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With 75 % per cent of the vote counted in the Cyprus parliamentary elections, results on Sunday show that the main parties are losing ground.

The former President of the Republic of Cyprus Dimitris Christofias died on Friday afternoon at the age of 72. Christofias was hospitalized in Cyprus for several days, since he had been critically ill. During the last few days he was in...

In a true democracy, a legitimate protest vote belongs to the people and not to political parties or to bad political systems for manipulation. It's a valid People's Veto against bad politics! If a Blank/White Vote were recognized by Parliament...

Cypriot main opposition, communist AKEL party, has accused President Nicos Anastasiades of militarising the Cyprus problem in the run up to the presidential elections, after two Greek Airforce jets overflew the military parade marking the island’s independence. Party spokesman Stephanos...

The issues that remain open in the ongoing Cyprus talks between the two communities on the island were discussed in a meeting between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Cyprus’ AKEL general secretary Andros Kyprianou in Athens on Thursday,...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that in a future solution to the Cyprus problem no guarantees can be accepted, according to AKEL Secretary General Andros Kyprianou. Lavrov, Kyprianou says, has also made it clear that there cannot be...

The National Popular Front (ELAM) has won seats for the first time in Cyprus after Sundays' parliamentary elections. The Cypriot ultra-right party, which is fashioned after Greece's nationalist Golden Dawn party, won 3.7 percent of the votes and got two...

The leader of the main opposition party in Cyprus, leftwing AKEL member; Andros Kyprianou, has described as very interesting his meeting with Turkey's Prime Minister, adding that the road ahead towards a negotiated settlement in Cyprus is not going...

Protesters outside the European Union House in Nicosia, Cyprus, on Saturday expressed their solidarity and support to the Greek people, as well as their disapproval of the European Union and the International Monetary Fund’s austerity policies. The crowd waved Cypriot and...

The current situation, the developments in the island and the long-standing Cyprus problem will be tabled during a multi-day bipartisan meeting that is scheduled to be held in Nicosia, in February, under the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades,...