Tom Cleaver

A man was sentenced to two years in prison on Monday for firing a shotgun into the air as part of his new year’s celebrations. He appeared in front ...

The north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel on Monday ruled out any imminent cabinet reshuffle after surviving an internal party leadership challenge at his party the National Unity Party (UBP)’...

Serbia will “never recognise the occupation [of Cyprus] as legal”, the country’s ambassador in Nicosia Suzana Boskovic-Prodanovic said on Monday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, she said Cyprus ...

Voting was delayed for over an hour while the focus remained on plans for a two-state solution to the Cyprus problem at the north’s largest party the UBP on ...

The United States navy’s amphibious landing dock ship the USS Oak Hill docked in Limassol on Friday to conduct scheduled maintenance. According to the Defence Visual Information Distribution Service, ...

Two parallel bicommunal rubbish cleanups were held on either side of Nicosia for World Cleanup Day on Friday. A total of 80 volunteers gathered in Cyprus’ divided capital city, supported by ...

Representatives of opposition political parties from both sides, Akel and the CTP, are to travel to New York to attend events and hold meetings on the sidelines of the United ...

The Cyprus Bar Association on Saturday vowed to “vigorously defend the independence of the courts against any attempts to undermine them”. Their statement came amid public upset over the sacking ...

The governments of Cyprus and Greece on Saturday signed a “framework of understanding” regarding the section of the Great Sea Interconnector which will connect Cyprus to the Greek island of ...

The European Commission is “closely monitoring” the government’s planned reforms to the audit office, the commission’s acting spokeswoman for the rule of law Jordis Ferroli said on Saturday. ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos on Saturday hailed rating agency Morningstar DBRS’ decision to give Cyprus a credit rating of BBB (high) and upgrade the island’s outlook from “stable” to “...

Civil defence sirens sounded in the Paphos district village of Kissonerga in the early hours of Saturday morning due to a malfunction. The sirens began wailing at 12.40am, though, as ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Saturday called on both Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to put an “immediate end” to “actions which may lead to ...

The Paphos district tourism development and promotion company (Etap) has installed a total of 18 “smart signs” for tourists across the district, it announced on Saturday. The signs have been placed ...

A mob of 10 people reportedly attacked three men who were exiting a mosque in Paphos on September 6, with one man remanded in custody on Saturday. The three men, a father ...

Cyprus is in “advanced consultations” with the United Arab Emirates regarding the establishment of a joint company to participate in the share capital of the Great Sea Interconnector, President Nikos ...

A firecracker exploded outside a residential garage in Limassol in the early hours of Saturday morning. The explosion caused no damage, and the fire was extinguished by the garage’s ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will travel to New York on Saturday ahead of the United Nations General Assembly. He is set to give his speech to the general assembly on Wednesday, ...

The UBP, the largest political party in the north, will decide who its leader will be at its party conference on Saturday. The party’s 21,000 members will be able to ...

A 16-year-old boy died in a motorcycle crash in the Limassol district village of Pano Polemidia on Friday afternoon. The boy, named as Charalambos Pissarides, was riding the motorcycle through ...

Attorney-General George Savvides on Friday issued a warning to those decrying the Supreme Constitutional Court’s decision to fire the now former Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides. Speaking to television channel Alpha, ...

The government has €454 million of funding available for Cyprus’ farmers through the European Union’s common agricultural policy, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Friday. Speaking at the opening of ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Friday telephoned Panathinaikos basketball coach Ergin Ataman. The call came days after Ataman had reacted with upset to a banner reading ‘50 years of illegal ...

Cabinet on Friday approved the state budget for 2025 and the government’s medium-term fiscal framework for the three years between 2025 and 2027. Speaking after the day’s cabinet meeting, Finance Minister ...