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A loaded assault rifle along with surgical gloves and disposable masks were discovered in a nylon bag by Nicosia Police on Friday, following a tip-off. According to a police statement, ...

Larnaca’s criminal court sentenced two men, aged 52 and 41, to seven and four years in prison respectively, for the illegal possession of drugs with the intention of selling them. The ...

The police said on Friday they had arrested a tenth person in connection with the attempted eviction of a group of third-country nationals from a block of flats in the ...

A 33-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday, after police found burglary tools in his possession. The police conducted a coordinated operation in Nicosia on Wednesday and stopped the suspect for ...

A 38-year-old man was arrested in the early hours of Thursday for assaulting and injuring a police officer with a spade in Limassol. At 1am, the police responded to a ...

An explosion at 3.30am on Thursday caused damage to a house in the Nicosia district. The police said that around 4.15am a 54-year-old resident of a Nicosia village reported that ...

Cyprus will “immediately repatriate” three people arrested after an attempted eviction of a group of third-country nationals from a block of flats in the Larnaca suburb of Oroklini where they ...

A 17-year-old from Nicosia was arrested on Monday afternoon to facilitate investigations regarding malicious damage to public property in Paphos. The police said a person had been spray painting slogans ...

The police drug squad confiscated 11.5 kg of cannabis in Larnaca on Thursday, during a coordinated operation after a tipoff. In cooperation with the British bases, the police arrested a 29-year-old ...

A 30-year-old wanted after a loaded gun was found last November in an open area of Konia community, Paphos, was arrested on Wednesday night for conspiracy to commit a crime ...

A 23-year-old delivery driver reported to have been attacked at around 11.45pm on Wednesday in Limassol by a gang of about 20 people on motorcycles, who he said were wearing hoods ...

The person in charge of an under-construction theme park in the Nicosia district has reported that unknown people cut and stole the 500-metre-long metal fencing of the project, of so ...

A 20-year-old rider of an electric scooter reported to the police on Tuesday that he was assaulted and robbed on Monday evening in Limassol. The police said on Wednesday that ...

Eight people have been arrested in connection with two separate incidents over the past few days in Paphos, while three others are still wanted, the police announced on Wednesday. For ...

As part of an investigation into a case of conspiracy to commit a crime, the Police arrested a 40-year-old on Tuesday night to facilitate investigations. The offences were committed on ...

A 31-year-old was arrested on Wednesday for illegally carrying a hunting rifle and possessing drugs. Police officers signalled to the suspect to stop his car for inspection along Larnaca avenue ...

Three people wearing hoods and bearing knives were reported to have robbed a kiosk in the Touz Hane Turkish Cypriot neighbourhood in Larnaca at around midnight. The police said the ...

A 50-year-old man was arrested in Limassol on Thursday night for allegedly promising a woman to arrange her illegal transfer from abroad to Cyprus, police said on Friday. The arrest ...

Two people, aged 23 and 16, were arrested for allegedly breaking into a primary school and causing damage of about €500 to classrooms and equipment in Limassol on Thursday night. Police arrived at ...

The Nicosia District Court issued an eight-day remand order on Friday against a 32-year-old man, who was arrested for facilitating interrogations regarding ongoing cases of robbery and extortion of money ...

A total of seven people have been held responsible for the death of conscript Thanasis Nicolaou in 2005, according to reports on Saturday. Newspaper Phileleftheros wrote that the report into the ...

A 49-year-old Swedish man will serve as the prosecution’s key witness against a lawyer and a police officer accused of aiding his escape from a private clinic in Larnaca ...

Three people were arrested on Monday in Nicosia for robberies, torching a car and possession of drugs. The police said the residence of a 23-year-old was searched on Monday as ...

A man appeared in court in Famagusta on Friday accused of having attempted to import 4,200 lots of what the court described as “sexual power enhancing gel” into the north. The ...