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The government’s newly launched nationwide emergency warning system and its ability to reach residents using older mobile devices has come under scrutiny, particularly regarding elderly people in remote communities ...

A gradual improvement in hotel bookings, however they are still moving at lower levels than expected for the period, chairman of the Cyprus Hoteliers Association (Pasyxe) Thanos Michaelides said on ...

Summer is on its way, and that means that outdoor film screenings. First up is Nicosia’s Images and Views of Alternative Cinema Festival, which returns to the old town ...

Everyone’s cooperation is needed to deal with fires during the summer season, head of the Union of Cyprus Communities Andreas Kitromilides said on Sunday adding that village authorities must ...

A 29-year-old man was remanded in police custody for three days on Sunday by the Nicosia district court after he reportedly threw a flare at a police officer trying to ...

A total of 378,150 people voted in last Sunday’s parliamentary elections – but what about the foreign nationals? That number represents 66.4 per cent of those who were eligible to vote, but ...

The importance of foster care as an essential form of alternative care for children under the care of the state was highlighted by the deputy ministry of social welfare on ...

The enormous economic activity of some livestock breeders with those in the north was one of the reasons that led to the foot and mouth disease crisis, head of the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will pay an official visit to Kazakhstan on Wednesday accompanied by ministers and a business delegation, deputy government spokesman Yiannis Antoniou said on Sunday. It is the ...

Cyprus acting as a bridge with the region is a continuation of the Informal European Council and now we have expanded the scope of this neighborhood, reaching as far as ...

Four people were arrested overnight as part of nationwide preventive policing, police said on Sunday as operations continue to prevent serious criminal acts, ensure public order and enhance the public’...

After the passing of early morning cloud and fog, the weather for the rest of the day is expected to be clear. At noon though more clouds are expected to ...

A man from the Famagusta area has been arrested after a police officer was attacked on Saturday evening. At 5.30pm on Saturday, members of the Xylotympou and Xylophagou police stations ...

Amid a kaleidoscope of candidates and new political formations, the traditional parties bucked the trend and held the line – more or less – in last Sunday’s legislative elections. Defying all ...

Police on Saturday arrested two more suspects in connection with an alleged terrorism case, following the arrest of two other men last week. According to police, the latest suspects are ...

The state health services (Okypy) on Saturday denied any wrongdoing in the case of a patient who died in March, insisting that all relevant procedures had been followed. In a ...

The international Blue Flag programme has awarded Cyprus 56 Blue Flags for 2026, down from 64 beaches in the previous year. Speaking to Alphanews, president of the national Blue Flag organisation and general ...

Cyprus has protocols in place to deal with Ebola cases and would follow established procedures in the event of an infection, epidemiologist Petros Karayiannis said on Saturday. Speaking to CNA ...

This summer, Cyprus is once again welcoming some of the world’s finest classical musicians as the International Pharos Chamber Music Festival marks its 25th anniversary. Running until Saturday, the ...

The sirens that sounded at the United States’ embassy in Nicosia were part of a test alarm and no reason for concern, the police told the Cyprus Mail on Saturday. ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will on Tuesday holdtwo consecutive meetings on the current developments surrounding the foot and mouth (FMD) disease, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Saturday. During the first ...

A house in the Chrysopolitissa area of Larnaca has been fully demolished after parts of its structure collapsed at the earlier in the week. “On Thursday, the demolition of this ...

The supreme constitutional court on Friday annulled a decision by the administrative court which upheld the health ministry’s refusal to cover the costs for a cancer patient who had ...

Two men were arrested during the Cyprus cup finals at the Nicosia GSP stadium on Friday. According to the police, the arrests concern a 19-year-old man, who was arrested around 8.45...