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If you drive from Nicosia to Palaichori, turn left to Ayios Epifanios of Oreinis. The village is situated in the lower altitudes of the forest of Adelfoi and close to ...

Some motorists whose vehicles have been immobilised due to a recall for being fitted with potentially faulty Takata airbags will be offered €100 per week by the government, provided that they ...

A new bill is being tabled to Parliament on Thursday, introducing tougher penalties against owners of dangerous buildings, following a series of balcony collapses in recent years that put residents ...

Osman Bulut, the former deputy mayor of the southeastern Turkish city of Adiyaman, and five other former public officials from the city appeared in court Thursday as their trial in ...

It is neither Turkey nor the EU that will govern the island of Cyprus in the future, but the people themselves, the EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said ...

Roadworks will be underway on the Lakatamia-Pera Chorio, Nicosia-Akaki, Ayia Napa-Larnaca and Larnaca-Ayia Napa motorways, some to last into December, the department of public works announced on Thursday. Resurfacing works ...

A fire broke out in the motor area of an electric bus in Paphos early Thursday, damaging the motor. Transport Minister Alexis Vafeadis, later on Thursday, announced that all buses ...

A car caught fire on Thursday morning and was emitting thick smoke on the Nicosia-Limassol motorway near the exit for Kornos, causing heavy traffic. The police urged drivers to be ...

Fires broke out in three abandoned houses in Paphos in the early hours of Thursday. The police said the fires started at around 1.40am, 2.25am and 4.10am. There have been ...

Thursday starts off overcast with fine dust in the atmosphere. As clouds gather during the day, isolated showers and thunderstorms with hail can be expected, mainly in the mountains. Winds ...

There is, again, plenty to enjoy this weekend all over Cyprus. Choose from performing arts festivals, creative workshops, exhibitions, recitals and charity book sales that help four-legged buddies. Here’s ...

Employers’ organisation OEV has pointed out that private sector employers are obliged to abide by a strict framework for allowing their staff to work from home, while a bill being ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Wednesday both discussed relations between the European Union and Turkey with the bloc’s foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas. Kallas visited ...

Cypriot champions Pafos FC pulled off an unlikely Champions League giant-killing on Wednesday night, beating Spanish outfit and former Europa League winners Villarreal 1-0 at Limassol’s Alphamega Stadium. Dutch ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Wednesday said the European Commission’s latest annual report on Turkey “demonstrates a disregard for the legitimate rights and interests of the Turkish Cypriot ...

A man drowned off the coast of Cape Greco, the joint rescue coordination centre (JRCC) announced on Wednesday. A JRCC representative told the Cyprus Mail that the man had been ...

Efforts to resolve Cyprus continuous water scarcity problem will focus primarily on increasing the available amount of portable water by installing further desalination units, agriculture ministry secretary Andreas Gregoriou said ...

Funerary art in ancient Hellenistic and Roman Paphos takes centre stage on Saturday, when it will be presented to an audience at the Episkopi Environmental Information Centre. The presentation titled ‘...

The recently announced postponement of the opening of a detention centre for minors, as well as a ban on the use of mobile phones in the central prison were the ...

Trade unions on Wednesday accepted the government’s proposal for the future of the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA), while employers’ organisations rejected it. “The trade union movement, in a spirit of ...

A police sergeant is facing a charge over the 2019 death of 15-year-old Stylianos in Kotsiatis, it was reported on Wednesday. According to a Philenews report, this is the second case ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman’s first trip to Turkey since being elected to the office is expected to take place between Tuesday and Friday next week, the Cyprus Mail ...

The Limassol district court on Wednesday ordered the release of two men held in connection with last month’s murder of 49-year-old businessman and former football club chairman, Stavros Demosthenous. ...

The case against the 49-year-old German woman who stands accused of having sold Greek Cypriot-owned property in the north continued on Wednesday, with the “trial within a trial” related to ...