Cyprus News

Nicosia, Nov 25 (DPA) Forty-two elderly women, including a 95-year-old, were arrested in a raid on a gambling den on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, a media report said Wednesday. The women, the majority of them aged between 75...

Central Standard Time The status quo on the war-divided island of Cyprus will not continue and a solution should be found soon, the British minister of state for Europe has said. Speaking to journalists after his meeting with Turkish Cypriot...

The Greek Orthodox church of Cyprus has taken Turkey to the European court of human rights over allegedly preventing the 500 Greek Cypriots living in the Turkish north worshipping at religious sites there, a church lawyer said today.

Britain has offered to give up half of the land occupied by its sovereign military bases in Cyprus if the divided island's leaders can seal a reunification deal. In an attempt to show they are serious about supporting a solution...

Kathimerini United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reveals to Kathimerini his special relationship with Greece, which he attributes to this country�s participation in the Korean War on the side of UN forces and to the crucial role Greece is invited to...

The president of Cyprus, Demetris Christofias, on Thursday gave a gloomy assessment of talks to reunify the divided island and warned the European Union against appeasing Turkey in the way Germany was treated before World War II. Speaking in Brussels...

He added, “This illustrates the decisive steps the Turkish side is taking to better the political situation, while negotiations for peace and reunification of the island are going on.” Cyprus announced on Tuesday that it had canceled the National Guard...

trap still reaping seeds of Stan era Defeat in Cyprus effectively doomed the Irish Stan to failure and it's the same for his Bulgarian version, Stanimir Stoilov (right), who looks to be on his way out after the 4-1 spanking...