Tom Cleaver

Cypriot Palestinian journalist Yahia Barzaq was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, local media confirmed on Wednesday night. Barzaq worked as a freelance journalist in the strip, with his ...

The United Nations is to formally remove the role of special adviser on Cyprus amid sweeping budget cuts. The role was last held by Norwegian diplomat Espen Barth Eide, now ...

Cypriot champions Pafos FC were hammered 5-1 by German juggernaut Bayern Munich in their first ever Champions League home match at the Alphamega Stadium in Limassol on Tuesday night. While ...

Many dams in Cyprus are “old and in need of immediate reassessment and maintenance”, according to a report on the state of the management of the island’s water resources ...

“Certain things” must be implemented before Cyprus makes its planned €25 million payment to Greece’s independent power transmission system operator Admie as part of its obligations regarding the Great Sea ...

By Tom Cleaver President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday expressed annoyance that some “on the Greek Cypriot side consciously choose to believe Tatar and not the president of the Republic of ...

The defence in the military court case of the five Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the north in July will call its next witness from Turkey, defence lawyer Ugur ...

Cyprus’ foreign ministry on Tuesday said it welcomes United States President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza. It described the plan as “a vital step to end [the] ...

The matter of Cyprus is “one of the few on which there is complete unanimity” within the Greek parliament, its speaker Nikitas Kaklamanis said on Tuesday during a visit to ...

World Cup-winning former footballer Mesut Ozil visited northern Cyprus to boost incumbent Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s election campaign with less than three weeks to go until election day. ...

One Turkish Cypriot election tradition which is little known outside of the Turkish Cypriot community is the prevalence of election music. Typically, each major candidate will come out with a ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli on Friday said that opposition Turkish Cypriot leadership election candidate Tufan Erhurman would win next month’s election “by a long way” if ...

The north’s ‘education minister’ Nazim Cavusoglu on Friday said teachers should apologise to him over the months-long saga which enveloped the north’s education system over the ruling coalition’...

Trade union representatives on Friday left a meeting with Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou over the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA) without making any statements. The representatives were quizzed by journalists while leaving ...

The legal service on Friday confirmed that it had filed an appeal against the sentence handed down to former volunteer commissioner Yiannakis Yiannaki, who pled guilty to three charges related ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday ruled out any return to negotiations towards a federal solution to the Cyprus problem, regardless of who wins next month’s Turkish Cypriot ...

The north’s ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu met Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly in New York late on Thursday. According ...

The prosecution in the civilian court case of the five Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the north in July named the witnesses it intends to call to testify against ...

The case against Israeli property developer Simon Aykut, accused of having developed and sold €43 million worth of property on Greek Cypriot land in the north, was on Friday adjourned until ...

The government is now pondering its options for appeal after the European Commission gave it until November 6 to repay a total of €67.2 million handed out in grants for the construction ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s special representative Gunes Onar on Thursday met United Nations under-secretary-general for peacebuilding Rosemary DiCarlo on the sidelines of the UN general assembly in New ...

The Republic of Cyprus will pay the €25 million demanded of it by Greece’s independent transmission system operator (Admie) when the Great Sea Interconnector project is being “implemented it in ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Thursday said he does not “expect much” from his forthcoming tripartite meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New ...

The north’s supreme court on Thursday ruled that the law which allowed the wearing of headscarves in public schools is unconstitutional, and as such annulled it. As a result, ...