Tom Cleaver

The ten members of the steering committee of the civil society consultative body were named on Thursday, after President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman agreed to do ...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Thursday insisted that in making efforts to ensure the cancellation of a children’s football camp which was due to be organised under licence on ...

A shipment of 900 tonnes of humanitarian aid has been sent from Cyprus to Gaza, the foreign ministry said on Thursday, explaining that the shipment “includes medicines, medical equipment, hygiene supplies, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Wednesday agreed to hold weekly meetings with the aim of achieving the requisite progress for United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin is to return to Cyprus next month, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday, as he departed from the presidential palace for his meeting with ...

A solar farm has been installed to power the bicommunal Mia Milia wastewater treatment plant, the Nicosia district government said on Wednesday. It said the solar farm will have a ...

Permission from Turkey is not required for the Great Sea Interconnector project (GSI), which, if completed, will connect the energy grids of Cyprus, Greece and Israel, to go ahead, Greek ...

School supplies have been donated to Greek Cypriot and Maronite children who attend schools in the north, the Pancyprian volunteerism coordinating council said on Thursday. The supplies were donated by ...

Attempting to force the cancellation of a children’s football camp “is clearly a defeat for all people and for humanity as a whole”, Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman said ...

A 49-year-old woman who stands accused of having killed her husband in their home in the Nicosia district village of Yerolakkos appeared in court in northern Nicosia on Wednesday, with ...

The electricity authority plans to build new electricity storage capacity both at the Dhekelia power station and at the Moni power station, with the aim of limiting the extent to ...

A fire which broke out in the early hours of Wednesday morning caused “extensive damage” to a restaurant in the Paphos district village of Chlorakas, the fire brigade said. The ...

A 20-year-old man was arrested after police officers found around two kilograms of cannabis which was to be delivered to him by a courier service in Nicosia, the police said ...

A total of six people were arrested as part of the police’s overnight operations, the force said on Wednesday. Officers pulled over and checked 456 drivers and 130 passengers, while also ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy thanked Cyprus for the efforts it made during its six-month term as the holder of the Council of the European Union’s rotating presidency to bring ...

The met office on Wednesday issued a yellow weather warning for high temperatures, which will be in force for two and a half hours during the afternoon. The warning will ...

Wednesday’s weather will be mostly clear across most of the island for most of the day, though tempered by sparse fog on the coasts and in the east of ...

Cyprus Football Association chairman Haris Loizides wrote a letter to his Spanish counterpart Rafael Louzan, urging him to discourage footballing giant Barcelona from organising a children’s football camp in ...

German Bundestag member Maximilian Krah, who belongs to the country’s largest opposition party, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), on Tuesday visited the north, holding a meeting with ‘parliament ...

Former president Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday issued an 8,400-word defence of his actions before and during his term in office, pushing back on allegations levelled at him in the anti-corruption ...

The Nicosia district government on Tuesday signed a contract with the Thessaloniki water supply and sewerage company (Eyath) to be provided with “expertise” in “the field of geographic information systems”. ...

The Greek Cypriot side has “always avoided” cooperating with the Turkish Cypriots, former Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat said on Tuesday, with his successor Tufan Erhurman and President Nikos ...

A Cypriot company attempted to sell speed cameras with hidden Russian SIM cards to the Slovak government, falsely claiming that the cameras had been manufactured in Cyprus, according to reports ...

At least 150,000 people currently live in Kyrenia, the town’s Turkish Cypriot mayor Murat Senkul has said, stressing that the overall population of the north is likely much larger than ...