Tom Cleaver

Former central prison director Anna Aristotelous and seven other defendants all pleaded not guilty at the Nicosia criminal court on Tuesday to the charges they face regarding the alleged leaking ...

Adequate staffing levels are a necessity for there to be an improved quality of care at the Famagusta general hospital in Paralimni, Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides said on Tuesday. “Within ...

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul on Tuesday said that his country is “committed to peace and to a strong Europe”, as he visited Cyprus amid a deepening conflict in the ...

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said that Cyprus “will never be alone”, a week after the island was hit by an Iranian-made drone. “We also know that people in Cyprus ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos met the United Arab Emirates’ Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Monday, with the country finding itself at the centre ...

The government of the Netherlands on Monday confirmed its intention to send a frigate to Cyprus, joining a growing list of countries which have deployed naval assets to the island’...

Insurgent group Hezbollah used Google Maps to plan the drone strike which it carried out on Cyprus’ British Akrotiri air force base, according to reports on Monday. British newspaper The ...

Pupils of the nursery school and primary school in the village of Akrotiri, both of which have been closed for a week in the aftermath of a drone strike on ...

A British Merlin Mk2 utility helicopter and an “engineering team” are to arrive in Cyprus on Tuesday, with the United Kingdom and multiple other countries continuing to bolster their military ...

A teacher at a private school who was accused by parents of denying the Holocaust was found on Monday not to have done so by human rights commissioner Maria Stylianou ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday visited the Greek frigate Kimon, which has been stationed off the coast of Cyprus since last week, after the ...

There is “no less painful alternative” to killing animals in livestock units which have had recorded cases of foot and mouth disease, veterinary association chairman Demetris Epaminondas said on Monday. “...

The visit of French President Emmanuel Macron and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to Cyprus on Monday constitutes “a show of solidarity in practice”, House President Annita Demetriou said. She ...

A new bill to regulate mortgages and foreclosures is not expected until after May’s parliamentary election at the earliest, finance ministry spokeswoman Avgi Chrysostomou-Lapathiotis said on Monday. She told ...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said of last week’s drone strike that “when Cyprus was attacked, all of Europe was attacked”, as he visited Paphos’ Andreas Papandreou airbase ...

Akel leader Stefanos Stefanou on Sunday demanded the abolition of the British bases in Cyprus, saying, “we have been emphasising this for decades”. “Once again, the peoples of the world ...

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias on Sunday said it would be “unforgivable” for Greece to turn its back on Cyprus “at such a difficult time”, after deploying four fighter jets ...

Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Raggi on Sunday urged Cypriots “not to confuse” the Lebanese state with insurgent group Hezbollah, after a drone fired from Lebanon hit Cyprus six days prior. ...

ANYONE who has spent any elongated period of time in Cyprus will be aware of the spectre of living in or adjacent to an unrecognised country, and the diplomatic, economic, ...

Cyprus “was, is, and will always be a safe destination” for tourism, Tourism Deputy Minister Costas Koumis said on Sunday. He was speaking on the sidelines of the day’s ...

Two fires which broke out in forested areas in the Limassol district were “definitely set maliciously”, fire brigade spokesman Andreas Kettis said on Sunday. The first fire, he said, broke ...

Cyprus “is only a target” because it hosts two British sovereign bases, former British prime minister Rishi Sunak said on Sunday. “Given how much notice we had of these strikes, ...

The Iranian-made Shahed drone which hit Cyprus’ British Akrotiri air force base last Monday contained Russian technology, according to reports on Sunday. British newspaper The Times reported that the drone ...

A total of six Turkish F-16 fighter jets are set to arrive in Cyprus on Monday, the Turkish Cypriot civil aviation authority’s acting director Askin Meseli said on Sunday. ...