Tom Cleaver

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman commenced his round of contacts on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly in New York on Thursday, meeting the UN’s Cyprus problem ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “illegally occupies northern Cyprus” in his address to the United Nations general assembly. “The latest country ...

Elected representatives and residents of the Nicosia district village of Mitsero and seven other nearby villages held a demonstration outside the Supreme Court on Thursday against plans to build an ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos on Thursday said that the state will operate with a budget surplus “for the third consecutive year” next year, as he presented next year’s state ...

Plans for a natural gas pipeline to be constructed between Turkey and Cyprus have “generated enthusiasm within the international community”, Turkish Cypriot ‘energy minister’ Hasan Tacoy said on Thursday. “The ...

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis met the United Nations’ Cyprus problem envoy Maria Angela Holguin in New York, the Greek foreign ministry said on Thursday. Neither Gerapetritis, nor Holguin made ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel on Thursday lambasted President Nikos Christodoulides’ speech at the United Nations general assembly and the accusation of “hypocrisy” he had levelled at Turkish President ...

Representatives of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) will meet Denia village mukhtar Charalambos Alexandrou on Thursday, following Wednesday’s buffer zone altercation near the Nicosia district village, ...

Turkey is “closely monitoring military developments on the island of Cyprus”, the country’s defence ministry’s spokesman Zeki Akturk said on Thursday, offering criticism for the Republic of Cyprus’ ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos held what he described as a “frank exchange” with Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly in New ...

President Nikos Christodoulides called for the “development” of the natural gas located under the seabed off the coast of Cyprus “as soon as possible” when he met American multinational oil ...

Rain is expected to fall in the mountains, inland, and in the southeast of the island during Thursday afternoon, following a largely clear but partially cloudy start. Temperatures are expected ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of “hypocrisy of the highest form” as he addressed the United Nations general assembly in New York. “I listened ...

Nicosia-based Turkish Cypriot football club Cetinkaya on Wednesday vowed to return to the Cyprus Football Association, as it marked the 92nd anniversary of the association’s founding, at the end ...

The government’s planned reforms to the pension system will ensure that it remains viable for “40 or 50 years”, Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas said on Wednesday, as he addressed members of ...

Calm has been restored in the buffer zone near the village of Denia, west of Nicosia, United Nations peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) spokesman Aleem Siddique said on Wednesday, after ...

A total of five horses have been diagnosed with West Nile virus, the veterinary services department said on Wednesday, with the horses having been tested for the virus between September 9 ...

Pro-federal solution political party the CTP is on course for a landslide victory at the next Turkish Cypriot legislative election, according to a poll published on Wednesday. The poll, which ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told British Prime Minister Andy Burnham that any solution to the Cyprus problem must guarantee the “equal international status” of the Turkish Cypriots, when the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has told British Prime Minister Andy Burnham to give the Republic of Cyprus’ relations with its neighbours “serious consideration” when making decisions regarding the use of the ...

The United Nations is “continuing its efforts” on the Cyprus problem, its envoy Maria Angela Holguin said, after she met President Nikos Christodoulides on the sidelines of the UN general ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday “exchanged views on the Cyprus problem” when they met on the sidelines of the UN general assembly ...

The “sovereign equality and equal international status of the Turkish Cypriot people” must be recognised, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, as he addressed the United Nations general ...

Twenty one people were arrested on Tuesday after a migrant boat arrived near the Karpas peninsula village of Vokolida, Turkish Cypriot police said. Police confirmed to the Cyprus Mail that “...