Cyprus

Greek Cypriot professor Andreas Orphanides, owner of real estate in the occupied part of Cyprus, asks the Committee of Ministers of European Council to confiscate Turkish property in France or another European country, for payment of damages awarded by...

More than €100,000 has so far been collected during the #StandByGreece campaign organised to help victims of last week’s devastating fire in Greece. The campaign culminated in Tuesday’s concert at Nicosia’s municipal park where pop stars Anna Vissi and Antonis...

Greek pop stars Antonis Remos, Anna Vissi and Giorgos Theophanous will sing in Cyprus on Tuesday for a fundraiser to help children in Greece who were victims of the East Attica fires. The singers will also speak at a radio Marathon...

Dangerous criminal Haris Saridis, who was wanted in Cyprus, was arrested on Wednesday night in Crete, after an organized operation by the Department of Special Missions of Crete. According to Cretalive news website, Saridis, a Georgian expatriate, escaped from the...

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said on Thursday that Turkey’s military intervention in Cyprus “had prevented the situation from worsening”. Marking the beginning of a series of celebrations in the north, Akinci said the best outcome since then would have...

An aircraft, similar to Noratlas transport plane which was shot down by friendly fire during the 1974 Turkish invasion, was unveiled on Friday by President Nicos Anastasiades, in a sombre ceremony to mark the 44th anniversary of Turkey’s offensive...

As Cypriots say even 44 years later, July 20, 1974 was the day time stopped for Cyprus; a day when the course of history changed and the ongoing crime of the Turkish occupation is as fresh at each anniversary...

Animal welfare campaigners are calling on people to join a protest on Santorini next week over the treatment of donkeys on the popular tourist destination. The Animal Party of Cyprus will hold a protest between July 27-29 against what it...

(File photo) A boat carrying about 150 migrants sank off the coast of northern Cyprus on Wednesday, leaving 19 dead and 25 missing, Turkey's coast guard said, according to Reuters. The coast guard rescued 103 migrants by boats and helicopters 18...

A document backed by the OSCE which attempted to defuse some of the political language confronting journalists in Cyprus has been rejected by Greek-Cypriot reporters. The Words That Matter: A Glossary for Journalism in Cyprus had been produced earlier this...