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New smoking law scrapes through
Legislative amendments attached to the government bill on smoking watered down many of its initially draconian clauses on Friday, prompting outrage by opposition parties, though the bill was eventually...
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Limassol to roll out help for the homeless
LIMASSOL municipality is set to create a daytime hospitality centre to provide homeless people access to wash facilities and meals, a municipality social worker said on Friday. According to Christina...
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UN warns about hunting in the buffer zone
The United Nations Force in Cyprus (Unficyp) has warned hunters that hunting in the buffer zone is strictly prohibited. “Entering the buffer zone area in order to perform any kind of hunting...
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Lakatamia mayor’s goal is a green municipality
New Lakatamia Mayor Fotoula Hadjipapa she aims to turn the municipality clean and green through good cooperation between the municipality and its citizens, she told the Cyprus News Agency. The...
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Progress on key issues unlikely Anastasiades says
Even if the Turkish Cypriot side were to return to the negotiating table ahead of April’s referendum in Turkey, progress on key outstanding issues would be unlikely, President Nicos Anastasiades said...
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Police investigate as children tried to leave island without telling their...
A report into exactly what has happened since Wednesday when two children resident in Cyprus turned up at Larnaca airport to leave the country until Saturday when they were found at a children’s...
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Waning trust in Anastasiades by Turkish Cypriot side
Despite President Nicos Anastasiades’ stated belief there is still time to salvage the faltering Cyprus talks, confidence in his commitment to the peace process among the Turkish Cypriot side has been...
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Rotating presidency and political equality ‘different things’ Anastasiades said
A rotating presidency is out of the question without discussion and concessions on other issues, President Nicos Anastasiades said in an interview with Phileleftheros on Sunday. He said it would not be...
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Building bridges in Mouttalos
With its legacy of displaced populations, the former Turkish Cypriot quarter of Mouttalos in Paphos has been given a special role in the cultural programme of Pafos2017. A series of bicommunal events...
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‘Moonlight’ wins best picture Oscar after major onstage gaffe
By Jill Serjeant African-American coming-of-age tale “Moonlight” won the Oscar for best picture on Sunday, beating favorite “La La Land” after an embarrassing onstage gaffe over the announcement. In a...
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Crime slightly down in Polis compared with five years ago, minister says
Crime has fallen slightly in the Polis area since 2011, Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou said on Monday during a meeting to discuss policing in the area, CNA reported. According to the minister, after a...
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Ross expected to get easy US Senate confirmation on Monday
Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross is expected to be easily confirmed as U.S. Commerce Secretary on Monday, clearing President Donald Trump’s top trade official to start work on renegotiating trade...
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Anastasaides ready to return to negotiating table ‘tomorrow’, ball in...
President Nicos Anastasiades is ready to return to the negotiating table ‘tomorrow’, deputy government spokesman Victoras Papadopoulos said on Monday. Speaking on the sidelines of an event in Limassol,...
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Limassol club sign hints at half-price sex
The owner of a Limassol gentleman’s club has denied that an ambiguously worded sign outside his premises suggests that the women who work there are selling ‘half-price’ sex, and the police have been...
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Cyprus tourism loses out due to poor accessibility, paraplegics say
The paraplegics association has written to the island’s tourism organisation (CTO) to protest its failure to implement legal provisions for at least five per cent of hotel rooms to be accessible to...
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Russian connections still haunt Ross after senate confirmation (Update)
Bank of Cyprus’s (BoC) board of directors which is meeting on Tuesday afternoon to approve the 2016 results is also expected to announce the successor to its vice-chairman Wilbur Ross, who on Monday...
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President’s letter ‘sets the record straight’, spokesman says (Updated)
President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres with his own account of why reunification talks have been put on hold. At the same time, the government...
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Jailed Erotokritou lashes out at ‘network’ of conspirators that brought him...
Former deputy attorney-general Rikkos Erotokritou was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison on Wednesday for his involvement in a conspiracy with the Andreas Neocleous law firm in 2013. Panayiotis...
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Ancient Paphos attraction needs urgent renovation
AN ancient Chalcolithic settlement site in Lemba in Paphos urgently requires maintenance, according to the local community leader. Two roundhouses built using stone and wood as replicas of ancient...
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Cabinet approves implementation of child protection strategy
The cabinet on Wednesday gave the nod to a bill for implementing the national strategy for the protection of children from sexual exploitation and abuse. The bill provides for the establishment of a...
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