Greek and Turkish Cypriots on Thursday pulled down barricades that have separated them for half a century, reopening Ledra Street, a potent symbol of Cyprus’s ethnic partition.…
Leaders of Cyprus’s Greek and Turkish communities agreed on Friday to relaunch reunification talks and to open a barricaded street in Nicosia that symbolises the island’s…
Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders may soon erase the most potent symbol of the island’s division, by reopening a bullet-pocked crossing between the two sides closed for nearly…
Fears of a Soviet-educated communist emerging as the next leader of Cyprus — and the first in the European Union — has eclipsed the closest election in the island’s post-colonial…
Greek Cypriots razed to the ground a symbol of Cyprus’s decades-old division running through the heart of the capital Nicosia and challenged Turkey to respond by withdrawing its…
Two women have been arrested in Cyprus on suspicion of sorcery and fraud after allegedly swindling gullible victims by convincing them they were sick and cursed, local media said…
An escaped ostrich attacked a car and took Cypriot police on a wild-bird chase after escaping from a farm outside the Mediterranean island’s capital of Nicosia, a report said on…
A man who stole two trays of cookies from a bakery in the Cypriot town of Larnaca caused a scare at the nearby airport when he drove on to the runway, forcing aircraft to slam on…
An American researcher claims to have discovered the site of the mythological city of Atlantis at a depth of 1 600m on the seabed between Cyprus and Syria , reported local media…
The ethnic Greek and Turkish leaders of Cyprus held crucial talks on Thursday in an effort to reunite the island ahead of the country’s anticipated accession to the European Union.
A pregnant Nigerian student was released from custody and given temporary stay in Cyprus on Wednesday after she applied for asylum, fearing death by stoning in her homeland for…
Cyprus has quietly crumbled to a Brussels ruling it can no longer call its feta cheese by that name, but local producers say they are not willing to go soft.
Dwindling volumes of the benchmark crudes used in Asian and European oil markets are forcing major players to bolster supplies in a bid to decrease the risk of prices being…
The Arab world is fuming over the landmark vote against a future Palestinian state by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s right-wing Likud party.
