Tom Cleaver

Cyprus will join the Schengen zone in 2026, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday. “We will join the Schengen zone in 2026. A huge effort is being made by the end of 2025 ...

Coral Bay has officially been designated a plastic-free beach, becoming the ninth beach in Cyprus and the first within the boundaries of the Akamas municipality to receive the designation. A ...

The police fired shots during the arrest of two men who were wanted in connection with two separate crimes in Paphos on Saturday. Paphos police’s assistant operations director Michalis ...

A fake news scam which has circulated on social media in recent days has posed as the Cyprus Mail and Cypriot businessman Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou. The website, hosted at “limass....

The central offices of Disy in Nicosia were vandalised on Saturday morning, with the building’s front door being smashed. Party leader Annita Demetriou was seen evaluating the scene outside ...

The Dutch police have made public a photograph of the man they suspect of having murdered Cemil Onal, the man who made allegations of a deep money-laundering and smuggling network ...

European parliament President Roberta Metsola on Saturday described her visit to Cyprus as “a message of our commitment to this country”. Speaking upon her visit to the presidential palace, she ...

A group of 22 United States congressmen have urged the country’s President Donald Trump to “bring up” Cyprus during a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which is ...

Former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who served under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, decried the “quagmire” of corruption, money laundering, and mafia activities in northern Cyprus, describing that quagmire as “...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou on Friday laid the foundation stone for what will become the Lycabettus nursery school in Nicosia. She said the foundation stone “marks the beginning of a ...

A political ally of former Turkish Cypriot chief negotiator Kudret Ozersay was arrested on Thursday night, amid a deepening row between Ozersay and the north’s ruling coalition over the ...

Two Hungarian nationals were on Friday handed jail sentences for having usurped Greek Cypriot property in the north. One of the two women was sentenced to two and a half ...

A funeral was held on Friday for a woman from Polis Chrysochous who had been missing since 1974, and whose remains were unearthed by the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP). Ayse ...

Membership of the European Union has “undoubtedly been our greatest success”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday. Speaking at an event in Nicosia to mark Europe Day, he said Cyprus’ ...

The European Union is working towards ensuring that Turkey accepts the resumption of negotiations to solve the Cyprus problem from where they left off in Crans Montana in 2017, with the ...

The opposition in the north has expressed anger over the decision of ‘MPs’ from ruling coalition party the UBP to refuse to lift the ‘parliamentary’ immunity of one of their ...

Nicosia’s central Selimiye mosque reopened on Thursday after five years of renovations. The reopening ceremony was attended by Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, the north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal ...

A handwriting expert testified in court on Thursday that former volunteer commissioner Yiannakis Yiannaki’s high school diploma was tempered with, with the case against him regarding the alleged forgery ...

Commerce Minister George Papanastasiou on Thursday offered his support for the establishment of a new cooperative bank. “The government supports the initiative, and I will undertake, as an obligation, to ...

A selection of Turkish Cypriot journalists gathered at the north’s police headquarters on Thursday morning to demand bolstered protection for Aysemden Akin, who received death threats after publishing a ...

Progress is being made to use more of the recycled water produced by water treatment plants, the water development department said on Thursday. The department pointed out that between 2020 and 2023, ...

The road between Rizokarpaso and the Apostolos Andreas monastery on Cyprus’ northeastern tip will be closed during afternoons until further notice, the north’s ‘transport ministry’ announced on Thursday. The ...

The report on Turkey approved by the European parliament on Wednesday is a “biased document” which “ignores the will of the Turkish Cypriot people”, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said. ...

Members of the European parliament late on Wednesday night condemned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent visit to the north, with one describing him as “a neo-Ottoman tyrant and ...