Tom Cleaver

The opening hours of the ten painted churches in Troodos have been extended, the culture deputy ministry announced on Wednesday. All ten churches will now be open six days a ...

A 43-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday morning in connection with a fire which broke out at a paper processing factory in the Limassol suburb of Ypsonas in the early ...

Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker will visit Cyprus on Thursday, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said. Stocker will arrive on the island on Thursday afternoon and attend a private dinner with President ...

Cyprus’ permanent representative at the United Nations Maria Michael on Tuesday night told a security council debate that sexual violence during Turkey’s invasion of the island in 1974 “remains an ...

British Cypriot footballer Mickey Demetriou was on Tuesday night named in the English professional footballers’ association (PFA) team of the year for League Two, the fourth tier of the country’...

Oguzhan Hasipoglu, the secretary-general of the north’s largest political party, the UBP, on Tuesday night said he and his party “strongly reject” a European Commission’s spokesman’s comments ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday stressed “the need for full respect for the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine” during video calls with European leaders held in light of ...

Eggs were thrown at the north’s ‘deputy prime minister’ Fikri Ataoglu’s office and halloumi water was poured onto the ground in front of it as employees of the ...

A European Commission spokesperson on Tuesday said the European Union “does not recognise the self-proclaimed state in the northern part of Cyprus and its so-called judicial system” after the arrest ...

House president Annita Demetriou on Tuesday said Europe cannot allow an “unjust peace” in Ukraine. She commented following the conclusion of a video call of leaders of the European People’...

Civil servants’ trade union Pasydy on Tuesday expressed outrage at what it described as an “unprovoked incident of attack” against workers at the social services office in the Limassol suburb ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin is expected to meet President Nikos Christodoulides on September 2, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Tuesday. He told the Cyprus News Agency that Holguin ...

Children at schools across Cyprus will receive lessons on fire safety from retired firefighters during the forthcoming academic year, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Tuesday. Speaking after a meeting ...

Ierokipia mayor Nikos Palios on Tuesday hailed President Nikos Christodoulides’ decision to donate his state pension to charity, with one of the chosen charities falling within his municipal boundaries. The ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will on Tuesday take part in three video calls discussing Monday night’s meeting of European leaders and United States President Donald Trump on the Ukraine war ...

The Amalthea plan, Cyprus’ humanitarian aid corridor to Gaza, returned to action late on Monday night, with the foreign ministry announcing on Tuesday morning the departure of 1,200 tonnes of humanitarian ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will on Tuesday take part in a video conference of European leaders in light of Monday night’s meeting of European leaders and United States President Donald ...

Employees of the north’s Koop Bank and its subsidiaries continued their strike into a second week on Monday, demanding that the company formally distance itself from a reported eight-item ...

A cabinet reshuffle is “a constitutional right held by the president of the Republic”, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Monday amid ongoing rumours that President Nikos Christodoulides will make ...

The Cyprus democratic lawyers’ association on Monday demanded that criminal charges be brought against a defence witness in the case of the five Greek Cypriots arrested in the north last ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s rhetoric “will intensify even more” as October’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election draws closer, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Monday. His comments come ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Friday decried the “unpunished murders” of the Turkish Cypriot residents of the village of Tochni, at a service held to mark the 51st anniversary ...

A Turkish Cypriot has been diagnosed with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, commonly known as mad cow disease, prompting the north’s veterinarians’ association to demand “urgent biosecurity measures”. People can contract ...

The north’s ‘foreign ministry’ on Thursday night accused the Republic of Cyprus of intending to “mislead the public” in its reaction to the arrest of five Greek Cypriots in ...