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The two men accused of murdering 45-year-old Ayca Alav in Nicosia’s walled city were on Wednesday jailed for three months pending their trial. In court, it was once again ...

The village of Louroujina currently has no ambulance service coverage, the north’s former ‘health minister’ Filiz Besim said on Wednesday. Besim said that due to the closure of the ...

THEO PANAYIDES meets an ultra runner with a warrior’s tenacity in search of a hippy’s sense of freedom, a man who finds freedom when moving through nature Some ...

The ministry of foreign affairs and the civil defence announced on Wednesday that Cyprus has sent humanitarian aid to the people of Armenia. “Cyprus could not remain uninvolved […] after the ...

In today’s episode, a Turkish Cypriot lawyer arrested in Italy over selling property in the north filed an objection to Cyprus’ extradition request on Tuesday, arguing the central prisons ...

January is known for bringing the blues, and not the foot-tapping kind. Here to keep islanders entertained and uplifted, however, is a series of live music performances around the island ...

Police on Wednesday are continuing investigations into the shooting in Aglandjia, while the 49-year-old victim of what is seen as an attempted murder, travelled abroad without giving a police statement. ...

A firecracker thrown from the stands hit a player and resulted in the cancellation of a match, it emerged on Wednesday. Police spokesman Christos Andreou told state media that CCTV ...

Deputy Minister of Shipping Marina Hadjimanoli, is leaving for Miami on Wednesday at the invitation of the Royal Caribbean company, one of the largest groups in the world active in ...

Wednesday will be partly cloudy with local showers or an isolated thunderstorm expected. In the late afternoon the weather is expected to clear up. Temperatures will rise to 18C in ...

Nearly time to breed: the ‘LIFE with Vultures’ project is slowly gaining ground The first days of the New Year bring hope in a rather odd form: a lighter shade ...

The 49-year-old man who was the victim of an attempted murder in Aglandjia refused to give a statement to police on Tuesday, a day after an unknown person fired at ...

Opposition Akel on Tuesday said it is disappointed with a Holy Synod decision to re-instate the late bishop of Kyrenia, who had been involved in a church coup against President ...

Attorney-client privilege is crucial to jurisprudence, and any restrictions on it must take into account a person’s right to a fair trial and the principle of proportionality, new Justice ...

The land developer’s association on Tuesday heralded the interior ministry’s decision to speed up issuing title deeds to three months. Describing it as a significant development provided it ...

The education ministry has ordered an investigation into the beheading and butchering of a cat, which was allegedly kicked around a school, the Animal Party said on Tuesday. Describing a ...

By Hanna Yerega The EMERGE project is happy to announce the launch of a new webinar series aimed to highlight the cooperation and joint actions of Greek Cypriots and Turkish ...

Akel has overtaken Disy in terms of popularity some six months prior to the European Parliament elections, according to the findings of a poll released Tuesday. The survey, commissioned by ...

A Turkish Cypriot lawyer arrested in Italy over selling property in the north filed an objection to Cyprus’ extradition request on Tuesday, arguing the central prisons would not be safe ...

MPs on Tuesday called on the agriculture ministry to step in over wrongly-marketed zivania products, which are not made from grapes but from other fruit. The matter was tabled before ...

Tempers flared in parliament on Tuesday when MPs piled on Commerce Minister George Papanastasiou, berating him for the fact that thousands of companies face hefty fines for not having registered ...

The foreign minister and attorney-general have had recent meetings about Greek Cypriot businessmen and lawyers active in buying property in the north, Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Tuesday. Letymbiotis’ ...

Paphos Mayor Phedonas Phedonos has spoken up once more about the urgent need to deal with the housing of minor asylum seekers in the city. In statements to media on ...

A man appeared in court in Kyrenia on Tuesday accused of attacking someone with scissors after the victim cursed his mother. The attacker and victim were reportedly friends and had ...