGazette

  A new exploratory drilling for natural gas has begun in Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone, the country’s Ministry of Energy, Commerce and...

• Cyprus seeks to ease spike in fuel and commodity prices

  23-5-2022 FamagustaGazette

  Cyprus will introduce a series of measures to counter the spike in fuel and commodity prices caused by the crisis in Ukraine. Speaking after...

• Press Statement: UNFICYP Cyprus condemns attack against UN patrol vehicle

  23-5-2022 FamagustaGazette

  The United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) condemns an attack by unidentified perpetrators against a UN patrol vehicle on the...

• Press Release: CABS call for immediate removal of deadly ground nets and for a zero tolerance approach towards their use in Cyprus

  23-5-2022 FamagustaGazette

  In Cyprus, farmers and landowners use ground nets as a method to keep snakes away from their property: They lay out fishing nets on the...

• Multinational civil-military exercise starts in Cyprus

  18-5-2022 FamagustaGazette

  A civil-military exercise in which seven countries are participating started in Cyprus on Monday, the Cypriot Defense Ministry said in a...

• Cyprus’s parliamentary committee seeks EU exemptions from Russia sanctions

  18-5-2022 FamagustaGazette

  Cyprus’s commerce parliamentary committee called on the government on Tuesday to ask the European Union (EU) for exemptions from some of its...

• Cyprus: New Land Planning Regime Opens Door to Development in Bases

  17-5-2022 FamagustaGazette

  Bases Administrator speaks to President Anastasiades at the Presidential Palace By Major General Robert J. Thompson, Commander British...

• Cyprus, China sign MoU on higher education

  15-5-2022 FamagustaGazette

  Cyprus and China signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation in higher education and scientific research, Cyprus’ education...

• New planning system for development on British bases in Cyprus

  9-5-2022 FamagustaGazette

  The Sovereign Base Areas Administration has announced that a new planning system to allow the development of property and land in the...

• Greek,Turkish Cypriot trade unionists jointly celebrate Labor Day in split capital

  2-5-2022 FamagustaGazette

  Greek and Turkish Cypriot trade unionists joined forces on Sunday in celebrating Labor Day for the first time after two years of coronavirus...

• Russia quits international tourism organisation, UNWTO

  28-4-2022 FamagustaGazette

  The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has confirmed  that Russia had announced its intention to withdraw from the organization....

• EU calls on member states to remain vigilant while entering new phase of COVID-19 pandemic

  27-4-2022 FamagustaGazette

  Despite most COVID-19 restrictions being lifted in the European Union (EU), the bloc’s member states should remain vigilant and increase...

• Asylum seekers make up 5 pct of Cyprus’ population, says government

  20-4-2022 FamagustaGazette

  Asylum seekers make up five percent of Cyprus’ population, government spokesman Marios Pelekanos said on Tuesday. Pelekanos was speaking...

• Cyprus eases COVID-19 rules, abolishing most travel restrictions

  19-4-2022 FamagustaGazette

  Cyprus abolished most travel restrictions on Monday and a further relaxation of domestic COVID-19 measures will be decided later this week,...

• Press Release: Statement by the United Nations Spokesperson in Cyprus

  18-4-2022 FamagustaGazette

  The Technical Committee on Health considers that in view of the epidemiological situation on the island, it is justified to remove all...

• FMs of Cyprus, Lebanon discuss energy cooperation, bilateral relations

  18-4-2022 FamagustaGazette

  Lebanon is considering new proposals for the demarcation of its maritime borders with Israel, Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib...