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A parked car was extensively damaged in an explosion in Paphos in the early hours of Wednesday, with police investigating the incident as a suspected bomb attack. The explosion occurred ...

Safety in aerial firefighting missions should be the top priority and continuously improved, aviation expert Chrysanthos Hadjichrysanthou said following a recent firefighting helicopter accident in Greece in which two people ...

Apollon crashed out of the Conference League after suffering a 4-2 extra-time defeat to Norwegian side Brann at the Alphamega Stadium in Limassol on Tuesday. The Cypriot side had taken ...

Arrest warrants remain in force for suspects wanted over the murders of Tassos Isaac and Solomos Solomou, including both past and present senior figures in the north’s administration. According ...

Israel’s Foreign Ministry accused Turkey of hypocrisy over its criticism of Israeli military operations, pointing to Turkey’s control of 36 per cent of Cyprus and its military presence in ...

A lane on the Nicosia Limassol highway has been reopened after a truck suffered a mechanical failure near the Ayios Tychonas exit on Tuesday evening, police said. The left lane ...

The online fundraiser launched by journalist Makarios Drousiotis to cover his legal costs has been referred to police for investigation, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Tuesday. Ioannou said the ...

There will be no reductions in pensions under the planned pension reform, and all pensioners will receive an increase, Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas assured on Tuesday, as the government works ...

Doctors contracted with the national health system (Gesy) are reportedly scrambling to modify patients’ prescriptions following a mass recall of pharmaceutical products by Remedica. According to Phileleftheros, patients are also ...

A 26-year-old woman in Paphos lost more than €4,800 after entering her bank card details on a fraudulent website, which she reported to police on Tuesday. The woman informed Paphos CID ...

Two people, aged 20 and 36, were arrested on Tuesday in connection with a shooting at a store in Limassol on March 31 and later remanded by Limassol district court for eight days. ...

Larnaca is set to be twinned with Bahrain’s capital Manama after the Bahraini cabinet approved the proposal, Mayor Andreas Vyras announced on Tuesday. The twinning would make Larnaca the ...

The met office has issued a yellow warning for tomorrow, with temperatures expected to reach around 40C. The warning will be in effect from 1pm until 3.30pm. Maximum temperatures in ...

A major trade union on Tuesday poured cold water on the idea that pension reform legislation could be tabled to parliament in September, also expressing concerns over the government’s ...

A 69-year-old man who was jailed for eight years over the 2021 Arakapas fire has been acquitted on appeal, with the Court of Appeal unanimously overturning his conviction on Tuesday after ...

Turkish F-16 fighter jets have been flying over Cyprus with increasing frequency, with residents reporting sightings and hearing the aircraft over Nicosia on Tuesday. The aircraft are understood to have ...

Roadworks on the section in front of the Paphos district administration building have been completed, Paphos municipality announced on Tuesday. The area was also cleaned and tidied as part of ...

The occupational therapists’ association on Tuesday called on the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) and the health ministry to explain changes to plans for bringing occupational therapy into the general health ...

Diko on Tuesday welcomed the introduction of a new applied learning stream in lyceums, while calling for parliamentary oversight to ensure its pilot implementation meets students’ needs. The new programme, ...

A cultural diplomacy research office will be set up to serve as the scientific and research centre of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts for matters of cultural ...

A student with severe visual impairment was not shown to have been discriminated against during a University of Cyprus teaching placement, although the human rights commissioner on Tuesday said there ...

Power Beach, a volunteer-led initiative that seeks to create an outdoor fitness area on Limassol’s Dassoudi beach has run into regulatory hurdles after authorities said on Tuesday that installations ...

Fires over the past few days were caused by human activity and could have been avoided, the forestry department said on Tuesday, calling on the public to be extremely careful ...

By Karen Taylor Thousands of miles apart, shadow puppets are used in two very different corners of the world to tell stories against a backdrop no more dramatic than a ...