Tom Cleaver

Police in northern Nicosia arrested three people on Thursday morning after a large fire broke out on the premises of a banner company on Wednesday evening. The trio were arrested ...

A former ‘education minister’ in the north signed off on the opening of 16 universities, opposition political party CTP ‘MP’ Sami Ozuslu said on Wednesday evening. Speaking on television to Kanal ...

Police in the Famagusta district arrested a 31-year-old man on suspicion of stealing around 100 kilograms of copper on Wednesday night. According to Famagusta police department spokesman Steve Theodoulou, a man ...

Russian citizens living in the north are able to vote in the country’s Presidential elections, according to Kibris Postasi. A ballot box has been opened in the building in ...

Former Turkish Cypriot Leader Mehmet Ali Talat said on Wednesday that Turkey’s current stance on the Cyprus problem is “a complete fiasco”. Speaking to Kibris Postasi, he said Turkey “...

Conservation work at the Ayios Sergios and Vakhos church in the village of Neta, in the Karpas peninsula, has been completed, Turkish Cypriot co-chairman of the Technical Committee on Cultural ...

The north’s transport minister Erhan Arikli branded a Turkish Cypriot ‘MP’ racist on Wednesday. In a Facebook post, Arikli took umbrage at opposition party CTP ‘MP’ Ceyhun Birinci having ...

The government on Wednesday announced its approval of a bill which would give it the power to set the maximum price of some products, including bottled water, at airports and ...

The government on Wednesday decided to send financial aid to those affected by storms in Limassol and the village of Kormakitis earlier this year. Speaking after a cabinet meeting, Interior ...

A three-year-old child who contracted measles is “out of danger” and in a “good condition” under treatment at the Makarios hospital in Nicosia, the hospital’s paediatric department director Avraam ...

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides on Wednesday described a planned separation of his powers set out by President Nikos Christodoulides as “legally impossible”. In a post on X, he said the Audit ...

An 82-year-old grandfather was jailed on Wednesday for shooting a man who was attempting to steal electricity cables from his house last June. He was sentenced at the Limassol criminal ...

The Austrian government on Wednesday threw its weight behind Cyprus’ plan to declare parts of Syria safe to return migrants. Speaking to the Cyprus Mail, a spokesperson for the Austrian ...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday said it is not his fault if people “cannot see the realities of Cyprus”. Speaking during a trip to the German capital Berlin, ...

The Swedish government on Tuesday refuted the Cypriot interior ministry’s claim it had offered “significant support” for the plan to declare parts of Syria safe. The interior ministry had ...

Diplomats past and present convened on Tuesday to mark the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp) and discuss prospects for peace in ...

Footpaths at the southern end of Ledra Street and on the pavement of adjacent Fokionos street inside Nicosia’s old town are to be resurfaced this weekend. The Nicosia Municipality ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou committed her ministry to building new schools and upgrading existing ones in the town and district of Larnaca. Speaking during a visit to the town’s ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday thanked Slovakia for the country’s “long-term” support regarding the Cyprus problem. He was speaking at a meeting with Slovakia’s Parliament speaker Peter Pellegrini ...

The son of a man whose body was found washed up on the north’s coast last month said on Tuesday the north’s authorities “did not even call” him ...

A Turkish Cypriot MP demanded the north’s law on military crimes be changed after the trial of Turkish Cypriot journalist Ali Kismir was postponed again on Monday. Kismir stands ...

A high-ranking civil servant in the north was arrested on Monday night as part of the police’s investigations into a mass brawl which took place in Nicosia’s old ...

The Cyprus problem “is still solvable”, the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp)’s head Colin Stewart said on Monday. Speaking at an event at the Ledra Palace hotel ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Monday implored his European Union counterparts to re-evaluate the status of parts of Syria and consider parts of the war-torn country as “safe”. Speaking at ...