Cyprus

The Foreign Ministry, in a statement on Saturday, condemned Turkey's illegal drilling in Cyprus' Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The Ministry urged Turkey to "immediately stop its illegal activities, to respect the inalienable rights of the sovereign Republic of Cyprus that...

Ankara issued a new NAVTEX recently, blocking off parts of the Eastern Mediterranean, some of which overlap with the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the Republic of Cyprus. Turkey plans to send its ''Fatih'' vessel (which means ''Conqueror'') to the...

  Cyprus' chief of police Zacharias Chrysostomou was sacked by President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday over his force’s failure to properly investigate missing persons reports. The missing women turned out to be the victims of Cyprus' first serial killer. This comes...

Cyprus Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou resigned on Thursday over the police's failure to properly investigate missing migrant women who became victims of the country's first serial killer. After a two-hour meeting with President Nicos Anastasiades, Nicolaou said he had submitted...

A number of British forensic experts have been in Cyprus for the last several days to assist local authorities in the unprecedented case of multiple murders carried out by an officer of the National Guard. Cypriot authorities briefed Scotland Yard officials...

Eurostat announced recently that Greece and Cyprus are among the EU nations which reached or exceeded the targets laid out in the ''Europe 2020'' Education strategy. ''Europe 2020'' is an educational strategy set forward by the European Union to increase...

Colonel Tamer Zincir, an official belonging to the Turkish Defense Ministry, repeated on Monday the Turkish position regarding Ankara's rights to their so-called ''Blue Homeland.'' As IBNA news agency reported on Monday, Zincir was giving a press conference regarding the...

According to a report by Kathimerini Cyprus,a woman from the Philippines added a new dimension to the Mitseros serial killer case after she filed a complaint that she had been raped by the suspect, Nicos Metaxas. The 35-year-old Greek-Cypriot army officer...

A 35-year-old Greek-Cypriot army officer has reportedly confessed to murdering seven women and girls in what local media have called the island's "first serial killings." Two bodies were found in a mine shaft earlier this month and a third one...

A third dead body was found in Cyprus on Holy Thursday afternoon at around 16:00 local time (13:00 GMT), believed to be part of the shocking case of the 35-year old National Guard officer who admitted to being a...