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By Andreas Pavlou The fire service on Wednesday began a series of drills to improve its operational capacity, spokesman Andreas Kettis said. Kettis said Wednesday’s exercise focused a mock ...

Three businesses were booked for a total of €2,500 after workers were found without a SafePass during 503 checks in Nicosia. A kiosk and an office manager who were working without a ...

In today’s episode, farmers working near the village of Denia in the buffer zone on Tuesday reported they were threatened by five soldiers from the north, some of whom ...

Limassol police late on Tuesday arrested a 38-year-old man, who was a passenger in a car they stopped for traffic offences, on suspicion of money laundering and drug possession. The ...

A yellow weather warning for heavy thunderstorms and rain is in force until 4pm on Wednesday. “Isolated heavy thunderstorms are expected to affect initially the western part and gradually the ...

A young man is under arrest in connection with the theft of a bag with €5,900 in cash from a parked car in Paphos, while police also investigate a second theft ...

A teenager, permanent resident of Paphos, is under arrest for burglary and theft after a man spotted him wearing a watch and sunglasses that had been stolen from his home, ...

Limassol court has handed down a two-month jail sentence to a 46-year-old man after finding him guilty of employing illegal workers, police said on Tuesday. Another man, aged 37, was jailed ...

Police handed out fines totaling €6,000 to six businesses for violating health protocols to contain the spread of coronavirus in the 24 hours to 6.00 am Tuesday, the Cyprus News Agency reported. The ...

A 26-year-old man was remanded for eight days on Monday in connection with the attempted murder of another man in Nicosia. Police said the suspect was arrested on Sunday on ...

Tuesday’s state rapid testing will be operating in the following areas: District Location of testing units Operating hours Telephone Lemesos (6 units) My Mall Limassol (Entrance D, next to “Public” ...

Paphos castle will be lit up red all week to raise public awareness over congenital heart defects, the department of antiquities said on Monday. The campaign is being led by ...

Free testing sites for Monday are as follows: District Location of testing units Operating hours Telephone Limassol (7 units) My Mall Limassol (Entrance D, next to “Public” store) 9 am – 6 pm 94041843 Pano ...

The health ministry announced that four people had died of Covid-19 and that 2,214 had tested positive from 85,567 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.59 per cent. The deaths concerned ...

Journalist Nikolaos Katsikas, the correspondent in Egypt for the Cyprus News Agency and the Athens News Agency (APE) was found dead in his Cairo home on Saturday night, it was ...

A photo taken on Sunday in the Troodos area shows ‘two suns’, an atmospheric phenomenon commonly known as a ‘sun dog’. A sun dog, also known as a ‘mock sun’ ...

Five people have been arrested in Turkey for “offensive” posts on social media against Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his wife Emine, who were infected with Covid-19. According to CNA, ...

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday he had conveyed his best wishes for a speedy recovery to Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar by telephone. Tatar contracted the virus last week. ...

Two man aged 25 and 20 have been arrested and remanded for eight days by the Limassol court following a fight at a house party in Kato Polemidia during which two children ...

Police fined 13 individuals and 22 businesses were fined for violating Covid measures over the past 24 hours. They carried out a total of 2,484 checks islandwide. In Nicosia, there were 611 checks, booking 10 people ...

An 18 year-old man has been arrested in Nicosia after losing control of his car and smashing into four teenage girls standing in front of a supermarket wall in Lakatamia. The ...

A 32-year-old man was killed in a road accident on Saturday night on the Limassol-Platres tree after he lost control of his car and crashed into a tree. In statements ...

The health ministry announced that one person had died of Covid-19 and that 2,568 had tested positive from 87,025 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.9 per cent. The death concerned ...

Ralf Rangnick says wasteful Manchester United only have themselves to blame after making an embarrassing early FA Cup exit at home to Middlesbrough. A year on from steering Sheffield United ...