Tom Cleaver

Cyprus intelligence service chief Tasos Tzionis contacted Lebanese insurgent group Hezbollah to ask for reassurances that the British Akrotiri air force base would not be used as a target, according ...

Three Turkish F-16 fighter jets took off from the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport on Tuesday afternoon. The sound of the jets’ engines firing up was audible across most of ...

The commanding officer of the United Kingdom’s Type 45 destroyer the HMS Dragon Ian Griffin on Tuesday said he is “immensely proud”, after the ship arrived in the waters off ...

The trial of five men who face charges related to their parts in a mass brawl in Larnaca on January 17 was on Tuesday adjourned until next month, with defence lawyers ...

The amassing of military assets in and around Cyprus in recent weeks, in light of a drone strike on the island’s British Akrotiri air force base, is the product ...

Akel leader Stefanos Stefanou on Tuesday demanded that the government take action to save the island’s tourism industry amid an ongoing conflict in the Middle East and reports of ...

The government has sought legal advice regarding the treaty which established the United Kingdom’s two sovereign bases in Cyprus, deputy government spokesman Yiannis Antoniou said on Tuesday. He told ...

District offices across the island will remain open for voter registrations on Saturday, ahead of next Thursday’s deadline, the interior ministry said on Tuesday. The offices in Nicosia, Limassol, ...

Plans to allocate forest land in the Karpas peninsula to be used by Turkey’s Istanbul Technical University were passed through the Turkish Cypriot legislature on Monday, though the north’...

The United Kingdom’s Type 45 destroyer the HMS Dragon has arrived in the waters off Cyprus, British Defence Secretary John Healey said on Monday. He told the country’s parliament ...

Teachers’ trade union Oelmek on Monday condemned an incident in which it said a parent of a pupil at a high school in Limassol entered the premises and attempted to ...

Austrian diplomat Johannes Hahn on Monday resigned from his post as the European Commission’s envoy for the Cyprus problem, commission spokesperson for cohesion Maciej Berestecki said. “Hahn has resigned ...

French soldiers completed an “amphibious exercise” in Cyprus over the weekend, with the French army saying the exercise had taken place as part of “technical training” involving sailors and soldiers ...

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Saturday told President Nikos Christodoulides that Cyprus’ security is “fundamental” to the United Kingdom and reiterated that the country’s bases in Cyprus “...

The man responsible for recruiting riders for food delivery company Wolt on Saturday threatened striking workers with termination, the Cyprus Mail has learned. Mantvydas Matthew Narusevicius is the chief executive ...

Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis on Saturday said that his country’s government only sent frigates and fighter jets to Cyprus to protect the United Kingdom’s bases on ...

Two more incidences of foot and mouth disease were identified at farms in the Larnaca district on Saturday, the veterinary services department said on Saturday. One was identified on a ...

Turkey’s presidential communications directorate on Saturday denied reports that missiles had been fired from a vessel in Cypriot waters, after a video appearing to show missile fire, which was ...

Farmers descended on the presidential palace on Saturday, bringing with them a coffin, to protest the culling of livestock amidst the ongoing outbreak of foot and mouth disease. They had ...

Credit rating agency S&P has left its rating of Cyprus and its estimation of the island’s economy unchanged in its latest assessment, saying that this decision was ...

The veterinary services department on Saturday morning implored farmers not to gather, ahead of a planned protest at the presidential palace against the culling of livestock in light of the ...

The United Kingdom’s defence ministry has announced the deployment of 500 “additional personnel” to the country’s bases in Cyprus. While the ministry did not confirm to the Cyprus Mail ...

Disy’s student wing, the Protoporia, was on Friday accused by four other political parties of attempting to rig the University of Cyprus’ student union elections, which were due to ...

Greek parliament speaker Nikitas Kaklamanis on Friday urged Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides to “exert as much influence as you can” during the remainder of Cyprus’ six-month term as the holder ...