Cyprus

The work of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) has been extended for 6 months, as a result of a Security Council resolution which was unanimously adopted on Wednesday. The move comes at a time when reunification talks between...

President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades congratulated Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras over last week's ratification of the Prespa Agreement before their meeting in Nicosia on Wednesday. Anastasiades said that the Greek prime minister showed courage and boldness...

European Commission Vice President Jyrki Katainen is on a two-day visit to Cyprus, which began on Monday. Katainen is visiting Nicosia amid discussions on the setting of common EU-wide rules on how EU member states should grant European citizenship to non-EU nationals. ''The...

By Andreas C Chrysafis The campaigns for the next elections for the European Parliament, scheduled for May 23-26, 2019, have already begun in earnest. A total of 751 parliamentary openings are currently up for grabs by those fortunate enough to...

The U.K. government  announced on Wednesday that it reached a settlement over claims made by 33 EOKA veterans who were tortured while in detention during the 1955-1959 Cypriot struggle for liberation. The ''full and final'' out-of-court settlement was reached between...

British ferry operators have been showing a great deal of interest lately in registering their vessels under the flag of Cyprus, Greek Deputy Minister of Shipping Natasa Pilides stated on Wednesday. P&O Ferries was the first large-scale British ferry operator which...

Britain's shipping line P&O has announced it will be re-flagging its entire UK-registered fleet to Cyprus ahead of Brexit, in order to keep its tax arrangements within the European Union. P&O had said in December that it would re-flag just...

P & O Ferries, a British shipping firm, has decided to register its entire English Channel operating fleet in Cyprus, a company spokesman told the Cypriot state-run CNA news agency on Friday. The decision follows the initial re-flagging of two of...

The Cypriot Minister of Foreign Affairs Nicos Christodoulides referred to the prospect of the  Republic of Cyprus buying arms from the United States in the near future. Speaking with the Associated Press on Friday, he said that ''the U.S. will...

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades met with the leadership of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Monday in Nicosia, Cyprus. The President praised the increasingly warm and friendly relations between the states of Cyprus and Israel as he received...