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Municipalities are allowed to install security cameras in public places in the name of safety and protection, however before doing so they are obliged to carry out a General Data ...

Cyprus is overhauling how lifeguards are certified, with the process moving to a professional standard overseen by the human resources development authority (Anad). Speaking on Politis Radio, Oekydy-SEK secretary-general George ...

The flight safety foundation said on Monday that it holds “deep” concern over Turkey’s continued violations with military aircraft and drones within the Nicosia Flight Information Region (FIR). In ...

Nicosia will be one of the stops on European Council president Antonio Costa’s annual ‘Tour des Capitales’ starting on Tuesday, focusing on defence, competitiveness, enlargement and support towards Ukraine. ...

Dozens of schoolbags, pencil cases, stationery, books, fairytales and educational toys have been collected to cover the basic needs of vulnerable children and families across Cyprus, through a campaign run ...

The ‘voice of the livestock breeders’ condemned the veterinary services on Monday over its handling of compensation payments to farmers whose animals were culled during this year’s foot-and-mouth disease ...

A Cypriot vine is taking root in Australia as growers look for grape varieties that can cope with hotter weather and tighter water supplies. Xynisteri, one of Cyprus’ best-known indigenous ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis welcomed an agreement for French asset management firm Meridiam to become the majority shareholder in the company behind the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), saying the ...

Hunters took to the countryside in Paphos at first light on Sunday for the first summer wood pigeon hunt of the year, marking the start of the hunting season. Despite ...

The Republic of Cyprus’ permanent representative to the United Nations Maria Michael has penned a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres protesting the agreement reached between Turkey and the Turkish ...

A Lithuanian estate agent who stands accused of having “usurped” Greek Cypriot-owned property in northern Cyprus is to be extradited to the island after having been arrested in France pursuant ...

The electronic passport control scanners at the Larnaca and Paphos airports are to be abolished and replaced with full-scale automated passport control gates as Cyprus prepares to enter Europe’s ...

A 40-year-old man was arrested on Saturday after arriving at Larnaca airport on an international inbound flight with 25 kilograms of cannabis in his suitcase, police said. The cannabis was found ...

A “series of attacks” was carried out on shops in the Paphos district on Friday night, hours after the police had concluded overnight patrol in the town’s central Moutallos ...

Power cuts in “various areas” of Cyprus experienced on Saturday morning was caused by a fault in the north, the transmission system operator said. It said the fault had occurred ...

The presidential palace on Saturday acclaimed the current level of cooperation between the governments of Cyprus and Greece, saying that the holding of regular intergovernmental summits between the two countries ...

Israel’s foreign ministry has defended the country’s decision to close the investigation into the killing of seven aid workers who were transporting humanitarian goods sent from Cyprus to ...

The internationally unrecognised ‘Republic of Somaliland’ has called on both Cyprus and Greece to consider recognising it, after the new parliament speaker of Somalia, the country from which it has ...

Turkey’s presidential communications directorate has described Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments on its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s policies in Cyprus and Syria as a “groundless rant” ...

Turkish Cypriot Kyrenia mayor Murat Senkul on Friday warned that political pressure exerted to bring about the cancellation of the Nexus electronic music festival in his town serves only to “...

Seven farmers have yet to receive full compensation for losses caused by this year’s foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak, while delays have also been reported in restocking affected farms, head ...

A “weird slime” was reported floating in the sea in Limassol over the past few days, prompting the Ecologists Movement’s Limassol district chairman, Andreas Mavrikios, to call on those ...

Almost 145 tonnes of the silver-cheeked toadfish, known locally as hare’s head, have been caught in Cypriot seas over the past two years, fisheries department marine research officer Nikoletta Varnava ...

Somalia’s foreign ministry on Friday denied having recognised northern Cyprus as an independent country, following the publication of a now deleted social media post by the country’s new ...