Tom Cleaver

Police on Wednesday found a low-powered improvised explosive device in a vehicle owned by a woman in Larnaca. Larnaca police spokesman Spyros Chrysostomou confirmed that the device did not explode, ...

A 30-year-old man was arrested after a total of €200 in coins was stolen from a fruit shop in Limassol on Tuesday. Police said the theft was reported by the shop’...

There will be no alterations made to local government reforms which will “affect their philosophy” in any way, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters at a photograph ...

Two people were hospitalised following an explosion in the Nicosia suburb of Engomi on Wednesday evening. The explosion took place in a two-storey residential building in the Makedonitissa neighbourhood. One ...

Police in Paphos on Tuesday made three arrests following a string of robberies at churches in the area. A total of ten break-ins had taken place at churches in the ...

Orange farmers staged a protest at the roundabout next to the Morphou bus station on Tuesday over a raft of problems hitting the north’s citrus industry. Protestors poured hundreds ...

A total of €9.5 million worth of damage was caused by fires in 2023, the fire service announced on Tuesday. As part of a review of the year, they said the lion’...

British Defence Minister Grant Shapps revived the idea of a humanitarian aid corridor between Cyprus and Gaza on Tuesday. Speaking in the British Parliament on the matter of humanitarian aid ...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar travelled to Ankara on Tuesday. Before departing for Turkey from Ercan (Tymbou) airport, he spoke to reporters about the invite extended to him by Azerbaijan ...

Although it made front page news in the north, police said they received no information that a group of eight young Turkish Cypriots said on Monday they had been attacked ...

Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev said on Monday that “the president of the TRNC will attend” an upcoming summit of the Organisation of Turkic States (OTS) in his country. Aliyev was ...

Police in Larnaca are investigating a case in which four men allegedly robbed a house “under the threat of garden shears”. The alleged burglary took place shortly after 1am on ...

A carer who allegedly beat a 100-year-old man who resided at the care home at which she worked in Famagusta was released on bail on Monday. In court in Famagusta, ...

Restoration works on former Turkish Cypriot homes on Piale Pasha street in Larnaca have been completed, the town’s municipality announced on Monday. The works pertained to improvements to the ...

A man appeared in court in the north on Monday, accused of robbing six asylum seekers who had been smuggled with his help from Turkey to northern Cyprus. In court, ...

A 29-year-old man appeared in court in Paphos on Monday as part of the police’s investigation into a large quantity of drugs found in the village of Emba last ...

Turgay Avci, chairman of the north’s higher education standards authority (Yodak), insisted on Monday that his own degree is real. Avci had faced allegations that his degree, which he ...

Nicosia mayoral candidate and current Disy MP Nikos Tornaritis on Monday announced plans to construct a bicommunal solar farm in the buffer zone in the city. Speaking at a meeting ...

Drugs and other prohibited items including mobile phones are being smuggled into prison from court, reports said on Monday. According to Phileleftheros, the drugs and prohibited items come into prisoners’ ...

The ceiling of the canteen at the Canakkale middle school in Famagusta collapsed during the February school holidays, it emerged on Monday. The ceiling’s collapse is the latest in ...

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the Paphos Municipal Wholesale Market “definitively and irrevocably” belongs to the town’s municipality. The ruling draws a line under a 30-year saga ...

The 47-year-old man accused of attacking two others with a machete sent threatening texts to the girlfriend of one of his victims, it emerged on Friday. The nature of the ...

Larnaca on Friday signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Lebanese city of Jounieh. The memorandum pertains to cooperation in the fields of economy, trade, and investment, and was signed ...

The Limassol chamber of commerce and industry (Evel) on Friday expressed its “disagreement and displeasure” with comments made by Deputy Culture Minister Lina Kassianidou that no new premises should be ...