Tom Cleaver

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis on Wednesday acclaimed what he described as a “show of power in Cyprus”, when his country deployed frigates and F-16 fighter jets to the island ...

President Nikos Christodoulides’ meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Wednesday ended with no joint statement, with the pair going their separate ways following around an hour and a ...

The final decision regarding the apportion of responsibility among four men found guilty of involvement in the murder of Thanasis Kalogeropoulos was on Wednesday delayed until next month. The four, ...

Three people in the north have tested positive for West Nile virus, the Turkish Cypriot ‘health ministry’ said on Tuesday, with seven confirmed cases already having been detected in the ...

The funeral of Saliha Ozkol, who was murdered by her ex-husband on Monday, was held on Tuesday afternoon in Ayios Georgios, near Trikomo, where she lived. It was attended by ...

President Nikos Christodoulides, his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday declared their joint intention to “uphold security and stability in the region” after ...

The fire at the landfill site near the Kyrenia village of Koutsoventis may continue to burn for weeks, bicommunal technical committee on the environment co-chairman Michalis Loizides said on Tuesday, ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel and Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz on Tuesday discussed the “next steps” to be taken regarding the salvage operation of the passenger ferry that ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday said that he “truly believes” both that a solution to the Cyprus problem is possible, and that his interlocutor, Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman, also ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met in the Egyptian Mediterranean coastal city of El Alamein on Tuesday morning, ahead of a trilateral meeting the pair ...

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Monday told Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides that his country intends to “get closer” to the European Union, six and a half years after leaving ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday said that a total of nine ships and 11 aircraft are participating in efforts to recover the bodies of the 14 people who remain unaccounted ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday said that he would be ready to meet Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman “every day” between now and when both leaders are set to travel ...

The House finance committee on Monday approved the government’s request that €590,000 be allocated for the purchase of a new armoured presidential limousine, according to reports. Both newspaper Phileleftheros and ...

A 61-year-old woman was stabbed to death by her 71-year-old ex-husband in the village of Ayios Georgios, near Trikomo, on Monday morning. The woman, named as Saliha Ozkol, was, according ...

Stylianos Constantinou, the 15-year-old boy who ended his life by suicide in 2019, had told his first-grade teacher that his father “beats everyone, and my mother, and the sheep, and me”, ...

The case of the kidnapping of two men from the village of Strongylos in August 1974, over which the Supreme Court last week awarded the surviving family of the missing men €100,000, “...

A fourteenth body has been recovered from the wreckage of a ferry which sank off the coast of Kyrenia, Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel said on Sunday. He said ...

No bodies could be recovered from the wreckage of a ferry which sank off the coast of Kyrenia last week, Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel said on Sunday, promising ...

A single person remains in hospital six days after a passenger ferry sank off the coast of Kyrenia, Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel said on Sunday, confirming that 131 of ...

A thirteenth body has been recovered from the wreck of a passenger ferry which sank off the coast of Kyrenia last week, Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel said on ...

Children’s school bus fares have been set at €5 per month or €30 for the whole school year, the transport ministry said on Friday night, while also announcing that children belonging ...

The two bodies which were recovered on Friday from the wreck of a ferry which sank off the coast of Kyrenia were identified as Serife Ozdemir and Nazmiye Ozbolat, Turkish ...

Ozdemir Berova was on Friday named Turkish Cypriot acting ‘transport minister’, temporarily replacing the dismissed Erhan Arikli, while three top officials from inside the same ‘ministry’ were also relieved of ...