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Paphos police were investigating on Friday after a woman reported that unknown people stole €9,500 in cash and other valuables from a safe at her house in Peyia. According to the ...

Police on Friday said they were investigating after unknown people threw rocks at the bus transporting the Anorthosis football team back to Larnaca following their game against Apoel at the ...

Three Nicosia businesses were booked for a total of €2,500 after employees were found working without a SafePass during 224 checks in the district, police said on Friday. Two of the businesses ...

The budget of the Cyprus Ports Authority for 2022 is projected to have a marginal surplus, the authority said on Thursday. The budgeted revenues of the Authority are expected to reach €30,460,125 ...

The Ministry of Energy, Commerce and Industry on Thursday announced a range of programmes to support households and businesses, worth €158 million in total, scheduled for launch throughout 2022. During a presentation ...

Police on Thursday arrested a 39-year-old man on suspicion of distributing child pornographic material online. A statement said the police’s cybercrime unit had received information from Europol relating to ...

After four years of back-and-forth, and following a lengthy debate on the House floor, parliament on Thursday passed a law establishing an anti-corruption authority. The five-member authority, selected by the ...

Police on Friday will release without charging two suspects in the case of the murder of 53-year-old Andreas Evangelou that took place in Larnaca last December. According to the Cyprus ...

Authorities on Thursday announced four more deaths attributed to Covid-19, while testing tracked 2,200 new positives. The latest fatalities are: a woman aged 67, who passed away on Wednesday; and three men – ...

Gesy contributions will need to go up by 20 to 30 per cent unless procedures change Sparks flew in parliament on Thursday during a debate on the state of Gesy – the national ...

Amid an escalating row over the cost of living, the government on Thursday accused main opposition party Akel of unfounded criticism and insisted that inflation in Cyprus remains manageable. It ...

The cabinet’s approval of the national strategy plan to tackle thalassemia has been hailed by the Pancyprian Thalassaemia Association (PTA) as one of the most important developments in recent ...

Around two thirds of all coronavirus patients currently hospitalised have no history of vaccination against Covid-19, health ministry data showed on Thursday. The data on current hospitalisations was published as ...

Nine self-recruitment stations for bone marrow donors have been placed across Cyprus this week, making registration easier and more accessible. Karaiskakio Foundation, which has organised the largest registry per capita ...

The Republic will press ahead in its attempt to secure confidence building measures (CBMs) with the Turkish Cypriots, with the foreign minister seeking EU support for the proposals. A recent ...

Tests for all – regardless of vaccination status – at areas deemed at high risk of Covid-19 transmission may be in the pipeline as the health ministry seeks to overhaul the SafePass. ...

Speaker of the UK House of Commons Sir Lindsey Hoyle, in Cyprus on a three-day official visit, on Thursday toured old Nicosia, including a visit to the Green Line, and ...

The EU will help finance a waste management project in Cyprus aiming to improve the infrastructure and collection systems for recyclable and biodegradable waste. The green light was given by ...

President Nicos Anastasiades is expected to raise the exploitation of African migrants by traffickers who, facilitated by Turkish authorities, are sent to EU countries including Cyprus at the EU summit ...

There is something rather bohemian about brunch. As far as I’m concerned, a meal that does not qualify either as breakfast or as lunch needs to be surrounded by ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris has hit back hard at allegations his ministry is complicit in corrupt practices and mismanagement of Turkish Cypriot properties in the south, challenging Paphos mayor Phedonos ...

Nicosia lawyers supported by colleagues from other districts, held a one-hour work stoppage on Thursday to protest a decision to transfer Nicosia district court judges hearing backlogged cases to the ...

Cyprus has been named as one possible ‘Plan B’ location where migrants and asylum seekers entering the UK in small boats via the Channel would be taken to the British ...

Four additional UK Typhoon jets have landed in RAF Akrotiri as part of Britain’s Nato contribution amid the ongoing tensions between Russia and Ukraine. The four fighter jets will ...