Latest Cyprus News

US and Cyprus will sign a deal to fight money laundering and evasion of Russian sanctions

Mar. 26, 2024 09:05 AM EDT

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The United States and Cyprus said Tuesday they’re formalizing their collaboration in fighting money laundering, sanctions evasion and other financial crimes with an agreement offering Cypriot law enforcement authorities U.S. expertise. The FBI and Cypriot...

Cyprus minister says a proposal to set up safe zones in Syria for refugees to return is advancing

Mar. 22, 2024 11:39 AM EDT

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A Cyprus government proposal to enable repatriations of Syrian refugees by designating specific areas within the country as safe zones is “gaining ground” among the island nation's fellow European Union member states, the Cypriot interior minister said Friday. ...

The first ship to use a new sea route delivers aid to Gaza, Israeli miliary says

Mar. 15, 2024 16:28 PM EDT

WADI GAZA, Gaza Strip (AP) — A ship delivered 200 tons of humanitarian supplies, food and water to Gaza on Friday, the Israeli military said, inaugurating a sea route from Cyprus for aid to help ease the humanitarian crisis brought by Israel’s 5-month-old offensive in the enclave. ...

Israeli military says cargo of aid has been unloaded in Gaza from ship arriving from Cyprus

Mar. 15, 2024 16:28 PM EDT
WADI GAZA, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli military says cargo of aid has been unloaded in Gaza from ship arriving from Cyprus.

An aid ship is sailing to Gaza, where hundreds of thousands face starvation 5 months into war

Mar. 12, 2024 20:50 PM EDT

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An aid ship loaded with some 200 tons of food set sail for Gaza on Tuesday in a pilot program for the opening of a sea corridor to the territory, where the 5-month Israel-Hamas war has driven hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to the brink of starvation. ...

Food charity says aid ship bound for Gaza has set sail from Cyprus

Mar. 12, 2024 03:06 AM EDT
JERUSALEM (AP) — Food charity says aid ship bound for Gaza has set sail from Cyprus.

An effort to get aid to Gaza by sea is moving ahead. But the first ship is still waiting in Cyprus

Mar. 10, 2024 23:06 PM EDT

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A U.S. Army vessel carrying equipment to build a temporary pier in Gaza was heading to the Mediterranean on Sunday, after U.S. President Joe Biden announced plans to increase aid deliveries by sea to the besieged enclave where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians...

Another top donor says it will resume funding the UN agency for Palestinians as Gaza hunger grows

Mar. 09, 2024 18:30 PM EST

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Another top donor to the U.N. agency aiding Palestinians said Saturday that it would resume funding, weeks after more than a dozen countries halted hundreds of millions of dollars of support in response to Israeli allegations against the organization. ...

A ship with Gaza aid is preparing to inaugurate a sea route from Cyprus to the war-ravaged strip

Mar. 09, 2024 06:57 AM EST

LARNACA, Cyprus (AP) — A ship bearing humanitarian aid was making preparations to leave Cyprus and head for Gaza, the European Commission president said Friday as international donors launched a sea corridor to supply the besieged territory that is facing widespread hunger after five months of...

Biden orders US military to set up temporary aid port for Gaza as famine threatens

Mar. 07, 2024 22:54 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden ordered the U.S. military Thursday to set up a temporary port off the coast of Gaza, joining international partners in trying to carve out a sea route to deliver food and other aid to desperate Palestinian civilians cut off by the Hamas-Israel war and by...