Nicosia

Cypriot officials announced on Thursday that a downed Greek wartime aircraft may have been located during excavations, near a memorial on the outskirts of Nicosia, Cyprus. The aircraft is said to have been downed by friendly fire in the...

It was the dawn of July 20, 1974, when sirens wailed in Cyprus as 43,000 heavily armed Turkish troops invaded the island from the northern coast of Kyrenia. Using the military coup that was instigated by the Greek junta as...

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...

Yesterday, supporters of Greece against IMF EU-Troika’s economic blackmailing tactics to break down the Greek spirit brought thousands of people out into the streets. It was a great success attracting masses of people of all nationalities to flood squares...

The messages sent in the play we just watched are very strong, Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades said, in statements with Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci, with whom he watched a theatrical play at Rialto Theater in Limassol. The play "Cyprus: Saddened...

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci send a message of peace hoping that a solution will emerge in the Cyprus problem. The two leaders made statements to the press on Saturday after they walked the streets of old Nicosia, across...

UN-led talks aiming to find a political settlement to reunite Cyprus, divided since the 1974 Turkish invasion, resumed this morning in the UN protected area, at the now defunct Nicosia International Airport. This is the first meeting between Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades...

Greece, Cyprus and Egypt are pillars of security in a wider destabilized region, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said in statements following the conclusion of the trilateral Greece-Cyprus-Egypt summit in Nicosia on Wednesday. The Greek Prime Minister said that they agreed to...

A summit between Greece, Cyprus and Egypt is scheduled to take place tomorrow in Nicosia, aiming to develop trade and investment relations between the three countries, as well as continue negotiations on the demarcation of borders and gas fields....

Former "Mayor" of the northern Turkish-occupied part of Nicosia Mustafa Akinci is the new Turkish-Cypriot leader. With 98% of the votes counted, Akinci got 60,38%, corresponding to 65,412 votes. Incumbent Turkish-Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu got just over 39,62% (42,920...