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A 55-year-old Ukrainian woman accused of brandishing a knife at a demonstration by Russian activists pleaded not guilty to charges of carrying a weapon to cause terror, and drunkenness before ...

Two people were arrested in the north on Thursday suspected of attacking police during protests over a new €100m-plus ‘government’ complex being built. According to police in the north, they ...

Dozens of Greek Cypriots protested in front of the Iranian embassy in Nicosia on Sunday in support of the struggle for freedom in Iran and the protests that have been ...

A protest against the barbed wire fences and gates along the buffer zone was held on Sunday by affected villagers in the west of Nicosia. Around 200 people attended, according to ...

Nursing staff at Makarios hospital’s Neonatal intensive care unit on Thursday demonstrated outside parliament over severe staffing shortages. The nurses, members of Pasyno union, complained while a debate was ...

Dozens of Russians living in Cyprus held an anti-mobilisation rally on Wednesday evening after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his plans to draft up to 300,000 military reservists to fight in ...

Turkish Cypriot trade unionists were demonstrating on Wednesday morning over the law pushed by the ‘government’ to consolidate ‘municipalities’ According Kibris Postasi, ‘municipality’ staffers were mobilising to protest “the (special) ...

Court orders currently see one plant in limbo but communities are all unwilling to host facility Buoyed by a recent court interim order freezing the process to move an asphalt ...

A pro-Russia rally held in Limassol on Saturday drew ire and sarcasm from Twitter users. In a short video-clip posted on Twitter by one user, it shows people close to ...

A protest was held on Sunday by residents of the Akamas village of Ineia against the contentious local plan to protect the environment, which they say has left them with ...

Thousands of Hungarians protested outside parliament on Friday against an easing of logging rules to meet increased demand for firewood as a result of surging gas and electricity prices. Prime ...

The Green Party, the Animal Party and other demonstrators gathered outside the attorney-general’s attorney’s office on Thursday to protest the death of the savannah cat Berton who died ...

Amid escalating protests over the planned relocation of an asphalt plant to Mitsero, two community leaders were on Tuesday arrested for obstruction, while residents blocked off the Kato Moni to ...

A post-mortem – with inconclusive results – was carried out on Monday on the body of a 44-year-old man who died suddenly late last week, almost exactly a year after he was ...

Residents of the Kokkinotrimithia area on Thursday staged a protest outside the parliament building, haranguing MPs for what they perceive as indifference to their plight regarding the influx of irregular ...

Asylum seekers held an anti-racism protest on Thursday in Nicosia, to demand the immediate examination of their applications. A group of asylum seekers gathered near Paphos gate in the capital ...

The English School staff union (ESSA) is held a third protest on Monday morning outside the presidential palace. In a statement, the organisation said that unfortunately while the minister of ...

Hundreds of people took part in a protest march on Saturday morning demanding the rejection of the revised regional development plan for Akamas, with support from political parties. Participants in ...

It’s hard to blame the residents of the nine communities in the Vasiliko area for going out to protest on Monday at the place where a mountain of tyres ...

Turkish Cypriots on Friday continued demonstrating against price hikes, the new protocol on financial support from Turkey, and what they consider interventions on their free will, with support from political ...

A group called Russians in Cyprus Against war (RAW) are organising a demonstration in Limassol demanding that political prisoners in Russia be released. The rally will take place at 5pm ...

A fourth suspect was charged in connection with a protest by goat and sheep farmers on Wednesday where they spilled gallons of milk and lit fires outside the presidential palace. ...

Six people were arrested in the north during simultaneous protests by the union of livestock farmers and breeders outside the ‘presidential palace’ and the dairy industry company on Thursday. CNA ...

A group of Nicosia district residents protested outside the agriculture ministry on Tuesday against the state’s decision to relocate an asphalt plant that was said to be causing air ...