Tom Cleaver

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 ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday told Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of the need to convene an enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem as soon as possible. The pair held ...

The European Union “has the tools which can function positively and catalytically” towards a resumption of negotiations to solve the Cyprus problem, European Affairs Deputy Minister Marilena Raouna said on ...

Both President Nikos Christodoulides and European Union envoy for the Cyprus problem Johannes Hahn on Thursday said that “now is the time” for results to be achieved in talks on ...

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Thursday evaluated the landslide election defeat which saw him removed from office in October, saying that the Turkish Cypriot people had refused to ...

Nicosia’s two mayors, Turkish Cypriot Mehmet Harmanci and Greek Cypriot Charalambos Prountzos, met the European Union’s envoy for the Cyprus problem on Wednesday night. The pair met Hahn ...

The Council of Europe’s committee for the prevention of torture warned of “serious problems” at Cyprus’ central prison in Nicosia and said it had “grave concerns” over “the high ...

Schools cannot work with “regulations from the 1970s”, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Wednesday after the House education committee discussed the government’s planned reforms to the ways in ...

Firefighters in Nicosia were on Wednesday shown electric buses by Cyprus Public Transport as part of a “special informational event” organised by the company. During the event, a technician from ...

Cabinet on Wednesday approved a bill which foresees the creation of a national ambulance agency. The move was announced by Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides, who said that it “aims to ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will meet the European Union’s envoy for the Cyprus problem Johannes Hahn on Thursday, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis announced on Wednesday. He said Christodoulides and Hahn ...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Wednesday said there “cannot be any conditions” placed on negotiations to solve the Cyprus problem, “if what we are really interested in is progress”. He ...

There will be no enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem until the issues which are to be discussed have been “fully developed” during talks in Cyprus, Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan ...

The man suspected of having stabbed 26-year-old Alexandros Antoniou to death in the Paphos district village of Konia will stand trial in January and will remain in custody until then, ...

The level of floodwater in the north began to recede in the north during the early hours of Wednesday morning, with Turkish Cypriot Nicosia mayor Mehmet Harmanci saying that water ...

President Nikos Christodoulides outlined “five key priorities” he has set for his government on Wednesday, ahead of the first cabinet meeting to be held following Friday evening’s reshuffle. He ...

Opposition members of the north’s ‘parliament’ expressed their confusion on Tuesday after the Turkish Cypriot legislature convened despite residential neighbourhoods within a 15-minute walk of the ‘parliament’ in the ...