Tom Cleaver

More than 1,200 people have signed up to participate in the government’s “e-Kofini” channel on the communication app Viber, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Monday. The Viber channel was ...

Sefa Karahasan, the Turkish public broadcaster TRT’s Cyprus correspondent, was arrested in the north in relation to the ongoing “fake diploma scandal” and appeared in court on Tuesday. Karahasan’...

A woman from Kyrenia was arrested for practicing “witchcraft” and for taking money in exchange for promises of a Republic of Cyprus passport, the Turkish Cypriot police announced on Tuesday. ...

Two firefighting helicopters and a total of 18 crew members arrived in Cyprus from Jordan with the aim of boosting Cyprus’ firefighting capabilities ahead of the summer, the agriculture ministry said ...

United Nations Envoy Maria Angela Holguin is set to arrive in Cyprus on Tuesday and begin her latest round of meetings. She is expected to meet with President Nikos Christodoulides ...

A 30-year-old man from Limassol has died after being involved in a road traffic accident on the road between Kalo Chorio and Limassol on Easter Sunday evening. The man, named ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar met with Gambian President Adama Barrow on Saturday night. Tatar told Barrow about latest developments regarding the Cyprus problem and asked for his support on ...

A 16-year-old boy was hospitalised on Easter Sunday after the car in which he was riding as a passenger crashed. The crash occurred in the Paphos village of Peyia at ...

Damage caused by extreme weather caused power cuts to hit across the island on Easter Sunday. A yellow weather warning had been issued on Saturday for storms, with Cyprus’ electricity ...

Police made multiple arrests across the country of people carrying firecrackers and other pyrotechnic paraphernalia on Easter Saturday. One 18-year-old man was arrested near the Ayia Marina church in Limassol ...

A house belonging to a 73-year-old man was set on fire on Saturday night as a group of up to 70 youths attacked police who had been called as a lambradjia ...

A police car was completely destroyed on Easter Saturday night in what Limassol police spokesman Lefteris Kyriakou called an “organised attack”. The car had been set on fire when police ...

The northeast of Cyprus will be without water for 72 hours between Monday and Thursday while repairs are made to a burst pipe. Settlements located between Petra tou Digeni and Rizokarpaso ...

Two Turkish Cypriot political parties, the YDP and the Milletin Partisi, are set to formally merge on Sunday. The Milletin Partisi, a minor party with no elected representatives, will effectively ...

Congestion at crossing points between Cyprus’ two sides is the fault of the Greek Cypriot side, the north’s ‘foreign ministry’ insisted on Friday. They said the long wait times ...

The number of journalists killed in Gaza since October last year is on a scale “not seen since the second world war”, Union of Cyprus journalists’ chairman Giorgos Frangos said ...

Unpredictable weather between Cyprus and Gaza may delay the transportation of humanitarian aid to the strip, White House national security communications adviser John Kirby said on Friday. He said there ...

The act of covering one’s face at a protest may be outlawed, according to a new bill put forward by the government. The bill, which has been put forward ...

Cars in the north should drive on the right hand side of the road, the north’s ‘parliament speaker’ Zorlu Tore said. Speaking on Turkish television, Tore said tourists travelling ...

Consumers across Cyprus are “waiting until the last minute” to do their Easter shopping, supermarkets’ association chairman Andreas Hadjiadamou said on Thursday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), he ...

Varosha “should be transformed into a free trade zone” and a “common living area” for both Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, late Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash’s son Serdar ...

A Greek Cypriot man has died after being involved in a road traffic accident in the north. The man, named as 79-year-old Photis Photiou, was driving his pickup truck on ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar is to travel to the Gambia on Thursday ahead of the 15th Islamic summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The summit is set ...

There is “no room for compromise” in the pursuit of the truth over the Osiou Avakoum monastery scandal, the Tamasos Bishopric said on Thursday. “Our only goal is the revelation ...