Tom Cleaver

Discussions over the potential opening of new crossing points to connect Cyprus’ two sides remained deadlocked during this week’s visit of United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to the island ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Thursday said that the Turkish government’s stance will provide the “key” to there being progress on the Cyprus problem in the coming weeks and ...

The European Commission plans to take no action over allegations that the personal data of more than 350,000 people was leaked after a file belonging to the Turkish Cypriot ‘health ministry’ ...

Fire brigade chief Nikos Longinos on Thursday offered his condolences to his Greek counterpart Theodoros Vagias after three Greek firefighters died while battling wildfires on the island of Crete. According ...

A 50-year-old prisoner died at the Nicosia general hospital during the early hours of Thursday morning. The man, a Greek national, was serving a six-year sentence after being convicted of ...

The met office on Thursday issued a yellow weather warning for high temperatures, which will be in force for three hours during the afternoon. The warning will be in force ...

Thursday’s weather will be mostly hot and sunny across most of the island for most of the day, with temperatures set to reach 40 degrees Celsius inland, 34 degrees Celsius on ...

Greece’s foreign ministry on Wednesday said it welcomes United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ support for efforts towards a solution to the Cyprus problem, after Guterres’ visit to the island ...

House President Annita Demetriou on Wednesday said that United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ announcement of his intention to hold a new enlarged meeting “keeps the process and the prospect of ...

Turkey’s foreign ministry called for an end to “the Greek Cypriot side’s intransigent stance” after United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres concluded his trip to Cyprus on Wednesday. “We ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Wednesday said that he is now “more hopeful” that a solution to the Cyprus problem can be achieved than he was before United Nations ...

The “substance” of the Cyprus problem was discussed on Wednesday for the first time since negotiations collapsed in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana in 2017, President Nikos Christodoulides said after ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday announced plans for a new enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem to be convened “after adequate progress” is achieved on the matters of ...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Tuesday said that he hopes for serious progress on the Cyprus problem to be achieved before the end of incumbent UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ term ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Tuesday told United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that he is most likely “aware of the Turkish Cypriot people’s strong will” for a solution ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday said that Cyprus is in need of “good news” as he welcomed United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to the presidential palace. “We are very glad ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he will do “everything I can to support” Cypriots in their path towards a solution to the Cyprus problem, after he met ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres meets the leaders of Cyprus’ two communities on Tuesday, becoming the first sitting UN secretary-general in 16 and a half years years to visit the island. ...

The Cyprus branch of Turkish opposition party the CHP has defected to the new party formed by its former leader Ozgur Ozel, which he has named the New Party, following 91 ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will discuss “efforts to advance the peace process and support stability on the island” during his visit to Cyprus, his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on ...

The north’s three-party ruling coalition found itself divided on Monday over its stance on United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ arrival in Cyprus, with one of the parties saying it ...

The arrival of United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in Cyprus on Monday night constitutes a “significant opportunity” for Cyprus, House President Annita Demetriou said. She added that this opportunity is ...

Firefighters will remain in the area surrounding the military firing range near the Larnaca district village of Kalo Chorio overnight on Monday and into the early hours of Tuesday morning ...

Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas said there is currently “no active front” in the fire which broke out at the firing range near the Larnaca district village of Kalo Chorio, while ...