Tom Cleaver

More than five million passengers passed through the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport during the first 11 months of this year, the airport’s management company T&T’s general ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin on Monday described last week’s tripartite meeting she held with President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman as “a very good ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday thanked France for the country’s “concrete support” for Cyprus’ endeavours to join Europe’s border-free Schengen area next year. To this end, he said ...

France “can count on” Cyprus when the island takes over the Council of the European Union’s rotating presidency at the beginning of next month, French President Emmanuel Macron said ...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said he hopes for a solution to the Cyprus problem “so all Cypriots can live together on a reunified island”. Speaking after the signing ...

Cyprus and France signed a new strategic partnership at Paris’ Elysee Palace on Monday, which declared both countries’ “unwavering willingness to substantially strengthen bilateral relations”. French President Emmanuel Macron described ...

The situation at the crossing points which connect Cyprus’ two sides “will not be easier” than it is today after Cyprus joins Europe’s border-free Schengen area, former Turkish Cypriot ...

An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease has been detected on a farm in the Famagusta district village of Ayios Sergios, the Cyprus Turkish veterinarians’ association said on Monday. It explained that ...

A dead body found near Kyrenia on Sunday belonged to a man who had gone missing in Turkey almost two weeks prior. The body had been found on rocks in ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Sunday night denied telephoning Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan during last week’s tripartite meeting on the Cyprus problem, saying that he had instead ...

Both before and after Thursday’s tripartite meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman and United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin, and likely during it as well, President Nikos Christodoulides ...

Farmers in Cyprus will take to the streets on Thursday next week to protest against the “new architecture” of the European Union’s common agricultural policy. Thomas Thoma, the union ...

More than half of people aged between 18 and 25 years old have not yet registered to vote in May’s parliamentary elections, while the total number of eligible but unregistered voters ...

New Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides on Friday said he aims to attract more young people into the nursing profession. “The goal is to encourage young people to choose a profession ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel’s undersecretary Huseyin Cahitoglu faced a fresh allegation of bribery on Friday after it was alleged in court that he had demanded a bribe ...

Apollon on Friday said they will not appeal the ruling that they must play their home fixture against Aris Limassol behind closed doors on Sunday following an outbreak of fan ...

Moldovan President Maia Sandu on Friday said that her country understands “what it means to have your homeland divided” during a visit to the Green Line separating Cyprus’ two sides ...

The United Kingdom’s government has been told by a veteran of its Royal Air Force to “release the footage” of the flights launched from its Akrotiri air base in ...

The primary school parents’ association on Friday expressed its “strong satisfaction and indignation” after primary school teachers’ trade union Poed had announced its intention to go on strike next week ...

Controversial Turkish Sufi scholar Ahmet Unlu, colloquially known as ‘Cubbeli Ahmet’, on Thursday night said he regretted praying for Ersin Tatar in advance of October’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election, ...

A man who last year branded one of the north’s opposition ‘MPs’ a “terrorist” was on Thursday handed one of the north’s highest ranking civil service jobs, being ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman agreed “that the real aim is the solution of the Cyprus problem with political equality as described by the United Nations ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman paid a joint visit to the Committee on Missing Persons’ laboratory in the buffer zone in Nicosia on Thursday, ahead of ...

The European Commission on Thursday sent Cyprus a reasoned opinion over its “shortcomings in the implementation of airport security and surveillance”, while also raising wider concerns about the state of ...