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UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who will today be attending talks hosted by the UN in Geneva aimed at restarting formal negotiations for a solution to the Cyprus issue, has ...

US Ambassador in Nicosia Judith Garber has told CNA that the US hopes all parties will approach the informal talks in Geneva this week with sufficient pragmatism and flexibility to ...

China hopes that the 5+1 informal meeting in Geneva will help lead to the relaunch of negotiations for a Cyprus settlement. Replying to a question by CNA, Liu Yantao, the Ambassador ...

Cyprus has entered a lockdown again in an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus on the island and contain hospital admissions. The new lockdown is in effect on Monday, ...

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades flies to Geneva on Monday at the head of a delegation to participate in the 5+1 informal meeting on Cyprus which UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has convened ...

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias says that the positions of Turkey and the Turkish-Cypriot side leave little ground for optimism as regards the prospects of the informal five-party conference on ...

Cyprus’ Minister of Defence Charalambos Petrides met Saturday with Armenian President Armen Sarkissian in Yerevan, in the context of his official visit to Armenia. According to a press release by ...

We continue the effort for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the international community, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Saturday in a post on twitter, on the occasion of ...

The House of Representatives on Friday held its last plenary session before the parliamentary elections due to take place on May 30. The parliament decided unanimously to be dissolved beginning as ...

The National Council convenes on Friday morning under President Nicos Anastasiades, with a view to discuss developments as regards the Cyprus problem in view of the 5+1 informal meeting that will ...

The Council of Ministers will meet later on Thursday morning to face difficult decisions over the next steps regarding Covid measures over the Easter period following an increase in cases ...

The UN has said it hopes the parties attending the informal 5+1 meeting on Cyprus in Geneva next week will attend with creativity. “I think what the Secretary-General, the aim as ...

We are going to Geneva with the aim to get a positive outcome, Foreign Minister, Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday, referring to the informal meeting on the Cyprus problem that ...

Cyprus police booked 147 people and one establishment owner, during the last 24 hours for violating Covid measures. A police spokesperson told CNA that a total of 9,492 checks were carried out from ...

Cyprus winemakers are to benefit from an incentives scheme to encourage investments as well as a promotional campaign here and abroad to boost sales. The schemes, unveiled on Thursday, come ...

Cyprus’ public debt reached €26 billion, or 124 per cent of GDP at the end of February, pushed by increased government borrowing to support the economy amid the crisis caused by the ...

By end of April the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) will have identified a number of remains, Leonidas Pantelides, Greek Cypriot Member in the Committee told the Cyprus News Agency ...

Cyprus has asked EU borders agency Frontex marine patrols to halt migrants sailing from Turkey`s southern coast to the island`s north Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said, speaking during ...

Police booked 119 individuals and four establishment owners for violating Covid measures. A police spokesperson told CNA that in the last 24 hours ending 6am Saturday, officers carried out 11,160 checks. In Nicosia 23 ...

Cyprus Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides participated in a Ministerial virtual conference on the “Task Force Takuba” operating in Mali. A press release issued by the Defence Ministry noted that Petrides ...

Life expectancy at birth has been increasing by more than two years per decade since the 1960s but latest available data suggest it has stagnated or even declined in recent ...

The State Department has issued further sanctions against Turkish defence industry SSB, its president and other officials over the possession of Russian S-400 missiles. A press release said the Secretary ...

A Turkish hacker unsuccessfully tried to attack a Larnaca airport server, a source told CNA, noting that the attack was confirmed during the early hours of Saturday. The same hacker ...

Foreign Minister, Nikos Christodoulides, will pay a working visit to Serbia on Monday, for talks with the country`s political leadership. During his visit, Christodoulides will receive the Order of ...