Germany’s top diplomat said after whirlwind meetings in Turkey and Greece on Tuesday the two were ready for dialogue to defuse a worsening dispute over energy resources in the Mediterranean, even as the NATO allies traded new barbs. Turkey and Greece vehemently disagree over natural gas reserves off Cyprus and...
The United States said on Tuesday it strongly objected to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s recent hosting of two leaders of Hamas in Istanbul, prompting a swift riposte from Ankara. The State Department said the officials were Specially Designated Global Terrorists and the United States was seeking information about one for...
England and Manchester United defender Harry Maguire was handed a suspended sentence of 21 months and 10 days by a Greek court on Tuesday after he was found guilty of multiple charges following a brawl on the island of Mykonos last Thursday. Court officials said he had been found guilty...
President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday briefed UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Turkey’s provocative actions both on Varosha and in the island’s exclusive economic zone. According to government spokesman Kyriacos Kousios, the two had a phone call, where the president explained the negative effects of any effort to open fenced-off town...
A Greek, Cypriot, Italian and French naval exercise will be held west of Cyprus from August 26 to August 28, reports said on Tuesday, as Turkey prepared to hold their own naval drill, amid escalating tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean. Earlier in the day, three French Rafael fighter jets and...
Police have been investigating the circumstances under which the citizenship documents were leaked to Qatar’s state-owned broadcaster Al Jazeera, since June 3, police spokesman Christos Andreou said on Tuesday. Al Jazeera on Sunday began a series of reports about Cyprus’ Citizenship by Investment Programme, based on an investigation of “more...
It is no accident that the ongoing smear campaign attacking the Cyprus Investment Programme is being carried on by Al Jazeera. “These leaked documents might have appeared in a local Cyprus paper, and been integral to our country’s politics,” said one observer. “But the fact that they were leaked by...
The health ministry announced 14 new cases of coronavirus on Tuesday, bringing the total cases to 1,474. The new cases came out of 2,769 tests. Five cases were found from 164 tests processed through contact tracing. Three of the individuals found positive did their test privately. One is the husband...
The Turkish Cypriot community is set to receive a total of €31.6m from the European Commission’s second annual action programme. The aid aims to support new projects that facilitate the reunification of Cyprus, the Commission said on Tuesday. Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms, Elisa Ferreira, said: “Projects under the aid programme aim to...
A 25-year-old man suspected of stabbing his father to death in Lekfara took the victim’s wallet and clothes with him to make the crime look like a robbery the Cyprus News Agency reported on Tuesday citing informed sources. Police later said, the 25-year-old showed them where the wallet and clothes...
Nigerian Gbemisola Ijigbamigbe’s right leg was virtually paralysed after she contracted wild polio aged 11 months. Now the 28-year-old leads an active life as a wheelchair basketball player and also enjoys swimming and kayaking. “Polio is not a death sentence,” she told Reuters, smiling. Thousands of people across Africa still live with the...
An 83-year-old man has recovered his lost wallet thanks to a considerate member of the public who found it on a rural road and took it to the police station. Police said on their Facebook page that a 45-year-old man had spotted the wallet on the ground on a rural...
An ancient Cypriot vase dating from 750–600 BC is due to be repatriated to the island shortly, the antiquities department announced on Monday. The vase was handed over to the Cyprus High Commissioner Andreas Kakouris in London on Friday by DC Ray Swan of the London Metropolitan Police. The antiquity,...
For a second day on Monday, the Qatar state-owned broadcaster Al Jazeera continued to release a selection of 1,400 Cyprus government documents regarding the Cypriot Investment Programme which it claimed showed citizenship was “sold to dozens of foreigners linked to crime and corruption”. Interior Minister Nicos Nouris swiftly condemned the...
