The US State Department has issued a final rule amending the International Traffic in Arms Regulations to specify that Cyprus’ status as a proscribed destination is suspended from Oct. 1, 2026, through Sept. 30, 2027. This action continues the...
The Federation of Cypriot American Organizations (FCAO) will honor three prominent members of the Cypriot American community at its 2026 Testimonial Dinner in New York on Friday, September 25.
The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. at Terrace on the...
Cyprus and Greece recorded the lowest suicide rates in the European Union in 2023, according to new figures released by Eurostat. The two Mediterranean countries stood far below the EU average, with Cyprus reporting 3.5 deaths per 100,000 residents...
Less than four miles from the sea in the valley of the Maroni River in southern Cyprus lies one of the most significant Neolithic sites in the Mediterranean. Choirokoitia (also Khirokitia, Greek: Χοιροκοιτία) is the best-preserved Pre-Pottery Neolithic settlement...
A new digital study has uncovered previously unknown ancient graffiti depicting ships at the Kition Kathari archaeological site in Larnaka, Cyprus. High-resolution 3D scans also revealed details missed in earlier studies, suggesting people carved images of ships at the...
Archaeologists in Cyprus have wrapped up a new excavation season at a Bronze Age complex near the village of Erimi, uncovering fresh details about a large central building and a cluster of chamber tombs south of the ancient settlement.
Cyprus'...
The captain and seven crew members of the ferry that capsized off Kyrenia, also known as Girne, in the Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus, leaving eight people dead and seventeen passengers missing, have been arrested, the Turkish Cypriot leader Ünal Üstel announced.
Üstel...
At least eight people have died and seventeen people are missing after a ferry from Kyrenia carrying nearly 270 passengers and crew capsized off Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus. The occupied territory’s prime minister, Ünal Üstel, told the state-run TRT news...
A Greek-Cypriot businessman, Dimis Mavropoulos, has died after two boats ran aground and sank off Cape Greko in Cyprus on Saturday amid stormy weather and rough seas.
Mavropoulos, his partner, and his daughter were aboard the boat, when the vessel...
British intelligence and military officials fear that a luxury hotel in Cyprus could be used as a hub for spying on the nearby Royal Air Force base at Akrotiri, The Telegraph reports. According to the newspaper, intelligence and military...
Erhan Arıklı, a Turkish-Cypriot politician wanted in connection with the 1996 killing of Greek Cypriot protester Solomos Solomou, has published a detailed, multi-point defense of the events surrounding the 1996 buffer zone clashes.
Writing on Facebook on the 30th anniversary...
An IVF scandal in Turkish-occupied Cyprus may be significantly more widespread than initially reported, with up to thirty children potentially conceived using sperm or egg donors different from those their parents believed they had selected.
The reported figure marks a...
On August 14, 2005, Helios Airways Flight 522 crashed, marking the deadliest aviation disaster in Cypriot and Greek history. The Boeing 737-31S, operated by a Cypriot airline, went down in Grammatiko, Attica, claiming the lives of all 121 people...
