Tom Cleaver

The families of the 24 Cypriot children killed when the Isias hotel in Adiyaman, Turkey, collapsed, have demanded those held criminally responsible for the deaths be charged with intentionally killing all 24 ...

Parliament on Thursday passed the Charter of European political parties for a non-racist and inclusive society, despite opposition from Elam. The charter was drafted by the Council of Europe’s ...

A 36-year-old man was remanded in custody for eight days in Larnaca on Thursday after allegedly being in possession of child pornography. The man was arrested on the same day ...

Parliament passed a new law on Thursday which sets out the rights and responsibilities of both employees who work remotely and their employers. The law includes all private sector and ...

Health authorities in the United Kingdom have approved a drug which aims to cure beta thalassaemia and sickle cell disease. The drug is called Casgevy and utilises a gene-editing tool ...

Charges were brought against 22 Turkish Cypriot teachers on Thursday for “battering” police officers and “impeding their duty” during a protest which took place last year. The protest took place on ...

The head of the north’s met office, Raif Ilker Buran, was sacked on Wednesday after predicting droughts in the coming year. Buran, who had been in post since 2014, said “...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar travelled to London on Thursday. While in the United Kingdom’s capital city, it is expected that he will meet with contacts at the British ...

A project which aims to detoxify wastewater of pharmaceutical origin was unveiled in Limassol on Thursday. The project, called “Life Pharma Detox”, is being worked on by scientists from across ...

Representatives of both Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot political parties visited Northern Ireland in November. The representatives took part in the Cyprus Dialogue Forum, which charted Northern Ireland’s course ...

Says he ‘lit the spark’ for two-state solution policy Former Turkish Cypriot Leader Mehmet Ali Talat hit out at one of his successors, Mustafa Akinci, in an interview published this ...

The latest in a series of pro-Palestine protests began at Nicosia’s Eleftheria Square on Saturday afternoon. Protesters are demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, and end to the blockade on ...

A ceremony was held at the monument to the Cypriot fallen in the Second World War to commemorate Remembrance Day on Saturday. The day is commemorated across the world on ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday that the Turkish Cypriot side had effectively “backed away” from the mutual understanding reached on construction works in the buffer zone village of Pyla. ...

The Turkish Cypriot Federation of Revolutionary Trade Unions (Dev-Is) has begun registering retired Turkish Cypriots who worked in the Republic to the health system Gesy. Dev-Is explained they had been ...

A British national has been declared missing after failing to board a flight at Paphos airport on Wednesday. The man, named as 70-year-old Melvyn Storie, was scheduled to fly from ...

British military aircraft have been making frequent flights between the country’s Sovereign Base Area in Akrotiri and Israel since the Gaza crisis erupted in October. A UK-based website by ...

The 21-year-old suspect in the case of the murder of Thanasis Kalogeropoulos was remanded in custody for seven days on Saturday. The man was jeered by friends and relatives of ...

Cooperation between Cyprus and Greece is becoming even closer, Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Saturday. Letymbiotis had held a meeting with his Greek counterpart Pavlos Marinakis on the sidelines ...

The annual budgets for the ‘prime minister’s’ office and public broadcaster BRT passed through the committee stage of the north’s ‘parliament’ on Friday evening. The pair of committee ...

The forestry department on Friday took ownership of six new drones. Two of the drones were donated by online trading platform Exness Global Ltd, while the remaining four were acquired ...

House President Annita Demetriou called on the government to take measures to alleviate the cost of living for retirees on Friday. Demetriou was speaking to the House of Elders and ...

Opposition ‘MPs’ in the north called on ‘parliament speaker’ Zorlu Tore to resign on Thursday evening during rising tensions surrounding the ‘state’ budget. The controversy arose as ‘parliament’s’ finance ...

The basic pension rate is set to increase by four per cent from the beginning of the new year, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said on Friday. Panayiotou was addressing the ...