Tom Cleaver

The administrative court issued an interim order to suspend construction work on the new port at Pentakomo over fears that it may impact the area’s native Mediterranean monk seal ...

An estimated 2,000 Turkish Cypriots gathered outside the north’s ‘parliament’ on Monday evening for the first of the planned nightly lighting of fires to protest against the ruling coalition’s ...

The court of appeals has dismissed an appeal filed by a man who was fined €1,350 for wearing a face mask below his chin during the Covid-19 pandemic. The man was ...

A child who was turned away from a school in northern Nicosia when attempting to go to class wearing a hijab on Monday officially left the school. The girl had ...

Two men, aged 35 years old and 31 years old, were on Monday released on bail following their latest court hearing into their parts in the violent evictions which occurred in the ...

British Cypriot footballer Hector Kyprianou on Sunday captained his team Peterborough United to a 2-0 victory over Birmingham City to win the Vertu Trophy, England’s cup competition for third- ...

A 35-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in the Paphos district village of Chlorakas on Monday after stabbing two women in a pharmacy. According to the police, ...

Incumbent Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar has overtaken his main challenger, opposition party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman, in polling for October’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election, according to the latest ...

Three men were hospitalised, then arrested on Sunday after a mass brawl at a nightclub in Limassol, the police announced on Monday. All three were remanded in custody for eight ...

Turkey’s ruling AK Party is “turning a blind eye to the strengthening of the Greek Cypriot administration’s strengthening of its status as a state”, opposition party, the CHP’...

A man was according to reports refused entry to the United Arab Emirates over the weekend over his alleged constructions of buildings on land belonging to Greek Cypriots in the ...

Fires will be lit outside the north’s ‘parliament’ building every weekday evening from Monday until April 28 in protest at the north’s ruling coalition’s decision to legalise the ...

Turkish Cypriot left wing media outlets on Friday offered harsh criticism for opposition political party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman over his attendance of Thursday’s groundbreaking ceremony for the new ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday refused to be drawn into a position on the “headscarf crisis” which has engulfed the Turkish Cypriot political agenda in recent weeks, stressing that he ...

“The time is now” for a solution to the Cyprus problem, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday. Addressing the annual Stelios Haji-Ioannou foundation bicommunal awards, he insisted he will “not ...

Akel on Friday said the education ministry is “pretending not to see the essence of the issue and how the far right is poisoning our schools and our youth”, in ...

The north’s ‘education minister’ Nazim Cavusoglu on Friday distanced himself from a counterprotest organised by ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli on Wednesday to show “respect to the motherland” in the ...

Ongoing developments in Syria “could have consequences for Cyprus”, European Commissioner for the Mediterranean Dubravka Suica said on Friday. Speaking after a meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides and European Affairs ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar met Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on the sidelines of the Antalya diplomatic forum in Turkey on Friday. Tatar thanked Aliyev for his “solidarity and support” ...

The online registration platform for teens who are to be conscripted into the National Guard this summer will open on April 24 and remain open until May 11, the defence ministry announced ...

A 17-year-old boy from Paphos was arrested on Thursday night following a series of violent incidents in the nearby village of Emba, which were apparently related to a traffic collision ...

A bill which will make paramedics a legally protected profession will be submitted to a parliamentary plenary session for a vote by the end of May, the House health committee ...

Saturday’s attempted eviction of a group of third-country nationals from a block of flats in the Larnaca suburb of Oroklini which turned violent and ended with a 27-year-old man ...

The education ministry on Thursday said it had reacted to images of children at a school in Dherynia performing Nazi salutes after the taking of their official class photograph by ...