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A 58-year-old woman and a 35-year-old man who were allegedly caught with illegal drugs and stolen property have been remanded, police said on Thursday. Paphos district court remanded the two ...

A second suspect was arrested in connection with an armed robbery at a Paphos building complex during which two men were injured. Two 26-year-old men were arrested on Wednesday, while ...

An explosion at the Pyrgos community council offices was caused by a fragmentation grenade in the early morning hours on Thursday. According to police, residents heard a loud explosion in ...

Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) secretary general Marios Tsiakkis this week said that this year has been a critical one for Cypriot tourism, posing many challenges for all ...

Cypriot company Tototheo Maritime, a leading maritime technology integrator and provider, this week announced that its co-CEO Despina Panayiotou Theodosiou was included in Lloyd’s List of 100 People in Shipping, ...

The cabinet approved an energy ministry proposal on Wednesday, geared at establishing energy efficient practices in public sector buildings. According to the proposal by minister Natasa Pilides, all buildings used ...

Cyprus football association (CFA) on Wednesday banned the football fans of AEL, Apollon, Apoel and Anorthosi from attending their next away game following recent violent incidents. The four first division ...

The 31-year-old suspect in an attempted murder case has surrendered himself to the police some hours after an arrest warrant was issued against him on Wednesday. The man turned himself ...

Despite the challenges, there is “great potential” for a solution to the Cyprus problem, said the UN special representative in Cyprus Colin Stewart on Wednesday. The head of the peacekeeping ...

The drug squad arrested a 30-year-old woman at Larnaca airport on Wednesday after they found 6.5 kilos of cannabis in her luggage. The woman, who had arrived at the airport from ...

A 26-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday as one of the suspects in an armed robbery at a Paphos building complex during which two men were injured. The assault took ...

There is a blatant attempt to incriminate a different point of view in parliament, Independent MP Andreas Themistocleous said on Wednesday, after he received backlash on his objection to the ...

A 23-year-old man who was found guilty of possessing dangerous objects during a football match was banned from stadiums for six months. Larnaca district court also imposed a €600 fine on ...

Let’s talk about trash because the waste crisis is unfortunately thriving in Cyprus. With this in mind, City Friends Club is launching a new series of meetups dedicated to ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously decided to increase the prison sentence of a man who was found guilty of sexual abuse from four and a half to ten years, ...

Eligible students at Cyprus-based universities to get €500 living allowance amidst a price hike in rents and a shortage of student accommodations, cabinet decided on Wednesday. Students attending international universities will ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris will discuss the instrumentalisation of migrants and the optimisation of their return procedures during the EU interior ministers’ council this week. Nouris travelled to Brussels on ...

Strict scrutiny is welcomed and appreciated, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday upon receiving the annual report by the Auditor General Odysseas Michaelides. Handing the report for 2021, the AG said ...

A 42-year-old man was jailed for seven months on Wednesday for stealing construction materials from an erected building in Paphos earlier this year. Paphos district court imposed the seven-month prison ...

Deputy Minister of Culture Yiannis Toumazis on Tuesday underlined the impact of Cypriot artist Christoforos Savva on young artists on the island during the opening of a new retrospective exhibition ...

A Welsh-Cypriot woman has looked into the life of the famous writer and the time she spent on the island preparing Rebecca finds PAUL LAMBIS In July 2021, Cypriot-Welsh author Helen ...

The Council of Ministers approved a law amendment proposal by the transport ministry requiring that all car crashes be logged in the road transport department database in order to prevent ...

The sports ethics committee on Wednesday fully accepted the findings of a report on game fixing within basketball and will be forwarding the case to the attorney-general’s office for ...

Global ratings agency Fitch this week announced that it has upgraded the Bank of Cyprus’ Long-Term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to ‘B+’ from ‘B-‘ and Viability Rating (VR) to ‘b+’ ...