Tom Cleaver

Cyprus’ prison and other holding facilities are full, Justice Minister Costas Fitiris said on Friday, though he did stress that the government is “trying to find solutions”. “The prisons are ...

Justice Minister Costas Fitiris on Friday moved to play down the seriousness of the throwing of rocks and explosives across the buffer zone at Turkish Cypriots earlier in the week, ...

High-ranking figures from Turkey condemned the throwing of rocks and explosives across the buffer zone at Turkish Cypriots on the anniversary of the creation of Eoka, describing the incident as ...

The United Nations peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) has stepped up patrols around the buffer zone near the Ledra Palace hotel after rocks were thrown across the buffer zone at ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Thursday warned against people becoming “trapped by history” as he responded to statements made by President Nikos Christodoulides the previous day on the anniversary ...

A total of 19 Cypriot-flagged ships remain near the Strait of Hormuz, the shipping deputy ministry said on Thursday. “There are currently 19 ships under the Cypriot flag in the Arabian Gulf ...

There will be no vote in parliament on laws to change the framework regarding the authorities’ access to people’s private communications until after May’s parliamentary election, Akel MP ...

Turkish Cypriot trade unions and opposition political party the CTP on Thursday took to court the north’s ruling coalition’s decree halting the payment of the cost-of-living allowance to ...

Akel leader Stefanos Stefanou on Thursday called for the investigation to be reopened into the “spy van affair”, during which it came to light that a company was offering private ...

The amount of water in Cyprus’ reservoirs is nearing a total of 100 million cubic metres, with greater than expected levels of rainfall continuing into the spring. As of Thursday morning, ...

The British bases in Cyprus could “easily be targeted again” as the war in the Middle East continues, the British forces’ Cyprus commander major general Tom Bewick has said. “One ...

Parliament on Thursday approved the government’s plans to temporarily reduce the fuel consumption tax in light of rising prices amid the ongoing war in the Middle East. The rate ...

Rocks were thrown across the buffer zone at Turkish Cypriots in Nicosia on Wednesday, with Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman keen to point out that the incident took place on ...

Cuts to value added tax (VAT) on fuel would not comply with European Union law, the European Commission said on Wednesday, as governments across Europe attempt to combat spiking fuel ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou was censured in a parliamentary report into the management of the wildfire which tore through the Limassol district and killed two people last summer, with the ...

The House legal committee will convene again on Thursday to discuss plans to change the framework regarding the authorities’ access to people’s private communications, with many MPs remaining dissatisfied ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday that “some Turkish Cypriots” had sought to prevent the traditional Eid al-Fitr pilgrimage to the Hala Sultan Tekkesi in Larnaca from taking place. “Apparently, ...

Cyprus intelligence service chief Tasos Tzionis held a telephone conversation with the head of the Bahraini royal guard, Bahraini media reported on Wednesday, with the pair discussing the ongoing war ...

The package of eight measures announced by the government to combat rising costs amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East is worth €100 million, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Wednesday hit back at the north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel amid a deepening row over cuts to the north’s cost-of-living allowance, with ...

The Turkish Cypriot ‘foreign ministry’ on Tuesday evening expressed its displeasure at the latest agreement concerning the development of natural gas which was signed by the governments of Cyprus and ...

Kourion mayor Pantelis Georgiou on Tuesday stressed what he believes to be an elevated risk of cancer linked to the placement of communications antennae in the British Akrotiri base area, ...

The north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel on Tuesday evening expressed fury at Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman, who had himself lambasted Ustel’s ruling coalition’s decision to bypass ...

United Nations office for project service (Unops) executive director Jorge Moreira da Silva on Tuesday thanked Cyprus for providing its latest shipment of humanitarian aid to Gaza as part of ...