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The energy regulatory authority (Cera) has approved in principle an application from the Cyprus Transmission System Operator (TSO) to develop energy storage systems, it emerged on Friday.  The request was ...

Turkish Cypriot doctors on Saturday warned of unlicenced individuals performing hair transplants in the north. According to the Cyprus Turkish medical association (KTTB), police on Friday carried out a raid ...

Turkish Cypriot social media journalist Serdinc Maypa appeared in court on Friday, accused of violating people’s right to privacy. Maypa, who had gained a large social media following in ...

A man appeared in court in the north on Thursday accused of threatening to incinerate his own 79-year-old mother. Police officer Hasan Celik said in court that the man had ...

The north’s Famagusta police chief Baris Sel said his arrest in connection with the ongoing “fake diploma scandal” is a conspiracy against him on Friday. Sel was appearing in ...

Four people were arrested on Friday as part of the north’s ongoing investigation into a college which is believed to be linked to a large criminal network. The four ...

A total of 19 people have been arrested as of Monday after a mass brawl occurred on northern Nicosia’s popular Zahra Street on Thursday. Four of the arrestees, all boys ...

The 47-year-old man accused of attacking two others with a machete sent threatening texts to the girlfriend of one of his victims, it emerged on Friday. The nature of the ...

A 42-year-old Greek Cypriot was arrested at the Pergamos crossing point in the north after being found to have been using forged car insurance documents. Further inspection of his vehicle ...

A Greek man has been arrested in the north for attacking an individual while yelling ‘Turks out’, Turkish Cypriot media reported on Friday. The suspect was brought on Friday before ...

A man appeared in court in the north on Wednesday after attempting to smuggle two people to the Republic. He had been arrested on Tuesday while driving between Nicosia and ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘MP’ Armagan Candan leapt to the defence of arrested former ‘prime minister’ Sibel Siber on Wednesday. Speaking in a television interview, he said “I have seen with my ...

A raft of high-profile Turkish Cypriots have signed a petition aimed at halting the case against left-wing journalist Ali Kismir. Kismir stands accused of “insulting and defaming the morality of ...

A man appeared in court in Morphou on Friday after being arrested for challenging the police to a duel. The man was arrested on charges of being drunk and disorderly, ...

A 29-year-old man has been killed after a fight outside a bar in Trikomo. According to Turkish Cypriot police, the man, named as Huseyin Mavideniz, engaged in an altercation with ...

A Greek Cypriot man who was arrested in the north as a suspected spy because he was using a walkie-talkie to stay in communication with friends, has been detained for ...