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Police on Tuesday arrested a 42-year-old Limassol resident for an investigated case of motorcycle theft.
The owner of a company in Limassol had reported two motorbikes as stole between last ...
Water will be cut all day on Wednesday to Latchi, the Polis Chrysochous Municipality announced.
The water cut is due to the a replacement of the main pipeline supplying the ...
Military cooperation between the Republic and the USA is intended as a threat against the ‘TRNC’ the north’s ‘foreign ministry’ has said.
In response to the threat the necessary ...
A renewed yellow weather warning is in place for high temperatures on Wednesday, in effect from 11am until 4pm.
The day will be mostly clear with increased afternoon clouds in ...
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The current state of affairs in the Cyprus problem is “not viable” and holds “serious dangers”, President Nikos Christodoulides said, opening the Cyprus diaspora convention.
He also said “we should ...
The Nicosia district court has issued a four-day remand order against the fifth person arrested for the car bombing of July 4 in Nicosia.
The suspect, a 27-year-old man, was arrested ...
Controlled pharmaceutical and drug products were confiscated on Tuesday during a police and heath ministry operation in Limassol.
Two shops were searched after information that illegal substances were being traded.
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Cyprus was the EU member state with the second highest percentage of workers who couldn’t afford to go on holiday in 2022, Eurostat data for the European Trade Union Confederation (...
The government on Tuesday kicked off a campaign to promote a new set of rules for the storage of hazardous substances, with Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou visiting the Vasiliko cement ...
A 28-year-old was on Tuesday sentenced to six years in prison for possession of drugs with the purpose of selling them, as well as a concurrent four-year sentence for importing ...
The International Press Institute had by Tuesday joined the chorus of voices against the contentious fake news bill currently being discussed in Cyprus’ parliament, which has been slammed as a ...
The energy regulator (Cera) said on Tuesday it is “under pressure” to consent to Cypriot consumers paying a fee from now for the Great Sea Interconnector, the mooted subsea electricity ...
The presidential palace coughed up almost €60,000 on catering and restaurants in 2023, according to a report published on Tuesday.
Details of the state expenditure were reported in Philenews though it did ...
The government will invite two tenders in a bid to complete the LNG project, one for remaining construction work on the jetty at the land-based facilities at Vasiliko, the other ...
A plan called Nafkratis has been updated for migratory flows in case Cyprus needs to become a safe junction for evacuees due to an explosive situation in Lebanon and the ...
Abandoned and unwanted items were removed from the beach on Tuesday near Larnaca nautical club by the municipality and the town’s district administration.
The municipality provided an excavator and ...
Nicosia can count on Belgrade’s full support when it comes to Cyprus’ national issues, Serbia’s top diplomat assured his Cypriot counterpart on Tuesday.
Serbian Foreign Minister Marko Duric ...
President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday met Cypriot diplomats at the Presidential palace in Nicosia, expressing the hope he would soon have something to share about the Cyprus problem.
At the ...
Video footage emerged on Tuesday of a man stealing a set of traffic lights from an intersection in Kyrenia.
The footage was captured by a CCTV camera located at the ...
Cypriot swimmer Nikolas Antoniou was knocked out of the Olympic Games on Tuesday despite winning his men’s 100-metre freestyle heat at La Defense Arena in Paris.
Antoniou’s winning ...
Ten days ago model with a Cypriot heritage Sophia Hadjipanteli captivated the crowd at Zandra Rhodes’ book launch for ICONIC: My Life in Fashion in 50 Objects in London. Held at ...
A British woman who attempted to import cannabis into the island was on Tuesday jailed for 11 years by the Larnaca criminal court.
The 22-year-old was arrested with 16kg of the ...
Police on Tuesday were investigating an incident during which hooded men climbed up traffic cameras in Limassol and spray painted their lenses.
The cameras had been newly installed on Franklin ...