Limassol

Despite annual rainfall nearing all-time lows for 2014, and reservoirs less than half full, in early June Cyprus alone celebrates its unique Kataklysmos (Flood) festival, commonly known as the water festival. Seaside Cypriot cities, such as Limassol, Larnaca, Paphos, Paralimni and Ayia Napa will be...

Shock and outrage is the obvious reaction after the news of a father raping his 18 year-old daughter in Limassol, Cyprus broke out. The 18 year-old girl arrived at a police station early in the morning accusing her 53 year-old...

The society of Limassos is shocked by a family tragedy that unfolded last night. According to the police, a 32-year-old man killed his estranged 25-year-old wife with a G3 gun of the National Guard, injured one of their children...

A court in Limassol has ordered the arrest of former Cypriot former Interior Minister Dinos Michaelides to be extradited to Greece for questioning in connection with the bribery scandal involving ex-Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos who is on trial for...

Within the framework of a nuclear weapons awareness effort, the Peace Boat docked in Limassol on August 15. According to the Limassol Municipality announcement, the boat would remain for the whole day while a passengers’ delegation went to discuss nuclear...

The Ministry of Defense in Cyprus announced that in the context of the cooperation between the Republic of Cyprus and the State of Israel in matters of search and rescue within the Exclusive Economic Zone and the areas of...

Authorities said they uncovered a cache of TNT high explosives and a detonator close to the country house of President Demetris Christofias, sparking a massive police search of the area. The president was scheduled to spend time at his residence...

A significant archaeological finding, a gold coin, has been reported discovered underwater in the area between Limassol and Larnaca by a local amateur fisherman. According to Cypriot authorities, the coin is of great value. Cypriot media reported that it dates...

Princess Zena Kanther De Tyras, the woman who was born into poverty in a Paphos village, and rescued by an American millionaire after working as a cabaret dancer in Nicosia, died yesterday at the age of 90. Kanther, who later...

The Greek Ambassador in Cyprus, Vassilis Papaioannou, inaugurated the "Twice a Stranger" exhibition in Nicosia, which is about the greatest forced migrations and population exchanges of the 20th century, when millions of people were uprooted and forced to move...