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A 27-year-old man was on Wednesday remanded in police custody for six days after being arrested in connection with shots fired in the air outside the prisons in Nicosia last ...

Police on Wednesday confirmed reports of the arrest in Rome of a Turkish Cypriot lawyer over the illegal sales of Greek Cypriot properties in the north. Police spokesman Christos Andreou ...

The trial of 11 suspects held responsible for deaths of 24 Turkish Cypriot children and 11 of their teachers and coaches when a hotel they were staying in collapsed began on Wednesday. The ...

UN Special Representative on Cyprus Colin Stewart will be meeting with both President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar ahead of departing for New York to inform the ...

There are a total of 996,401 registered mobile subscribers in the north, 811,183 of which are active, according to the latest statistics released by the north’s Communications authority (BTHK). The statistics ...

The eagerly-awaited investigation into the allegations of corruption against Deputy Attorney-General Savvas Angelides found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing such as abuse of power on his part. A summary of ...

Stiffer fines and punishments are necessary for people using poisonous agricultural products, as in the past three decades almost three dozen Griffon Vultures, a protected species, have been killed by ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar made clear he would not return to the negotiating table without equal sovereignty and international status for Turkish Cypriots. In his New Year’s message, ...

The final total of traffic deaths in Cyprus in 2023 reached 34, marking a continuing downward trend in deaths on the road, police spokesman Christos Andreou said on Tuesday. Numbers have fallen ...

The first shipment of humanitarian aid from Cyprus and the UK containing almost 90 tonnes of assistance has arrived to Egypt’s Port Said and is being transported to the Rafah ...

There has been an increase in people with Covid-19 being hospitalised in Cyprus in recent days, according to state health services organisation (Okypy) press officer Charalambos Charilaou. Charilaou was speaking ...

Police on Tuesday said 136 migrants arrived to Cyprus by boat on New Year’s Day, while the man suspected of being the boat’s operator has been arrested and remanded ...

The driver of a pick-up truck which crashed into another vehicle killing its four occupants on New Year’s Eve was remanded in custody for six days on Tuesday. Court ...

Amid great fanfare and pledges of transparency and change, 2023 saw a new president elected. And though the ‘new broom’ promised to sweep clean, Nikos Christodoulides’ administration soon became clogged by ...

Life would be so much simpler without the views. I’ve been writing profiles for years – I interviewed 45 people for the Living section of the Sunday Mail in 2023, including today’...

Immediately after the Hamas attack on October 7, Limassol port became a haven for fleeing Israelis, welcoming the first passengers arriving from Haifa on October 12. And Cyprus was not left unscathed ...

‘Deterioration in terms of corruption has been evident in our reports’ Multiple bribery allegations surfacing over the past week involving senior Turkish and Turkish Cypriot officials have shaken the northern ...

In his first New Year’s message as President of the Republic, Nikos Christodoulides said there was “no magic wand” to tackle the myriad of challenges 2024 brings but pledged his ...

Turkish Cypriot families devastated by Turkey earthquake A little after 3:17am on Monday, February 6, I woke up dazed and confused with my bed rocking back and forth. Upon reaching for ...

Most news scandals are shameful, but the violent riots that took hold of Limassol on September 1 were nothing short of a disgrace. The reasons? Numerous. Take it from the fact ...

Some breathed a sigh of relief on December 15 when news broke the European Parliament and the European Council agreed to amend the draft text of a new law coming down ...

Deaths in ongoing wars have resulted from the mistakes of a handful of politicians. When will they ever learn? Alper Riza’s review of 2023 Reviews of the year are obviously ...

THERE is no controlling the Odysseas-general when his super-sized ego has been wounded by suggestions that his oft-repeated claims of infallibility might be on shaky ground. He just cannot cope ...

A few days before the end of the year, the two organisations representing businesses, Keve and Oev, both expressed concerns about the economy’s prospects in 2024 and urged the government ...