Once considered a small provincial airstrip, Paphos airport on the west coast of Cyprus has quickly become one of the busiest hubs in the Eastern Mediterranean. And after years of expansion, the airport is set [Read More]
President of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides, has addressed the memorial service for the victims of an explosion 12 years ago which killed 13 men. The incident occurred on 11 July 2011, at Evangelos Florakis Naval Base, [Read More]
Cyprus’ Energy Minister Giorgos Papanastasiou has confirmed that several energy companies are interested in building a natural gas pipeline between Israeli gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean and Cyprus. Speaking last week, hr said this [Read More]
NICOSIA – Archeologists digging in Cyprus have unearthed a double burial dating to the early 12th century BC during fieldwork at Kouklia-Marchello. The dig is being conducted by the Department of History and Archeology of [Read More]
LONDON – British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly will meet Cypriot Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides in London Tuesday to sign a new agreement for closer bilateral relations between the two countries. The ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ will [Read More]
FULL STATEMENT – Below is the full text of an ‘Exceptional Joint statement of Italy, Greece, Malta and Cyprus on the disembarkation of irregular migrants’. Italy, Greece, Malta and Cyprus, as the countries of first [Read More]
NICOSIA – Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu, the official responsible for Turkish Cypriot ‘Foreign Affairs,’ has been speaking about northern Cyprus’ admission to the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) as an observer member. The north of Cyprus – [Read More]
New figures show six people died from Covid-19 over the last seven days in Cyprus. According to the Ministry of Health, 3,625 people were infected. The total number of deaths from Covid in Cyprus now stands [Read More]
The Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East area (East Mediterranean Middle East – EMME region) has been characterized by the World Meteorological Organization as an area in which climate change is already present. Recognizing the [Read More]
Members of the European Parliament’s Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware (PEGA) called on Friday for a vigorous investigation of the allegations of surveillance abuse in [Read More] [Read More]
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