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Forty per cent of individuals and nearly 50 per cent of businesses experienced some form of cyberattack in the past 12 months, according to two surveys conducted between October and November 2022. The ...

An off-duty officer was injured in his effort to rescue a driver who had passed out and had entered the opposite lane, facing incoming traffic. The incident occurred around 3pm ...

Limassol’s bishop Athanasios is believed to be the most suitable successor to the late Archbishop Chrysostomos according to a survey published on Monday. The survey was carried out by ...

A 26-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of uploading child porn on social media, police said on Monday. The man was arrested following information from Europol about a specific account ...

Cyprus’ civil defence has received international certification for its provision of humanitarian assistance during natural disasters abroad. The civil defence announced that it managed to secure the INSARAG External Classification ...

Strep tests will be distributed to paediatricians as part of the additional measures announced by the health ministry on Monday after the recent outbreak of streptococcus type A infections in ...

A “large number” of businesses and self-employed people received state aid without meeting the necessary criteria during the coronavirus pandemic while potential beneficiaries were rejected, an audit office report showed ...

Deputy director of state broadcaster CyBC, Savvas Aristodemou has been suspended, after allegations of workplace bullying surfaced on Monday. According to daily Politis, he has been suspended by the board ...

Switzerland will be contributing a total of over €15 million to Cyprus for cohesion projects, as part of a set of agreements between the two governments. On Monday, Finance Minister Constantinos ...

Larnaca has been designated as a major urban centre for cofinancing purposes by the European Union and many prospects for large and important projects related to the trans-European transport network ...

Consumers will experience power cuts as of Wednesday if there is increased electricity demand or adverse weather conditions, as a result of a strike by the electricity authority (EAC) staff ...

Cyta on Monday announced the signing of an agreement with the Lebanese Ministry of Telecommunications for the construction and maintenance of a new subsea telecommunications connection between Cyprus and Lebanon. ...

The federation of environmental NGOs (Opok) has urged the town planning department to finalise the Akamas plan, stating that significant human and financial resources have been exerted on the process. ...

President Nicos Anastasiades met his Slovakian counterpart Zuzana Caputova on Monday, who is on a one-day visit to Cyprus. Caputova is in Cyprus to also visit with the Slovakian regiment ...

Live music, art and pop-ups at the popular venue. By ELENI PHILIPPOU One could easily visit Nicosia’s centre without exploring the gems that are the local cafes and bars ...

In a shocking story, one Nicosia-based instructor tells ALIX NORMAN that yoga brought her from the very brink of death. It’s a journey that inspired her to write the ...

The vision of the startup and innovation ecosystem in Cyprus should be about changing the ‘DNA’ of the people living in Cyprus. People should start to think differently and find ...

Writer, poet, journalist and actor Leonidas Malenis, best known for his poem that later became a song ‘Chrysoprasino Fyllo’, died at age 85 on Monday. Malenis was born in 1937 in Nicosia. ...

Two women aged 67 and 43 years were arrested in Paphos on Monday for a case of shoplifting. According to the police, the two women who allegedly stole clothes from a Paphos ...

President Nicos Anastasiades has signed the legislation on sex education in schools which was passed by parliament, despite the attorney general claiming it is unconstitutional. The bill soon became engulfed ...

Nothing marks the arrival of Christmas more than the annual festive concerts of the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra. For years now, the Orchestra has been dedicating its December shows to the ...

The Limassol municipality has expressed its deepest regrets after a deer housed at the municipal zoo was found dead on December 9. In a statement, the municipality said that an autopsy ...

The interior ministry on Monday said that it has taken them two years to get the approval for hiring hourly workers at the checkpoints, condemning an article over the weekend ...

The Cyprus Theatre Organisation (Thoc) on Monday slammed the education ministry for its special committee that approves theatrical productions for schools, calling it ‘backwards’ and an ‘instrument of censorship,’ following ...