Cyprus and Greece top the list of eurozone countries where people still prefer to pay with cash, casting doubt over the claim that plastic is replacing paper in money transactions....
Many civil servants and workers do not punch in or out properly at the Transport Department, and reports suggest their superiors know about it and cover up even as people show up late or never punch their card in the machine....
With help from rabble-rousers on both sides, disputes over airspace and maritime borders, which have poisoned relations between Greece and Turkey for decades...
She told her senior ministers the Douma events showed a “deeply concerning” erosion of international legal norms barring the use of chemical weapons...
Two Cypriot brothers remain in custody in Fiji on charges of money laundering, after a high court reversed a previous bail ruling, citing the seriousness of their alleged crimes and possible long sentences. ...
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras spoke with Turkish counterpart Binali Yildirim who called to express his condolences and those of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the death of the Greek fighter jet pilot whose plane crashed into the sea in the central Aegean earlier on Thursday....
Borrowers who default on a loan won’t be able to pick up the phone and ask a politician to intervene, according to Finance Minister Harris Georgiades, who insists that separating healthy banking from bad loans is the best way forward for the Cyprus Cooperative Bank....
A rather unusual photograph is doing the rounds on social media in Cyprus, showing a cleaning lady using a broom and a shovel to clean ancient mosaics at the Paphos Archaeological Park. ...
Cypriots are getting worried over a lionfish invasion, a venomous invasive species, with scientists, fishermen and divers launching a campaign to reduce the potential threat of the venomous predatory fish. Video by AFP....
Erdinc Senturk, the man who admitted to killing Solon Apostolides in self defence, tried to end his life but fellow cell mates intervened and his plan was foiled....
A 34-year-old man in Oroklini was arrested Thursday early morning in connection with the murder of his own father, who police say was trying to get his son to take his medication when things escalated. ...
The European Parliament will discuss the prolonged detention of two Greek soldiers who have been in a Turkish prison since early March in a series of plenary session meetings from April 16 to 19, SYRIZA announced on Wednesday....
The European Commission on Wednesday approved a one-year extension to a special visa agreement between Greece and Turkey that allows Turks who want to visit seven Greek islands to apply for a visa directly at their destination....
Paphos Mayor Fedonas Fedonos says his city is reviewing a handful of applications for high-rise buildings while trying to avoid the mistakes of rival town Limassol....
Some major airlines were re-routing flights on Wednesday after Europe’s air traffic control agency warned aircraft flying in the eastern Mediterranean to exercise caution due to possible air strikes into Syria....
The Kykkos Holy Monastery and the Greek government are locked in a legal dispute over a plot of land in Nicosia, with the Greek foreign minister due to testify soon in court. ...
Cyprus has nothing to fear from possible military strikes against Syria, according to the government spokesman who also said Nicosia is “in no way involved with the operations.”...
More than 250 people including members of Western Sahara’s Polisario independence movement were killed when a military plane crashed in a field outside Algeria’s capital on Wednesday, officials said....
