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A 35-year-old man, arrested on Monday for possession of drugs, was remanded in custody for three days on Tuesday. The Limassol district court heard that on Monday the police had ...

Fire stations in Nicosia responded on Tuesday to a fire in the buffer zone in the Yeri area, the fire service said. Three fire engines attended the scene, with assistance ...

Koumis signals cautious optimism for tourism recovery Deputy Minister of Tourism Kostas Koumis on Tuesday said that Cyprus’ tourism sector is showing signs of gradual recovery, urging caution in interpreting ...

Livestock farmers on Tuesday set out a proposal to restart production following the foot and mouth disease outbreak after reaching an understanding with Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou during talks held ...

Police-chief Themistos Arnaoutis is among 15 officers that independent criminal investigators recommended for criminal prosecution on Tuesday in relation to alleged failures in the handling of domestic violence complaints before the 2019 ...

The president of the Arsos community, Giannis Giannakis, on Tuesday pushed back against “misinformation” concerning the controversial redevelopment of the abandoned village of Trozena, describing the project as “a long-overdue ...

A televised debate between Elam leader Christos Christou and Akel secretary-general Stefanos Stefanou turned heated on Monday night during a discussion on security and developments in the Middle East. Televised ...

The European Union is facing “increasingly complex legal and geopolitical challenges”, attorney-general George Savvides said on Tuesday, as he hosted a meeting of law directors from the bloc’s 27 member ...

The court of appeal increased to 10 years the prison sentence imposed on a father convicted of sexually abusing his underage daughter, ruling on Tuesday that the original punishment failed to ...

A 42-year-old man who assaulted a state prosecutor inside the Limassol criminal court after being sentenced in a kidnapping case was handed an additional four-year prison term on Tuesday, with ...

Police arrested five people during overnight operations on Monday targeting crime and traffic offences, authorities said on Tuesday. The arrests involved offences including begging, failure to appear in court and ...

Cypriot member of the European Parliament Costas Mavrides, of Diko, called on the European Union to impose sanctions on Turkey should the country’s parliament pass the planned “maritime jurisdiction ...

Cabinet on Tuesday approved the development and production plan for the Kronos gas field, which is located in Block 6 of Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), with President Nikos Christodoulides stressing ...

A vessel from the Global Sumud Flotilla bound for Gaza sought refuge in the port of Paphos on Tuesday morning after suffering technical problems during the Israeli interception operation in ...

A Turkish national accused of abducting his two-year-old son from Limassol and taking him to the north was remanded in custody on Tuesday by the Famagusta ‘district court’, while the ...

Authorities have frozen more than €3 million in luxury real estate linked to former Russian politician and businessman Mikhail Yurevich, a naturalised Cypriot who remains wanted internationally over allegations tied to ...

Photographs and poems are the creative mediums of the new exhibition Echoes of Trees – Between Image and Verse, set to open on May 27 at the head offices of Electricity Authority ...

Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel extolled the “alliance of stability” her country has formed with both Greece and Cyprus, pushing back against distaste, particularly in Turkey and inside the ...

Tuesday’s weather is expected to be mostly sunny across most of the island, with sparse cloud cover in parts. Temperatures are set to rise to 30 degrees Celsius inland, 27 degrees ...

Environment Commissioner Antonia Theodosiou has requested the immediate cancellation and withdrawal of environmental approval for the Baths of Aphrodite-Fontana Amorosa roadwork in Akamas, citing both legal and ecological breaches. In ...

The Cypriot authorities have not been formally notified about the interception of boats sailing towards Gaza in the eastern Mediterranean as part of the Gaza Sumud flotilla, President Nikos Christodoulides ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday said he expects for there to be a “European” reaction should Turkey’s parliament pass the planned “maritime jurisdiction law”, which will codify the country’...

The leader of the Alma party Odysseas Michaelides and an MP candidate for Disy got into a fiery tussle over the weekend, with the former accusing the latter of leeching ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Monday stressed the “importance of dialogue” as he met his Kazakh counterpart Alibek Bakayev in Nicosia. “During our meeting, the importance of dialogue, stability, and ...