The state funeral for George Paraskevaides, co-founder of the J&P construction colossus and great philanthropist, who died in London last Wednesday, aged 91, was held in Nicosia, Tuesday. President Tassos Papadopoulos and
Cyprus Airways announced that 12 flights to and from Greece for Wednesday are cancelled due to a general public strike that ends on midnight Wednesday. The strike affects flights from Larnaca to
The Permanent Representatives of the 27 EU member states didn’t succeed last week in reaching an agreement on the draft conclusion adoption by the conference of their Ministries of Foreign Affairs on
The Open University held a lecture in London where Prof. Joseph Joseph explored the legal and political aspects of “The British Bases and the Marine Natural Resources (Oil and Natural Gas)â€. Joseph,
The European Commission is offering 145 one-year scholarships for Turkish Cypriots for the academic year 2008/09. Recipients will receive a grant of EUR15.000 to cover their living expenses as well as up
Cypriot painter Andreas Charalambous has been declared an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts. A press release, issued today by Cyprus Union of Journalists, said the official ceremony to declare
Dominican Jose Luis Diaz, a United Nations official with extensive experience in media liaison with the world body, has been appointed as spokesperson of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP).
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed here today his opposition to the imposition of deadlines by third parties for the settlement of international problems such as the Cyprus question and the question
by Apostolis Zoupaniotis United Nations, (CNA) — Italian President of the UN Security Council Marcello Spatafora has expressed the Council’s regret that there has been no really further progress in the implementation
Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Michele Montas, reiterated the UNSG’s regret that the ongoing debate on lifting the Turkish Cypriots’ ”isolation” has become a debate on recognition, noting that recognition, or
