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As Cyprus battles a severe heatwave with temperatures soaring to up to 44C in inland areas, municipalities across the island are offering air-conditioned public spaces to help the vulnerable stay ...
Four people from Syria were remanded on Wednesday for five days in connection with a case of illegal possession of property.
A fifth Syrian, aged 17, was released by the Larnaca ...
As Cyprus grapples with record-high temperatures and bone-dry conditions, the forestry department has issued an urgent appeal to the public: stop using tools that produce heat or sparks near forested ...
The extradition of a 38-year-old man to Jordan was halted on Wednesday after the Paphos district court identified serious procedural irregularities in the documents submitted by Jordanian authorities.
The man, ...
Footage and interviews from ‘End the Starvation of Gaza’, a symbolic protest and hunger strike held outside the Embassy of Palestine in Cyprus on July 22.
Turkish Cypriot economist Mertkan Hamit on Wednesday said he had been denied entry to Turkey after finding himself on the country’s N-82 list.
Being on the N-82 list means ...
Doria Varoshiotou, the now former judge who was relieved of her duties by the supreme judicial council earlier this month, will not return to work ahead of the conclusion of ...
School’s out and while summer camps are on, parents still need to find some other form of entertainment for their young ones sometimes. This week, all sorts of summer ...
The police on Tuesday arrested a 17-year-old on suspicion of attacking and robbing a foreign food delivery man in Limassol, nearly nine months after the incident took place in October 2024.
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Cabinet on Wednesday resolved to hire an investigator to probe the conduct of former transport ministry permanent secretary Yiannis Nicolaides in relation to the matter of faulty airbags in Cyprus ...
A new online cryptocurrency scam is being investigated after a 53-year-old man reported losing €434,000, the police announced on Wednesday.
According to the 53-year-old’s complaint, an unknown person online convinced ...
Andros Pavlides, creator, historian and director, passed away on Tuesday night at the age of 79, it was announced on Wednesday.
He was born in Kilani in 1946 and was a trained ...
Cyprus has achieved one of its most significant successes in informatics to date, with middle school student Mariza Paspalli winning gold at EGOI 2025, the Cyprus Computer Society announced on Wednesday.
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A 24-year-old man was arrested late on Tuesday in Larnaca after police discovered cannabis and drug-related items in his car during a routine check.
The arrest took place around 11.50pm ...
A new 600m² mural was unveiled on the wall of Bird Aviation’s hangar in Larnaca on Wednesday, making it among the first things passengers see as they fly into ...
The labour inspection department on Wednesday ordered that all outside work be suspended between 12pm and 4pm in areas impacted by the orange weather warning with high temperatures forecast for ...
Peaceful settlement “is not merely the absence of armed conflict”, Cyprus’ foreign ministry permanent secretary Andreas Kakouris told a United Nations debate on peace and security in the early hours ...
The police on Wednesday denied reports that people had been arrested for flying Palestinian flags outside Limassol’s Alphamega Stadium ahead of Tuesday night’s football match between Pafos FC ...
An Israeli cruise ship which was turned away from the Greek island of Syros on Tuesday after a mass protest was staged at the island’s port arrived at the ...
Wednesday will be a veritable scorcher, with temperatures set to rise to a whopping 43 degrees Celsius inland, 36 degrees Celsius on the south, east, and north coasts, and 34 degrees Celsius on ...
Ayios Ermogenis exposes both the British bases and the Republic
By Efi Xanthou
When the first photos from the “renovation” of a restaurant on Ayios Ermogenis beach in the Kourion ...
Delays caused by a lack of stakeholder consensus over the use of local borehole water have sparked unrest in the Maroni community located southwest of Larnaca.
“Despite successive meetings with ...
The gap between producer and retail prices for fruit and vegetables has widened to “unreasonably high” levels, with bananas selling for up to 110 percent above the price paid to farmers, ...