Tom Cleaver

President Nikos Christodoulides met Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and other heads of government from across the globe on Tuesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in ...

The federal model for a solution to the Cyprus problem has “completely lost its validity”, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the United Nations General Assembly in New York on ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Tuesday rejected Turkey’s appeal against its ruling that the country had violated the human rights of a Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector ...

Half a million euro is to be spent on upgrading the island’s beaches next year, Deputy Minister of Tourism Costas Koumis said on Tuesday. “The beaches are undoubtedly one ...

A 17-year-old boy has been hospitalised and required surgery on a leg injury after being involved in a fight on Larnaca’s Finikoudes beach on Monday night. According to the ...

Sunday’s football match between Omonia 29M and Apoel will take place without away fans, the Cyprus Football Association (CFA) announced on Tuesday. The CFA said the decision had been ...

Three times the average rainfall for the month of September fell in just four hours in Nicosia on Monday, the met office said on Tuesday. As such, Monday’s rainfall ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar is to meet United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday, according to Turkish Cypriot news agency Tak. The meeting between the pair is set to ...

The court case filed by Kostas Konstantinou against narrow defeat in the Paphos district gubernatorial election began at the town’s electoral court on Monday. Konstantinou lost the election to ...

The police and the fire brigade had to intervene after rain brought Nicosia’s traffic to a standstill on Monday afternoon. Heavy rain hit the capital shortly after 2pm, with ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition party CTP (Republican Turkish Party) leader Tufan Erhurman left Cyprus to travel to New York on Monday for meetings on the sidelines of the United Nations General ...

A man appeared in court in the north on Monday after having been arrested at the Ayios Dhometios crossing point by the Turkish Cypriot police for attempting to cross to ...

A man was sentenced to two years in prison on Monday for firing a shotgun into the air as part of his new year’s celebrations. He appeared in front ...

The north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel on Monday ruled out any imminent cabinet reshuffle after surviving an internal party leadership challenge at his party the National Unity Party (UBP)’...

Serbia will “never recognise the occupation [of Cyprus] as legal”, the country’s ambassador in Nicosia Suzana Boskovic-Prodanovic said on Monday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, she said Cyprus ...

Voting was delayed for over an hour while the focus remained on plans for a two-state solution to the Cyprus problem at the north’s largest party the UBP on ...

The United States navy’s amphibious landing dock ship the USS Oak Hill docked in Limassol on Friday to conduct scheduled maintenance. According to the Defence Visual Information Distribution Service, ...

Two parallel bicommunal rubbish cleanups were held on either side of Nicosia for World Cleanup Day on Friday. A total of 80 volunteers gathered in Cyprus’ divided capital city, supported by ...

Representatives of opposition political parties from both sides, Akel and the CTP, are to travel to New York to attend events and hold meetings on the sidelines of the United ...

The Cyprus Bar Association on Saturday vowed to “vigorously defend the independence of the courts against any attempts to undermine them”. Their statement came amid public upset over the sacking ...

The governments of Cyprus and Greece on Saturday signed a “framework of understanding” regarding the section of the Great Sea Interconnector which will connect Cyprus to the Greek island of ...

The European Commission is “closely monitoring” the government’s planned reforms to the audit office, the commission’s acting spokeswoman for the rule of law Jordis Ferroli said on Saturday. ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos on Saturday hailed rating agency Morningstar DBRS’ decision to give Cyprus a credit rating of BBB (high) and upgrade the island’s outlook from “stable” to “...

Civil defence sirens sounded in the Paphos district village of Kissonerga in the early hours of Saturday morning due to a malfunction. The sirens began wailing at 12.40am, though, as ...