Tom Cleaver

The Holy The Holy See’s embassy in Nicosia on Tuesday announced that it is to open a book of condolences for the passing of Pope Francis. The book will ...

A newly released short film shot during a holiday in Cyprus offers a glimpse into what the island was like in April 1974, three months before the Greek-inspired coup d’état ...

The Organisation of Turkic States’ (OTS) council of elders is to meet in northern Cyprus, according to reports in Turkey. The council, which comprises representatives of the governments of Azerbaijan, ...

Mobile speed cameras are “not set up on a whim”, traffic police director Charis Evripidou said on Tuesday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, he said there are “points where ...

A 53-year-old man from Limassol was arrested on Monday evening after crashing his car into two parked vehicles and later being found to be almost five times over the legal ...

Police are suspecting arson after a primary school classroom went up in flames in the Nicosia suburb of Strovolos on Monday night. A police spokesperson told the Cyprus News Agency ...

The Turkish foreign ministry has promised to take legal action over the publication of allegations against the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, and others regarding ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition political party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman on Monday lit a fire outside Kyrenia town hall as nightly protests against the north’s ruling coalition’s decision to ...

The village of Elia, near Lefka, on Saturday night lit its own fire in protest against the north’s ruling coalition’s decision to legalise the wearing of hijabs by ...

The Tolmi addiction centre in Paphos is aiming to open a new residential addiction treatment facility, with the town’s municipality having given a “positive” response to the idea, the ...

Ozgur Ozel, the leader of Turkey’s largest opposition political party the CHP, on Saturday decried the “bankruptcy” of the country’s foreign policy in the wake of the signing ...

Turkey’s presidential communications directorate on Saturday night slammed “fictitious” and “unfounded” allegations levelled against the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, and others regarding reported ...

The fire brigade were called to a total of 94 incidents related to the lighting of Easter bonfires, known as “lambradjies”, overnight, spokesman Andreas Kettis said on Sunday. He said there ...

Hulusi Kilim, the secretary-general of bicommunal political party Volt, on Saturday returned photographs of his grandparents to the Paphos district village of Amargeti, the village in which they had lived ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Saturday said opposition movements in the north are “betraying the TRNC”. He told Turkish newspaper Sabah of how opposition party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman “...

The first week of nightly protests against the north’s ruling coalition’s decision to legalise the wearing of hijabs by children at public schools drew to a close on ...

Developments relating to the appointment of a new personal envoy to Cyprus by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres are to be expected after Easter, according to reports on Friday. “The ...

Firemen were required to cut a man out of a car after it veered off a road and came to a halt in a field, fire brigade spokesman Andreas Kettis ...

Teachers at Trikomo’s Bekirpasha high school went on strike on Friday over “pressure” being put on them by the north’s ‘education ministry’ in the midst of the “headscarf ...

An 18-year-old male was arrested in the early hours of Friday morning after being clocked driving at 195 kilometres per hour up the motorway towards Nicosia near Latsia. He was pulled ...

The trial of journalist Ali Kismir, who faces up to 10 years in prison if found guilty of having “insulted” the Turkish Cypriot armed forces, was on Thursday adjourned until May 29. ...

Three men, aged 20 years old, 19 years old, and 18 years old, were all arrested after getting into a fight with one another, the police announced on Friday. The incident occurred in ...

The 32-year-old man arrested when police found 105.65kg of cannabis and 16.52kg of cocaine, was remanded on Friday for eight days to facilitate investigations. The suspect was taken before the ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar maintained the slender lead he holds over challenger and opposition political party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman in polling for this October’s Turkish Cypriot leadership ...