Cyprus

Calling it a ‘historic day’, President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday swore in the island’s first deputy minister of culture, Yiannis Toumazis. Anastasiades said culture is a cornerstone of identity. The new deputy ministry’s responsibilities include promoting Cypriot cultural identity by utilising cultural heritage and modern creation; recording of cultural heritage…

The defense ministers of Egypt, Cyprus and Greece held a meeting in Cairo on June 20 during which they discussed military cooperation to overcome joint security challenges and threats, especially those related to their interests in the Eastern Mediterranean, which is rich in oil and gas resources. Meanwhile, relations between…

The Cyprus National Guard is set to be supplied with personal protective equipment from Israel, under an agreement signed in Nicosia on Wednesday. The same PPE is used by the armed forces of Israel and the UK, the defence ministry said after the agreement was signed by its permanent secretary…

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Many Bangladeshis who come to Cyprus hoping to find work end up in refugee camps in the EU country. They blame human traffickers for their ill fate. The Pournara reception center for asylum-seekers is the largest refugee camp in Cyprus. The camp is designed to accommodate about 1,000 people, but…

Μπαίνουμε αισίως στο μήνα Ιούλιο και αντί να βρισκόμαστε σε μια διαδικασία όπου οι ταχύτητες πέφτουν, τα brief λιγοστεύουν και οι ανάγκες των πελατών να ισοσταθμίζονται σε ένα ψηλό ποτήρι mojito, αντιμετωπίζουμε μια πολύ διαφορετική κατάσταση. Οι επιχειρηματίες είναι σε εγρήγορση, αφού έχουν αναθεωρήσει τα ετήσια πλάνα τους πέραν των…

The UNSG’s special representative in Cyprus, Colin Stewart, will hold separate meetings with president Nicos Anastasiades, and Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar on Monday. The meetings take place ahead of Stewart’s his trip to New York where the UN Security Council is expected to vote in a resolution for the renewal of the UN peacekeeping force mandate at the end of July. The meeting “will open the door for meaningful and formal negotiations, which will aim at establishing a structured cooperative relationship between the two equal states.”

Leaving away from Avgolida and the Eastern side of the island, our trip takes us to the opposite side of the island of Cyprus. In an area where it belongs to the administrative boundaries of Kyrenia, but which is geographically located between the wider area of ​​Morphou, and the western…

The health ministry said on Sunday that Cyprus was investing a social policy to address addiction to narcotics, in a message to mark World Day Against Drugs and Drug Trafficking. The social policy was being based on EU standards “so that we can all feel that scientifically proven steps have…