Tom Cleaver

Fires were lit in Famagusta on Wednesday evening on the eighth consecutive weekday of protests against the north’s ruling coalition’s decision to legalise the wearing of hijabs by ...

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif declared his country’s “support for the people of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus” during a joint press conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip ...

The man who was arrested at Paphos airport on Friday after having been found to have swallowed cocaine with the intention of smuggling it into Cyprus had swallowed over a ...

Turkish opposition political party CHP leader Ozgur Ozel has decried the “bad smell” of an alleged corruption scandal linked to northern Cyprus involving the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan voiced his frustration at Turkish Cypriot “impudence” over ongoing protests against the north’s ruling coalition’s decision to legalise the wearing of hijabs by ...

Fires were once again lit outside the north’s ‘parliament’ in northern Nicosia on Tuesday in protest against the ruling coalition’s decision to legalise the wearing of hijabs by ...

Turkey is planning to start drilling for natural gas off the coast of Cyprus “in the near future”, Turkish Petroleum Corporation (Tpao) research and development centre department head Muhammet Fatih ...

A 46-year-old British tourist who was arrested after colliding head-on with a motorcycle and killing its rider was on Tuesday ordered to remain in custody until his next court hearing ...

After a weekend marred by law breaking behaviour at Easter bonfires, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis on Tuesday said he would write to the Supreme Court to request that cases involving ...

The House legal committee on Tuesday denied responsibility for the various crimes surrounding Easter bonfires, known as lambradjies, and other explosives over the weekend, insisting that the bill the government ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will attend the funeral of Pope Francis, it was reported on Tuesday. The Cyprus News Agency said that Christodoulides will travel to Rome to attend the funeral, ...

The Holy The Holy See’s embassy in Nicosia on Tuesday announced that it is to open a book of condolences for the passing of Pope Francis. The book will ...

A newly released short film shot during a holiday in Cyprus offers a glimpse into what the island was like in April 1974, three months before the Greek-inspired coup d’état ...

The Organisation of Turkic States’ (OTS) council of elders is to meet in northern Cyprus, according to reports in Turkey. The council, which comprises representatives of the governments of Azerbaijan, ...

Mobile speed cameras are “not set up on a whim”, traffic police director Charis Evripidou said on Tuesday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, he said there are “points where ...

A 53-year-old man from Limassol was arrested on Monday evening after crashing his car into two parked vehicles and later being found to be almost five times over the legal ...

Police are suspecting arson after a primary school classroom went up in flames in the Nicosia suburb of Strovolos on Monday night. A police spokesperson told the Cyprus News Agency ...

The Turkish foreign ministry has promised to take legal action over the publication of allegations against the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, and others regarding ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition political party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman on Monday lit a fire outside Kyrenia town hall as nightly protests against the north’s ruling coalition’s decision to ...

The village of Elia, near Lefka, on Saturday night lit its own fire in protest against the north’s ruling coalition’s decision to legalise the wearing of hijabs by ...

The Tolmi addiction centre in Paphos is aiming to open a new residential addiction treatment facility, with the town’s municipality having given a “positive” response to the idea, the ...

Ozgur Ozel, the leader of Turkey’s largest opposition political party the CHP, on Saturday decried the “bankruptcy” of the country’s foreign policy in the wake of the signing ...

Turkey’s presidential communications directorate on Saturday night slammed “fictitious” and “unfounded” allegations levelled against the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, and others regarding reported ...

The fire brigade were called to a total of 94 incidents related to the lighting of Easter bonfires, known as “lambradjies”, overnight, spokesman Andreas Kettis said on Sunday. He said there ...