Tom Cleaver

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel on Monday said that plans for a status of forces agreement to be signed to allow for French troops to be stationed in Cyprus ...

Efforts were made to prevent Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa from participating in last week’s summit of European and regional leaders in Nicosia, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday. Al-Sharaa ...

Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades on Monday expressed confusion at Larnaca mayor Andreas Vyras’ plans to stage a protest over perceived delays in progress towards redevelopment of the town’s port ...

Cyprus is “in a less favourable position” than other countries inside the European Union regarding the security of its oil supply, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Monday. He did ...

The government’s ‘e-Kalathi’ application “essentially goes unnoticed”, supermarkets’ association chairman Andreas Hadjiadamou said on Monday. He had been asked by the Cyprus News Agency whether the application has had ...

There have been no unjustified price rises at supermarkets since conflict broke out in the Middle East at the beginning of last month, the consumer protection service’s competition branch ...

Restoration work has begun on the roof of the Apostolos Varnavas church in the Famagusta district village of Engomi, technical committee on cultural heritage co-chairman Sotos Ktoris said on Friday. ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Friday promised that he had “initiated the necessary steps” to resolve the matter of Cypriot art professor Senih Cavusoglu being refused entry to Turkey. “...

President Nikos Christodoulides and the presidents of the European Parliament and European Commission, Roberta Metsola and Ursula von der Leyen, on Friday signed a roadmap for reforms aimed at strengthening ...

European leaders descend on Cyprus to attend an informal European Council summit on the island. They are expected to be joined by leaders of Middle Eastern countries later in the ...

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Friday marked the fifth anniversary of the death of his father Rustem Tatar, who was the Republic of Cyprus’ first auditor-general. “He was ...

Cyprus’ traditional parties are all set to lose seats at next month’s parliamentary election, according to a poll which was published late on Thursday night. The poll, which was ...

Friday’s weather is expected to be mostly clear across most of the island, with locally increased cloudiness expected at various times during the day, and a light layer of ...

France “loves” Cyprus, the country’s president Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday, as he held a joint press conference with his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides at the presidential palace in ...

Cyprus “worked tirelessly” to ensure the release of €90 billion worth of European Union loans to Ukraine, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said on Thursday after the Council of the EU approved ...

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived at the presidential palace on Thursday afternoon to hold talks with his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides. Macron’s arrival was somewhat delayed, with some surmising ...

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda on Thursday said that his country has “something to learn” from Cyprus as it prepares to take over the Council of the European Union’s rotating ...

Moroccan nationals who studied at universities in northern Cyprus staged a protest outside the country’s parliament in Rabat on Wednesday over the Moroccan government’s decision to cease its ...

The Iranian embassy in Nicosia on Wednesday denied allegations levelled at the Iranian government by the State of Israel that it had aided the smuggling of explosive drones to Cyprus. ...

The rejection of the Annan plan to reunify Cyprus by the Greek Cypriot electorate in a referendum in 2004 constituted “a serious loss for the entire island”, Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday expressed his delight at the European Union’s 27 member states agreeing to establish an ad hoc working party to draft an accession treaty for Montenegro, ...

The next meeting of Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman and President Nikos Christodoulides will be organised “in the near future”, according to reports on Wednesday. According to the Cyprus News ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday accused former European Council president Charles Michel of “double standards”, after Michel had censured European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen for controversial comments she ...

An excerpt from a German television show was heard in the background of an audio recording of ‘Sandy’, the woman at the centre of allegations made by journalist Makarios Drousiotis ...