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Police are investigating after a 21-year-old woman reported she was raped late on Thursday at a coastal area in Paphos. Citing police information, the Cyprus News Agency reported that the ...

Police announced that they will be destroying fireworks on Saturday at the Sha quarries, alerting people to the explosions expected to be heard in the area. The destruction of fireworks ...

The first person convicted under Hong Kong’s national security law was sentenced to nine years for terrorist activities and inciting secession, judges said on Friday, in a watershed ruling ...

The Cyprus Paediatric society on Friday recommended to immediately include 12 to 15-year-olds in the coronavirus vaccine programme, saying that 20 per cent of coronavirus cases in Cyprus concern children. The recommendation ...

Cyprus’ cases over the past two weeks remain at exceedingly high levels with a rate of 1,403 per 100,000, according to the health ministry’s latest report. The data, valid from July 13 – ...

Cypriot track and field star Apostolos Pareliis was unable to reach the men’s discus final in Tokyo on Friday as he finished in 16th place out of 32 competitors after ...

Two people, aged 30 and 35, were arrested on suspicion of 20 burglaries and thefts in the government-controlled areas of Famagusta, police said on Friday. Police arrested the suspects after evidence emerged against ...

Limassol police early on Friday arrested a 26-year-old man after he was found with three others spraying graffiti on a wall near Nikeas avenue. The four were spotted by officers ...

From avant-garde voices to established documentary auteurs, the 16th Lemesos International Documentary Festival tells a host of stories. ELENI PHILIPPOU looks at them The 16th Lemesos International Documentary Festival, which ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has described the Delta variant of the coronavirus to be as contagious as chickenpox and could cause severe illness, the ...

A Limassol-based bar-restaurant has been fined after a staff member was found without a SafePass, police said on Friday. The owner of the business received a €500 fine, while the employee ...

Two coronavirus patients are bring treated in the Paphos general hospital Covid ward after it reopened for the second time during the coronavirus pandemic this week to help relieve the ...

Police on Friday said they are looking for two passengers and the driver of a car that hit a motorcyclist the previous night in Limassol and abandoned the scene of ...

Sydney’s poorest neighbourhoods on Friday braced for military enforcement of the city’s toughest and longest lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic as the infection numbers held persistently high five ...

Broadcasters will not be taking home any gold medals for how many people have watched the Tokyo Olympic Games so far. In several major markets around the world, the TV ...

An American swimmer sparked controversy at the Tokyo Games on Friday when he said it would take a long time to clear his sport of doping after losing his Olympic ...

The final day of Olympic rowing at Tokyo’s Sea Forest Waterway delivered thrills as four-time Olympian Emma Twigg of New Zealand and Greece’s Stefanos Ntouskos raced Olympic best ...

The United Kingdom’s decision to maintain restrictions only for French travellers is a “discriminatory” move, French Minister of State for European Affairs Clement Beaune said on Thursday, calling on ...

The Ministry of Energy, Commerce and Industry has released a statement on companies in Cyprus and the energy efficiency regulations affecting them. The ministry specifies that companies that do not ...

“He has about a 50-50 chance of forming a government,” says one analyst of Najib Mikati who became Lebanon’s prime minister designate on Monday. Should he succeed, Mikati has ...

By Nick Theodoulou and Elias Hazou The cabinet may on Friday further tighten the grip on unvaccinated individuals by expanding the enforcement of the SafePass to include businesses with a ...

President Anastasiades, having lost control of the Cyprus problem process through his erratic decisions, has now resorted to the time-tested and reliable tactic of blaming the foreigners for what is ...

Afghan villagers searched desperately for survivors after flash flood swept down a narrow valley in a Taliban-controlled area, killing at least 40 people and destroying dozens of houses in the early ...

Authorities on Thursday announced four more deaths attributed to Covid-19, while the number of positives from testing came to 655, for a positivity rate of 0.96 per cent. The four latest deaths ...