Tom Cleaver

Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi called on Cyprus to take what he described as active steps to influence European countries “to help halt the Zionist regime’s crimes” ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Saturday announced that the civil defence’s ‘SafeCY’ mobile application, which allows users to find their nearest shelter, is fully functional. The application, which was ...

A total of 52 Cypriots who are currently in Israel have requested to return to the island amid the country’s escalating conflict with Iran and the cancellation of flights to ...

Next month’s enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem, which is set to take place in New York, is to go ahead “despite the negative stance of the Turkish side”, ...

The Turkish Cypriot police fined a man 173,876TL (€3,818) after he posted a video to his social media of himself making a rooster smoke a cigarette and drink a glass of ...

More flights to and from Cyprus in the Middle East were cancelled on Saturday as the conflict between Israel and Iran continued to escalate. Nine incoming flights from Tel Aviv ...

Cyprus’ role in the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran is “purely humanitarian”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday. Speaking to journalists outside Dipa’s party conference, he said the ...

A 42-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a string of burglaries committed in the Nicosia district over the course of around three weeks, the police said on Sunday. ...

Missiles were visible from the Cypriot towns of Famagusta, Larnaca, Trikomo and even Limassol on Friday night and the early hours of Saturday morning as Iran launched retaliatory strikes on ...

Turkish Cypriot teachers’ legal challenge to have the north’s ruling coalition’s decision to legalise the wearing of hijabs at public schools declared unlawful was on Thursday suspended indefinitely ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday offered his “heartfelt condolences” to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi following the crash of an airliner in India’s northwestern city of Ahmedabad. “I express ...

The legal service on Thursday decided not to file any criminal charges over the death of conscript Thanasis Nicolaou, who was killed in 2005, his mother Andriana Nicolaou said. “Provocatively, for 20 ...

A man is facing up to five years in jail in the north for “insulting the president” after referring to Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar as a “circus monkey” in ...

A man has been handed a 173,876TL (€3,852) fine after feeding cigarettes to a wild donkey in Karpasia, the Turkish Cypriot police said. A video of the cigarettes being fed to ...

The north’s ‘education minister’ Nazim Cavusoglu on Wednesday night reacted with fury to the Republic’s Education Minister Athena Michaelidou’s praise of Eoka, the paramilitary group formed with ...

Many of the 297 contract police officers who are to leave the force when their contracts expire will be “absorbed” back into the police through new hiring initiatives, the justice ministry ...

The new post-production studio of international film company Copper Island officially opened its doors in Limassol on Wednesday night, with its inauguration ceremony attended by Deputy Culture Minister Vasiliki Kassianidou. ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou on Wednesday said there is “no way” that consumer electricity bills will go up by 9.5 per cent. Speaking after the day’s cabinet meeting, he described ...

Greek Cypriot-owned property in the north and the construction of buildings on it without the original owners’ consent is “a legal weapon which can be used”, Green party leader Stavros ...

The Cypriot government has reportedly rejected an Israeli request for Israeli EuroLeague basketball team Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv to play its home games on the island. According to Israeli sports ...

The case against 22 Turkish Cypriot teachers who stand accused of “battering” police officers during a protest in 2022 was on Wednesday adjourned until October 1. Wednesday’s hearing was the 12th thus ...

Two members of a bizarre criminal group which made headlines earlier in the year after using forged state seals and impersonating officials are to appear in Nicosia criminal court next ...

Former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides, who was removed from office by a Supreme Constitutional Court ruling last September, is to give a new statement to the police next week regarding an ...

The Nicosia district development licencing directorate broke its own rules when adding a new floor onto the top of its headquarters, according to a report released by the audit office ...