Cyprus

Police on Monday arrested a 60-year-old man on suspicion of purchasing and owning child pornography. They said that a warrant was issued after the cybercrime unit received information that a ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Monday he plans on visiting the north on July 20, the anniversary of the Turkish invasion. Erdogan told Turkish daily Sabah that, barring any ...

A total of 77 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Tuesday, the health ministry announced. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

Cyprus is among the most searched destinations as Britons consider their holiday options, but UK tour operators will not send customers until the Foreign Office lifts its travel guidance to ...

Despite gradual progress in protecting the rights of the LGBTI community, discrimination against them remains a tragic reality, ombudswoman Maria Stylianou Lottides said in a written statement marking international day ...

Tenders will be launched next month for the €17m phase three of the Larnaca-Dhekelia coastal road, the transport ministry said on Monday. It said the e-procurement document is expected to ...

The audit service said on Monday it has put at the disposal of the police all the material it had gathered while probing certain cases linked to the citizenship by ...

All four people arrested over the murder of a 36-year-old man in Limassol on Sunday have been remanded for eight days, police said on Monday. Lyubisha Ristoski, from Bulgaria who ...

The decision on a joint lawsuit, brought by dozens of parents against the state, which challenges the requirement on school children to undergo mandatory tests and face masks is expected ...

People in the Paphos city centre and Kato Paphos can now use the municipality’s fully electric minibus on two routes free of charge. The upgrade to the town’s ...

Fascinated by the sky since he was a child one local storm chaser says the activity is more dangerous than you might think. ALIX NORMAN finds out what it takes ...

Cyprus can anticipate the number of coronavirus cases dropping to double digits over the summer, one of the government’s advisors on the pandemic said on Monday, qualifying his more ...

The Paphos district court on Monday remanded two women, aged 31 and 45, and two men, 37 and 24, for five days in connection with a case concerning drug possession and intent to supply ...

Cyprus welcomed 38,226 visitors in April 2021, compared to zero arrivals recorded in the same month the previous year when airports were closed to tourists as part of measures to contain the ...

Cyprus Casinos (C2) announced the reopening of locations on Monday after having been shuttered for over half a year due to the coronavirus restrictions. The casinos sought to reassure customers ...

Police on Monday launched a week-long islandwide road safety campaign focusing on motorbikes and mopeds amid rising concern over fatalities among bikers. The campaign will focus on dangerous driving, wearing ...

Authorities are investigating how piles of used coronavirus rapid test kits ended up illegally dumped near a riverbed in Strovolos rather being properly disposed of by specialist companies, Environment Commissioner ...

One out of four people in Cyprus suffers from hypertension, with the number increasing to one out of two for those aged over 60, the Cyprus Cardiology Society and the Cyprus ...

Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis on Monday highlighted improvements made in Cyprus in recent years to safeguard the LGBTI community but advocacy groups have drawn attention to ongoing difficulties. In a ...

President Nicos Anastasiades unveiled the government’s recovery and resilience plan on Monday, the objective of which, he said, was not just the recovery of the economy but the creation ...

Students at the Ayios Theodoros gymnasium in Paphos did not go to class for two hours on Monday morning, with the backing of the parents’ association, in protest over the ...

People aged 18 to 21 booked 8,855 vaccination appointments in the first two hours of the portal opening for their age group on Monday, the health ministry said. A total of 15,920 slots were ...

Use of the internet by older Cypriots is at similar levels as the EU average, with 58 per cent of the 65 to 74-year age group saying they had gone online, close ...

May 17 marks International Child Helpline Day which celebrates child helplines all over the world that aim to support, protect and provide comfort for this most precious and vulnerable group. Children’...