Tom Cleaver

Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air on Wednesday announced it will resume flights from Cyprus to Israel. The company had most recently suspended its route between Larnaca and Tel Aviv in ...

The rate of Cypriot citizens who have their applications for United States visas rejected has fallen below the minimum threshold for the country to join the country’s Visa Waiver ...

Elam brought a new bill on sex education in schools to the House education committee on Wednesday, causing a fierce debate on the subject among committee members. The party said ...

The north’s higher education accreditation authority (Yodak)’s membership of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (Enqa) expired on Wednesday, with Enqa confirming that they had ...

Greece and Cyprus are “strong supporters” of “upgrading” the European Union’s relations with Jordan, Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday. Speaking on the sidelines of trilateral meeting with ...

The police on Wednesday warned of the arrival of “dangerous” Polish football fans arriving in Cyprus ahead of Omonia’s Europa Conference League fixture with Polish club Legia Warsaw at ...

Newly elected European fisheries commissioner Costas Kadis said on Wednesday he will work with determination over the next five years with his fellow commissioners for a better Europe. “Today’s ...

Doctors working at state hospitals started a two-day strike on Tuesday morning as a dispute over performance-based bonuses paid by the state health services (Okypy) rolls on. Okypy said they ...

Cypriot Member of the European Parliament Fidias Panayiotou on Tuesday announced his intention to invite schoolchildren to the European Parliament building, prompting the Cypriot education ministry to distance itself from ...

The trial of Turkish Cypriot journalist Ali Kismir, who faces up to 10 years in prison for “insulting” the Turkish Cypriot armed forces, began on Tuesday, with a prosecution witness saying ...

An agreement has been reached in principle for the sale of newspaper Politis to a businessman by the name of Chris Panayiotou, it announced on Tuesday. It added that the ...

The amount of rain which has fallen in Cyprus so far during the month of November is already at 150 per cent of the average for the whole month, yet the ...

Turkish Cypriot police chief Kasim Kuni on Monday night denied the north’s ‘health minister’ Hakan Dincyurek’s claims that the police had ordered him to not immediately disclose that ...

A man and a woman, both aged 29 years old, were arrested in connection with a string of thefts which occurred in the town and the surrounding villages, Paphos police’s ...

Cypriot Member of the European Parliament Loucas Fourlas on Monday night launched a scathing attack on the European Union’s “hypocrisy” on the Cyprus problem. Addressing a European Parliament session ...

Two men from Paphos were remanded in custody for five days on Saturday after having been arrested for having stolen copper cables from manholes. The pair, aged 42 and 24 years old, ...

The number of people in prison in the north has fallen to 840, ‘interior minister’ Dursun Oguz said on Friday night. Addressing the ‘parliamentary’ finance committee, where his ‘ministry’s’ budget ...

The north is to import 200 tonnes of potatoes on Monday or Tuesday as the price of local potatoes soars to 140TL (€3.89) per kilogram. ‘Agriculture minister’ Huseyin Cavus announced the planned ...

The United Kingdom “looks forward to participating” in a planned enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem, the country’s new High Commissioner in Nicosia Michael Tatham said while presenting his ...

Christmas villages across Cyprus opened their doors as the season begins, with villages open in the villages of Agros, Dherynia, Fikardou, Kalopanayiotis, Kiti, and Kyperounta, and in Nicosia’s old ...

Three people were arrested in Limassol after police found a suitcase containing over 5.7 kilogrammes of cocaine and 5.6 kilogrammes of cannabis in a suitcase in the owned by one of the ...

Cyprus’ reformed system of local government is “better than the previous regime”, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Saturday. Addressing a seminar on the matter in Lefkara, he said the ...

Ratings agency Moody’s on Saturday restored Cyprus’ credit rating to its ‘A’, specifically giving the island a score of ‘A3’, restoring the island to the ‘A’ grade for the ...

A 33-year-old man was arrested in the early hours of Saturday morning after having been found to be illegally transporting a shotgun and ammunition in his vehicle, among other crimes. ...