Latest Cyprus News
Europe's human rights watchdog urges Cyprus to let migrants stuck in UN buffer zone seek asylum
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A senior official with Europe’s top human rights watchdog has urged the government of ethnically divided Cyprus to allow passage to nearly three dozen asylum seekers out of a U.N.-controlled buffer zone where they have been stranded in tents for months. ...
Biden, Cyprus president discuss administration push to win cease-fires in Gaza and Lebanon
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday discussed a new effort by the U.S. administration and mediators in the Middle East to forge cease-fires to end fighting in Lebanon and Gaza. Christodoulides leads the European Union...
US and Cyprus launch a strategic dialogue to bolster security
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — U.S. and Cypriot officials on Wednesday launched a strategic dialogue they said would bolster security and stability in a crisis-wracked region through initiatives including counterterrorism training of personnel from Middle Eastern countries and fighting sanctions evasion....
Cyprus thwarted a digital attack against the government's main online portal
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus said Sunday that it has successfully thwarted a digital attack aimed at blocking access to the government’s central online portal, the latest in a string of similar attacks over a three-day period against state-run utilities and the Cypriot subsidiary of a Greek...
Russian and Ukrainian business dealings with Cypriot banks dwindled due to sanctions, banks say
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus' banks said Friday their exposure to Russian and Ukrainian businesses shrunk by more than 13,000 clients and 35,000 accounts, amounting to 2 billion euros ($2.17 billion), in the year after Moscow’s 2022 invasion of its neighbor as they adhered to sanctions that...
Cyprus police arrest 8 Syrians suspected of helping to fund a militant group in their homeland
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A Cyprus court on Thursday ordered eight Syrians to remain in police detention for six days on suspicion they helped fund a “terrorist organization” in their native country. Police spokesperson Christos Andreou said the seven men and one woman face...
Cyprus breached right of 2 Syrian cousins to seek asylum, European court says
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Europe’s top human rights court ruled on Tuesday that Cyprus violated the right of two Syrian nationals to seek asylum in the island nation after keeping them, and more than two dozen other people, aboard a boat at sea for two days before sending them back to Lebanon. ...
Cyprus president fires police chief and deputy over the embarrassing escape of a convicted killer
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The president of Cyprus on Sunday fired the chief of police, his deputy and the acting director of the country’s central prisons complex following the embarrassing escape of a convicted murderer while under guard during an eight-hour pass to visit family. ...
Cyprus' top court sacks the government's chief accountant over misconduct
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ top court ordered Wednesday that the country's comptroller general be removed from his post for misconduct and interferences in the works of the judiciary, the first such ruling in the Mediterranean island nation’s 64-year history. The...
Cyprus approves electricity cable to link its power grid with Greece's
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus has given the green light for construction of a 1.9 billion euro ($2.1 billion) undersea electricity cable linking its grid with Greece's, aiming to sharply reduce electricity bills and end its energy isolation, the country's energy minister said Tuesday. ...
