Tom Cleaver

Cyprus intelligence service chief Tasos Tzionis held a telephone conversation with the head of the Bahraini royal guard, Bahraini media reported on Wednesday, with the pair discussing the ongoing war ...

The package of eight measures announced by the government to combat rising costs amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East is worth €100 million, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Wednesday hit back at the north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel amid a deepening row over cuts to the north’s cost-of-living allowance, with ...

The Turkish Cypriot ‘foreign ministry’ on Tuesday evening expressed its displeasure at the latest agreement concerning the development of natural gas which was signed by the governments of Cyprus and ...

Kourion mayor Pantelis Georgiou on Tuesday stressed what he believes to be an elevated risk of cancer linked to the placement of communications antennae in the British Akrotiri base area, ...

The north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel on Tuesday evening expressed fury at Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman, who had himself lambasted Ustel’s ruling coalition’s decision to bypass ...

United Nations office for project service (Unops) executive director Jorge Moreira da Silva on Tuesday thanked Cyprus for providing its latest shipment of humanitarian aid to Gaza as part of ...

Cypriot Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Tuesday signed a joint declaration of European foreign ministers declaring their “full support for the Lebanese government and people” as the conflict in the ...

The European Union is “exposed to external price volatility” in terms of its acquisition of energy, Cyprus Energy Minister Michael Damianos said on Tuesday after the bloc’s 27 energy ministers ...

A British man who stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-day in 1944 celebrated his 103rd birthday in Cyprus. Harold Fenwick was 21-years-old when he landed in France as part of ...

The north’s ruling coalition on Tuesday issued a decree stipulating that Turkish Cypriot public sector workers will not be paid the cost-of-living allowance until next year at the earliest ...

New signs have been placed to demarcate the buffer zone near the Nicosia village of Denia as part of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Cyprus’ endeavours to “reinforce the ...

The governments of Cyprus and Egypt on Monday signed a “framework agreement” for the commercial development of natural gas, on the sidelines of the Egypt Energy Show in Cairo. Energy ...

The United Nations peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) is “facing some challenges” in terms of the availability of resources after having had its budget cut at the end of last ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman will meet next Monday, the Cyprus Mail has been informed. United Nations peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) spokesman Aleem Siddique confirmed ...

Conservation work is ongoing at the Panayia Phaneromeni church in the Karpas peninsula village of Gastria, technical committee on cultural heritage co-chairman Sotos Ktoris said on Monday. “This substantial project ...

The consumers’ association on Monday called for the reduced fuel consumption tax rate which is to be applied from Wednesday to be extended to cover heating oil. It said that ...

Turkish Cypriots on Monday embarked on a general strike over the north’s ruling coalition’s plans regarding the cost-of-living allowance, with thousands of people marching from various points in ...

The anti-corruption authority on Monday asked people to stop filing complaints to it based on the content of reports published by the audit office. “Whenever the audit office publishes one ...

The police were alerted on Monday morning after a “suspicious vehicle” was seen parked outside a primary school near the Russian embassy in Nicosia. After officers arrived on the scene, ...

The new migrant centre in Limnes, near the Larnaca district village of Menoyia, has been partially opened, the justice ministry said. It described the new centre as a “substantial step ...

Monday is set to begin with increased cloud cover across most of the island, with those clouds producing isolated rain and even the odd storm. Temperatures will rise to 19 degrees ...

It is “impossible” to abolish the United Kingdom’s bases in Cyprus without first solving the Cyprus problem, former Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat said, amid ongoing rumblings from ...

The Greek Cypriot side has already suggested a “specific date” for a new meeting of President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on ...