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Less than a quarter of gyms are operating legally, the Gym Owners Association (Pasigy) said on Tuesday. It lamented what it described as a “lack of effective control” of the ...

A 39-year-old man was arrested on Friday night on suspicion of having set fire to the town’s Christmas tree. The tree, which was located in the town’s central ...

Police on Friday arrested a third person in connection with the drive-by shooting in Nicosia last week. The suspect is a 29-year-old man from Larnaca for which police secured a ...

Police on Friday were on the hunt for a 24-year-old man for breaking into a Paphos home and stealing. Another individual aged 33 was also arrested in connection with the same ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Thursday evening extended, on behalf of the Cypriot people, condolences to the families of the victims of a mass-shooting event in Prague. “Deeply shocked by ...

Police in Limassol have arrested a 69-year-old man suspected of embezzling €10,000 from a 59-year-old, relating to a property sale fraud case. According to Limassol CID, last September an agreement was ...

A 24-year-old woman was arrested, suspected of attempting to deliver drugs to a man in a holding cell in Paphos, police said on Sunday. According to Paphos police chief Michalis ...

The north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel said on Thursday the north shows “zero tolerance” to organised crime. Ustel issued a written statement, in which he said “we are continuing ...

A 56-year-old man found guilty of assisting third country nationals to enter the Republic illegally was sentenced to 24 months in jail on Thursday. Famagusta district court also found the man ...

Police are investigating an attempted murder in Nicosia on Tuesday, after a man well known to authorities was shot in his home in Acropolis. According to police, Alexis Mavromichalis, aka ...

Sweden’s prime minister summoned the head of the armed forces and the police commissioner in a bid to stem gang violence, he said on Thursday, following a wave of ...

A gunman killed three people in the Dutch city of Rotterdam on Thursday, shooting a local woman and her daughter in their home then storming into a classroom of Rotterdam’...

Two men were arrested on Thursday for stealing a vacuum from a real estate agency in northern Nicosia. The first man, aged 42, was initially arrested as a suspect in the ...

Five Israeli nationals accused of raping a British tourist in Ayia Napa will remain in custody until their trial begins, the Famagusta District decided on Thursday. The decision on whether ...

Multiple firearms and 22 kilograms of cannabis were found by police during the search of a house in Liopetri. The firearms included a shotgun with 61 rounds of ammunition and a loaded ...

The three defendants in the case of missing 31-year-old Angelos Perikleous appeared before Nicosia criminal court on Thursday where the prosecution said it aims to call on 96 witnesses. The case ...

In the early hours of Tuesday, a vehicle owned by a 51-year-old woman was targeted by unknown individuals in Limassol when explosive device was detonated, causing damage to the vehicle. ...

A 39-year-old man has been arrested for burglary in Paphos. According to police, a concerned citizen noticed at 1:45am on Tuesday that a shop on Apostolou Pavlou street had been ...

Two men from Paphos were arrested on Monday for stealing copper pipes and other items worth a total of €9,100, while police are looking for a third culprit. According to Paphos ...

Parents of Italian children who drop out of school could face jail sentences under new steps to counter juvenile delinquency in the wake of a series of high profile crimes ...

Two men, aged 22 and 21, were arrested in Kyrenia on Monday for stealing a cat. The theft occurred at around midnight on August 31, when the cat, named Bob, was taken from ...

A 47-year-old Syrian man that had been arrested on Monday following riots in Chlorakas between migrants and Greek Cypriots far-right extremists will remain in police custody until September 22, which will ...

The scene in Chlorakas, as well as in the neighbouring villages of Emba and Tremithousa, is calm, according to the police. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), police press ...

A 22-year-old Syrian national has been arrested in Paphos for “causing and inciting violence” after posting violent imagery onto his social media accounts. Testimony emerged against the man during an ...