Clik here to view.
Police locate missing items belonging to murder victim Rosca
Larnaca police on Thursday located the two mobile phones and an i-Pad belonging to 36-year-old Daniela Rosca, a Moldovan national who was found murdered in her flat last November. The three items had...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Torture and cruel treatment ‘has not disappeared’
UNNECESSARY and disproportionate use of violence and resorts to abuse and torture are not only a painful affront to human dignity, but call in question basic principles of the culture of rule of law,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Second Bulgarian suspect arrested in connection with Rosca murder
A second Bulgarian man has been arrested in connection with the murder of Daniela Rosca, 36, a Moldovan national, and is due at the Larnaca court for a remand hearing on Sunday. Plamen Pelov, 32, for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Turkish police fire tear gas in Istanbul to disperse Gay Pride activists
Turkish police fired tear gas in central Istanbul on Sunday to disperse dozens of activists attempting to gather to mark the annual Gay Pride week after authorities banned their march. The Gay Pride...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Limassol teen arrested after Paphos car chase
A teenager from Limassol has been arrested after a car chase in Yeroskipou in a stolen vehicle. Around 11.30pm on Monday police were informed that some people in Yeroskipou, near Paphos, were chasing a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Couple gave shelter to wanted Albanian after gangland shooting, court hears
Police believe a man remanded for eight days along with his girlfriend on Tuesday by the Larnaca court was the driver of the car which took the contract killers to and from the scene of the bloody June...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Female tourist reports being robbed at knifepoint
A female tourist reported to police on Tuesday that she was robbed at knifepoint while sitting at her Paphos hotel’s swimming pool. The 34-year-old said she was sitting at the pool at around 2am when a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Two arson attacks in Paphos, former municipal employee arrested (Updated)
A 38-YEAR-OLD man was arrested midday on Wednesday in connection with two fires which were maliciously set at the offices of Paphos social insurance department and the town hall earlier in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Remand for scam artist promising jobs at Limassol port
A 36-year-old woman from Nicosia was remanded on Thursday for four days after she was reported for allegedly taking money from unemployed people with the promise that she would secure them jobs at the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Men arrested for impersonating police officers
Four men were remanded in custody for 24 hours on Saturday in connection with a series of offences including assault, car theft and impersonating police officers that took place last month in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Woman hit and killed by 90-year-old driver
A Moldovan was aged 69, was run over and killed on the Astromeritis-Troodos road on Saturday night, police said. According to a bulletin on Sunday the woman, a resident of Astromeritis, was trying to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Three treated for smoke inhalation after car fires
Three people were treated for smoke inhalation at Nicosia hospital’s A&E in the early hours of Sunday after becoming trapped inside their apartment due to a fire that destroyed three cars in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Eight kilos of tobacco seized from Larnaca home
Customs seized 8kg of Old Holborn tobacco from a house in Larnaca on Saturday afternoon, they said. Acting on a tip-off, officers in cooperation with police raided the house of a Greek Cypriot, finding...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Naked man arrested at Limassol post office, taken to Athalassa
Authorities arrested a 42-year-old man on Tuesday who had taken his clothes off at the central post office of Limassol. According to reports, the man arrived at the post office at around 11am, took his...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nicosia kiosk robbed
A 26-year-old employee of a Nicosia kiosk reported the business was robbed at gunpoint early Friday morning by two hooded men dressed in black. The culprits, both around 1.70m in height, entered the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Thousands take to streets across U.S. to protest police violence
By Curtis Skinner Thousands took to the streets of U.S. cities on Friday to denounce the fatal shooting by police of two black men this week, marching the day after a gunman killed five police officers...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Explosion damages Limassol premises
A Limassol business establishment was damaged extensively early Saturday from an explosion caused by a makeshift device. According to the police, the explosion occurred at around 3.40am outside the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Suspects in Napa slayings remanded for another eight days
Larnaca district court on Saturday renewed for eight more days the remands of four suspects believed to be involved in the June 23 Ayia Napa shooting, in which four people were killed. The four...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Protests over shootings block roads in U.S. cities, arrests made
By Bryn Stole and David Bailey Protests against the shootings of two black men by police officers shut down main arteries in a number of U.S. cities on Saturday, leading to numerous arrests, scuffles...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Car and home damaged by explosion in Nicosia
Nicosia police were kept busy early Monday when a car and an adjacent house were damaged by an improvised bomb which exploded at dawn, while in a separate incident a shot was fired at a house. The...
View Article