Cyprus

The Archbishop of Cyprus, Chrysostomos II, has thrown his weight behind President Nicos Anastasiades, ahead of the incumbent's run-off vote against a leftist challenger. Anastasiades and communist-backed independent Stavros Malas will face off on Sunday to see who will become the eighth president...

*Andreas C Chrysafis is a U.K.-published author of five books and over 400 press articles. His latest books are “Aphrodite’s Sacred Virgins” and “Andreas C Chrysafis ART –Volume 1” It is official that the largest political party in Cyprus...

Turkey on Wednesday said any solution to the Cyprus dispute should be based on "current realities on the island". The foreign ministry statement from Ankara came after the UN renewed its peacekeeping mandate for the island for another six months...

Cyprus' center-right DIKO party has decided it will support neither the incumbent nor his left-wing challenger in Sunday's runoff of the country’s presidential election. The party's executive bureau said endorsing either President Nicos Anastasiades or independent Stavros Malas would be a...

Incumbent leader Nicos Anastasiades and communist-backed independent Stavros Malas will face off next Sunday to see who will become the eighth president of the Republic of Cyprus. The run-off vote is set to be held on Feb. 4 since no candidate...

Latest exit polls from Cyprus' presidential election show incumbent Nicos Anastasiades will have to fight in a run-off race next week after apparently failing to win 50 percent of the vote on Sunday. Voting ended at 6 p.m. local time...

President Nicos Anastasiades heads into Sunday's Cyprus election as the favorite in a campaign dominated by the economy and stalled efforts to reunify the divided island. Among the nine candidates for the top job -- all male -- the center-right Democratic...

The author, Andreas C Chrysafis, is a U.K.-published writer of five books and over 400 press articles. His latest books “Aphrodite’s Sacred Virgins” and “Andreas C Chrysafis ART –Volume 1”. The recent attempt to lynch a group of journalists and...

The graves of 36 missing Greek Cypriots found in 2015 were discovered thanks to information given by a 95-year-old Turkish Cypriot woman just months before she died, it emerged this week. Cyprus News Agency reported on Wednesday that it concerned...

Cypriot President Nikos Anastasiades, on Wednesday delved into the name dispute between Greece and the "Lilliputian" Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), claiming the issue is not important. "I would have no objection if wanted to be called Northern Greece,...