Tom Cleaver

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, ...

Attorney-general George Savvides on Thursday announced that he has elected not to prosecuted former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides for alleged contempt of court on his part in light of his dismissal. ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will have a one-on-one meeting with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday. Their meeting will take place on the sidelines of the ongoing UN general assembly ...

Customs workers in Limassol and Nicosia went on a 24-hour strike on Thursday, then escalated by announcing an indefinite strike starting on Friday, demanding more time to get acquainted with ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos continued his series of meetings with his counterparts on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly in New York over the course of Thursday night. ...

President Nikos Christodoulides met the Ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholemew, on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly in New York. During the meeting, Christodoulides informed Bartholemew about the ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s call at the United Nations general assembly for the world to recognise the north as an independent country is “unlikely to succeed”, former Turkish ...

The entry and exit records of the Strovilia crossing point, through which the five Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the north in July had entered the north, were the ...

The heads of the three political parties which make up the north’s ruling coalition on Wednesday met Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz in Ankara. The delegation, made up of ‘...

Cyprus has been given until November to repay millions of euros which had been paid by the European Commission in grants for the construction of the liquefied natural gas terminal ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar will travel to New York on Friday ahead of a planned tripartite meeting with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and President Nikos Christodoulides. The tripartite ...

Famagusta district governor Yiannis Karousos on Wednesday declared he will have “zero tolerance” for the theft of water from the district’s supply. He said his district government has “launched ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar and some of his high-profile supporters hailed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s speech at the United Nations general assembly, with Tatar describing it as “...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos met his Iranian counterpart Seyyed Abbas Araghchi on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly in New York. The foreign ministry said the pair shared ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos held a tripartite meeting with Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly in ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will call for a “free, secure, strong, and prosperous Cyprus” during his speech to the United Nations general assembly on Wednesday night, according to the presidential palace. ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday met and discussed the Cyprus problem, among other issues, on the sidelines of the UN general assembly ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar and his opposition-backed election challenger Tufan Erhurman both held large rallies on Tuesday night as the Turkish Cypriot leadership election draws closer. Tatar’s rally ...

President Nikos Christodoulides pledged his support for a “safe and stable Lebanon” on Tuesday, during a meeting with the country’s President Joseph Aoun held on the sidelines of the ...

Energy was the main focus of a meeting held between President Nikos Christodoulides and Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly Tuesday. According ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday told the United Nations general assembly that a solution to the Cyprus problem “cannot be built on the federal model”. This, he said, ...

“Intensive policing” on the Larnaca beachfront will continue, with the aim of deterring thefts and other petty crimes and “further enhancing” people’s “sense of security”, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis ...

Cyprus and Greece are both “fully committed” to the Great Sea Interconnector project, which will link the two countries’ energy grids, as well as that of Israel, according to a ...

The water desalination plant in the Paphos district village of Kouklia returned to full working order, ten months after burning down, the water development department said on Tuesday. The plant ...