Tom Cleaver

A 42-year-old man was handed an eight-day remand on Friday, accused of facilitating the illegal transportation of irregular migrants to Cyprus. The remand is related to the detection of two ...

Cyprus and the United Arab Emirates signed a bilateral defence cooperation programme covering the year 2024 on Thursday. The agreement was signed in Abu Dhabu by National Guard international relations chief ...

Turkish Cypriot lawyer Akan Kursat, who is currently on bail after being extradited to Cyprus from Italy, “committed no crime on either side of the island,” Cyprus Turkish Bar Association ...

Ruling coalition party in the north the YDP postponed its leadership election on Friday, just a day before it was set to take place. In a slightly awkward joint press ...

A 42-year-old Greek Cypriot was arrested at the Pergamos crossing point in the north after being found to have been using forged car insurance documents. Further inspection of his vehicle ...

A woman appeared in court in Famagusta on Friday accused of beating a 100-year-old resident of the care home at which she works. The incident came to light after the 100...

Larnaca airport has been ranked inside the top 20 airports in the world by British business website BusinessFinancing. The ranking, which is based on scores given by business travellers, saw Larnaca ...

A new open wing at the central prison is set to be opened by the end of the month, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said on Friday. Hartsiotis was speaking following ...

Three men appeared in court in the north on Thursday, accused of selling lottery tickets and scratch cards from the Republic. Speaking in court, the police’s representative said one ...

The north is looking to mirror the Republic’s planned clampdown on Turkish Cypriot taxi drivers, with ‘parliament speaker’ Zorlu Tore promising to take the “necessary initiatives against unregistered taxi ...

Cyprus has the youngest population of any of the European Union’s member states, according to the latest figures published by the European Union’s statistical institute, Eurostat. The median ...

A 32-year-old man was arrested in the north on Thursday after allegedly pulling a knife on a barman. He reportedly got into a disagreement with the barman over the price ...

An ancient room, among other ancient artefacts, was discovered during archaeological digs at the Kalavsos-Laroumena site near Larnaca. The findings were discovered during the digging of two trenches, both of ...

The Met office issued a yellow weather warning for strong storms, expected between 11am on Thursday and 7pm on Friday. They said strong storms, including the potential falling of hail, ...

Primary school children in the Paphos village of Konia went on strike on Thursday in protest at the installation of a 5G cell tower in the village. The children protested ...

There was an explosion at the entrance of a medical clinic in Aradippou in the early hours of Thursday morning. According to police, the explosion took place at around 1am. ...

In today’s episode, intense weather resulted in scenes dubbed as “biblical destruction“. Meanwhile, the European Commission has greenlighted the use of Casgevy gene therapy to treat beta thalassaemia and ...

Cypriot MEP Niyazi Kizilyurek said on Wednesday night that the European Union “must deal with Turkish Cypriots’ problems.” He was speaking on Kibris Postasi TV and said the EU “does ...

Police in Larnaca arrested three men for “acting suspiciously” before the start of Wednesday night’s football match between Anorthosis and Apollon. The trio, two of whom are 28 years old ...

A man appeared in court in the north on Wednesday, accused of having broken his 76-year-old mother’s nose. The police officer speaking in court explained that the man, who ...

A leading figure in north coalition party the YDP has claimed she was “threatened” by party leader Erhan Arikli after endorsing his opponent Talip Atalay for the upcoming party leadership ...

It is “unacceptable” for Turkish Cypriots to be excluded from the European Union’s Erasmus exchange programme, the European Parliament’s Culture Committee declared on Wednesday. The matter of Turkish ...

The European Union’s Habitats Directive was “violated” by the environment department in its greenlighting of construction projects in the Cape Greco area, the Audit Office said on Wednesday. It ...

Former Turkish Cypriot chief negotiator for the Cyprus problem has revealed a document allegedly showing a university in the north, of which the rector was invited to meet ‘education minister’ ...