Tom Cleaver

The two millionth person to visit Varosha since its reopening in 2020 did so on Friday. The number of people to have visited passed two million as a Turkish family of ...

Turkish Cypriot doctors on Friday warned of staff and infrastructure shortages at accident and emergency departments across the north as demand continues to rise. Cyprus Turkish medical association (KTTB) secretary-general ...

Turkish Cypriot high jumper Buse Savaskan qualified for the Olympic final by finishing in joint fourth place in her heat at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis. Savaskan, who competes ...

The police sent a letter to the Cyprus Football Association (CFA), outlining stadiums’ responsibilities regarding the safety of fans, players, coaches, and other attendees during football matches, Justice Minister Marios ...

A pro-Palestine protest is set to take place in Limassol on Saturday, planned to coincide with the “International day of action for Gaza and the prisoners”. The protest’s organisers, ...

The risk of forest fires on Saturday has been set at “red alert”, the forestry department said on Friday. Alongside the setting of the fire risk level, the department also ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin “knows nothing about the Cyprus problem”, the north’s ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu said on Friday. Speaking to Ada TV, he said Holguin “is ...

A prisoner in the north sustained first-degree burns on his face and body after having boiling water with sugar in it poured on his face and body. The prisoner was ...

Two lanes are to close on the road to the Ayios Dhometios crossing point from the north from Saturday. The usual southbound carriageway between the Metehan roundabout ant the crossing ...

Larnaca mayor Andreas Vyras on Friday expressed his “satisfaction” with the government’s announcement from the previous day that the development of the town’s port and marina will now ...

Two suspects arrested in connection with the discovery of two charred bodies in a car in Limassol were remanded in custody for eight days on Friday. The pair, aged 23 and 19 ...

Cypriot high jumpers Elena Kulichenko and Buse Savaskan are to make their Olympic debuts on Friday morning as the qualifying round begins at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis. Kulichenko, ...

The new ‘presidential’ palace and ‘parliament’ buildings in the north, which are under construction in Ayios Dhometios, are to be completed by November or December at the latest, Turkish Vice ...

A mass brawl involving 11 people on Wednesday night ended with a brick flying through the window of a police car, the Turkish Cypriot police said on Thursday. The fight took ...

The citizens’ service centre on Makarios avenue in central Nicosia will close for good on September 6, the government announced on Thursday. The move was marketed as a “merger” of the ...

Turkish Cypriots “cannot be linobambaki”, the north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli said on Thursday. Speaking on the 453rd anniversary of the Ottoman conquest of Cyprus in 1571, he described August ...

A total of 43 per cent of Cypriots believe the rise of Elam is “dangerous for democracy” while 58 per cent said there was a need for new parties, according to a ...

A 59-year-old man from Paphos was arrested on Wednesday after being spotted by an off-duty police officer holding a stolen gallery gun while walking around a residential area. The man, ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition politicians reacted furiously after TMT veterans were invited by ‘parliament speaker’ Zorlu Tore to meet inside the ‘parliament’s’ chamber on Wednesday ahead of the 66th anniversary ...

A 28-year-old man was arrested on Thursday in Nicosia on suspicion of having robbed three bakeries. The first robbery took place at 11pm, with the man entering a bakery with ...

The north’s ‘government’ on Wednesday night announced that it would privatise the operation of the landfill site in the village of Koutsoventis. The north’s central tender commission said ...

The north will soon require all property owners who rent their properties on short term bases on tourism websites such as Airbnb to register their properties with the ‘government’ as ...

The north is working to “create a reliable system in the field of higher education”, higher education accreditation authority (Yodak) chairman Aykut Hocanin said on Wednesday. Speaking following a meeting ...

Cyprus is yet to receive any requests from other countries to activate its ‘Estia’ plan to evacuate their citizens from Lebanon, as the country continues to teeter on the edge ...