Tom Cleaver

The trial of Turkish Cypriot journalist Ali Kismir, who faces up to ten years in prison for “insulting” the Turkish Cypriot armed forces, was postponed again on Friday. Friday’s ...

The trial of Israeli property developer Simon Mistriel Aykut, who is accused of having developed and sold €43 million worth of property on Greek Cypriot land in the north, was adjourned ...

Pensioners are subject to “unbearable” car insurance premiums and face other discrimination based on their age, civil servants’ trade union Pasydy said on Friday. As well as the issue of ...

Swiss national Pierre Gentile on Friday began his duties as the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP)’s third member. Gentile succeeds his compatriot Paul-Henri Arni, who left the role at ...

The court case regarding the two monks who were found with €800,000 of unexplained cash and having allegedly engaged in sexual acts with one another at the Osiou Avakoum monastery was ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Thursday held a tripartite meeting with his Greek and Jordanian counterparts Giorgos Gerapetritis and Ayman Safadi in New York. The foreign ministry said that at ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday morning told the United Nations General Assembly that a two-state solution to the Cyprus problem “cannot happen and cannot be accepted”. In his ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Friday said President Nikos Christodoulides’ speech at the United Nations General Assembly “reflected his well-known primitive policies” on the Cyprus problem. He said Christodoulides ...

Ercan (Tymbou) airport’s holding company T&T’s general manager Serhat Ozcelik on Thursday insisted that the airport had not made a 1 billion TL (€29.8 million) loss in 2023, after ...

The European Commission sent a letter of formal notice to Cyprus on Wednesday, calling on it to speed up its issuing of permission for renewable energy projects. The letter said ...

Steps were taken on Thursday towards the creation of a new ambulance service, with Health Minister Michael Damianos attending the House health committee to put forward his position on the ...

Athienou was hit by a water shortage on Thursday. The town’s municipality said the shortage had hit due to problems in the water development department’s central water supply. ...

The rejection of Cyprus’ three nominees to sit on the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)’s judges election committee ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Turkish House in New York on Thursday. Tatar’s office said he had “expressed his gratitude” to ...

Turkish opposition party CHP leader Ozgur Ozel walked out of the room when Akel leader Stefanos Stefanou spoke at the Socialist International party leaders’ board meeting in New York on ...

Exactly 6,165 irregular migrants in the north were given amnesty by the ‘government’ as part of its latest “migration amnesty” scheme, ‘interior minister’ Dursun Oguz said on Wednesday. Speaking to Kibris ...

The holding company of the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport, T&T, posted a loss of more than 1 billion TL (€29.8 million) for 2023, and as a result, did not pay ...

A bill which would ban the use of mobile phones in schools by law will be voted on in parliament within the next fortnight, House education committee chairman and Diko ...

The north’s electricity authority Kib-Tek has the right to cancel its 15-year procurement contract with Turkish energy company Aksa over contract breaches with regard to the planned subsea electricity ...

The House legal committee on Wednesday discussed a bill which would allow parliament to force ministers, deputy ministers and other officials to appear before house committees. However, a legal service ...

Cyprus’ cooperation with Armenia is “excellent”, Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas said on Wednesday. Palmas was speaking after a meeting with his Armenian counterpart Suren Papikyan in the country’s capital ...

A man is suing a doctor and the hospital at which he was treated after undergoing an operation on his left knee when he had intended to undergo an operation ...

Cyprus’ transition to renewable energy sources has thus far been “slow”, environment commissioner Antonia Theodosiou said on Wednesday. Speaking at a workshop on the future of water, energy, food, and ...

Cyprus is “ready to face the complex challenges related to immigration”, Deputy Migration Minister Nicholas Ioannides said on Wednesday. Speaking in Athens following a meeting with Greek Migration Minister Nikolaos ...