Tom Cleaver

One woman presented herself to begin voluntary military service in the National Guard on Friday, the day designated for female volunteers to report for duty, National Guard spokesman Christos Pieris ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Friday announced that he will meet United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin for the first time in December, most likely on December 5. He made ...

Cenk Tosunoglu, the son of Turkish Cypriot independent ‘MP’ Hasan Tosunoglu, was on Friday remanded in custody for three days, having been arrested by the Republic of Cyprus’ police on ...

Restoration works at the Panayia church in the Famagusta district village of Lysi have been completed, bicommunal technical committee on cultural heritage chairman Sotos Ktoris said on Friday. He described ...

A total of nine villages in the Larnaca district are set to receive ‘Green Kiosks’ – small sorting centres for recyclable materials configured in modified shipping containers – the Larnaca district government ...

The foreign ministry on Friday called on Cypriot citizens who are in Tanzania or who intend to travel to the east African country to exercise caution as civil unrest broke ...

Restoration work at the mosque in the Larnaca district village of Tochni has been completed, the bicommunal technical committee on cultural heritage’s co-chairmen Ali Tuncay and Sotos Ktoris announced. “...

The Greek government has donated €50,000 to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP), bringing the sum of its total donations to €475,000 since 2006. According to the CMP, the funds will “contribute to ...

An agreement has been reached regarding the state’s financing of local authorities, with the MPs from the House interior committee saying the central government and local authorities have found ...

Cenk Tosunoglu, the son of Turkish Cypriot independent ‘MP’ Hasan Tosunoglu, was on Thursday arrested, standing accused of crimes related to the possession and circulation of child sexual abuse material, ...

The owner of a block of flats which collapsed, killing 96 people inside, who then attempted to flee to Cyprus to start a new life in the hours after the building’...

Two people have been arrested in Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki, in connection with the murder of 49-year-old Limassol businessman Stavros Demosthenous, the police said on Thursday. According to the ...

The 30-year-old convict who was arrested in connection with the murder of 49-year-old Limassol businessman Stavros Demosthenous had his remand extended for a further eight days on Thursday. The man, ...

The closing statements from both the prosecution and the defence in the case against Cypriot journalist Ali Kismir, who faces up to 10 years in prison if found guilty of having “...

The House interior affairs committee on Thursday discussed a government bill to repeal the legislation which allows for Cypriot passports to be granted to foreign investors, thus removing the provisions ...

Collaboration between Cyprus’ two sides to ensure the smooth supply of medical supplies to those who need them is “now a necessity”, former Turkish Cypriot ‘health minister’ and current ‘MP’ ...

Akel member of the European parliament Giorgos Georgiou has called for a “common monument” to honour the people from both the Turkish Cypriot and the Greek Cypriot communities who went ...

Daggers have been drawn inside the north’s largest political party the UBP in the aftermath of its former leader Ersin Tatar’s landslide defeat at this month’s Turkish ...

The House legal committee on Wednesday accepted President Nikos Christodoulides’ reasons for sending back to it a series of amendments to the law on public procurements, after the amendments had ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday called for an “immediate” response from parliament to pass his tax reform plans into law, to allow them to be implemented by the beginning of ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday told new United Nations special representative in Cyprus Khassim Diagne of his “political will” to “create the appropriate conditions for the resumption of talks” to ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday told Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman of his readiness to support efforts towards a solution to the Cyprus problem. “I would like to ...

Turkish Cypriots on Wednesday celebrated the 102nd anniversary of the creation of the Republic of Turkey, with commemorations centring around a ceremony held at the monument to Turkey’s founding ...

Cyprus was ranked 30th out of 143 countries in this year’s edition of the World Justice Project (WJP)’s annual rule of law index, moving up a single place since ...