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An underwater pipeline carrying fresh water from Turkey to the occupied north of Cyprus has burst and could take two months to repair, Turkish officials revealed on Friday. The damage to the pipe located, some 250 meters under the surface...

Several people were slightly injured after consecutive explosions occurred in a military zone Thursday near the Turkish-occupied city of Kyrenia. According to Cyprus News Agency, the explosions took place at an ammunition depot following a fire that began 30 minutes...

Hellenic Police (ELAS) is launching an investigation after the official 2019 calendars distributed to the force feature a map that shows FYROM as "Macedonia" and the Turkish-occupied part of Cyprus as "North Cyprus". The calendars were printed by a private...

Turkey is planning to establish a sovereign naval base in north Cyprus, it was reported on Tuesday. According to Turkish daily Yeni Safak, Turkey’s navy has submitted a proposal to the north for the establishment of the base. Such a base...

The population in the occupied north of Cyprus has reached 351,000, according to Turkish Cypriot media reports. The 1983 population of the north; the year the ‘TRNC’ was declared a ‘state’, was said to be 155,521. Turkish Cypriot daily Yeni Duzen...

Celebrity singer Julio Iglesias is suing the breakaway state for $10 million in damages due to claims he had been “deceived” after being invited to do a gig in occupied Kyrenia, reports say. Iglesias was invited to perform at Merit...

Greek media are reporting that Turkey on Friday issued yet another navigational telex (Navtex) for the Mediterranean, this time for the waters north of Cyprus. Turkey stated that the Navtex was needed as it was intending to undertake naval exercises...

Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay visited the occupied part of Cyprus on Saturday, from where he announced that Ankara is looking to re-open the ghost town of Varosha in Famagusta, 46 years after the Turkish invasion of the island. Oktay...

Greece called for the restoration of international order and an end to the Turkish occupation in the northern part of Cyprus on Friday, on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of “independence,” as declared by the occupying regime. “Today’s sad...

A Greek-Cypriot student was spotted bringing down the Turkish flag last Sunday from a school in the occupied town of Lysi in the north of Cyprus. The incident, captured on a CCTV camera, reportedly occurred as hundreds of Greek Cypriots...

The Republic of Cyprus will establish full diplomatic relations with the newly-named Republic of North Macedonia, it was made public on Wednesday. The news was released by officials of the two countries in Lagonissi, Greece, during the annual conference hosted...

An unidentified object that may have been a missile crashed north of the Cypriot capital, Nicosia, early on Monday, but no one was hurt on the ground, Turkish Cypriot officials said. Mustafa Akinci, the Turkish Cypriot leader, linked the object...

A priceless case which includes relics of nine Orthodox Christian saints was returned to Cyprus' Orthodox Church recently, and it was exhibited before the public on Thursday. The wooden and leather case, which looks like a book, was stolen from...

File photo The Turkish-occupied northern part of Cyprus is being used as an entry point for migrants and refugees, as smugglers take advantage of the island's partition into Turkish and Greek-Cypriot halves. The proximity to the Middle East and the lack...

Five Egyptian fishermen on a Cypriot boat were remanded to custody for three days on Saturday by a ‘court’ in Northern Cyprus, following their arrest on Friday, 7.5 nautical miles away from Kormakitis. According to reports in the north, the...