Tom Cleaver

Swimmer Kalia Antoniou on Monday night won Cyprus’ first gold medal of this year’s Mediterranean Games in the Italian city of Taranto, winning the 100m freestyle final for the ...

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis on Monday stressed that Greece will “fully exercise its sovereign rights” in the eastern Mediterranean, with it foreseen that the country’s plans to build ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday stressed his support for “the independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of Ukraine, within its internationally recognised borders” as he partook in a videoconference of the ‘...

The transmission system operator (TSO) is on Monday evening providing electricity to the Turkish Cypriot community, assistant operations director Harry Zavallis said, with faults experienced over the weekend continuing to ...

A Greek Cypriot woman appeared in court in northern Nicosia on Monday, accused of having stolen cosmetic goods and orange juice from the Erulku hypermarket in the village of Neo ...

The Republic of Cyprus’ permanent representative to the United Nations Maria Michael has penned a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres protesting the agreement reached between Turkey and the Turkish ...

The risk of forest fires on Sunday has been set at “red alert”, the forestry department said on Saturday. Alongside the setting of the fire risk level, the department also ...

A Lithuanian estate agent who stands accused of having “usurped” Greek Cypriot-owned property in northern Cyprus is to be extradited to the island after having been arrested in France pursuant ...

The electronic passport control scanners at the Larnaca and Paphos airports are to be abolished and replaced with full-scale automated passport control gates as Cyprus prepares to enter Europe’s ...

A 40-year-old man was arrested on Saturday after arriving at Larnaca airport on an international inbound flight with 25 kilograms of cannabis in his suitcase, police said. The cannabis was found ...

A “series of attacks” was carried out on shops in the Paphos district on Friday night, hours after the police had concluded overnight patrol in the town’s central Moutallos ...

Power cuts in “various areas” of Cyprus experienced on Saturday morning was caused by a fault in the north, the transmission system operator said. It said the fault had occurred ...

The presidential palace on Saturday acclaimed the current level of cooperation between the governments of Cyprus and Greece, saying that the holding of regular intergovernmental summits between the two countries ...

Israel’s foreign ministry has defended the country’s decision to close the investigation into the killing of seven aid workers who were transporting humanitarian goods sent from Cyprus to ...

The internationally unrecognised ‘Republic of Somaliland’ has called on both Cyprus and Greece to consider recognising it, after the new parliament speaker of Somalia, the country from which it has ...

Turkey’s presidential communications directorate has described Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments on its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s policies in Cyprus and Syria as a “groundless rant” ...

Saturday’s weather will be hot and sunny all day, with temperatures set to rise to 39 degrees Celsius inland, 31 degrees Celsius on the west coast, 34 degrees Celsius on the rest ...

Turkish Cypriot Kyrenia mayor Murat Senkul on Friday warned that political pressure exerted to bring about the cancellation of the Nexus electronic music festival in his town serves only to “...

Attempts to “render Turkish Cypriots invisible” are unhelpful to efforts to bring about a solution to the Cyprus problem, Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman said on Friday, following political pressure ...

Canada and the United Kingdom on Friday joined Australia in condemning Israel for closing its investigation into the killing of seven aid workers who were transporting humanitarian goods sent from ...

Somalia’s foreign ministry on Friday denied having recognised northern Cyprus as an independent country, following the publication of a now deleted social media post by the country’s new ...

The technical problem which caused power cuts in various areas across the island on Friday morning has “not yet been solved”, transmission system operator spokeswoman Chara Kousiappa said, though the ...

The Turkish Cypriot authorities have requested “concrete information” from the BBC over reports that as many as 30 children may have been conceived through in vitro fertilisation using the wrong sperm ...

Both sides of Cyprus’ divide agree in principle that meetings between President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman should take place on a more frequent basis going forward, ...