Tom Cleaver

Cypriot MEP Niyazi Kizilyurek said on Wednesday night that the European Union “must deal with Turkish Cypriots’ problems.” He was speaking on Kibris Postasi TV and said the EU “does ...

Police in Larnaca arrested three men for “acting suspiciously” before the start of Wednesday night’s football match between Anorthosis and Apollon. The trio, two of whom are 28 years old ...

A man appeared in court in the north on Wednesday, accused of having broken his 76-year-old mother’s nose. The police officer speaking in court explained that the man, who ...

A leading figure in north coalition party the YDP has claimed she was “threatened” by party leader Erhan Arikli after endorsing his opponent Talip Atalay for the upcoming party leadership ...

It is “unacceptable” for Turkish Cypriots to be excluded from the European Union’s Erasmus exchange programme, the European Parliament’s Culture Committee declared on Wednesday. The matter of Turkish ...

The European Union’s Habitats Directive was “violated” by the environment department in its greenlighting of construction projects in the Cape Greco area, the Audit Office said on Wednesday. It ...

Former Turkish Cypriot chief negotiator for the Cyprus problem has revealed a document allegedly showing a university in the north, of which the rector was invited to meet ‘education minister’ ...

House president Annita Demetriou on Wednesday called for the British parliament to “offer assistance” to address “common challenges”. She made the remark during a meeting with a delegation of British ...

Cyprus is outperforming the European Union average on a range of metrics related to public health, despite government spending on health falling below the bloc’s average, according to the ...

By Tom Cleaver and Iole Damaskinos The future of the planned road between Pyla and Arsos depends entirely on the United Nations, the north’s ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu said ...

A member of the Ndrangheta Marando who was living in the north was declared persona non grata by the north’s authorities on Wednesday. The man, named as 76-year-old Sebastiano ...

The village of Zodia, near Morphou, was flooded overnight on Wednesday after the local brook burst its banks. The brook overflowed after heavy rain hit much of the island, including ...

Talip Atalay, who is a candidate for the leadership of the north’s ruling coalition party the YDP, promised on Monday evening to not collapse the ‘government’ should he become ...

Cyprus Turkish Football Association (CTFA) Hasan Sertoglu on Tuesday denied reports that his association has applied to join the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). He said an application to join the ...

Two of the men arrested in connection with the finding of a 2,600-year-old statue in a sheep pen in Marathovounos appeared in court in the north on Tuesday. The pair ...

Two men appeared in court in the north on Monday, charged with having smuggled four people into the British base in Dhekelia in November. It is alleged that the pair ...

The government is handling the matter of a hotel in Varosha which allegedly belongs to King Charles of the United Kingdom “diplomatically”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday. British newspaper ...

A university in the north on Tuesday announced that “senior figures” in its administration have been embezzling money from its funds. The Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU) in ...

Two petitions filed regarding the temporarily halted road works in the Akamas region are to be discussed at the European parliament on Wednesday. The matters are to be discussed at ...

A 26-year-old man was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Monday after having been found guilty of sexually abusing a child. The ruling was handed down at the Larnaca Criminal ...

A delegation of British MPs has arrived in Cyprus as part of a two-day official visit to the island. The delegation belongs to the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Cyprus, and ...

A man appeared in court in the north on Monday, accused of having impersonated a police officer to steal £1,000 (€1,171) from a bureau de change. Speaking in court, police officer Alpaslan ...

Marios Pelekanos on Monday resigned as vice chairman of Disy, two days after failing to be selected as a candidate for the party for June’s European Parliament elections. However, ...

Three left-wing activists who allegedly conspired to vandalise posters in the north expressing love for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared in court on Monday. The posters, which read ‘Love ...