Boy under welfare’s care, snatched back by mother is found (Updated)
Limassol police on Sunday located a woman who snatched her 8-year-old son from a park while he was under the care of the welfare department....
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Post-mortem on 14-month old inconclusive
A post-mortem on Wednesday failed to determine the cause of death of a 14-month-old girl who fell in a private swimming pool in Paralimni last...
Mother who killed son, 12, acquitted on insanity grounds, committed to psychiatric facility (updated)
A 40-year-old woman who stabbed her son, 12, to death last year was acquitted of a murder charge on Monday due to insanity and was...
Couple arrested for shoplifting while with their four-year-old
A couple aged 34 and 31, accompanied by their four-year-old child, were arrested for attempting to steal from a department store in Paphos, police said....
Teacher who allegedly used violence against boy, 9, is suspended
A Limassol primary school teacher who allegedly used violence against a student leading to a head injury was suspended on Tuesday pending the completion of...
Russian toddler drowns in family swimming pool
A three-year-old Russian boy drowned in the swimming pool at his home in Argaka, Paphos, Saturday evening, the Cyprus News Agency reported. It happened at...
Woman kills her child, tries to kill herself (Update 2)
A 40-year-old woman stabbed her son, 12, to death and tried to take her own life inside a second-floor flat in Yeri, Nicosia police said...
Medical staff not responsible for girl’s death says ministry (updated)
A report on the death of an eight-year-old girl on Monday who had been rushed to Limassol hospital with high fever but then taken home...
Australia to offer apology for institutional child sex abuse
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Wednesday he will deliver a national apology to victims of institutional child sexual abuse and their families on...
Police keen to launch investigation after child found wandering in street
Police on Tuesday said that they would arrange for the man who rescued a two-and-a half-year-old toddler found wandering alone along a road in the...
Greek Cypriots in surrogacy case handed back
Authorities in the north on Thursday handed over to Greek Cypriot police three Greek Cypriots and an Albanian national suspected of involvement in the alleged...
Ten years jail for child rapist
The Larnaca Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced a 47-year-old man to 10 years in prison for raping an underage girl while living with her mother...
Boy in serious condition after playground injury
A four-and-a-half-year-old boy was in serious but stable condition on Friday after suffering head injury while at a playground in Larnaca. Police were notified of...
Kindergarten teacher under investigation for allegedly dragging child by the legs
Police are investigating reports made against a Limassol kindergarten teacher who is alleged to have dragged a five-year-old child in her care some six metres...
Police searching for missing woman and child
OLGA MITIENOVA, 28, along with one-year daughter were reported to police as missing from their Limassol home since Thursday, May 26. According to the description...
Police say they had no other option but to shoot man who took son hostage (Update 4: adds police chief)
Police were tightlipped on Saturday as confusing accounts emerged of the exact circumstances under which officers shot dead a 41-year-old Egyptian man in the Larnaca...
Woman arrested after leaving daughter, 11, waiting outside pub in the early hours
A 36-year-old woman, foreign national, who lives in Nicosia was arrested early Sunday for alleged child endangerment and neglect after police said they found her...
Mother and child rescued after car falls 50 metres off mountain road
A 34-year old mother and her four-year-old son were rescued by the fire service on Tuesday after their car went off a mountain road plummeting...
Woman charged with murder after brandishing child’s severed head in Moscow (Updated)
Russian police wrestled to the ground a woman in a hijab brandishing the severed head of a child outside a Moscow metro station on Monday...
Syrian child believed dead reunited with family in Cyprus after two years
After a separation of two years a seven-year-old girl from Syria has finally been reunited with her family in Cyprus. The International Organisation for Migration...