Tom Cleaver

The radar system at the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport was broken on Friday night. The north’s civil aviation department’s director Mustafa Soli confirmed that the system was ...

The European Union’s “reflexes” on geopolitical issues in the eastern Mediterranean are “not what we would expect”, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Friday night. He was speaking to ...

The Nicosia criminal court on Friday rejected Israeli property developer Simon Mistriel Aykut’s objections to his trial, and set his next hearing for January 13, when he is set to ...

Two men appeared in court in northern Nicosia on Friday, accused of making exactly $30,400 (€29,243) by trafficking people into the north from Sri Lanka. Police officer Yaren Yemenicioglu told the court ...

The labour ministry on Friday set out the government’s new rules regarding the employment of third-country nationals in Cyprus who are either students or high earners. For high earners, ...

The north’s ‘health minister’ Hakan Dincyurek “should not have lasted for two minutes” after it came to light that seven newborn babies had been fed ethanol in northern Nicosia’...

Turkey’s defence ministry is concerned about the strengthening of relations between the United States and the Republic of Cyprus in the field of defence, according to reports on Thursday. ...

The Turkish Cypriot police began investigating Ali Kismir before a complaint was filed against him, according to police inspector Durmus Aydin. Aydin was called as the third and final witness ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday called for a roadmap to be created to devise the next steps of Syria’s future after its former leader Bashar al-Assad was overthrown earlier ...

A total of 11 missing persons were identified through the framework of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) this year, representative of the office of the Greek Cypriot member Leonidas Pantelides ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Thursday said he had agreed to there being British involvement at the planned enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem which is due to take ...

The number of cases of people being diagnosed with HIV is “on the rise” in the north, independent Turkish Cypriot ‘MP’ Jale Refik Rogers said on Wednesday night. Addressing ‘parliament’ ...

The Cypriot government is “ready” to begin consultations with both Greece’s independent transmission system operator Admie and the country’s energy ministry to find an agreement on “all matters” ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Wednesday reaffirmed his support for a new crossing point to be opened in Mia Milia, on the eastern edge of Nicosia. Speaking after a ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Wednesday held a telephone conversation focused on the ongoing developments in Syria after the overthrow of the country’s Assad ...

Turkish Cypriot left-wing activist Munur Rahvancioglu on Wednesday announced that he will appeal his denial of entry to Turkey at the country’s constitutional court. Rahvancioglu is one of around 15 ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal lodged by state pathologist Panicos Stavrianos against a Limassol district court ruling that conscript Thanasis Nicolaou had been strangled to death in 2005. ...

The sale of Politis from Yiannis Papadopoulos to Chris Panayiotou was made official on Wednesday. Papadopoulos has owned the newspaper and its related companies since it was founded in 1999, and ...

The new haemodialysis unit at the Paphos general hospital is suffering from a “major shortage” of nursing staff, unit director Lakis Yioukkas said on Wednesday. He said a total of 17 ...

The north’s ‘government’ was on Tuesday night challenged in ‘parliament’ over its “silence” regarding the ongoing trial of Cypriot journalist Ali Kismir, who faces up to 10 years in jail ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Tuesday night said the international community must “make sure that the influence Turkey is trying to assert in Syria is not going to create an ...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that talks to resolve the Cyprus problem “must continue within the United Nations’ framework”. Speaking ...

Bags containing guns and drugs, among other items, were found in a wooded area near the Limassol suburb of Polemidia on Tuesday. Police were called to the scene after a ...

Singer Peter Andre “may” retire in Cyprus, he revealed on Tuesday. In British gossip magazine OK, he pointed out that the United Kingdom’s Prince Harry and Duchess of Sussex ...