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An eight-year-old girl is intubated in a critical condition at the Nicosia general hospital, after an accident shortly after midnight on Tuesday. According to the police, in the early hours ...

The fire in the foothills of the Limassol mountains is completely under control and has no active front though firefighting forces remain vigilant in the area on Tuesday, while pre-emptive ...

In a bid to strengthen their existing partnership and foster collaboration in various areas of mutual interest, the Cyprus Shipping Chamber and the University of Cyprus recently signed a cooperation ...

The population of Cyprus saw a significant increase of 9.9 per cent during the decade from 2011 to 2021, as revealed by the preliminary results of the 2021 population and housing census, which was ...

President Nikos Christodoulides was on Monday urged by one of his government allies to get the state-run power utility to refund people in the next batch of electricity bills to ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar has condemned recent comments made by his predecessor between 2005 and 2010 Mehmet Ali Talat on the Cyprus problem, saying “they are of no benefit to the ...

Trade unions in the north have raised the alarm over potentially unsafe school buildings, weeks before the academic year is set to begin. Concerns were initially raised following the devastating ...

Foreign minister Constantinos Kombos held a telephone conversation with United States Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Monday. Among other things, the pair discussed the Cyprus problem, cooperation between Cyprus ...

A few weeks before the Nicosia International Festival 2023 raises the curtain on a local and international programme of performances, it will hold the Parallel Program with a five-day theatrical workshop ...

The situation regarding the fire in the area of Alassa is “progressing really well”, according to fire brigade chief Nicos Longinos. He said the fire was brought under control after ...

The Health Insurance Organisation – the agency running the national health system or Gesy – will as of this autumn alter the way in which personal doctors are remunerated, with 20 per cent ...

Erhan Arikli, the north’s ‘transport minister’, said on Monday that plans to construct a masjid, a Muslim place of worship, on the grounds of the Apostolos Andreas monastery, have ...

Within the EU Cyprus has the third highest ratio of professional firefighters to the size of the workforce, according to data just released by Eurostat. The data concerns the year 2022. ...

David Hunter recalls his time in prison awaiting trial for killing his terminally ill wife David Hunter has vowed to stay in Cyprus and rent a place near his wife ...

Τhe Mall of Cyprus will charge motorists for using the parking spaces on its premises from September 1, according to a statement released on Monday. Visitors will be allowed two hours ...

Agriculture Minister Petros Xenophontos said the blaze in the area of Alassa, near Limassol, has been contained, though a few flareups persist. “Aerial water drops are being carried out regularly ...

July 2023 broke multiple heat records as the Cleon weather system smothered Cyprus, leading to one of the warmest months with 16 days in a row of over 40oC degrees. The met ...

Electricity has been “almost completely restored” in the areas impacted by the fires in the Alassa region, according to the Cyprus Electricity Authority (EAC). They say that there are just ...

The Limassol Wine Festival changes dates this year and is moved to October in an effort to extend the tourist season. Leaving behind its August-September rendezvous, the week-long festival in ...

The Larnaca Tourism Development and Promotion Company (ETAP) on Monday said the efforts to revitalise the village of Tochni are paying off, as more tourists every year are visiting the ...

The summer month would be nothing if it weren’t for the festivals held around the island. ELENI PHILIPPOU looks at what is coming up Lemesos International Documentary Festival – until ...

Milia Paidiou, understood to be Cyprus’ oldest woman according to the 2011 census, has passed away aged nearly 111. Born in Lefkoniko in 1912, Paidiou had four children, 11 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. ...

A firefighter was injured on Monday while fighting the blaze that started on Friday in the Alassa area of Limassol. Fire services spokesman Andreas Kettis said the fireman was injured ...

A construction company was on Monday fined €2,500 by the labour ministry after it was found to be violating health and safety regulations in the workplace. The ministry’s department of ...