Tom Cleaver

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci on Thursday said it is “not fair” to blame Turkey for the failure of talks to solve the Cyprus problem at Crans Montana in 2017, ...

Allowing children of mothers who are registered as displaced persons to vote for MPs-in-exile from the Famagusta and Kyrenia districts may disrupt parliament’s balance, the interior ministry spokesman Menelaos ...

Pakistan “fully supports the cause of northern Cyprus”, the country’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Thursday. “Turkey has always stood by the just cause of the people of ...

A group of 27 cultural associations, mainly comprising Turkish nationals living in the north, on Thursday defended the Cyprus Turkish educators’ union (Kibtes)’ demand that more religion classes be taught in ...

United Nations under-secretary-general for peacebuilding Rosemary DiCarlo on Thursday afternoon met Turkish deputy foreign minister and European Union affairs director Mehmet Kemal Bozay in Ankara. The meeting was the latest ...

President Nikos Christodoulides offered reassurances on Thursday that there was no threat to state security in the wake of an ongoing police investigation into a criminal group, known to have ...

Kissonerga on Wednesday asked that the mobile desalination plant which is planned to be placed near the village’s Potima beach be moved further from the coast than is presently ...

Cyprus’ police seized over 600 kilograms of cannabis in 2024, according to an announcement on Wednesday night. In a post on X, the social media platform better known as Twitter, the police ...

A solution to the Cyprus problem is now an “urgent necessity”, Turkish Cypriot opposition political party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman said on Wednesday. Speaking to the north’s public broadcaster ...

The European Commission on Wednesday sent a reasoned opinion to Cyprus and seven other European Union member states over their failure to transpose into their national legal systems EU laws ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday congratulated Constantine Tassoulas on his election as president of Greece. “I express my warmest congratulations to Constantine Tassoulas on his election to the highest office,” ...

Paramedics belonging to trade union Isotita will refuse to work overtime between February 17 and February 23, in protest at what they describe as the “continuous understaffing” of the ambulance service. The ...

Banks in Cyprus must implement increased due diligence measures when conducting background checks on politically exposed persons, a Central Bank of Cyprus representative said on Wednesday. Addressing the House ethics ...

The police believe that a fire which was started in a three-generation house in Paphos’ Universal area may have been started maliciously, Paphos police’s assistant operations director Michalis Nikolaou ...

The trial of three of the four suspects arrested in connection with an alleged attempted murder in the Larnaca village of Kornos will begin on March 12. The trio, all males ...

Akel on Tuesday decried what it described as an “Islamic agenda” after a report was sent to Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz demanding that more religion classes be taught in ...

The aim of next month’s wider meeting on the Cyprus problem in the Swiss city of Geneva is to “resume talks from where they were interrupted in the summer ...

Turkish Cypriots on Tuesday bade their final farewell to businessman Asil Nadir at his funeral. The funeral took place in three stages, with high-profile figures from Turkish Cypriot politics as ...

Bomb threats were sent to more than 300 state and private schools in Cyprus on Tuesday morning, the police confirmed. A police spokesperson confirmed to the Cyprus Mail that the threats ...

Plans are afoot to link Paphos’ Tombs of the Kings and Coral Bay beach with a dual carriageway, Akamas mayor Marinos Lambrou said on Tuesday. Speaking to Paphos-based news website ...

A 75-year-old man died on Tuesday morning after being involved in a traffic accident in Larnaca. Larnaca police spokesman Christodoulos Konsolos said the man, named as Rodotheos Skordis, was driving ...

All “main artery roads” in the north will be lit with streetlights by the end of the year, the north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel said on Monday. Speaking in ‘...

The number of complaints made by patients to patients’ associations Osak’s observatory in January was 17 per cent higher in January this year than it was in the first month ...

Two men, aged 27 years old and 19 years old, appeared in court on Monday after having been arrested for allegedly attacking a footballer in the car park of a football ground ...