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The cabinet on Wednesday approved a supplementary budget worth around €148.5m to cover additional expenditure in various sectors. The extra spending concerns €20m for support schemes for workers and businesses ...

Smaller parties, which include far-right Elam, ought to have a House committee chair in the name of cooperation and consensus, ruling Disy leader Averof Neophytou said on Wednesday. “The elections ...

Police arrested three suspects and seized three pistols and 1.5 kilos of crystal meth during an operation in Limassol on Wednesday morning. Officers raided six addresses and arrested two foreign men, 37 ...

If parliament had adopted the public service reform bill, it would have made the recruitment and promotions framework more meritocratic to dispel any doubt about the integrity and important work ...

Parliament needs to approve some 20 reform bills and regulations by the end of the year as a precondition for the dispersal of €1.2bn in EU funds, according to a memo ...

Opposition parties on Tuesday criticised a decision by the attorney-general not to prosecute 15 police officers named in an independent inquiry over their apparent failure to properly investigate missing persons reports, ...

A 45-year-old Limassol police officer was remanded in custody for three days on Tuesday in connection with domestic abuse. The officer was arrested on Monday after his wife reported him ...

Famagusta kidney patients said they would seek dialysis treatment in the north because the local hospital could not cater to their needs and the equipment was old. Around 45 patients who ...

Journalists on Tuesday condemned an assault and threats against a Larnaca reporter after she announced that her online portal would not cover the activities of far-right party Elam. Journalists’ union ...

The Paphos police domestic violence unit has received 114 complaints in four months, leading to 50 arrests and around 30 restraining orders, the district’s CID chief said on Tuesday. According to Michalis ...

An administrative court decision on Monday to uphold the objections raised in 2014 against the procedures for preparing Cyprus’ application to the EU to register Halloumi registration does not affect its ...

Another informal summit on the Cyprus problem any time soon is unlikely, government sources said on Monday. While the government expected that the Cyprus issue would be raised during separate ...

One death from coronavirus and 57 new cases were announced on Monday. The cases were found from 39,852 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.14 per cent. The death was a ...

The smart traffic lights installed at the Ayia Fyla roundabout in Limassol were put in operation on Monday noon, in a bid to tackle the traffic congestion in the area. ...

Police said Monday they arrested a 31-year-old man in connection with an explosion at the entrance of the health ministry in May. A police spokesperson said the man was arrested ...

No police officer will face criminal proceedings over the apparent failure to act that allowed a serial killer to go undetected for about three years and kill five women and ...

Poland and Romania were upgraded to Green on Monday as the health ministry announced its classification of countries based on their epidemiological condition, affecting travellers from those countries coming to ...

Thirty-three new coronavirus cases were announced on Sunday by the health ministry. No deaths were announced. There are 32 patients with Covid-19 in state hospitals, 12 of whom in serious condition. Eight ...

Lack of winter rain forcing snakes to venture further afield to find water By Evie Andreou Reports of snakes being seen in places where people have never seen them before ...

Seventy-five-year-old Andreas Kai from Nicosia who was found unconscious on Sunday morning on a nature trail in the Troodos area was pronounced dead after being taken to the Limassol hospital, ...

Police on Sunday said they seized more than 60 counterfeit euro notes and arrested a 20-year-old man after receiving a complaint by a kiosk owner in Limassol he had been paid ...

The health ministry announced 60 testing sites will operate on Monday. People need to present their ID, passport or driver’s licence. District Testing Sites Operating Hours Limassol (16 sites) “Grigori Axentiou” ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Sunday unveiled a monument commemorating the 1826 ‘Battle of Ayia Napa’, linked with the Greek Revolution for independence from Ottoman rule and the only one to have ...

Two men, aged 39 and 32, and a woman, 31, were arrested on Saturday after one kilogramme of cocaine was located in one of the men’s car and cannabis and fireworks in ...