Tom Cleaver

The Swedish government on Tuesday refuted the Cypriot interior ministry’s claim it had offered “significant support” for the plan to declare parts of Syria safe. The interior ministry had ...

Diplomats past and present convened on Tuesday to mark the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp) and discuss prospects for peace in ...

Footpaths at the southern end of Ledra Street and on the pavement of adjacent Fokionos street inside Nicosia’s old town are to be resurfaced this weekend. The Nicosia Municipality ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou committed her ministry to building new schools and upgrading existing ones in the town and district of Larnaca. Speaking during a visit to the town’s ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday thanked Slovakia for the country’s “long-term” support regarding the Cyprus problem. He was speaking at a meeting with Slovakia’s Parliament speaker Peter Pellegrini ...

The son of a man whose body was found washed up on the north’s coast last month said on Tuesday the north’s authorities “did not even call” him ...

A Turkish Cypriot MP demanded the north’s law on military crimes be changed after the trial of Turkish Cypriot journalist Ali Kismir was postponed again on Monday. Kismir stands ...

A high-ranking civil servant in the north was arrested on Monday night as part of the police’s investigations into a mass brawl which took place in Nicosia’s old ...

The Cyprus problem “is still solvable”, the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp)’s head Colin Stewart said on Monday. Speaking at an event at the Ledra Palace hotel ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Monday implored his European Union counterparts to re-evaluate the status of parts of Syria and consider parts of the war-torn country as “safe”. Speaking at ...

The north’s ‘government’ on Monday night ordered a 60-day suspension of strike activity at Ercan (Tymbou) airport after air traffic control staff had walked out earlier in the evening. ...

The Greek Cypriot arrested in the north for sexually assaulting a male hitchhiker appeared in court in the north for the second time on Monday. The man, aged 69, reportedly sexually ...

Over 70 per cent of people in the north are overweight or obese, the north’s ‘health minister’ Hakan Dincyurek said on Monday. Speaking on the occasion of World Obesity Day, ...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar on Monday decried the United Nations Security Council Resolution 186 on the anniversary of its passage. The resolution, which passed through the Security Council on March 4, 1964, ...

Two of the suspects accused of being a part of a mass brawl which took place on Zahra street in Nicosia’s old town in the north “were handing out ...

The Green party has included a Turkish Cypriot, Oz Karahan, on its ballot for June’s European elections. They have become only the second political party represented in parliament to ...

One in three Cypriots is overweight, the Cyprus Association of Dietitians and Nutritionists said on Sunday. Ahead of Monday’s World Obesity Day, the association released a set of statistics ...

Archbishop Georgios said on Sunday that Turkey is planning a “complete occupation of Cyprus”. Speaking at a memorial for Eoka fighter Grigoris Afxentiou, who was killed on March 3, 1957, he said “...

The government on Sunday issued an “anti-navtex” in response to a Turkish navtex message regarding maritime research in the sea off Cyprus’ northern coast. Turkey had earlier issued a navtex, ...

A poll released on Sunday showed Nikos Christodoulides’ popularity to have been greatly diminished since his election as President a year ago. The poll, commissioned by newspaper Phileleftheros and carried ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou and Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis travelled to Brussels ahead of European Union summits which are set to take place this week. Ioannou will attend the EU’...

Turkish Cypriot opposition party TDP Leader Zeki Celer said on Sunday he would “close all these university-looking places” in the north if he came to power. He was speaking to ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday the government is “ready for negotiations to start tomorrow”. He was speaking at a memorial for Eoka fighter Grigoris Afxentiou, who was killed on ...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar on Saturday evening met with Tatarstan head Rustam Minnikhanov. The pair met at the Antalya diplomatic forum in Turkey, with Tatar and Minnikhanov emphasising “historical ...