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Russian forces bombed a school in a village in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhia region on Monday, killing 24 people, Ukraine’s emergency services said. The emergency services said two members of ...

A 36-year-old groom has been arrested in connection with a dangerous driving stunt at a Limassol roundabout during his wedding celebrations, becoming the second person detained over a video of ...

MPs on Monday aired their discontent at a bill purporting to tighten up mandatory wealth declarations, saying the relevant law as it stands is robust enough. The matter came up ...

Lawmakers, officials and experts on Monday hailed the start of a discussion of the draft declaration on Digital Human Rights, seeing it as an essential guide for safeguards in the ...

Police are investigating the organisers of a Halloween party in Limassol after 13 teenagers aged 15, 16 and 17 were taken to hospital following excessive alcohol consumption, with one 16-year-old subsequently transferred to Makarios ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will meet UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy Maria Angela Holguin on Tuesday to discuss her efforts to prepare the ground for renewed Cyprus negotiations, including responses to ...

The Turkish invasion in 1974 could not have occured had Greece possessed aircraft capable of refuelling fighter jets in mid-air, Greek Defence Minister Nikos Dendias asserted on Monday, as Athens signed ...

Lindsay Clancy’s lawyers on Monday urged a judge to dismiss the murder charges against her, saying retrying her for killing her three young children at her Massachusetts home in 2023 ...

Two music events are coming up at Technopolis 20 in Paphos this week: a jazz night and a classical music concert, on November 5 and 6, respectively. Up first is Sonic Punishment, a ...

Cypriot secondary school students will hold symbolic actions in schools on Thursday in solidarity with pupils in France, students’ union Psem announced on Monday. The actions are due to take ...

Striking education ministry staff, including those working for its support programmes and as night school instructors, will march on the presidential palace on Thursday to press the government to resolve ...

The state has reached an “amicable settlement” with contractor Cyfield through the legal service, following the termination of its contract for the first phase of road works in Akamas. The ...

A 43-year-old Syrian national who confessed to killing 61-year-old Olga Vasilyeva was attacked by another prisoner in his cell at the Limassol police detention centre on Sunday evening. According to ...

A 28-year-old man was arrested on Monday over a video showing cars drifting at a Limassol roundabout during a wedding procession. He is believed to be the driver seen in ...

Flu vaccinations are being administered through personal doctors from Monday, the health ministry has announced. Members of the public are advised to contact their personal doctor to arrange an appointment. ...

UN envoy Maria Angela Holguin will hold back-to-back meetings on Saturday with delegations from the municipalities of Famagusta and Morphou, Famagusta Mayor Simos Ioannou said on Monday. Ioannou said that ...

Restoration works on frescoes and the ornate carved iconostasis at Saint Barnabas monastery in Engomi, Famagusta, have been completed, head of the bicommunal committed on cultural heritage Sotos Ktoris has ...

The government has taken all necessary steps within its responsibility for the start of seabed surveys for the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) project, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday. He ...

Tenders for the four-lane Paphos-Polis Chrysochous road are expected to be launched in the first half of 2027 for both phases of the project, Transport Minister Evie Tsolaki announced on Monday, ...

Disy presidential hopeful Giorgos Pamboridis on Monday said he would consider far-right Elam joining a government of “national salvation”, provided its aim is to resolve the Cyprus problem. “If they ...

Two new tenders were launched on Monday for improvements to the Ayia Fyla and Pyrgos Limassol road network, at an estimated cost of €347,741 plus VAT. Transport Minister Evie Tsolaki visited ...

Cyprus will test insulation made from dead seagrass collected on Limassol beaches as part of a four-year European project to develop building materials from marine waste, researchers announced on Monday. ...

Financial dealings between the Tamasos bishopric and the Avakoum monastery concerning the transfer of assets from the former to the latter as a debt pay-off came under scrutiny on Monday ...

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis have advanced to within 80 km (50 miles) of Aden, the main stronghold and temporary capital of the country’s internationally recognised government, four military sources told Reuters ...