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Man keeps ex and her child locked in his home

A 34-year-old mother in Paphos is accusing her ex boyfriend of false imprisonment, following her ordeal when she was locked with her young child for two days in his home...

21/06/2018 | NEWS

Fig Tree popular with Instagrammers

Fig Tree Bay is among the most photographed beaches in the world on Instagram, with the Cypriot sandy shoreline with crystal clear waters ranked at number 20 globally...

21/06/2018 | NEWS

Cyprus to crackdown on shell companies

The Central Bank of Cyprus has just made it harder for brokers to set up front companies on the island, following pressure from US officials who say more needs to be done to combat money laundering...

21/06/2018 | BUSINESS

Kammenos says will call on PM to seek supermajority for name deal

The head of Greece's junior coalition partner and Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said on Wednesday he will ask Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to seek a supermajority of 180 MPs in the country's 300-seat House for the ratification of the name deal with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), instead of a regular majority of 151, given the importance of the issue....

20/06/2018 | NEWS

Probe countdown begins for Cyprus Co-Op debacle

Attorney General Costas Clerides is moving forward with the launching of an investigation into possible offences at the Cyprus Cooperative Bank, in connection with bad loans worth €7.5 billion...

20/06/2018 | NEWS

Paphos airport wins accessibility award

Paphos International Airport has won an award for being the most accessible airport in Europe during this week’s Airports Council International conference in Brussels...

20/06/2018 | BUSINESS

Woman throws herself at cars for money

Police are warning the public of con artists and fake car accidents in slow traffic, following a number of incidents where pedestrians pretended to be struck by vehicles and demanded money from the drivers...

20/06/2018 | NEWS

Fake news and quality journalism under scrutiny

Fake news, a term used almost daily and a byproduct of the rapid spread of social media networks, will be one of the main topics in the first digital policy conference on “Cyprus in the Digital Agenda” on Thursday in Nicosia...

20/06/2018 | NEWS

Ousted far-right MP to appear before examining magistrate over coup remarks

The ousted Golden Dawn MP Constantinos Barbarousis, who is accused of treason, will appear before an examining magistrate on Wednesday to explain his remarks during a parliamentary debate last Friday, when he called for a military coup....

20/06/2018 | NEWS

New push in the UK for direct flights in the north

The Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce is lending its support to a new petition in the UK, sponsored by a British conservative MP, who is pushing for direct flights to the north one year after the Pegasus restrictions...

20/06/2018 | NEWS

Probe into Stavros’ death still open

Members of a Health and Safety Task Force Committee are visiting Alethriko elementary on Wednesday, a Larnaca school where 10-year-old Stavros Georgallis got injured last month and whose death hours later was shrouded in controversy and allegations of incompetence...

20/06/2018 | NEWS

FYROM parliament starts debate on name deal with Greece

The parliament of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on Tuesday started debating a law ratifying an agreement with neighboring Greece designed to end a decades-long dispute over the country’s name....

19/06/2018 | NEWS

Turkish court rejects fourth appeal for release of Greek soldiers

A court in the northwestern Turkish province of Edirne on Tuesday rejected for the fourth time an appeal to release from pre-trial detention two Greek servicemen who have been imprisoned in the country since early March, after they accidentally crossed into the neighbouring country, Greek TV broadcaster Skai reported....

19/06/2018 | NEWS

Cause of death for Liopetri wife still unknown

An autopsy on Tuesday failed to show the exact cause of death for a 57-year-old woman, who was found dead in her swimming pool Sunday night...

19/06/2018 | NEWS

Co-op bankers plead not guilty in loans scandal

Senior co-op executives pleaded not guilty to fraud charges in connection with a banking scandal where loans worth millions were given out without due process...

19/06/2018 | NEWS

Conference on Funds & Cryptocurrencies, a success

A half day Conference with the subject of “Funds & Cryptocurrencies: The Development and the Technology” was successfully completed for a second consecutive year, on the 14th of June 2018 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Limassol...

19/06/2018 | NEWS

#PoliticsBlog End of an era and Harris’ bitter chalice

Journalists often abuse the term 'end of an era' but in the case of the Cyprus Cooperative Bank, these words totally fit the bill...

19/06/2018 | COMMENT

Burglary gang suspects escape police station by jumping out of window

Three Albanian nationals, arrested on June 13 over dozens of thefts and burglaries, escaped the police station where they were being held in Argyroupoli, southern Athens, by jumping out of the bathroom window....

19/06/2018 | NEWS

Suspected Paphos arsonist released from custody

A 58-year-old suspected arsonist, who was released from custody Tuesday, will still face charges in connection with a Monday fire in Trachypedoulas...

19/06/2018 | NEWS

US Senate votes to block F-35 deal to Turkey

US senators voted overwhelmingly to block the sale of F-35 jet fighters to Turkey on Monday, while Lockheed Martin says it expects to deliver planes before the bill could become law...

19/06/2018 | NEWS

ECHR hands down mixed decision on Cyprus

The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that Cyprus did not violate the freedom of three men who were deported in 2011, while the decision criticised the Republic for denying them a speedy inquiry as to the legality of their detention...

19/06/2018 | NEWS

TOTAL sets anchor in more blocks of the EEZ

President Nicos Anastasiades met with TOTAL's Middle East exploration chief on Tuesday, focusing on the prospects of expanding Nicosia's cooperation with the French energy giant...

19/06/2018 | NEWS

FYROM government submits deal on new name to parliament

The government of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) set in motion Monday the process of ratifying a pending agreement to change the country's name to "North Macedonia" in hopes of ending a bitter 27-year dispute with southern neighbor Greece....

18/06/2018 | NEWS