Cyprus

Police on Monday arrested a 52-year-old man for child sexual abuse in the form of disseminating abuse online. Investigations of the electronic crime unit led police to search his residence, ...

Whether you’re an astronomer, ordinary stargazer or astrologer, the alignment of the other seven planets in our solar system on the same side of the sun on February 28 will ...

The new proposal for the voluntary enlistment of girls in the national guard, announced this week, has sparked a predictable mixed reaction from would-be conscripts. A bill for voluntary conscription ...

The eCall system fitted in cars under a compulsory EU regulation for the past seven years or so, to send precise locations to the emergency services in case of a ...

Paramedics have postponed their planned refusal to work overtime for two weeks until February 27, pending the approval of a bill to “protect” the profession by cabinet. Cyprus ambulance crew paramedics ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has invited European leaders to attend an “emergency summit” in Paris on Monday over European security, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot confirmed on Sunday. Barrot told ...

“It is now possible” to place defibrillators in remote villages, Health Minister Michael Damianos said on Sunday. In a social media post hailing the placement of a defibrillator in the ...

Today Sofia begins her pilgrimage. Over the next several weeks, she’ll cover 1,200 kilometres: tracing an ancient Japanese path through misty mountains, past weathered shrines, along the edge of the ...

Hundreds of saplings were planted in Athienou and the nearby village of Avdellero on Sunday, the municipality said. The saplings were planted by well-meaning members of the public and local ...

Residents of Larnaca district villages on Sunday staged a protest outside the Dhekelia power station, demanding that it be upgraded with “less polluting machinery” so as to be “less harmful” ...

Disabled people in Cyprus are “invisible” and “deprived of their most basic human rights”, Cyprus Confederation of Disability Organisations (Kysoa) chairwoman Themis Anthopoulou said on Sunday. Speaking to newspaper Politis, ...

Women should be invited to sit at the Cyprus problem negotiating table, not to join the armed forces, Turkish Cypriot opposition party CTP ‘MP’ Dogus Derya said. She took to ...

Cyprus must “completely rethink” its relationship with the environment if it truly wants to achieve climate neutrality, environment commissioner Antonia Theodosiou said on Sunday. “If we want to achieve climate ...

Plans are afoot to build two new reservoirs in Nicosia, Turkish Cypriot Nicosia mayor Mehmet Harmanci said on Sunday. Speaking to Tak, the north’s news agency, he said plans ...

A 70-year-old man was arrested on Saturday evening after being found to have been almost five times over the legal alcohol limit to drive after running a 62-year-old woman over ...

Sunday’s weather will be partly cloudy across most of the island, with isolated rain possible in some parts, particularly in the mountains. Temperatures will rise to 17 degrees Celsius inland, 19 ...

Three presidents and 13 years after the discovery of gas in the Aphrodite field, the government this week clinched a deal with US oil giant Chevron for the development of the ...

An agreement was signed on Saturday at the presential palace for the construction of a new Paediatric Oncology Centre in Nicosia, which is expected to significantly upgrade the services provided. ...

A female diver who went missing at the Zenovia shipwreck in Larnaca was rescused on Saturday in an operation led by the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC). She was eventually ...

A family of five died in a fire that burned their home in Limassol on Saturday morning, as relatives spoke in horror about how they tried to help but were ...

Cyprus-US defence cooperation was at the centre of discussions held by Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. Speaking to the Cyprus News ...

By Ifigenia Theodoridou The Lambousa II vessel was submerged at the Oroklini marine protected area on Saturday to enrich the site with artificial reeds. Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said this ...

Everywhere in the world, two to three babies out of every 1,000 live births will be born with cerebral palsy, described by the World Health Organisation as a complex motor disorder ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Saturday said he might receive an update from the United Nations on the contacts of its Deputy Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo next week, adding that some minor ...