Tom Cleaver

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Saturday held telephone calls with his Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatty and the United Kingdom’s minister of state for Europe Stephen Doughty, as the United ...

Justice Minister Costas Fitiris and auditor-general Andreas Papaconstantinou on Saturday met to discuss the auditing of tender procedures. According to the justice ministry, the pair made “special reference” to “the ...

A Turkish combat drone, likely a Bayraktar TB2 or a Bayraktar Akinci, was circling in the skies above Cyprus on Saturday afternoon, east of Kyrenia, near the village of Ayios ...

Airlines moved to cancel flights between Cyprus and a number of regional destinations on Saturday, as the United States and Israel launched an attack on Iran, and Iran retaliated. Wizz ...

The Cypriot defence ministry is “taking all the necessary measures” in light of strikes carried out by the United States and Israel on Iran, minister Vasilis Palmas said on Saturday. “...

Burials of livestock culled in the aftermath of an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the Larnaca district have begun, Aradippou mayor Christodoulos Partou said on Saturday. “Work began ...

Control measures remain in place on Saturday as Cyprus aims to stem the spread of an outbreak of foot and mouth disease which was detected in the Larnaca district earlier ...

Saturday’s weather will be mostly clear across most of the island, though light snowfall is expected to fall in the mountains, with a modicum of rain forecast for lower ...

Cyprus has activated its ‘Estia’ plan, wherein people are evacuated from conflict zones via Cyprus, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said, with the United States and Israel having launched an attack ...

Akel on Friday said Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou must “resign or be sacked”, lambasting her response to the wildfires which tore through the Limassol district last summer, water shortages, and ...

Former Turkish Cypriot Famagusta police chief Baris Sel appeared in court on Friday in the latest hearing of his trial regarding a master’s degree he obtained, allegedly under false ...

Two people have been arrested in Cyprus on terrorism charges, the police confirmed on Friday. A police representative informed the Cyprus Mail that the pair appeared in court on Friday ...

There is “no understandable reason” to say that a new crossing point in the eastern Nicosia suburb of Mia Milia would only benefit Turkish Cypriots, Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman ...

Half of companies in Cyprus are not paying compulsory employers’ liability insurance, Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas said. Responding to a written question put to him by Disy MP Nikos Georgiou, ...

Trade union Peo on Friday offered its support to the striking workers at Ektam, the north’s producer of Pepsi and other soft drinks, paying a visit to the picket ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday said Cyprus and Italy share a “common cultural identity”, as he met the country’s President Sergio Mattarella at Rome’s Quirinal Palace. He made ...

Workers at the electricity authority (EAC) went on strike for two hours on Friday morning protesting what they described as “erratic” policies followed by the government in the energy sector ...

Two teams from Cyprus will compete in Champions League from 2027, after the country secured its place in the top 15 of Uefa’s club coefficient rankings despite Omonia’s exit from ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition political party CTP deputy leader Erkut Sahali on Friday praised the bicommunal nature of the response to the recent outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the ...

No new cases of foot and mouth disease have been reported on Friday, but the situation remains critical, veterinary services department spokeswoman Sotiria Georgiadou said in her latest briefing at ...

President Nikos Christodoulides met the chief executive officer of Italian energy giant Eni, Claudio Descalzi, in Rome on Friday, with the company’s final investment decision pending regarding planned extraction ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Thursday evening, with rumours abounding that he intended to use the meeting to gain Erdogan’...

Friday’s weather is expected to be markedly colder than recent days, with temperatures only set to reach 13 degrees Celsius inland, 15 degrees Celsius on the coast, and two degrees Celsius ...

The north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel on Thursday denied claims that he had taken a bribe of £300,000 to help facilitate the construction of a cable car in Kyrenia. The ...