Cyprus

An 18-year-old was arrested on Monday night in connection with car theft. Police received a complaint that a car with the keys in the ignition had been stolen from an ...

The two young men injured in the fatal car crash in Frenaros over the weekend are recovering in hospital, while the other three who were killed will be buried later ...

Paphos police arrested two people on Monday night in connection with conspiracy to commit a felony, burglary and theft, possession of burglary tools and malicious damage. On November 13 at 10.45pm, ...

Low pressure is affecting the area, bringing clouds with isolated showers and possibly an isolated thunderstorm, initially along the west and north coast and later in the mountains, inland and ...

A 47-year-old man, wanted by the Russian authorities for fraud, was arrested in Paphos on Monday afternoon. An arrest warrant had been pending against him for fraud committed between 2006 and 2015 ...

Kato Pyrgos mukhtar Nikos Kleanthous on Monday warned that Tillyria residents would “react strongly” if priority is not given to the opening of a crossing point at the Kokkina exclave. ...

The labour ministry submitted a mediation proposal on Monday aimed at renewing collective agreements for concrete workers. Amid weeks of strikes and negotiations, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said employers and ...

Two separate attacks against delivery drivers unfolded in Limassol on Monday evening, with police investigating both incidents. The first attack took place at around 7pm in Ayios Ioannis, where a ...

No evidence has come up concerning the existence of cartels or cartel-like behaviour in the retail fuel market or the banking industry, the Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC) ...

Tourist arrivals in Cyprus reached 3.73 million visitors in the first ten months of 2024, reflecting a 4.6 per cent increase compared to the same period in 2023. This also represents a modest 0.81 per ...

Parliament on Monday greenlit funds for the anti-corruption authority that the body says are indispensable to continue the work of investigations. Despite having given the authority some pushback last week, ...

Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis on Monday said it would be ineffective to adopt a nationwide anti-racism strategy, despite being urged to do so by the EU Commission, ombudswoman’s office, ...

The amount of rain which has fallen in November so far already exceeds 117 per cent of the average rainfall for the entire month, the met office revealed on Monday. An ...

Nicosia district court has dismissed a lawsuit against the state, the Central Bank and the Bank of Cyprus over the 2013 ‘haircut’ on deposits, the attorney-general’s office stated on Monday. ...

A total of 146 individuals found to be residing in the Republic illegally were returned to their countries of origin in the past week, police said on Monday. In total, 80 people ...

Chanting slogans against the US and Israel and in solidarity with the Palestinians, the Cyprus coordinating committee of students (Psem) marched to the US embassy in Nicosia to mark the 51...

Ziya Ozturkler was on Monday elected as the north’s ‘parliament speaker’ at the sixth attempt, bringing to an end a political crisis which lasted 42 days and saw 16 rounds of ...

A total of 469 reports of sexual abuse against children were received in 2023 and 330 by October 2024, Hope for Children CRC Policy Centre said on Monday, the European day for the protection ...

A 59-year-old man was arrested by the hunting services on Sunday for hunting illegally.The man didn’t have a hunting licence for his gun or bullets.The man was ...

Decades ago, market day meant catching the Bedford. Yes, larger villages had occasional markets, and there was always a panayiri. But the weekly shop down in the town (hair-raising hairpin ...

Large gaps exist in safety awareness and drivers’ “conscience”, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Monday after four people died on the road over the weekend. A re-revaluation needs to ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is in touch with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in a bid to upgrade strategic cooperation between the two countries. Christodoulides told French senators on Monday in ...

The United States’ decision to authorise Ukraine to use missiles supplied by them to fire on targets inside Russia “could have a positive impact in the defence of Ukraine”, Cypriot ...

How often do you get the chance to scratch something off the bucket list? For me, it happened this past week, when I got the opportunity to briefly work on ...