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An employee has been accused of stealing a sum of €4,500 from an agency in Paphos. The owner of the agency reported the theft on Tuesday, police reported. The complainant alleged ...

Police examinations continue on Wednesday for an incident involving the beating of a 17-year-old pupil at a Larnaca lyceum by a group of students from another school, as a result ...

On Wednesday the weather will be mostly clear, although locally increased cloud cover on the west and north coasts is expected to bring isolated showers or even a storm. In ...

Police inform the public on Wednesday morning that no problem is observed on any of the main urban arterial roads and the highways. Rocks have fallen on the Orkoda-Kambos road ...

By Efi Xanthou So, some good Samaritan wants to donate €1.7 million to the Limassol municipality, what is people’s problem with this? Can’t Cypriots appreciate a good deed? It’...

More effective measures need to be adopted in an effort to crack down and eradicate human trafficking, said Commissioner for Administration and Human Rights Protection, Maria Stylianou-Lottides on Tuesday on ...

Nothing contributes more to the unification of Cyprus than expanding trade and business ties and providing the infrastructure to support them, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Cyprus, Colin ...

The Health Ministry on Wednesday announced a change in opening hours of Covid-19 vaccination centres across the island from Wednesday, October 19, 2022 in an effort to improve the service offered to ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos II’s health is stable, his personal doctor, Joseph Kashios, told the Cyprus News Agency (Cna) immediately after his evening visit to the Archbishopric on Tuesday. “The archbishop ...

The island’s Cabinet on Tuesday approved a preliminary national action plan in an effort to establish a mechanism to prevent and combat social exclusion and child poverty. The national ...

One of the four independent presidential contenders announced on Tuesday he has dropped out of talks aimed at putting forward a common candidate. Christodoulos Protopapas said he was withdrawing from ...

The Turkish Cypriot community must demand from the EU the right to get on board the prospective EuroAsia Interconnector project “without political preconditions,” head of the Turkish Cypriot Energy Efficiency ...

Now is not the time to roll out a carbon tax, as the country’s tax base is already reeling from the rising cost of living, the finance minister said ...

Electricity authority unions got the green light on Tuesday to further consult with their members on taking measures – typically meaning strike action – should their grievances not be addressed. Their concerns ...

Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides has said he will probe Washington’s interest in brokering talks between Cyprus and Turkey for a possible maritime border deal following the United States’ role ...

October rainfall was over 200 per cent higher than the average for the whole month, the meteorological department said on Tuesday on Tuesday while some areas saw more than an average ...

A 34-year-old will have to spend 20 days in jail and pay a €1,300 fine after traffic police officers caught him driving with a suspended licence and without insurance, Famagusta District Court ...

Youth unemployment in Cyprus for 2021 reached 14.2 per cent, above the EU average of 13 per cent, Eurostat statistical agency reported on Tuesday. According to Eurostat, the average of unemployed people aged 15 ...

Around 8,000 beds will be available for tourists in the Paphos district through the winter months, while a digital campaign promoting the area to potential visitors will be underway until mid-December, ...

Works and renovations have begun on the Cetinkaya football pitch located in the buffer zone, after the north struck an agreement with Unficyp, reports said on Tuesday. The Cetinkaya field, ...

Financial assistance will be given to farmers affected by the fire in Kormakitis last May, the Council of Ministers decided on Tuesday. According to a deputy government spokesperson Niovi Parisinou, ...

Medical examiners on Tuesday called for the body of the 15-year-old girl who died in March to be exhumed as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged medical malpractice. The ...

Cyprus has received a net €461m from the EU between 2004 and 2021, Cyprus’ member of the European auditor council Lazaros Lazarou said on Tuesday. Presenting the final report of his term ...

A new virtual museum is setting itself up as a safe space where memories, photos and other material of Varosha and its surrounds can be shared. MELISSA HEKKERS finds out ...