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A 41-year-old man who caused a traffic accident that left a 23-year-old Bulgarian motorcyclist dead in December 2025 was sentenced to two years in prison on Tuesday by the Paphos district ...

Ten students, two drivers and one chaperone suffered light injuries in a school bus accident in Ayios Epiphanios on Tuesday. According to police, the incident occurred when the minibus collided ...

The Ierokipia municipality has hired three new municipal traffic officers to strengthen road safety and tackle traffic problems in the area, it said on Tuesday. The municipal traffic service will ...

European Affairs Deputy Minister Marilena Raouna on Tuesday said that “we must cut red tape” in her address to the European Parliament as it debated plans to reform the single ...

A proposal to create a national fund compensating owners for the loss of use of properties in the north, was discussed on Tuesday at the House refugee committee. Current legislation ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Tuesday elected to refer to the north’s judiciary a controversial law passed by the north’s ‘parliament’ last month which will see Turkish ...

Cyprus MEP Loukas Fourlas handed a European parliament report documenting rape against women during the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus to United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres in New York on ...

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The removal of old and abandoned vehicles and improvements to infrastructure in the industrial area of Paphos were among the issues discussed during a meeting on Tuesday between acting mayor ...

Taxi drivers staged protests in Nicosia on Tuesday morning, before driving in convoy to key government buildings to demand action over what they describe as illegal competition and worsening conditions ...

Cyprus has hosted 24,230 displaced Ukrainians under temporary protection as of January 31, Eurostat data released on Tuesday show, placing the island fourth among EU member states in terms of the number ...

The military support offered by four European Union member states to Cyprus after the island was hit by an Iranian-made drone last week is “a powerful example of European autonomy”, ...

The United Kingdom’s Royal Navy is to send the RFA Lyme Bay, a dock landing ship, to Cyprus, the country’s defence ministry confirmed, having earlier placed its crew ...

The establishment of a maritime traffic monitoring network and the expansion of air defence systems in the north was announced by Ankara on Tuesday, heightening regional security concerns. Turkish Transport ...

An undersea trial of the type of cable to be used to form the Great Sea Interconnector, to connect the energy grids of Greece, Cyprus and Israel, was completed successfully, ...

A charity neighbourhood event all about turning Pedieos River into a fun playground for all is coming up this month. Organised by Protovoulia Drasis Archangelou, the Afternoon Project and the ...

A 25-year-old Lebanese national who was arrested last Friday on terrorism charges, subject to a European arrest warrant issued by the German authorities, remains in Cypriot custody, with a German ...

Cypriot member of the European Parliament Costas Mavrides, of Diko, late on Monday night hailed the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to the ...

The water development department (WDD) reported on Tuesday that desalinated water now covers roughly 80 per cent of Cyprus’ total water needs, with daily production from all units reaching around 245,000 cubic ...

Former central prison director Anna Aristotelous and seven other defendants all pleaded not guilty at the Nicosia criminal court on Tuesday to the charges they face regarding the alleged leaking ...

Three new cases of foot-and-mouth disease were confirmed in Dromolaxia on Monday afternoon, the agriculture ministry reported on Tuesday. The cases were detected through laboratory testing and are located within ...

Serious irregularities in sick leave, overtime payments and operational procedures within the prison system were highlighted on Tuesday in a report by the audit office covering the last two years. ...

Adequate staffing levels are a necessity for there to be an improved quality of care at the Famagusta general hospital in Paralimni, Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides said on Tuesday. “Within ...

Eighteen Cypriot antiquities have been handed over to the embassy of the Republic of Cyprus Embassy in Washington after being identified in an online auction by officials monitoring the illegal ...