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Livestock at two more farms were to have been infected with foot and mouth disease on Saturday, bringing the total number of infected farms to 110 across the island. Both farms ...

Let’s take, for instance, the ‘poiitarides’ – or ‘itinerant poets’, as Nicoletta Demetriou calls them. ‘Poiitarika’ (the category name for their works) were “long narrative songs,” she explains, “the closest ...

Disy on Saturday unveiled its campaign battle bus for the forthcoming parliamentary election, with the bus and the party’s leader Annita Demetriou setting off on a tour of the ...

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat on Saturday warned Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel against delaying the next legislative election, saying that doing so will serve to harm ...

Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades on Saturday moved to defend the government’s decision to split the project to redevelop Larnaca’s port and marina into two, saying that the two ...

A 38-year-old man who was injured after his motorcycle collided with a car in the Paphos district village of Kissonerga on Thursday remains in a critical condition on Saturday, the ...

A fire broke out at a cafe in Paphos in the early hours of Saturday morning, the police said. The police said they were informed of the fire at around 3.20...

A 46-year-old man was stabbed in the leg after watching his attacker drive into a parked car in a car park in Paralimni, the police said on Saturday. The incident ...

Saturday is expected to bring with it more overcast skies than the summery weather experienced over the last few days, with patchy rain possible across the island. The mercury is ...

“April showers bring May flowers, and aren’t we all very blessed this year?” says Episkopi Paphos Environmental Centre ahead of its new spring activities. “The end of April and ...

Workers and members of the trade union movement on Friday held their annual May Day march to the Ledra Palace hotel, in Nicosia’s buffer zone, with marches beginning from ...

A day devoted to nature, appreciating the environment and engaging in creative expression is coming up this Sunday as another edition of the Akrotiri Spring Festival arrives. The Akrotiri Environmental ...

Diko has “no red lines” regarding the question of with whom the party may collaborate to nominate a House president after this month’s parliamentary election, its leader Nicholas Papadopoulos ...

A hand grenade exploded outside the home of an elderly couple in Paphos on Thursday evening, the police confirmed on Friday. The police said the explosion occurred at around 10.30pm ...

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s wife Sibel Tatar on Friday said she is considering entering frontline politics after having “received an offer” from former Turkish Cypriot chief negotiator ...

By Marko Ljubicic If you’re from Nicosia, chances are you have a strong opinion about the city’s old town. You’re either drawn to its serpentine streets, its ...

It is a Thursday night and the old town of Nicosia is calm yet there is always a buzz within the walls. Beer bottles clink, coffee cups are brewing, guide ...

The government’s planned reforms to the pension system are being drawn up “precisely in the spirit” of May Day, Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas said at an event held to ...

The Paphos regional tourism board (Etap), in collaboration with Constantinou Bros Hotels, is hosting 36 members of the British Guild of Travel Writers in the city as part of a destination ...

The European Union “is our common home”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday, as Cyprus marked 22 years since its accession to the trading bloc. He described Cyprus’ joining of the ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Friday vowed not to “fall for the provocation” of recent comments made by both President Nikos Christodoulides and government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis in relation ...

President Nikos Christodoulides listed the achievements of his government which he says have been to the benefit of workers in his address to mark May Day on Friday. “May Day ...

Two people were hospitalised after jumping out of a second-floor window and three were arrested during a search of a flat in Larnaca on Thursday night, the police said on ...

A 38-year-old man is in a critical condition after his motorcycle collided with a car being driven by a 47-year-old woman in the Paphos district village of Kissonerga, the police ...