Tom Cleaver

The north’s ‘foreign ministry’ on Friday night decried the resolution passed by the European parliament earlier in the week on the arrests of five Greek Cypriots in the north, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will meet European Council President Antonio Costa on Monday as part of the latter’s visit to the island. On Friday, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said Costa’...

Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Friday said the Turkish authorities would even deny the existence of northern Cyprus so as to be able to revoke his bachelor’s degree. He ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar and his challenger Tufan Erhurman both formally submitted their candidacies for next month’s Turkish Cypriot leadership elections on Friday. Both men marked the submission ...

The leaders of Cyprus’ two communities “have to make decisions” for there to be progress towards the implementation of new confidence-building measures between Cyprus’ two sides, United Nations envoy Maria ...

The supreme constitutional court on Friday rejected dismissed judge Doria Varoshiotou’s request that three of its judges be recused from her appeal against her dismissal from the judiciary. Varoshiotou’...

The anti-corruption authority on Friday released its report into the conduct of former Edek leader and sitting MP Marinos Sizopoulos, finding that he may have committed fraud, forgery, conspiracy to ...

All five Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the north in July have now been released on bail, after a civilian court in Trikomo ordered the release of the final ...

A seven-metre statue of a winegrower was on Monday placed in its traditional spot in Limassol’s municipal garden ahead of the city’s 64th Wine Festival. The statue is ...

Workers at three hotels in Limassol went on a spontaneous strike on Friday morning. Trade union Sek announced that workers at the Atlantica Miramare hotel, the Atlantica Oasis hotel, and ...

One of the five people who filed complaints to the police leading to the arrest and subsequent detention of five Greek Cypriots in the north on Thursday night withdrew her ...

Opposition Turkish Cypriot leadership election candidate Tufan Erhurman holds a four-point lead over incumbent Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar ahead of next month’s election, according to a poll released ...

President Nikos Christodoulides, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will hold a tripartite meeting on September 27, diplomatic sources said on Wednesday. The sources informed the ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos and United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday held a telephone conversation in which they discussed, among other things, “cooperation on security and defence”. ...

Three of the five Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the north in July were released on bail on Wednesday. All five appeared at a military court in Nicosia, where ...

Opposition Turkish Cypriot leadership election candidate Tufan Erhurman on Wednesday called out the wealth of online bots writing comments critical of him and supportive of incumbent Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Wednesday said that Greek Cypriots are “trying to manipulate voters with messages” ahead of next month’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election. While he did ...

Veyzi Bandur was on Wednesday sentenced to life in prison for the premeditated murder of Turkish Cypriot Tansu Cidan, who died in the central prison in 2022. Bandur had been found ...

Israel’s airstrike on Qatar was “utterly unacceptable”, Cyprus’ foreign ministry said on Wednesday. It described the attack as a “violation of Qatar’s sovereignty”, and said that while Palestinian ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou on Tuesday met Egypt’s Petroleum Minister Karim Badawi for a “results-oriented discussion” regarding the two countries’ efforts to exploit natural gas from under the seabed ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday night issued a 1,000-word statement – his second of this year’s election campaign so far – criticising efforts towards a federal solution to the ...

Cypriot members of the European parliament on Tuesday addressed the chamber in Strasbourg for the first time since the wildfire which tore through the Limassol district and killed two people ...

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis on Tuesday denied that his father-in-law is the subject of the European public prosecutor’s office (EPPO) investigation into the Great Sea Interconnector project, which ...

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis on Tuesday said there are “manifest interests” working to ensure that the Great Sea Interconnector will never be constructed. The project, if completed, will connect ...