Tom Cleaver

A new website was launched on Tuesday with the aim of persuading Cypriots living abroad to return to the island. Its launch was announced by President Nikos Christodoulides, who said ...

Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades on Tuesday said he expects the tenders review authority to reach a decision in early October regarding Greek company Aktor’s appeal against the government’s ...

Forestry department director Savvas Iezekiel on Tuesday urged caution over demands for new firebreaks to be created with the aim of defending Cyprus’ countryside from wildfires. Speaking to the Cyprus ...

Former president Nicos Anastasiades has been “politically lynched” by the Greek Cypriot political establishment over reports that he had offered Turkey a two-state solution to the Cyprus problem, former Turkish ...

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis on Monday night promised that the Great Sea Interconnector project, which, if completed, will connect the energy grids of Greece, Cyprus, and Israel, will go ...

Plans were unveiled on Sunday for artificial islands to be constructed off the coast of the Karpass peninsula and the Kyrenia district. The plans were presented by Emrullah Turanli, chairman ...

European affairs deputy minister Marilena Raouna on Monday offered Cyprus’ support for “Moldova’s European path” during a visit to the country. Speaking after a meeting with the country’s ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar “personally intervened” to stem the handing out of various permits by the north’s ruling coalition, allegedly largely to his supporters and allies, after large-scale ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Monday met Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani in Doha. The foreign ministry said that during that meeting, the pair discussed “...

House president Annita Demetriou on Monday penned a letter to European Parliament president Roberta Metsola expressing her “outrage and indignation” at the arrest and continued detention of five Greek Cypriots ...

Christos Christaki, the 19-year-old who died on Saturday night after being run over in a car park in Larnaca earlier in the week, died of a traumatic brain injury, an ...

The United States navy’s guided missile destroyer the USS Mitscher arrived in Cyprus on Monday, the American embassy in Nicosia announced. The ship is one of the US’ fleet ...

The north’s ruling coalition is facing a series of headaches as this year’s Turkish Cypriot leadership campaign officially gets underway, with its rapid-fire handing out of civil service ...

The road between Rizokarpaso and the Apostolos Andreas monastery on Cyprus’ northeastern tip will be closed during afternoons until further notice, the north’s ‘transport ministry’ announced on Monday. The ...

Cyprus’ political parties on Saturday expressed fury after a guest on a podcast hosted by member of the European parliament Fidias Panayiotou, expressed doubt over the commonly accepted version of ...

The government is engaged in “damage limitation” following reports of “serious safety issues” regarding the construction of a liquefied natural gas terminal at Vasiliko, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on ...

A new proposal which is to be submitted by the United States to the European Union is to boost the chances of a new road being built to connect Paphos ...

While no date has yet been set, it is likely that a meeting between Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s special representative Gunes Onar and Greek Cypriot chief negotiator for ...

Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz and the country’s ambassador in Nicosia Ali Murat Basceri on Friday night attended a campaign stop for Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar organised by ...

Polis Chrysochous mayor Yiotis Papachristofi on Saturday promised that “major developments” worth at least €100 million will be carried out in the town next year. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, ...

The north’s ruling coalition late on Friday night naturalised 124 people as ‘TRNC’ citizens, thus making them eligible to vote in this October’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election, hours before ...

Concerns were raised on Friday regarding “unusual movements” undertaken by an American military transport aircraft in and around Cypriot airspace. The aircraft, a Boeing C-17 which belongs to the United ...

Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker on Friday visited the Green Line which separates Cyprus’ two sides. He was accompanied on his visit by President Nikos Christodoulides and Nicosia mayor Charalambos Prountzos, ...

The strike called on by employees of the north’s Koop Bank and its subsidiaries last week was brought to an end on Friday as a deal was struck by ...