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Paphos police arrested a 37-year-old woman on Thursday for a case of assault against a police officer, resisting lawful arrest and impersonation. According police, the woman of African descent was ...

The severe weather overnight lead to earth slides, rockfalls and wood obstructing Limassol roads on Friday, while authorities are busy clearing up the network. Police announced that the Limassol-Agros road ...

Outgoing EU High Representative for foreign affairs and security policy Josep Borrell is in Cyprus on Friday and Saturday to meet Israeli and Palestinian civil society organisations, according to a ...

An 84-year-old man involved in a traffic accident in Limassol was on Friday in hospital in serious condition. He was injured on Thursday morning around 11am while riding his motorcycle ...

Friday will be partly cloudy with rains and isolated storms expected, initially on the coast and later spreading to the rest of the island. Hail is also forecast. Temperatures will ...

The trial hearings into financial aspect of the Avakoum monastery scandal, which was originally scheduled for Thursday, have been postponed to December 19. The hearings for archimandrites Nektarios Georgiou and Porfyrios ...

The debate over installing CCTV cameras in public spaces was discussed at the House legal committee on Wednesday, highlighting the always-tricky balance between security and privacy. At the House, proponents ...

The House on Thursday passed an amendment to a law that significantly reduces the fines imposed on corporate entities for not declaring their ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs) on time. Under ...

Cyprus has received a total of €126 million net in funds from the EU for 2023 and is set to gain much more by 2027, Cypriot member of the European Court of Auditors (...

The police force on Thursday received a gift in the form a surveillance drone which it said it would put to use immediately. Equipped with state-of-the-art thermal cameras, the drone ...

ExxonMobil will drill a well offshore Cyprus in January in its pursuit of natural gas, a senior executive said on Thursday at an energy and geopolitics event in Nicosia. “We’...

Road transport department director Andreas Nikiforou on Thursday told the House transport committee about the crimes committed by children on school buses. One child, he said, had brought a plastic ...

The rectors of Cyprus’ two public universities, the University of Cyprus’ Tasos Christofides and the Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak)’s Panayiotis Zaphiris, on Thursday called for the “immediate passage ...

The government is “ready” to cooperate with parliament to find a solution to the issue of cars with faulty airbags remaining on Cyprus’ roads, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on ...

“There is no diversity of voices” in the north’s media, opposition party CTP ‘MP’ Sami Ozuslu said on Wednesday night. He was speaking at the north’s ‘parliamentary’ finance ...

State health services Okypy will be submitting a new proposal by Monday regarding the millions of euros in incentives state hospital doctors are demanding, with doctors saying they would not ...

Negotiations to end the labour crisis in the cement works have reached a deadlock, with aftershocks to be felt across the economy, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said on Thurdsay. Trade ...

President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Nadia Calvino will visit Nicosia on Friday to inaugurate the EIB’s new office in Cyprus, according to an official announcement. Calvino’s ...

Cyprus’ nature, cultural heritage and local hospitality can be explored during a one- or two-day weekend trip to Tillyria organised by Nicosia’s tourism board on November 30 and December 1. November 30 ...

Eleven members of Dromolaxia-Meneou’s municipal council have called for mayor Kypros Andronikou to reevaluate his stance after an incident on November 18, when a verbal confrontation erupted between the mayor ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou was travelling to Baku on Thursday to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29). Her visit follows that of President Nikos Christodoulides’, who took ...

The presidential palace will be lit up in purple on Thursday to mark national pancreatic cancer day. The lighting of the palace will take place at 4.00pm as part of ...

The EU is becoming irrelevant in talks regarding regional crises, namely the Middle East and Ukraine, and should set up a more substantive communication with the US, while Cyprus has ...

A lucky dog was rescued from a 20-metre ravine on Wednesday in Paphos by the fire service. The fire service spokesperson Andreas Kettis said on X, ‘the Paphos fire department ...