Cyprus

The remains of six Greek soldiers killed during the period of 1963 and 1967 and the 1974 Turkish invasion were handed over to their relatives during a special ceremony held Monday in Nicosia. The ceremony was held in the courtyard...

The premise for financing the settlement is not to leave it to the taxpayers in Cyprus, but get real money to pay for the upfront cost, the Special Advisor of the UN Secretary General, Espen Barth Eide, said in...

The solution to the Cyprus problem will be a compromise, Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades has said, adding that he will brief the people of Cyprus on the convergences and the concerns with regard to the ongoing negotiating process. Speaking in...

The remains of six Greek soldiers who fell during the 1974 Turkish invasion in Cyprus and were until recently considered to be missing, will be handed over to Greece's Alternate Minister of National Defense, Dimitris Vitsas, during a special...

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has expressed his hope that Cyprus will be reunited in the first six months of 2016, in a press briefing on Friday. "I am very confident that in the first six months of this year...

British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond is meeting on Thursday with Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias in Athens to hold talks on European Union reform, Cyprus and the refugee issue. Ahead of his arrival in Athens, the British official said: Britain and...

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci has said “yes” to holding a meeting with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon in Davos, if it is asked of him. Akinci’s statements on Wednesday were made after Anastasiades had made...

"Cyprus is my island / When the going's rough / I would love to find you / Somewhere in a place like that," says a lyric from David Bowie's song "Move on" that was released in 1979. It is not...

  Cyprus’ control capabilities have been reinforced at ports and airports to cooperate with Europol and Interpol, Foreign Ministry Permanent Secretary Alexandros Zenon said on Monday. The island has also coordinated its efforts to protect its border by cooperating with the two on information...

Hundreds of Greek Cypriot refugees from the Turkish occupied village of Argaki, in the Morphou area, celebrated a holy mass on Saturday at their village church of St. John the Baptist for the first time since the village was...