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Hunters took to the countryside in Paphos at first light on Sunday for the first summer wood pigeon hunt of the year, marking the start of the hunting season. Despite ...

A fire broke out in a child’s bedroom at a house in Deryneia in the early hours of Sunday, causing extensive damage but no injuries. The fire started at ...

Bogdan Zabelinskiy won Cyprus’ first medal at the ‘Taranto 2026’ Mediterranean Games, taking silver in the men’s individual cycling time trial after completing the 17-kilometre course in 20:14.14. Andreas Miltiades finished 12...

Two cars belonging to a 49-year-old woman were extensively damaged in an arson attack in Limassol in the early hours of Sunday, police said. The fire broke out at around 2.20...

More than 150 years after she disappeared beneath the waves, the Napried holds a mythological status in the world of underwater archaeology. The ship was carrying thousands of ancient artefacts excavated ...

The Republic of Cyprus’ permanent representative to the United Nations Maria Michael has penned a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres protesting the agreement reached between Turkey and the Turkish ...

A day before August ends, Ayios Ioannis Pitsilias hosts chefs, visitors and flavours. Its 7th Gastronomy Festival on August 30 is dedicated to the late Chef Andreas Mavrommatis and will feature ...

The risk of forest fires on Sunday has been set at “red alert”, the forestry department said on Saturday. Alongside the setting of the fire risk level, the department also ...

A Lithuanian estate agent who stands accused of having “usurped” Greek Cypriot-owned property in northern Cyprus is to be extradited to the island after having been arrested in France pursuant ...

The electronic passport control scanners at the Larnaca and Paphos airports are to be abolished and replaced with full-scale automated passport control gates as Cyprus prepares to enter Europe’s ...

A 40-year-old man was arrested on Saturday after arriving at Larnaca airport on an international inbound flight with 25 kilograms of cannabis in his suitcase, police said. The cannabis was found ...

A “series of attacks” was carried out on shops in the Paphos district on Friday night, hours after the police had concluded overnight patrol in the town’s central Moutallos ...

Power cuts in “various areas” of Cyprus experienced on Saturday morning was caused by a fault in the north, the transmission system operator said. It said the fault had occurred ...

The presidential palace on Saturday acclaimed the current level of cooperation between the governments of Cyprus and Greece, saying that the holding of regular intergovernmental summits between the two countries ...

Israel’s foreign ministry has defended the country’s decision to close the investigation into the killing of seven aid workers who were transporting humanitarian goods sent from Cyprus to ...

Something special arrives on the last weekend of every month in the capital as the Nicosia Municipal Theatre presents diverse events. In this new series, which launched this June and ...

The internationally unrecognised ‘Republic of Somaliland’ has called on both Cyprus and Greece to consider recognising it, after the new parliament speaker of Somalia, the country from which it has ...

Turkey’s presidential communications directorate has described Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments on its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s policies in Cyprus and Syria as a “groundless rant” ...

Saturday’s weather will be hot and sunny all day, with temperatures set to rise to 39 degrees Celsius inland, 31 degrees Celsius on the west coast, 34 degrees Celsius on the rest ...

Turkish Cypriot Kyrenia mayor Murat Senkul on Friday warned that political pressure exerted to bring about the cancellation of the Nexus electronic music festival in his town serves only to “...

Four-year-old Marios, who had suffered brain damage on July 14 due to meningitis, died in Makarios hospital on Friday. The boy’s death was announced by Kourion municipality in a post ...

Seven farmers have yet to receive full compensation for losses caused by this year’s foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak, while delays have also been reported in restocking affected farms, head ...

Turkey said on Friday it would seek an Interpol red notice for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of a domestic criminal case linked to an ...

Issues regarding environmental protection, water resources management and infrastructure, as well as the establishment of a new animal shelter in the Paphos district, were at the centre of a meeting ...