Tom Cleaver

Emirati diplomat Lana Nusseibeh has thanked Cyprus and Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos for his and its support for her campaign to be named the United Nations’ new secretary-general when incumbent ...

Monday’s weather is expected to be mostly clear across most of the island for most of the day, though clouds are expected to gather later in the day. Temperatures ...

The Turkish government has issued a navtex, a message used to transmit information to seaborne vessels, to warn sailors of planned seabed surveys in the waters between its southern coast ...

The United States’ state department has criticised the maritime boundary agreement reached between Turkey and Libya, which was ratified by the Libyan parliament last week, as “unconstructive and provocative”. According ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel was reportedly in Ankara on Monday morning, with his political party the UBP in crisis, two days after holding a primary election to choose ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘health minister’ Hakan Dincyurek resigned his post in the early hours of Sunday morning as the community’s largest political party, the UBP’s primary election ahead of ...

Cyprus has offered its support to the United Arab Emirates’ Lana Nusseibeh’s candidacy to become the next United Nations secretary-general at the beginning of next year, with Foreign Minister ...

Cyprus is ready to delimit its maritime boundaries with Greece, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Friday, at the end of a week in which the Libyan parliament ratified a ...

The foreign ministry on Friday asked parliament to approve a budget for next year amounting to €137.75 million, with Minister Constantinos Kombos attending the day’s House finance committee meeting to ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Friday promised that there will be no change to the rules regarding who can cross between Cyprus’ two sides at the crossing points which connect ...

An “expert team” from Turkey will visit Cyprus to conduct an investigation into the sinking of a passenger ferry off the coast of Kyrenia in August, while another “expert” from ...

The European Union must reach an agreement on its next multiannual financial framework, its long-term budget for the period covering the years between 2028 and 2034, by the end of this year, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman will next meet on Tuesday, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Friday, with the meeting set to be the latest in ...

Tests being carried out at a private clinic in Nicosia to determine the source of an infection of legionnaires disease, which saw one baby hospitalised, have thus far not produced ...

A 44-year-old man has been arrested after being caught attempting to smuggle over 300 kilograms of meat across the Green Line, the Turkish Cypriot police have said. In total, the man ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has sent a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen demanding that the European Union resume discussions on its mutual defence clause, after the matter ...

The construction of a tramway in Limassol could cost as much as €95 million per kilometre, the city’s mayor Yiannis Armeftis said on Thursday, as he evaluated the prospects for ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman has said that he would have acquiesced to a tripartite meeting in New York with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and his counterpart, President Nikos ...

The police urged motorists to avoid Nicosia’s arterial Digenis Akritas Avenue on Thursday afternoon, with trade union PEO set to stage a march from its offices to the labour ...

Cypriot member of the European Parliament Giorgos Georgiou, of Akel, likened the European Union to Pontius Pilate, as the Strasbourg plenary session discussed preparations for next month’s Cop31 climate ...

The Supreme Court has ordered the release of an Iranian national who was held in custody for 12 months pending deportation, finding that the length of time he had spent in ...

The maritime boundary agreement reached between Turkey and Libya, which was ratified by the Libyan parliament on Tuesday, “infringes on the sovereign rights of third states”, the European Union’s ...

The energy ministry on Wednesday said it is no longer accepting applications for people to receive grants as part of the “save and upgrade homes” scheme, as all the available ...

The European Parliament on Wednesday voted to approve the proposal for the European Union’s budget for next year put forward by Cypriot MEP Michalis Hadjipantela, of Disy, and his ...