Tom Cleaver

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar has said he will “defend the rights of the Turkish Cypriots to the end” in reaction to a “punch” thrown by a UN peacekeeper at ...

The five Israeli nationals accused of gang raping a British tourist in Ayia Napa had their remand renewed on Tuesday. The group, of which two are aged 20 and three are ...

CCTV footage from the area surrounding the bank in Limassol where shots were fired on Monday is “under the microscope” of Limassol police. Police say a saloon car which was ...

President Nikos Christodoulides penned a letter to United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres asking for the appointment of a new UN envoy to Cyprus. The letter surfaced in media reports, ...

Almost one in five Cypriots cannot afford to keep their homes warm, according to the European Union’s statistical agency Eurostat. According to figures compiled in 2022, 19.2 per cent of Cypriots ...

The new airport in the north provides a window for visitors to see the place, Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz said on Tuesday arriving for a two-day visit. Yilmaz said ...

Storms on Monday damaged businesses on the Paphos seafront, despite only lasting for a short time. Angelos Onisiforou, chairman of the Paphos recreation centres’ owners’ association, said several shop owners ...

The north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel has announced plans to build thousands of social houses with the aim of allowing young Turkish Cypriots to move into them. Ustel said ...

Five private security guards are set to be installed at the Ayios Nikolaos complex in Chlorakas, which was once home to hundreds of migrants. According to the Paphos police, there ...

Current Turkish Cypriot member of ‘parliament’ and son of former Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat, Ongun Talat has hit out at the north’s ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu, saying ...

A 39-year-old man has been arrested for burglary in Paphos. According to police, a concerned citizen noticed at 1:45am on Tuesday that a shop on Apostolou Pavlou street had been ...

Two men from Paphos were arrested on Monday for stealing copper pipes and other items worth a total of €9,100, while police are looking for a third culprit. According to Paphos ...

Kyrenia’s indoor market, known as the ‘Bandabulya’, is set to be reopened “under the management of women”. The town’s council entered an agreement with two female associations, the ...

Occupancy rates at hotels in Paphos are expected to reach 80 per cent during the months of September and October, according to Paphos hoteliers’ association chairman Thanos Michaelides. Speaking to the ...

Almost a fifth of Cypriots cannot afford to keep their homes warm, according to the European Union’s statistical agency Eurostat. According to figures compiled in 2022, 19.2 per cent of Cypriots ...

The United Nations peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) is investigating an incident in which a peacekeeper threw a punch at a Turkish Cypriot soldier in Nicosia on Monday. The incident ...

Health minister Popi Kanari aims to “win the support of parliamentary parties” to pass bills and upgrade public health, she said on Monday. Speaking on the sidelines of a meeting ...

The primary school in the village of Pentayia, near Lefka, has been deemed unsafe after earthquake inspections were carried out on its building. As a result, the building will not ...

A whopping 26,840 kilograms were stolen from the Kyrenia port, according to the Turkish Cypriot police. They say a ship with the sesame seeds on board arrived at the port on ...

House president Annita Demetriou has sent a message of support to her Greek counterpart Konstantinos Tassoulas for the wildfires and floods the country has experienced during the summer. “It is ...

Nine busloads of Israeli tourists, who arrived in Cyprus aboard the Crown Iris cruise ship, will visit Larnaca on Saturday. They are scheduled to visit Finikoudes beach and the town ...

Controversial Turkish Cypriot journalist and Avrupa newspaper editor Sener Levent has been sentenced in absentia to a year in prison in Turkey. He had been put on trial in Ankara ...

Lieutenant General Demokritos Zervakis, the outgoing chief of the National Guard, met with President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday and was thanked for his service. The meeting was also attended by ...

The mayor-in-exile of Lysi, Andreas Kaouris, met on Friday with President Nikos Christodoulides and delegations from Lysi’s twinned towns, Abdera in Thrace, Lemnos, and Kilkis. The twinned towns’ delegations ...