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By Elias Hazou and Christodoulos Mavroudis The north’s ‘foreign ministry’ on Thursday called the armaments activities on the Greek-Cypriot side a provocation and a threat to stability on the ...

Child protection commissioner Despo Michaelidou on Thursday berated authorities for failing to implement an institutional framework governing the operation of children’s summer camps as a failure to safeguard children’...

Cyprus has the least number of charging points for electric vehicles in the EU with just 57 compared with the Netherlands which has over 90,000, stats published on Thursday show. Although there ...

The nine communities in the Vasiliko area will take their campaign against heavy industry near their homes to candidates in the 2023 presidential elections, the head of their coordinating committee Lefteris ...

Personnel from the agriculture ministry’s environment department, members of the civil servants’ union Pasydy, will stage a two-hour protest on Friday between 9pm and 11pm. The protest rally will ...

As police step up traffic checks amid a spike in road fatalities, the transport ministry on Thursday launched its incentive plan for the purchase of protective equipment for motorcyclists. Applications ...

Police have made three arrests for car theft, catching two of the suspects with one of the two stolen vehicles. In an announcement on Thursday, police said that at around 6.45 ...

President Anastasiades left for Brussels on Wednesday to take part in the European Council meetings. On the agenda of the European summit, which will be held on Thursday and Friday ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar has repeated that a solution based on bizonal federation was non-functional and that there was no turning back from the two-state solution now backed by ...

Police on Tuesday arrested a 30-year-old woman for illegal possession and carriage of ‘explosives’, the Paphos police spokesman Michalis Nikolaou said on Wednesday. The ‘explosives’ referred to by the police ...

Bayview High School’s follow-up One of Us Is Lying is a perilous truth or dare game. The TV show is an American young adult mystery drama created by Erica ...

Two men from Paphos were arrested on Tuesday in connection with a case of assault and causing bodily harm to a 46-year-old, who reported the case on June 13, Paphos CID ...

Auditor General Odysseas Michaelides recommended the forced retirement of the volunteerism commissioner Yiannakis Yiannaki as he still receives 50 per cent of his salary, as well legal action seeking damages. The ...

Several road works on the island’s motorway system are set to be carried out throughout the next days, the Public Works department said on Wednesday. On Saturday, a 500-metres-long ...

Only one in two Cypriots agree with EU’s sanctions against Russia as opposed to a whopping 80 per cent EU average, according to the latest Eurobarometer carried out this year. ...

Two separate fires were set maliciously on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Pournara reception centre for asylum seekers in Kokkinotrimithia, the Fire Service said. According to an announcement released on ...

In today’s episode, MPs on Tuesday discussed the possibility of a law to cap fuel prices, a drastic move as petrol at the pump continued rising and prices are ...

Parliament has green-lit the military’s request for the acquisition of six attack helicopters from France, replacing the National Guard’s ageing fleet of Russian helicopter gunships. During a closed-doors ...

Two thirds (68 per cent) of respondents in Cyprus are prepared to pay 10 per cent more for agricultural products that are produced in a way that limits their carbon footprint, a ...

Contracts signed for the management of two beaches in Kissonerga, Paphos will generate an income exceeding €190,000 this year, leader of the Community Council George Stylianou said on Tuesday. Work has ...

The Greens on Tuesday called on the government to ban glyphosate after a scientific study showed high levels of the herbicide in the urine of school children. “The time has ...

Volunteers will start clean-up beaches across the island this Sunday in a summer campaign to promote environmental consciousness in an effort to reduce sea pollution. The Wish You Were Clean ...

A 39-year-old was remanded for six days on Tuesday for drugs possession and the intent to supply and dangerous driving in Limassol after he crashed into a police car. According ...

A 41-year-old man was arrested on Monday night in Ayia Napa for illegal possession and use of nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, police said on Tuesday. According to ...