Thousands attend Pakistani cleric’s funeral despite COVID-19 curbs
Tens of thousands of mourners attended the funeral of a hardline Pakistani cleric in the eastern city of Lahore on Saturday, defying a government ban on...
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Body mix-up in north
A Turkish Cypriot family living in the north were devastated when they discovered they had been given the wrong person to bury after their own...
Funeral held for another of Metaxas’ victims
A funeral service was held Thursday for one of the victims of serial killer Nicos Metaxas who claimed the lives of five women and two...
Funerals held for two more of serial killer’s victims
Funeral services were held on Thursday for Mary Rose Tiburcio and Maricar Valdez Arquila, two of the seven victims of confessed serial killer Nicos Metaxas....
Sand from a Famagusta beach a parting gift to late mayor (Updated)
FAMAGUSTA mayor Alexis Galanos was buried at the Engomi cemetery on Monday after a funeral service at the Church of the Wisdom of God in...
Galanos’ funeral to be held next Monday in Strovolos
The funeral for Famagusta Mayor Alexis Galanos, 78, who died suddenly on Monday while on holiday on the Greek island of Kos will be held...
Tsipras flying in for Christofias’ funeral, people pay their respects at Akel
President Nicos Anastasiades will on Tuesday meet Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras at the presidential palace. The meeting will take place at 4.30pm. Tsipras is...
Four-days of mourning declared for Demetris Christofias (Updated)
Following a meeting of the cabinet, during which ministers stood for a minute’s silence, an announcement said that the state funeral for Christofias will be...
Mother and daughter victims of serial killer buried in Nicosia
Friends and relatives of murder victims Livia Bunea and her daughter Elena Natalia, 8, and also members of the search and rescue crews who found...
Hundreds attend funeral of murdered Bulgarian journalist
Hundreds of Bulgarians queued silently at a church in Ruse on Friday to pay their last respects to Viktoria Marinova, the television journalist whose brutal rape...
Passing of Photiades an ‘immense loss’ says president
President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday described businessman Photos Photiades, who died on Friday at the age of 98, as a pioneering entrepreneur and “a leading...
Mourners gather to honour Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul
Hundreds of mourners gathered at a Detroit church on Friday for a music-infused funeral for Aretha Franklin, featuring tributes by former US President Bill Clinton and singer...
Girls killed in car crash laid to rest (Update 1)
The funeral service for the two 11-year-old girls killed last Sunday in a car crash was held at noon on Thursday in the church of...
Hawking’s voice beamed into space at final send-off
The voice of Stephen Hawking was beamed into space with a message of peace and hope on Friday as the British physicist, who gained international acclaim for...
U.S. evangelist Graham ‘followed Jesus all the way to heaven,’ son says
By Jeff Mason and Greg Lacour U.S. evangelist Billy Graham, who preached to millions and counseled presidents in his 70-year career, was remembered as...
News podcast: MPs trying to regulate funeral donations to charity
The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in international and local...
Palestinian president, Netanyahu shake hands at Peres funeral
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shook hands and exchanged brief words at the funeral on Friday of Shimon Peres, the...
Anastasiades in Israel for Peres funeral
President Nicos Anastasiades was in Israel on Friday to attend the funeral of Shimon Peres. The former Israeli prime minister and president died on Wednesday at...
Smash and grab from car during Larnaca funeral
Personal items worth more than €400, cash and credit cards were stolen on Tuesday from a car that was parked outside the cemetery in Troulli,...
Arrest of man alleged to have pocketed funeral collection
A 32-year-old man from Larnaca has been arrested for allegedly keeping more than €3,000 he had collected as donations supposedly to help another man undergo...
