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Union of municipalities has urged chief of police Themistos Arnaoutis to immediately withdraw the decision to charge Limassol municipality €43,000 for policing this year’s carnival parade on Sunday. The move ...

The Greek defence minister met with his counterpart in Cyprus to discuss bilateral cooperation and upgrading the Republic’s defence infrastructures on Wednesday. The meeting came in the wake of ...

A modern, digital Cyprus, which will be a model of transparency and accountability, socially sensitive and proud of its role in the region, is President Nikos Christodoulides’ vision for the ...

Paphos airport is safe, deputy government spokesman Yiannis Antoniou insisted on Tuesday, after Israeli airlines suspended their operations in and out of Paphos, Cyprus’ second airport. Speaking to the Cyprus ...

Police are taking increased security measures across points of entry, embassies and other sensitive locations, due to the situation in the Middle East, spokesman for the force Christos Andreou said ...

An idea has been floated for there to be three “tables” of negotiations set up for talks to resolve the Cyprus problem, the government confirmed on Wednesday. The first “table” ...

The government’s unwavering goal and priority is to strengthen people’s sense of security, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said on Monday during an event in Larnaca, where he told ...

The government is taking all necessary measures for security following Iran’s attack on Israel over the weekend, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Monday. He said members of the ...

Gated housing projects are a relatively recent development in Cyprus, which has come as crime, particularly thefts, has increased and people want to feel more secure in their homes. The ...

Cyprus is treating the upcoming holiday period as ‘high-risk’ in light of the war raging in the Middle East, and upping security measures amid fears of a ‘lone wolf attack’, ...

By Iole Damaskinos and Tom Cleaver There are now no commercial flights between Cyprus and Israel after Cypriot airline TUS Airways became the last to suspend its services between the ...

The situation that has developed in Israel is being monitored and Cyprus is ready to help especially in health-related issues, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday evening. The president also ...

US Senator Robert Menendez has introduced an amendment to the US National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA) that seeks to extend the present one-year renewal period on arms sales to the ...

The adoption of increased security around House Speaker Annita Demetriou and some of her family members, has nothing to do with her having filed a police report of fake news, ...

Cyprus is considered a safe country, perhaps the safest country in the EU. The importance placed on security, however, when it comes to the real estate market has been rising. ...

Two gunmen on motorbikes opened fire on an Egyptian security checkpoint on Friday, killing two policemen and a citizen in a city east of Cairo, according to sources from the ...

Two men were arrested on Friday at Montparnasse train station in Paris after one threatened to blow himself up, even though he did not have the means to do so, ...

By Tom Perry, Issam Abdallah and Timour Azhari In the darkness of Beirut’s unlit streets, men wielding batons and torches are taking security into their own hands in an ...

Cypriot Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides highlighted Cyprus’ role as a pillar of stability for both Europe and the Middle East, during his address at the Economist conference in Athens. Speaking ...

Nicosia courts have started using security scan equipment, which was already installed but never utilised, according to various reports emerged on Friday. Following several arson cases takin place in the ...

Authorities said Thursday that as a precaution they were taking heightened security measures around embassies and other buildings in Nicosia due to the crisis in Ukraine. Police spokesman Christos Andreou ...

Police were investigating one of their own on Thursday after he sought to fly to Athens from Larnaca without going through security checks, causing hours of delay to two flights. ...

Police on Friday evening asked passengers at Paphos airport’s departures area leave after an object was located in a luggage that looked like an explosive device. The incident was ...

During holiday seasons, and especially the summer period, a lot of people go on holiday for a long period of time, with whole neighbourhoods practically being empty. For this reason ...