Tom Cleaver

Every corner of Cyprus “will be Europe”, opposition candidate at October’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election Tufan Erhurman said at a campaign rally at Kyrenia port on Thursday night. “I ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday praised the “more than 10,000 Austrians” who have served in the United Nations’ peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) since its creation in 1964. He was speaking on ...

There is “no artificial holdup” in the transfer of the 1,200 tonnes of humanitarian aid sent from Cyprus to Gaza earlier this week, presidential press office director Victor Papadopoulos said on ...

The north’s ‘labour minister’ Sadik Gardiyanoglu was sacked and replaced by Oguzhan Hasipoglu late on Thursday night, amid widespread reports of a rift inside the ruling coalition’s largest ...

All five Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the north last month now face charges of privacy violations, trespassing, and breaching the peace, after appearing at the Trikomo district court ...

An aid ship carrying 1,200 tonnes of humanitarian aid from Cyprus bound for Gaza has arrived at the Israeli port of Ashdod, foreign ministry spokesman Theodoros Gotsis said on Wednesday. Speaking ...

Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker arrives in Cyprus on Thursday for “extensive talks” with President Nikos Christodoulides. Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Wednesday that Stocker will arrive on the island ...

European Commission executive vice president for cohesion Raffaele Fito on Wednesday said the European Union “views with concern attempts to undermine freedom of expression and media pluralism in the Turkish ...

A 48-year-old man who stabbed his father to death last month was on Wednesday re-arrested after having spent almost six weeks hospitalised at the Athalassa psychiatric hospital following the murder. ...

Turkey would respect the will of the Turkish Cypriot people following this October’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election, opposition political party CTP secretary-general Erkut Sahali said on Wednesday. Sahali’s ...

The opening hours of the ten painted churches in Troodos have been extended, the culture deputy ministry announced on Wednesday. All ten churches will now be open six days a ...

A 43-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday morning in connection with a fire which broke out at a paper processing factory in the Limassol suburb of Ypsonas in the early ...

Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker will visit Cyprus on Thursday, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said. Stocker will arrive on the island on Thursday afternoon and attend a private dinner with President ...

Cyprus’ permanent representative at the United Nations Maria Michael on Tuesday night told a security council debate that sexual violence during Turkey’s invasion of the island in 1974 “remains an ...

British Cypriot footballer Mickey Demetriou was on Tuesday night named in the English professional footballers’ association (PFA) team of the year for League Two, the fourth tier of the country’...

Oguzhan Hasipoglu, the secretary-general of the north’s largest political party, the UBP, on Tuesday night said he and his party “strongly reject” a European Commission’s spokesman’s comments ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday stressed “the need for full respect for the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine” during video calls with European leaders held in light of ...

Eggs were thrown at the north’s ‘deputy prime minister’ Fikri Ataoglu’s office and halloumi water was poured onto the ground in front of it as employees of the ...

A European Commission spokesperson on Tuesday said the European Union “does not recognise the self-proclaimed state in the northern part of Cyprus and its so-called judicial system” after the arrest ...

House president Annita Demetriou on Tuesday said Europe cannot allow an “unjust peace” in Ukraine. She commented following the conclusion of a video call of leaders of the European People’...

Civil servants’ trade union Pasydy on Tuesday expressed outrage at what it described as an “unprovoked incident of attack” against workers at the social services office in the Limassol suburb ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin is expected to meet President Nikos Christodoulides on September 2, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Tuesday. He told the Cyprus News Agency that Holguin ...

Children at schools across Cyprus will receive lessons on fire safety from retired firefighters during the forthcoming academic year, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Tuesday. Speaking after a meeting ...

Ierokipia mayor Nikos Palios on Tuesday hailed President Nikos Christodoulides’ decision to donate his state pension to charity, with one of the chosen charities falling within his municipal boundaries. The ...