Tom Cleaver

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday said the election of pro-reunification candidate Tufan Erhurman as Turkish Cypriot leader is a “positive development”. “I believe this was a positive development but we ...

Cyprus’ forthcoming six-month term as the holder of the Council of the European Union’s rotating presidency is “a golden national opportunity for our country”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on ...

A planned new online platform, which would be named “Diafaneia” – transparency in Greek – was the topic of discussion at Wednesday’s session of the House institutions committee, with MPs hoping ...

Members of the European parliament on Wednesday demanded that the European Union allocate an extra €1 million of funding to Cyprus’ committee on missing persons (CMP) and to the bicommunal technical ...

United States President Donald Trump has nominated John Breslow of the state of Arizona to be the country’s new ambassador in Nicosia. Breslow’s nomination will now be reviewed ...

Discussions were held at the House institutions committee on Wednesday regarding plans to create a registry of all public contracts. The bill has been put forward by Green Party leader ...

Depositors who lost their savings in the 2013 bank bail-in, commonly known as the “haircut”, have been given until the end of the month to file applications for reimbursement from the ...

The decision regarding dismissed judge Doria Varoshiotou’s appeal against her dismissal will be announced “as soon as possible”, supreme constitutional court chief justice Antonis Liatsos said on Wednesday, following ...

Organised crime in Cyprus is now often imported from abroad, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said on Wednesday. Addressing a behind-closed-doors session of the House legal committee held in light of ...

Cypriot champions Pafos FC played out a goalless draw with Kairat Almaty in Kazakhstan on Tuesday night in their third Champions League match of the season. They played the lion’...

The civilian court case against two of the five Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the north in July was on Tuesday adjourned until Friday. The pair face charges of ...

Turkish Cypriot leader-elect Tufan Erhurman on Tuesday said his “greatest pride is seeing our people smiling” in his first public statement since Sunday night. “I am continuing to listen to ...

Sunday’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election result was “a reaction from the Turkish Cypriot people” Turkish Cypriot perpetual candidate Arif Salih Kirdag said on Tuesday after achieving a high of ...

Turkish Cypriots were on Tuesday incensed Turkish nationalist political party MHP leader Devlet Bahceli’s comments as he twice called for northern Cyprus to join Turkey in the aftermath of ...

Cypriot champions Pafos FC have departed for Kazakhstan to face Kairat Almaty in their third Champions League match of the season. Kairat Almaty are also debutants in Europe’s premier ...

Turkish Cypriot leader-elect Tufan Erhurman received his official mandate certificate on Monday after pulling off a landslide victory over his soon-to-be predecessor Ersin Tatar at Sunday’s election. The certificate ...

The military court case against the five Greek Cypriots arrested in the north was on Wednesday adjourned until November 7. It had initially expected that a verdict would be handed down ...

Deals were signed on Monday for the commercial development of the Kronos gas reservoir located within offshore Block 6 of Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone. The agreements were inked on the sidelines ...

The Great Sea Interconnector is “a priority” for the government, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Monday. “It will definitively end our country’s energy isolation, enhancing the security of ...

Former Turkish Cypriot leaders Mehmet Ali Talat and Mustafa Akinci on Monday congratulated Turkish Cypriot leader-elect Tufan Erhurman on his landslide victory in Sunday’s election. “Conflict, alienation, polarisation, and ...

Turkish nationalist political party MHP leader Devlet Bahceli on Sunday night declared the landslide victory of pro-reunification Turkish Cypriot leader-elect Tufan Erhurman to be “unacceptable” and called for northern Cyprus ...

Outgoing Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Sunday night lamented “internal party problems” within the three political parties which endorsed his re-election campaign after suffering a landslide defeat to pro-reunification ...

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis on Sunday night said the election of pro-reunification candidate Tufan Erhurman as Turkish Cypriot leader “opens a new chapter of hope and expectations for the ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday night said that the result of the day’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election – which saw pro-reunification candidate Tufan Erhurman elected in a landslide – “...