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An ambulance crashed into two cars in northern Nicosia on Thursday afternoon. The ambulance was driving with its lights flashing and its sirens blaring when it entered the opposite lane ...

The National Council is to convene on Friday morning, with President Nikos Christodoulides set to brief party leaders. The government says the meeting will focus on the latest developments regarding ...

Temperatures are set to reach a high of 30 degrees Celsius inland and on the south and east coasts on Friday, as summer draws ever closer. Elsewhere, on the west and ...

Hellenic Bank on Thursday announced that it has entered into exclusive negotiations and a put option with CNP Assurances for the acquisition of its subsidiary CNP Cyprus Insurance Holdings Limited, ...

During the inauguration of the €1.6 million upgrade to the Ormidia fishing shelter on Thursday, the agriculture ministry reaffirmed its unwavering dedication to the fishing community. The modest-sized fishing shelter in ...

The National Betting Authority (NBA) on Thursday warned the public to be wary of illegal betting activity, especially online, which it said has proliferated. In a statement, the NBA cited ...

Parliament on Thursday evening enacted a law that allows the identification of users of prepaid mobile phone cards, with some MPs hailing the step while others called it a damp ...

The House plenum on Thursday gave the nod to extending by one more year the provision of government grants to cover the deficits of the state health services organisation, or ...

Candidacies are being submitted for local elections for the Kyrenia district on Thursday, with the elections set to take place on June 9. The Kyrenia district’s local government system has ...

The House of Representatives on Thursday greenlit the budget for the Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) even as MPs hammered the institution over lack of transparency and its track record ...

From jazz tributes to classical music with young talents on stage and from album presentations to funk-soul tunes, the live music scene has a lot to look forward to. Listeners ...

The families of the 24 Cypriot children who were killed when the Isias hotel collapsed travelled to Turkey on Thursday ahead of the resumption of the trial of those held responsible ...

The office of the Data Protection Commissioner on Thursday said it received several inquiries and complaints regarding the legality of installing and operating closed-circuit television (CCTV) systems in private kindergartens. “...

Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) students staged a protest on Thursday demanding the cancellation of a decision by the rectorate to relocate certain courses of the university’s school of ...

May 1 is a public holiday, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou insisted on Thursday. He said the day remains a holiday for all workers, “regardless of whether the day falls within ten ...

Niovi Parisinou, who served as deputy government spokeswoman under President Nicos Anastasiades, has not yet been kicked out of Disy despite nominating Elam’s Geadis Geadi for the European Parliament ...

Casinos in the north will have their tax bills halved after the passing of a new law, Turkish Cypriot opposition party ‘MP’ Erkut Sahali said on Thursday. Sahali sits on ...

A 50-year-old track and field coach was on Thursday sentenced to eight years in jail for sexually abusing underage athletes. The case involved four women who came forward in 2021, reporting ...

External reasons, combined with Cyprus’ economic conditions, are affecting both local and international demand in the local property sector, according to Michalis Tsangarides, director of Delfi Partners, who noted that ...

Nicosia police arrested a 38-year-old man suspected to have smuggled two people into the country on Thursday. The arrest, conducted in the early morning hours, also concerned the 21-year-old man ...

Developer Kition Ocean Holdings’ no-show at Wednesday’s House transport committee meeting should not “be perceived as a sign of disrespect”, the consortium insisted on Thursday. They described the situation ...

Workshops in museums and art galleries allow participants to change their relationship with art. ELENI PHILIPPOU finds out more These days, the cultural calendar is a lot fuller than it ...

A 49-year-old man from Paphos was arrested on Thursday after having launched fireworks which caused a fire in the Ha Potami area, near the village of Kouklia. Paphos police’s ...

The Larnaca Municipal Art Gallery will host the new art exhibition by Toula Liasi this week, Synchronising History. The exhibition opens in the coastal town this Friday and runs until ...