Presidents highlight close Israeli-Cyprus ties
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday highlighted his country’s close relations with Cyprus, pointing out how it had hosted thousands of Jews after the Second...
World War II
Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot, WW II vets, meet for the first time in 70 years
By Lizzy Ioannidou A Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot who fought side by side in World War II only to find themselves in opposite camps in 1974,...
Japan PM Abe honours “Japanese Schindler” in Lithuania
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the former Japanese consulate in Lithuania on Sunday to commemorate a Japanese diplomat credited with saving an estimated 6,000...
Emotional return to Cyprus for former Jewish camp detainees
“This is very, very emotional,” says 68-year-old retired city planner Pinchas Kahana, as he wanders around the dusty courtyard of what was once a hospital....
Kerry says Hiroshima ‘gut-wrenching’ reminder world should abandon nuclear weapons (Updated)
By Arshad Mohammed and Kiyoshi Takenaka US Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday called his visit to a memorial to victims of the 1945...
Memorial for children of Holocaust survivors born in Cyprus
The defence ministers of Cyprus and Israel visited a military camp in Nicosia on Wednesday to unveil a monument dedicated to the children of Holocaust...
A tea to remember
By Bejay Browne A Paphos resident has just returned to Cyprus after being invited to Clarence House in London to have tea with Prince Charles,...
Ceremony to honour the war dead
By Evie Andreou THE Remembrance Day ceremony held in Nicosia on Wednesday honoured the more than 40,000 Cypriots who volunteered to fight in World War...
‘One letter in a name made the difference between life and death’: how Glafcos Clerides saved my life
By Georgia Vasiliou A Turkish Cypriot World War II soldier, serving with the British army, and a Greek Cypriot soldier, both imprisoned in the same...
South Korean, 80, sets himself on fire in anti-Japan WWII protest
By Dagyum Ji and Ju-min Park A 80-year old South Korean set himself on fire on Wednesday during a protest calling for Japan to apologise...
Bangkok ‘WW2 bomb’ kills seven
By Amy Sawitta Lefevre A suspected World War II bomb exploded in the Thai capital as scrap metal workers tried to cut it open with...