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Two people from India were assaulted in the early hours of Thursday in Limassol by four other Indian nationals. One of the victims was stabbed and hospitalised. Police said the ...

British police charged a 53-year-old man on Thursday after a car ploughed into a crowd of Liverpool soccer fans during a victory parade earlier this week, injuring dozens. Paul Doyle, ...

The police arrested another person on Sunday evening in the context of investigations into the May 18 attack on a football fan club in Lakatamia, Nicosia, it was announced on Monday. ...

Improving safety in Larnaca was the focus of a broad meeting held on Friday at the justice ministry, aimed primarily at tackling crime and delinquency. The initiative is a joint ...

A 34-year-old food delivery driver was assaulted in Limassol on Monday night by about ten hooded people. The police said an unknown person approximately 20 years of age approached the delivery ...

Larnaca criminal court on Thursday sentenced a woman to 16 years in prison, having earlier found her guilty of attempting to smuggle 40 kg of cannabis through the airport. The defendant, aged 26, ...

A car in Larnaca was completely destroyed on Tuesday by fire, which the police believe was the result of arson. The car, belonging to a 60-year-old man, was parked in ...

Larnaca district court issued a three-day remand order on Tuesday against the 17-year-old who was arrested to facilitate investigations into the torching of a car in Larnaca on April 5. The ...

A 25-year-old man was arrested in Limassol on Monday over his alleged involvement in a fight which broke out in 2023 and left one of the involved parties with a fractured ...

Two 16-year-olds were arrested on Friday in connection with the damage of a police patrol car on April 17, when a group of young people hurled rocks at it. In the ...

Nicosia criminal court said on Tuesday it would pronounce sentence next month on two Hungarian nationals who pleaded guilty to charges of promoting the ‘usurpation’ of Greek Cypriot properties in ...

Two young men were attacked and robbed in their own flat in Kato Paphos on Monday night, police said. The violent robbery happened around 10.30pm, when two masked individuals forced ...

A 23-year-old man, wanted for a series of serious criminal offences, has been arrested in Paphos after evading capture for over three months. The suspect, who had been on the ...

A 15-year-old boy killed a fellow pupil and wounded three others in a stabbing attack at a high school in the western French city of Nantes on Thursday before he ...

Three men were hospitalised, then arrested on Sunday after a mass brawl at a nightclub in Limassol, the police announced on Monday. All three were remanded in custody for eight ...

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 ...