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The forestry department said Saturday a fire near the village of Mandria in the district of Limassol was caused by fireworks. The fire started at 10.20pm but firefighters managed to ...

The state Legal Service has forwarded the findings of an inquiry into the citizenship by investment programme to police with instructions to investigate whether any criminal offences had been committed ...

An inquest into the 2005 suspicious death of a soldier was adjourned on Friday pending further investigation and decisions by the state on the handling of the case. The family of ...

Outgoing Akel leader Andros Kyprianou on Friday said just because he would not stand for re-election did not mean he would not continue to support the party. In his 16-page ...

The forestry department on Friday said the National Guard would start assisting in the forest monitoring programme aimed at preventing fires. According to the forestry department the programme concerns drone ...

Police said Friday they have arrested a 22-year-old man on suspicion of setting a fire in the Paphos district two days ago. The fire broke out between the villages of ...

Firefighters were battling a fire in the Kokkinotrimithia area outside Nicosia, which broke out at around 12pm on Friday. Six engines and one aircraft were dispatched to the scene, the ...

President Nicos Anastasiades apologised Friday for the administration’s mistakes in managing the island’s citizenship by investment programme, which led to a political crisis that he said was the ...

Firefighting crews and four aircraft were called in on Friday morning to tackle a blaze between the villages of Fasoula and Palodia in Limassol district. According to fire service spokesman ...

Champions Omonia chairman Stavros Papavastavrou accused the authorities of the GSP stadium on Friday of acting like the mafia amid an ongoing dispute over a €300,000 debt the club owes for ...

The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail, brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in local and international – in audio form. Presented by ...

If Turkey truly wishes for all refugees to return to their properties in Varosha, there is a way, through the implementation of UN resolutions, Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides said on ...

The heatwave continues with the met office issuing a new warning, this time orange, over very high temperatures. The orange alert will be in force from 8.30pm on Thursday until 5...

If coronavirus cases continue to rise in the government-controlled areas, there could be interruption of crossings between the two sides, Turkish Cypriot authorities said on Thursday. According to media reports ...

Cyprus champions Omonia were looking for a home stadium on Thursday around 20 days before their first European qualifying fixture after being evicted by the GSP in Nicosia over a €300,000 debt ...

Bank of Cyprus (BoC) staff who have not received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine will have to test twice a week from Monday, as the lender seeks ...

A blaze around the village of Pentalia, Paphos district, had been placed under partial control before nightfall on Thursday, while firefighters remained on standby in case of flare-ups. The fire ...

The supreme court on Thursday handed down suspended two-month jail sentences and €3,000 fines to two women found guilty of racially assaulting a Russian woman in a Larnaca parking lot in 2019, ...

Paphos continues to rank first among all districts as regards vaccination coverage the health ministry said on Thursday. The target for 65 per cent of the population to have received a ...

The health ministry announced 429 new positive cases of coronavirus on Wednesday out of 36,239 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 1.18 per cent. No deaths were announced. There are 54 people ...

Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides on Wednesday said the state would do its best to help provide answers to the questions tormenting the family of a 26-year-old soldier who was believed to ...

Migrant support NGO Kisa has censured a court decision that upheld its deregistration by the interior ministry, saying it had failed to examine or justify key aspects of violations of ...

An expert witness testified on Wednesday that former Kition bishop Chrysostomos is suffering from frontotemporal dementia and cannot follow court proceedings in two separate cases of rape and indecent assault ...

Giving conscripts who get vaccinated extra leave is among the proposed incentives to boost the vaccination coverage of the population, sources said on Wednesday. The ministerial committee on Covid-19 that ...