Tom Cleaver

Yusuf Alemdar, the mayor of Turkey’s Sakarya municipality, which is located on the country’s Black Sea coast, lied about having obtained a degree in Cyprus, according to reports ...

Bilal Balci, a former municipal civil engineer at Turkey’s Adiyaman municipality, who was last month handed a ten-year suspended prison sentence and released on bail conditions for his role ...

Anastasia Routi-Eleftheriadi was on Monday appointed as the Paphos municipality’s interim municipal secretary as the town’s council returns to work following the suspension of mayor Phedonas Phedonos last ...

The Republic of Cyprus is obliged to agree to transfer Israeli prisoner Simon Aykut to the country of which he holds citizenship to serve out the remainder of his sentence, ...

Cyprus can “act as a facilitator” to help strengthen relations between the European Union and the United Kingdom, European Fisheries Commissioner Costas Kadis said. “Cyprus and the UK have a ...

European Fisheries Commissioner Costas Kadis has pledged that the European Union will put forward two new strategies for coastal communities and islands during Cyprus’ six-month term as the holder of ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou on Saturday planted trees near Nicosia’s Kaloyeros river, saying that “actions such as this send a substantial message for the protection of the environment”. “Urban ...

The 63-year-old man who died in the central prison on Friday choked on his food, according to the results of an autopsy carried out on Saturday. The autopsy was carried ...

Berlin-based credit rating agency Scope on Saturday announced that it had upgraded Cyprus’ long-term credit rating from ‘A-’ to ‘A’. In justifying its decision, it cited a “significant reduction” of ...

A police officer was headbutted by an inmate of the Menoyia detention centre who had been taken to the Larnaca general hospital, Larnaca police spokesman Spyros Chrysostomou said on Saturday. ...

The government is considering opening a polling station in Brussels for May’s parliamentary election, interior ministry permanent secretary Elikkos Elia said on Saturday. He told the Cyprus News Agency ...

The Paphos town council will hold an extraordinary session on Monday to decide on its next steps, with the post of municipal secretary remaining vacant. Paphos has been without a ...

The United Kingdom has deployed six more fighter jets to its air force base in Akrotiri, according to reports on Saturday, with fears growing that the United States may launch ...

A total of 837 Turkish Cypriots are registered to vote in May’s parliamentary election, interior ministry permanent secretary Elikkos Elia said on Saturday. That figure is an increase of three ...

More than half a million people are registered to vote in May’s parliamentary election, interior ministry permanent secretary Elikkos Elia said on Saturday. He told the Cyprus News Agency ...

Workers at Ektam, the north’s producer of Pepsi and other well-known soft drinks, have gone on a 24-hour strike, claiming that the company has deprived them of the right ...

A 39-year-old man from Limassol was hospitalised with a fractured skull, a fractured rib, and other serious injuries after having been issued threats by his landlord, the police said on ...

Two police officers were injured after a vehicle they were attempting to stop as part of an operation targeting alleged drug dealers collided with their vehicles. The incident occurred on ...

Saturday is set to begin with partial cloud cover across most of the island, with isolated rain expected later in the day. The odd isolated storm may be possible in ...

Turkish Cypriot doctors on Friday went on a full-day strike, citing a laundry list of shortcomings on the part of the north’s ruling coalition, and saying that health services ...

European Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos on Friday said she “welcomes Turkey’s engagement” in talks regarding the Cyprus problem. The comment was made as part of a joint statement released ...

Turkish Cypriots on Friday commemorated the third anniversary of the two devastating earthquakes which struck southeastern Turkey on February 6, 2023. A total of 49 Cypriots were among the more than 50,000 people recorded ...

Social media personality Ioanna Photiou, who is better known by her alias ‘Annie Alexui’, on Friday said she would only return to Cyprus from Russia if people she trusts in ...

The legal service on Friday announced that attorney-general George Savvides has filed criminal cases against one person and two legal entities at the Nicosia district court in relation to “possible ...