Tom Cleaver

Turkish Cypriot Mesaoria mayor Ahmet Latif was on Monday cleared of all charges by a court in Trikomo after being accused of stealing a water tank from a disused milk ...

Diko leader Nicholas Papadopoulos on Monday said he will not “rule out any scenario” regarding the question of who will be elected as House president, with parliamentary arithmetic appearing to ...

A by-election will be called for the position of deputy mayor of the Nicosia suburb of Aglandjia after the position’s previous holder was elected as a member of parliament ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Monday telephoned both Disy leader Annita Demetriou and Akel leader Stefanos Stefanou to congratulate them on their results in Sunday’s parliamentary election. Erhurman’...

Newly elected Maronite Cypriot non-voting representative in parliament Petros Nacouzi said that it is both a “great honour” and a “great responsibility” to represent the island’s Maronite community in ...

Social media influencer Fidias Panayiotou is to forego the seat in parliament which he won at Sunday’s election, instead choosing to serve out the remainder of his term as ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday congratulated Disy and its leader Annita Demetriou for finishing in first place in Sunday’s parliamentary election, describing the result as a “victory” ...

Forest firefighters on Monday called a 48-hour strike and then cancelled it a little over an hour later. Trade unions Oekdy-Sek, Pasykek-Peo, and Dee-Kdoko-Deok had complained that “violations” of the ...

Turkish Cypriots of most political colours reacted with indignation and horror over the weekend after an Ankara court annulled the results of Turkey’s largest opposition political party the CHP’...

The National Guard on Monday said that for the next month, it will carry out work in a minefield between the Larnaca suburb of Aradippou and the village of Troulloi. ...

While social media influencer Fidias Panayiotou’s Direct Democracy Cyprus achieved a respectable if unspectacular sixth place nationwide at Sunday’s parliamentary election, his party topped the polls in Meniko, ...

Monday is set to begin with mostly clear skies across most of the island, though clouds are expected to gather as the day goes on, with rain and even the ...

Social media influencer Fidias Panayiotou on Sunday night said he remains undecided over whether he will continue to sit as a member of the European Parliament or take a seat ...

Alma leader Odysseas Michaelides promised that his party will be a “source of stability” in politics after it won four seats in parliament at its first electoral test on Sunday, ...

Diko leader Nicholas Papadopoulos on Sunday night promised to “unite the centre-right” after his party stemmed its losses at the election to a single parliamentary seat, having been forecast a ...

Elam leader Christos Christou on Sunday night said that a “greater responsibility” has now been placed on him and his party “for the future of Cypriot Hellenism” after doubling its ...

Akel leader Stefanos Stefanou declared Sunday’s election to constitute the beginning of a “new upward trajectory” for his party, as it defied opinion polls retained the 15 seats in the ...

Disy leader Annita Demetriou said the electorate “chose security and stability” as she hailed her party’s amassing of 17 seats at Sunday’s parliamentary election. The party had been forecast ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday evening lamented the electoral wipeout faced by Dipa and Edek, two of the three parties which support his government, saying that both parties deserved to ...

Disy and Akel retained all the seats they had held in the last parliament at Sunday’s election, defying pre-election polls which had predicted losses for both parties to win 17 ...

Petros Nacouzi was on Sunday elected as the Maronite Cypriot non-voting representative in parliament, winning 51 per cent of the vote to take the seat. He won 1,606 of the votes cast, ...

Nikos Anastasiou on Sunday evening resigned as Edek leader, with the party looking likely to lose all its seats in parliament after the day’s election. He had taken over ...

Disy will be the largest party in the new parliament, according to the exit poll, while Elam, as pre-election polls predicted, will rise to third place, displacing Diko, which had ...

As President Nikos Christodoulides bounded down the stairs affixed to the side of the Cyprus Airways jet which had flown him to Mumbai on Wednesday, there was little surprise among ...