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Our View: Parents need to take more care when uploading their children’s photos
EARLIER this week, police issued an announcement urging parents to think twice before posting photos of their children on social media as the images could be altered digitally by predators and used as...
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Police foil kidnap plan, as Norwegians remanded
By Elias Hazou THE three Norwegian nationals suspected of the planned kidnapping of a four-year-old girl were on Thursday remanded in custody for six days, while police secured an arrest warrant for a...
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Wedding items worth €90,000, including 60 bride’s dresses, stolen in Larnaca
Sixty wedding dresses and other wedding accessories, such as tiaras, wreaths, and shoes, worth over €90,000 were stolen from a store in downtown Larnaca, a police report said on Friday. According to...
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Roads to Troodos now open to all vehicles but traffic heavy, police say (Update)
Police said on Sunday Troodos roads were open to all vehicles after an earlier warning of heavy frost that would allow only the passage of four-wheel drives or cars with snow chains. However, due to...
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Canaries worth 3,000 euros stolen in Sotira
Two hundred canaries various colors and ages, worth around 3,000 euros were stolen from a aviary in Sotira village in the Famagusta district, police said on Sunday. The thieves also injured a pitbull...
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Man killed on night out in three-metre fall
A 26-year-old man died in the early hours of Sunday after falling three metres from the stairs of a basement pub in Limassol, CNA reported. The accident happened at around 2.15am when the man lost his...
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Two injured in early-morning collision
Two men were injured in a traffic accident in Nicosia in the early hours of Sunday. One of the injured drivers – a 29-year-old – had to be freed from his car by the fire services. The other, aged 21,...
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Malaysia’s new Twitter police target critics of PM Najib
By A. Ananthalakshmi Digitally savvy Malaysian police have been taking to social media to issue warnings to critics of scandal-hit Prime Minister Najib Razak in an unusual online campaign that critics...
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Greece must pay former Cypriot student 450,000 for police beating
The Greek state must pay 450,000 euros to a Cypriot man who was the victim of police brutality in Thessaloniki during a demonstration in 2006 when he was a student there, the Cyprus News Agency...
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Man robbed after locking up betting shop
A 60-year-old owner of a Nicosia betting agency was robbed on his way home from work late on Sunday evening. The man locked up his shop at around 11.30pm and headed towards his car when he was...
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Three years jail for importing a controlled substance
A 28-year-old man from Dromolaxia, Constantinos Eleftheriou, was sentenced to three years in jail by the Larnaca court on Wednesday, after he was found guilty of importing three kilos of a controlled...
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Norwegian suspected kidnappers to be deported
Authorities are set to deport the three Norwegian nationals suspected of coming to Cyprus with the intent to kidnap a four-year-old girl from her mother. The three, aged 29, 40 and 60, have not been...
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Greek police fire tear gas at angry farmers rallying in Athens
Greek riot police fired tear gas at farmers protesting against pension reform plans on Friday who hurled stones at the agriculture ministry in central Athens ahead of a major demonstration outside...
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Car stolen with engine running
A CAR was reported stolen in Limassol on Thursday evening by its owner who had left the keys on the engine to pop inside a convenience store. According to police reports, the car’s owner reported that...
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Police looking for unlucky robber
PAPHOS police are investigating two convenience store robbery attempts late on Wednesday both of which were averted by the shops’ staff. Police said that the perpetrator could be the same person in...
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Teen biker killed in Larnaca collision
A 18-year-old was killed instantly on Saturday night when his motorbike collided with a Land Rover in Larnaca at a traffic lights at the intersection of Spyros Kyprianou Avenue, Machairiotou Street and...
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Separate robberies in Limassol and Larnaca
Police are investigating two separate robberies, one in Limassol and one in Larnaca, both perpetrated in the early hours of Sunday, they said. At around 4.50am, a 57-year-old man in Limassol told...
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Greek police arrest three Iraqi Kurds with guns, ammunition
Greek police arrested three Iraqi Kurds in two separate operations, on suspicion they were trying to move a large number of guns and ammunition into Turkey, a police official said on Sunday. The men,...
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Motorcyclist critical after crash
A 25-year-old motorcyclist is in critical condition after colliding with a car shortly after midnight on Sunday in Nicosia. According to police, the car, driven by a 23-year-old man, collided with the...
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Airlift rescue fails to save vegetable picker
A 52-year-old man from Liopetri, Famagusta, died on Tuesday while picking vegetables with his son, 13. According to a police report, the man, Petros Costis Vasili, father of four, had gone to the...
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