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271. EU Parliament cancels €70 million earmarked for Turkey over rule of law conditions

272. Larnaca abductor says he did it for money

Crime investigators are revisiting the ransom scenario in the Larnaca abduction of two school boys, with the suspect claiming he did it for money despite lack of evidence pointing in that direction...

273. Motive still unclear in school boys’ abduction

A 35-year-old male suspect appeared in court Wednesday morning in connection with the abduction of two school boys that kept authorities on high alert for almost eight hours a day earlier...

274. Larnaca missing boys found in good health

Larnaca police went on high alert Tuesday morning following reports that two school boys went missing at Kamares state primary school...

275. Cypriot Ambassador presents credentials at the White House

Cypriot Ambassador Marios Lysiotis presented his letters of credence to US President Donald Trump...

276. Cyprus Airbnb bill gives neighbors a say

A nearly-complete Airbnb bill is heading back to the House committee, where a number of issues including tax exemptions and apartment rentals will need further clarification...

277. INTERVIEW WITH THE FRENCH MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

278. Larnaca suspect dies while in police custody

A man died Tuesday in police custody after officers who were responding to a domestic violence call used force to arrest him...

279. Dishwasher started fire in boy’s Limassol home

Authorities say an unsupervised dishwasher caused a home fire in Limassol that threatened the life of a 12-year-old boy on Thursday...

280. Anastasiades: unfair solution destined to fail

President Nicos Anastasiades is sending a message to Ankara and the Turkish Cypriot leadership that a Cyprus solution shouldn’t fail to undo past injustices...

281. Briton found dead in his Limassol home

Limassol police are investigating the death of a British man, whose body was discovered Tuesday night in Maroni in a secondary stage of decomposition...

282. Cyprus sounding neighbours out over Israeli pier

Israel has asked Cyprus to examine the possibility of establishing a shipping point on the island for sending goods to the Gaza Strip, a Cypriot government spokesman said this week...

283. Nicosia keeps Israeli pier request on the down-low

Nicosia is handling with kid gloves the possibility of Israelis operating a dock in Cyprus, where they would be able to monitor humanitarian aid going into Gaza...

284. Nicosia agrees with EU that Turkey should be a better neighbour

Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides is expressing his appreciation for his EU counterparts, following a report by the General Affairs Council that calls on Turkey to be a better neighbour...

285. Turkish court rejects fourth appeal for release of Greek soldiers

A court in the northwestern Turkish province of Edirne on Tuesday rejected for the fourth time an appeal to release from pre-trial detention two Greek servicemen who have been imprisoned in the country since early March, after they accidentally crossed into the neighbouring country, Greek TV broadcaster Skai reported....

286. UN sending envoy to Cyprus for consultations

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is sending a special envoy to Cyprus in the coming weeks, hoping to get crystal clear views from both sides in order to assess whether or not a new push for peace is possible...

287. Irish FM: We will support you in trying to find the way forward on the Cyprus issue

Tánaiste and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland Simon Coveney said today that his country would support Cyprus “in any way that we can to try and find the way forward that I think everybody wants to see,” on the Cyprus Question....

288. Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman says Athens ‘a refuge for coup plotters’

Turkey’s Foreign Ministry has reacted angrily to news Monday that the last four Turkish servicemen of the eight who fled to Greece after the coup attempt in 2016 were released after the 18 months of maximum detention expired, with a spokesman accusing Athens of becoming “a refuge for coup plotters.”...

289. With eye on re-election Tsipras rolls dice on Macedonia

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is taking a big gamble in trying to settle a decades-old name dispute with neighbouring Macedonia which could backfire in a pre-election year among voters already jaded by his economic austerity policies...

290. Pulitzer-winning author Philip Roth dies at 85

Author Philip Roth, who was both hailed and derided for laying bare the neuroses and obsessions that haunted the modern Jewish-American experience, died on Tuesday at the age of 85...

291. Cyprus, Malta, Greece want red tape cut to boost shipping

The shipping ministers of Cyprus, Malta and Greece say they want the European Union to cut red tape holding back growth in the sector, which they say provides 2.1 million jobs and 142 billion euros to Europe's economy...

292. Two Brits get into a fist fight over a dog

A British man was sent to the hospital with a head injury after getting involved in an ugly fight with another man over an argument because of a dog that was barking...

293. Erdogan slams rating agencies for upgrading 'bankrupt' Greece

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took a fresh swipe at rating agencies on Friday over the recent downgraded and the negative outlook they have assigned for the Turkish economy, using “bankrupt” Greece as an example....

294. Changing the constitution of FYROM

As talks aimed at resolving the name dispute between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) intensify, it has to be understood by all sides that any name that is agreed should be used domestically as well as internationally...

295. Irish women talk about abortion ahead of referendum

When posters with the words ‘Licence To Kill’ were put up in her neighbourhood in advance of Ireland’s referendum on abortion, Amy Callahan decided to share the story of travelling to Britain to terminate her pregnancy...

296. First shipping minister sets ambitious targets for Cyprus

The country’s location and tax system have made it a shipping magnet -- drawing maritime companies from Norway, Greece, Dubai and South Korea -- and prompting the creation of a ministry for the industry...

297. Hawaiians brave volcanic lava to rescue their pets

Lava spewing in fountains up to 90 meters high from an erupting Hawaiian volcano has destroyed 35 homes and other buildings, officials said, warning residents allowed brief visits to their properties to be prepared to flee at a moment’s notice...

298. Cyprus summit to discuss gas pipeline to Italy

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Tuesday's summit to Nicosia with the leaders of Cyprus and Greece will focus on the possibility of building a gas pipeline to Italy...

299. EU predicts strong growth as unemployment declines

The Commission foresees a "strong growth momentum continuing" in the coming years, but warned of risks widening...

300. You can’t put a price on heritage

When the German tabloid Bild suggested that Greece should sell off Corfu and the Parthenon as part of its asset-stripping, they didn't know that Durrell had foreseen this many years ago...