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Female farmers “show the way to create new life”, Environment Commissioner Klelia Vassiliou said on Saturday after she participated in an event in Emba in honour of ten women involved ...

Police is an institution with a strong sense of social responsibility, chief Stelios Papatheodorou said on Saturday in his address at the 22nd march for love in support of paediatric ...

President Nicos Anastasiades sent an anti-war message as he kicked off the OPAP GSO International Marathon in Limassol on Saturday morning. Some 11,000 people were registered to take part in the ...

Limassol, along with Ayia Napa, is one of the main centres of hard drug use in Cyprus according to an EU drug monitoring unit report, although it saw a marked ...

The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Osce) is organising a conference in Cyprus titled ‘Combating corruption, defending democracy: The role of National Parliaments’ on May 27 and 28 at the ...

The war in Ukraine could not have come at a worse time for the global economy. It has come at a time when the recovery from Covid-19 has begun to ...

The establishment of femicide as a distinct crime which will introduce aggravating factors in trials for gender-related killings of women will send a “groundbreaking message” on gender-based violence, the chairman ...

Cypriot authorities have established a 24-hour channel of communication with the Ukrainian embassy in Nicosia to facilitate assistance to refugees from the war-torn country, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on ...

Priests force children and adults into hormone and other conversion therapy treatments, which remain legal in Cyprus, with the aim of changing their sexual orientation and gender identity, MPs heard ...

Employees of the company operating Nicosia and Larnaca buses went on indefinite strike on Friday demanding their employer revoke early redundancies and resolve a number of problems. In a written ...

Storm Philippos may have departed, but Cypriots will have to endure the cold snap for a while yet until spring weather can be enjoyed. Temperatures will be noticeably colder than ...

A 37-year-old man who reportedly admitted to forcefully shaking his two-month-old baby resulting in her death will stand trial for manslaughter on April 14, while the mother of the infant was ...

The health ministry on Friday reported another five deaths from Covid-19, all of which occurred last year, bringing the total since the start of the pandemic to 910 from the previously ...

Celebrating the arrival of spring and the new beginnings that it brings, the Spring Equinox on March 20 will mark the beginning of a new season. Spiritually, this is a time ...

In today’s episode, procedures have been set in motion to help some 8,000 Ukrainians who have come to Cyprus as refugees or are stranded here because of Russia’s invasion ...

The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a law on combatting terrorism, harmonising with a relevant EU directive over which Cyprus had earlier been warned for non-compliance. The bill passed ...

The island’s largest lender said Thursday it has no banking operations in either Russia or Ukraine, having wound down its business there years ago. In a statement released through ...

Unvaccinated individuals run the risk of hospitalisation for Covid-19 that is four to 30 times higher than for the vaccinated, the health ministry said on Thursday. The data released runs up ...

Though several local theatre ensembles are staging plays right now nearly all are in Greek but this weekend a play in English arrives to entertain theatre lovers in Nicosia and ...

The testing sites for Saturday are as follows: District Location of testing units Operating hours Telephone Nicosia (15 units) Nicosia Mall 9 am – 6 pm 96625766 Agios Dometios Municipality (event hall) 9 am – 6 pm 70000166 Agios ...

Turkish Cypriots seeking up to €50 million in compensation from the Republic for use of their land have had their claim rejected by the Paphos district court. The legal services announced ...

In its first year of operation, Paphos police’s domestic violence unit investigated 271 cases that led to 126 arrests, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Thursday. Paphos deputy police chief Michalis ...

The agriculture ministry has awarded a tender for the purchase of a quantity of 20,500 tonnes of corn from alternative sources, with reserves for animal feed estimated to be down to ...

After a short hiatus and a temporary love affair with brunch places – which might come back during Cyprus’ short but amazing spring – I returned to the island’s queen of ...