#Cyprus

Over 200 migrants were repatriated over the past week, after they were found to be illegally residing in the Republic, police said on Saturday. According to police, a total of 239 people ...

The weather will become gradually cloudier over Saturday, while rain is expected the next day, the met office said. According to the met office, the temperature is expected to rise ...

Archaeologists believe they may have found evidence of a community of the Carmelite Order in areas excavated around the Panagia Karmiotissa church in Kato Polemidia in Limassol, the antiquities department ...

By Nikolaos Prakas and Tom Cleaver The government will legislate to give itself the power to order football matches be played behind closed doors, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis on Friday, ...

Lawyers across the country held a one-hour protest outside district courts on Friday, over the mess which has beset the e-justice system. This is the second protest this week, where ...

The ‘TRNC’ has a right to 462,000 square kilometres of Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) including continental shelf, territorial waters and maritime areas of jurisdiction, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar has ...

The crisis in the Middle East and the situation in the wider area were discussed on Friday in a meeting between President Nikos Christodoulides and Deputy Prime Minister Mons Edgar ...

Around €300 million is owed from almost 300,000 unpaid fines dating from 1980, of which €256 million was due to enter state coffers, it emerged on Friday. Some 252 fines totalling €277,852 will never be collected ...

A burglary suspect who removed loose glass bricks to get out of a police detention cell in Lakatamia in Nicosia on Thursday night was named on Friday by police who ...

A second-floor balcony collapsed and fell from an apartment building in Germasogeia early on Friday morning, just over a month after a previous incident, also in the Limassol area. It ...

Another migrant child was taken to Makarios hospital’s ICU from the Pournara reception centre, state health services organisation (Okypy) spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said on Friday. The child, who has ...

Cypriot MPs Yiorgos Loukaides and Christiana Erotokritou spoke about the importance of freedom of speech and on the increasing use of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) in Europe, during ...

Cloudy weather with isolated storms will be on the menu for weather on Friday, the met office announced. According to the met office, snow is expected to fall in the ...

Just a third of the north’s workforce are women, according to the latest figures released by the north’s Statistics institute. The statistics, revealed as part of the institute’...

Sick leave days for government workers have been slashed by almost half, following abuse of the system, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said on Thursday. The decision taken during a Cabinet ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou plans to “promote a discussion” on declaring parts of Syria as safe upon his visit to Brussels for an informal meeting of EU interior ministers on ...

Police chief Stelios Papatheodorou said he would not resign over the incidents that took place at Alphamega Stadium in Limassol on Wednesday night, which led to the cancellation of the ...

Gay marriage would negate the gospel, Archbishop Georgios said on Wednesday, echoing in his support for the Orthodox Church of Greece’s unanimous synod opinion against gay marriage and adoption ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday urged the Lebanese government to take its own measures to control the flow of migrants leaving for Cyprus from the shores of Lebanon. His comments ...

The Nicosia district court on Wednesday found a doctor guilty of indecent acts against a patient who filed an official complaint against him back in the summer of 2020. Following a ...

A relative of one of the members of the independent police complaints authority is “involved in organised crime”, it was heard at the House ethics committee on Wednesday. The committee ...

The 500 “new” police officers joining the force this year announced by Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis are actually just planned hires to fill vacancies, a ministry spokesman clarified on Wednesday. “This ...

Six children were treated in hospitals across Cyprus on Wednesday after they were rescued from a boat that was stranded at sea for days. In total 60 migrants were rescued after ...

Cases of Covid-19 and flu have significantly decreased, as the Omicron JN variant has come “full circle” a health ministry official said on Wednesday. In the meantime, hospital admissions have ...