Cyprus

On Monday, Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades, announced that new projects for the government–controlled district of Famagusta, amount to 34.4 million euros. Anastasiades attended a meeting in Paralimni Municipality, that took place in the presence of ministers, mayors, community presidents and...

Cyprus police arrested a 36-year-old man Sunday for allegedly driving one of two boats that brought 305 Syrian refugees to the Mediterranean island's northwestern coast. Police spokesman Michalis Ioannou said the 202 men, 30 women and 73 children arrived about...

Energy minister Yiorgos Lakkotrypis was briefed on initial findings from drilling by a consortium of France’s Total and Italy’s Eni in block 11 in Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone on Friday and will in turn brief the House Commerce committee...

Police in Cyprus have stepped up security measures at the Republic’s ports and airports after a Brussels alert about a possible terrorist attack against a European country. The message was sent to Brussels, through Twitter alerting travellers of a heightened...

It is not possible to survive having as guarantors those who invaded Cyprus, President Nicos Anastasiades has said. Cyprus, as a European country, does not need guarantees nor does it need the presence of Turkish army and rights of intervention,...

US Energy giant ExxonMobil announced on Wednesday it will carry out two exploratory drillings in block 10 of Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the second half of 2018. ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum (QP) acquired an exploration concession for block...

The government addresses the pilgrimage to Hala Sultan Tekke in Larnaca as a pilgrimage of Muslims, irrelevant of their status, legal or illegal in Cyprus` occupied areas, as it always did, Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said on Tuesday. He also...

The Anastasiades government has recently given permission to Turkish Cypriots and among them the ultra nationalists Grey Wolves, the terrorist organisation that lynched and killed in cold blood – and in full view of the media – cousins, Isaac...

President Nicos Anastasiades has said that he refuses to take part in a blame game relating to the Cyprus peace talks, reiterating that he has never linked the talks with next year’s presidential elections. The President has also described as...

The Turkish-occupied Municipality of Morphou is sending on Thursday a letter to the United Nations and the European Union, to protest a decision by the Turkish Cypriot side not to allow a religious service at the church of Ayios...