Tom Cleaver

The humanitarian situation in Gaza “is continuing to deteriorate”, Cyprus’ ambassador to the United Nations Maria Michael said on Wednesday night. Speaking to the UN Security Council’s annual open ...

A 51-year-old man was on Wednesday sentenced to two years in prison after having been found guilty of captaining a boat full of irregular migrants which arrived in Cyprus in ...

Police in Limassol on Wednesday arrested a 31-year-old man after they found cocaine, ketamine and other drugs in his car and in his apartment. The man’s car was pulled ...

The severed foot found on Lara Bay beach in Paphos on Sunday belongs to an adult, according to an anthropologist commissioned to investigate it. Paphos police assistant operations director Michalis ...

People living in the Troodos mountain area “should not be treated as second-class citizens”, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Wednesday. He was speaking about the state of the Troodos ...

Elam leader Christos Christou on Wednesday insinuated that Diko leader Nicholas Papadopoulos “attends LGBT fiestas” during a televised interview with the pair. They were debating various matters on Sigma TV, ...

The Palestinian president’s office on Wednesday swiftly corrected an announcement after it had initially made reference to the “Greek Administration of Southern Cyprus”. The office had put out a ...

Turkish Cypriot farmers on Wednesday smashed the gate of the north’s ‘transport ministry’ building, with the gate being the second in two days to be smashed in protest. Wednesday ...

None of the aid unloaded from the jetty constructed off the coast of Gaza has yet been delivered to the broader Palestinian population, Pentagon press secretary Major General Pat Ryder ...

England comfortably beat France 4-0 in their opening game of the Uefa under-17 championship at the Ammochostos Stadium in Larnaca on Tuesday night. Mikey Moore opened the scooring in just ...

Police investigations into the scandal at the Osiou Avakoum monastery are expected to be completed “within days”, sources close to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) said on Tuesday. The sources ...

Vacuum tankers tasked with transporting sewage from Trikomo to Famagusta were found dumping raw sewage onto waste ground on the side of the road, Trikomo’s Turkish Cypriot municipality announced ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar left Cyprus for Australia on Tuesday. He is travelling to Australia to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the presence of Turkish Cypriots in the country. ...

Two people were injured and a knife was brandished during a fight on Nicosia’s central Ledras street on Tuesday afternoon. The fight took place in a residential property, with ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday night said, “we must do everything possible to put an end to the occupation of our homeland”. Speaking at the opening of the exiled Morphou ...

Limassol Zoo may be transformed into an ‘animal farm park’ after a proposal for its future was put to the city’s council. The proposal was put forward by the ...

Turkish Cypriot farmers smashed the gate of the ‘prime minister’s’ office on Tuesday on their second day of protest. Farmers from across the north had descended on northern Nicosia ...

Forty per cent of Cypriots are “just getting by”, a poll presented on Tuesday showed. The same poll, carried out by the Cypronetwork company and commissioned by the Cyprus consumers’ ...

The north’s minimum wage was raised to a gross figure of 34,070TL (€975) per month late on Monday night, bringing the figure up to just €25 lower than that of the ...

Diko leader Nicholas Papadopoulos on Tuesday challenged Elam leader Christos Christou to a debate over the latter’s alleged proposal to give passports to immigrants so they leave the country. “...

A 15-year-old boy is in a critical condition in hospital after falling from the roof of a four-storey block of flats in Paphos on Tuesday. Police were informed about the ...

The rate of progress on the under-construction road between Paphos and Polis Chrysochous is “worrying”, Paphos chamber of commerce chairman George Mais said on Monday. He said he considers the ...

Cyprus were thrashed 5-0 by the Czech Republic in their opening game of the Uefa under-17 championship at the AEK Arena in Larnaca on Monday night. A young crowd of 5,417 ...

By Nikolaos Prakas and Tom Cleaver President Nikos Christodoulides met Chinese ambassador Liu Yantao on Monday to discuss the increasingly fractious dispute over the liquefied natural gas terminal (LNG) being ...