Tom Cleaver

The north on Tuesday night announced it would remain in a period of mourning until sunset on Wednesday following the deaths of 76 people in a fire in a hotel at ...

Incumbent Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar leads challenger and opposition party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman by 1.7 per cent in the latest poll to ask Turkish Cypriots who they will vote ...

Renovations at northern Nicosia’s central Selimiye mosque will be complete by the beginning of the Holy month of Ramadan, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar was informed on Tuesday. He ...

Turkish embassies across the world will now provide consular services to Turkish Cypriots, following the ratification of a agreement between Turkey and the Turkish Cypriot authorities by the Turkish parliament’...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday called for construction on the planned road which would link the buffer zone village of Pyla with Arsos in the north to restart. ...

The police on Tuesday clarified the circumstances surrounding attacks on Nicosia’s Bayraktar mosque following media reports. Turkey’s Anadolu Agency had reported earlier in the day that two attackers ...

A balcony on the second floor of an apartment building in the Limassol suburb of Yermasoyia collapsed and fell on to the first-floor balcony below it on Tuesday. The balcony ...

The prisons department on Tuesday denied allegations that the new Wing 11 at the central prison has security issues after reports surfaced of an inmate being beaten with a padlock. “We ...

The 39-year-old man arrested last week in connection with the death of 24-year-old Shoaib Khan now claims Khan was dead when he left him in Strovolos on January 6, police representative ...

The Mavrokolympos reservoir is to be fully drained of its 1.4 million cubic metres of water over the coming days to allow access to a corroded vent – the only available option ...

Residents of the Tillyria region on Saturday held a protest to demand that crossing points be opened to the Turkish Cypriot Kokkina exclave. The demonstrators gathered in the village of ...

The Republic of Cyprus’ police has requested that the Turkish Cypriot authorities hand over four people named as suspects in the case surrounding the death of 24-year-old Pakistani national Shoaib ...

The government is aiming for investment at and the possible future development of the old Larnaca airport, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Saturday. Speaking during a visit to the ...

A 30-year-old woman who stands accused of having put a dog in a rubbish bin appeared in court in Paphos on Saturday and was handed a 24-hour remand. The woman ...

Disy leader Annita Demetriou on Saturday said the international community “can never accept” a two-state solution to the Cyprus problem. Speaking at the European People’s Party’s (EPP) conference ...

A 21-year-old food delivery driver was robbed in Limassol during the early hours of Saturday morning, the police said. The man was riding an electric bicycle through the city when ...

Cyprus is “in the final stage” of preparation to join Europe’s Schengen zone, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday. Speaking at a meeting of the European People’s Party ...

A group of experts from the US are to visit Paphos’ Andreas Papandreou airbase to discuss planned upgrades to it, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday. Speaking at a European ...

Trade union leaders and opposition figures in the north on Friday night expressed fury at the new minimum wage, which was announced following a meeting of the minimum wage determination ...

Joining Europe’s Schengen zone is a “key priority” for Cyprus’ government, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Friday. Speaking after a meeting with European Commissioner for internal affairs Magnus ...

A total of 10,098 irregular migrants who had been staying in Cyprus were returned to their country of origin in 2024, the police said on Friday. Additionally, the police said, a total ...

British far-right politician Nigel Farage on Friday said Cyprus is “prepared to sell” its freedom by virtue of being a European Union member state. Speaking on Cypriot member of the ...

Turkish Cypriot Nicosia mayor Mehmet Harmanci on Friday said it is his “ideal” for Nicosia to be brought “to a point where it can be opened to unlimited and mutual ...

Nurses’ trade union Pasyno on Friday decried understaffing at Cyprus’ hospitals, declaring that hospitals “cannot depend on overtime” and thus requesting that they be “appropriately and sufficiently staffed”. They expressed “...