Tom Cleaver

The European Union’s 26 commissioners were taken on a tour of the Green Line which separates Cyprus’ two sides in Nicosia’s old town on Friday. They were guided around ...

Paphos district governor Charalambos Pittokopitis on Friday insisted that the drinking water available in his district is “top quality” after some local residents complained about its smell. “Immediately after the ...

The body of former president George Vassiliou, who passed away on Tuesday night aged 94, lay in state at the Ayia Sofia cathedral in Nicosia on Friday ahead of his state ...

Attorney-General George Savvides on Wednesday questioned whether the Supreme Court should be assigned the responsibility of reviewing decisions taken by future attorneys-general, as has been provided for in a bill ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman and former Turkish Cypriot leaders Ersin Tatar and Mustafa Akinci on Wednesday offered their condolences following the death of George Vassiliou, who served as president ...

The minaret at a mosque in Cyprus which was built with funding from the Libyan government of Muammar Gaddafi will not be demolished, the north’s religious affairs directorate said ...

President Nikos Christodoulides’ monthly salary is €14,401 per month as of January, the treasury announced on Wednesday. After tax, he earns €9,145 a month, and while his gross salary is the highest ...

Attorney-general George Savvides on Wednesday said he is “satisfied” with efforts made by MPs with the aim of bringing about a bill which will limit their own parliamentary immunity to ...

Messages of condolence from outside Cyprus rolled in on Wednesday for late president George Vassiliou, with Greece and the United Kingdom the first to express their sadness at his passing. ...

The foreign ministry late on Tuesday night warned all Cypriot citizens in Iran to leave the country immediately, with it widely reported that more than 2,000 people have been killed as ...

The front door of Dipa’s Limassol office was smashed by a group of people presenting themselves as anarchists, with a video of the incident emerging on social media on ...

United Nations special representative in Cyprus Khassim Diagne on Wednesday briefed Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the latest situation regarding the Cyprus problem. The pair met in New York ahead of ...

Banana farmers in the Paphos district “must be protected” when the recently agreed trade deal between the European Union and South American trade bloc Mercosur comes into force, Nikolas Theodosiou, ...

The police said on Tuesday they had charged four men after a video emerged of them appearing to kick and throw a turtle. Police received a complaint at around 1.30pm ...

A mosque which was built on the northern outskirts of Nicosia with funding from the Libyan government of Muammar Gaddafi is to be demolished. The mosque is located in the ...

Attorney-general George Savvides on Tuesday appointed former Supreme Court judge Andreas Paschalides as the independent criminal investigator of a video which emerged last week alleging campaign finance lawbreaking on the ...

Turkish Cypriot politician Oz Karahan on Tuesday announced his intention to stand as a candidate in May’s parliamentary elections, becoming the first Turkish Cypriot to do so since the ...

Cyprus will “place particular emphasis on the protection of workers” during its six-month term as the holder of the Council of the European Union’s rotating presidency, Labour Minister Marinos ...

An earthquake measuring 3.7 on the Richter scale was felt in the Paphos district in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The earthquake hit at 3.28am, with its epicentre located around 80 ...

The social support body’s management committee on Tuesday implored First Lady Philippa Karsera Christodoulides to reconsider her resignation from her role as the body’s chairwoman. She had resigned ...

Sandro Gozi, the secretary-general of the EDP, one of the centrist groups in the European parliament, on Tuesday said that he had penned a letter to the European Commission over ...

Diko leader Nicholas Papadopoulos on Tuesday warned President Nikos Christodoulides over what he described as “unfortunate” references to Cyprus’ political parties in statements he made after his chief of staff ...

Taxi drivers in Larnaca went on strike for four hours on Tuesday morning in protest at what they described as “uncontrolled action by passenger transport applications” in the town, and ...

United Nations special representative in Cyprus Khassim Diagne is late on Tuesday expected to brief representatives of countries which contribute personnel to the UN’s peacekeeping force on the island (...