Tom Cleaver

A donkey died on Thursday night after being run over on the road between the Karpas peninsula villages of Leonarisso and Ayios Andronikos. According to newspaper Kibris, the donkey “suddenly ...

Turkish Cypriots’ sovereignty is “not up for negotiation”, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said in his speech to mark the 41st anniversary of the north’s unilateral declaration of independence ...

Efforts to gain international recognition for the north “remain without any support whatsoever”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday, the 41st anniversary of the north’s unilateral declaration of independence. ...

United States President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of State, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, is “well aware of the role of the Republic of Cyprus”, President Nikos Christodoulides said ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday said he would be ready to hold meetings with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar regarding the opening of new crossing points as early as next ...

The European Union is “closely monitoring” the waste management situation in Cyprus, European Commission Director-General for the Environment Aurel Ciobanu-Dordea said in a letter published on Thursday. He referred to ...

Parents in the Karpas peninsula village of Ayios Andronikos are up in arms over a lack of teachers at the village’s primary school. Despite the school year having now ...

A fourth baby was discharged from hospital on Thursday after having been fed ethanol while being treated on the neonatal intensive care ward in northern Nicosia’s emergency hospital. A ...

Turkish Cypriot Nicosia mayor Mehmet Harmanci on Thursday called for the capital’s Ledra Palace crossing point to be opened to civilian road traffic. At present, only pedestrians and diplomatic ...

The health ministry and the state health services (Okypy) on Thursday announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding which they say will ensure Okypy’s financial and administrative autonomy. ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “remains engaged” with all sides in his efforts to hold an enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem, his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Wednesday night. ...

The trial of the two men who stand accused of having murdered 39-year-old Andreas Kouzoupis and 38-year-old David Chmelar and then putting their bodies in a car which they then ...

Improving relations between Cyprus and the United States may push Russia to recognise the north, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s international relations advisor Hasan Unal said on Thursday. Speaking ...

Former President Nicos Anastasiades lambasted his successor Nikos Christodoulides in a podcast interview, criticising the latter’s style of governance and his disassociation of himself from the former’s government. ...

Turkey is on Thursday to open a new military hospital in Kyrenia, with the country’s Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz set to formally open it. The hospital is being built ...

A teenage girl died after being involved in a road traffic collision in Larnaca on Wednesday night. The girl, named as 18-year-old Romanian national Iulia Mihaela Vasile, was riding in ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that it is not unconstitutional nor a violation of European Union law for the construction of luxury camp sites, also known as ‘glamping’, to ...

Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou on Wednesday night praised both workers and employers in the concrete sector for agreeing to the negotiation framework he has devised with the aim of bringing ...

A total of 448kgs of meat smuggled from the Republic were found by local police in Famagusta on Wednesday, the town’s Turkish Cypriot municipality said. The meat, all of ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Wednesday said he was not “indifferent” to the challenges of local government reform and that he in fact “did more than that for which the ...

The floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) Prometheas, which will form part of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) project at he, will set sail for Cyprus from Shanghai at the ...

Cyprus Football Association (CFA) chairman Giorgos Koumas came under heavy criticism on Wednesday after the Cyprus sports writers’ union withdrew an award from a journalist who had uncovered corruption within ...

The House legal committee on Thursday called for improvements to the procedural framework surrounding public contracts, amid a wave of contracts being terminated by the government in the second half ...

The north’s gross domestic product (GDP) reached just over €3.6 billion at the end of 2023, the north’s statistics institute reported on Tuesday. That figure corresponds to a growth of 7.3 ...