Tom Cleaver

Former Turkish Cypriot ‘education minister’ Kemal Durust was on Friday given bail ahead of his trial for his alleged part in the ongoing “fake diploma scandal”. In court in Morphou ...

The United Kingdom’s Deputy Minister for Europe, Stephen Doughty, will meet with the two leaders in Cyprus on Friday, the Cyprus News Agency said on Wednesday. His schedule for ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Wednesday said he will meet the United Kingdom’s minister of state for Europe Stephen Doughty on Friday. Tatar said he will meet Doughty ...

The Cyprus radio and television authority on Wednesday warned media outlets on the island to use “correct Greek”. It said it had received complaints from readers and listeners of radio ...

One suspect was released without charge and the other three were bailed on Wednesday in the case of the fatal shooting of 16 donkeys in Karpasia. All four men were brought ...

The trial of a 49-year-old German woman who stands accused of having sold Greek Cypriot property in the north began on Wednesday, nine months after her initial arrest. The Nicosia ...

Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Wednesday gave testimony that his transfer from a university in the north to a university in Turkey was legal and that his studies in Cyprus ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday stressed the importance of taking foreign dignitaries to the buffer zone, as he took the Dutch King Willem-Alexander to the Green Line in Nicosia. “For ...

The 30-year-old man who was arrested after getting into an argument and running two people with his car was remanded in custody for four days on Wednesday. Larnaca police spokesman ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday night promised that the Turkish Cypriots “will not forget” Gaza. “This country is part of the Islamic world, and we are happy to ...

Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu’s lawyer Mehmet Pehlivanli on Tuesday announced that he had filed criminal charges against the three people who had signed a report which declared that the ...

The north’s authorities “have blood on their hands” over the death of a 25-year-old worker at a “nightclub” in the village of Yerolakkos, Turkish Cypriot opposition party CTP ‘MP’ ...

The government on Tuesday received an official invitation from United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to attend the enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem which is set to take place on ...

Employees of the Paphos district government are to engage in a two-hour strike on March 13 to protest against the EOA’s apparent refusal to enter into a collective labour agreement. ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday announced that he will stand for re-election in the role in October’s Turkish Cypriot leadership elections. “I am running for president. I ...

Fast-track examinations of planning permission applications for medium-risk projects are now going ahead, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Tuesday. The announcement follows the introduction of fast-track applications for low-risk ...

A 25-year-old woman was found dead on Monday night at a “nightclub” in the village of Yerolakkos, Turkish Cypriot police confirmed on Tuesday. The woman, who had officially been employed ...

‘A brain gain rather than a brain drain’ was what President Nikos Christodoulides promised last week when announcing plans to visit London in May with the aim of persuading Cypriots ...

Turkey sacked its ambassador in the north for the second time in the space of six months shortly before midnight on Friday, with the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ...

Turkish Cypriot perpetual candidate Arif Salih Kirdag on Friday said he will once again stand to be Turkish Cypriot leader in October if he can garner financial sponsorship to do ...

The Islamic holy month of Ramadan is set to begin on Saturday. The first taraweeh prayer of the month will take place on Friday night, with fasting set to begin ...

The month of March has been designated as “Civil protection and civil defence month” by Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou, with the coming 31 days set to form part of his and ...

A USB storage device containing content extracted from the mobile phone of former Akel MP Christakis Giovanis was the main topic of discussion at Friday’s hearing of the court ...

Around 7,000 faulty airbags have been replaced so far since the government decreed the recall of over 80,000 cars at the beginning of February, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Friday. Speaking ...