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EU Commissioner responsible for Health and Consumer Protection Markos Kyprianou launched the second part of the EU – wide “Help – For a Life Without Tobacco” campaign, targeting young people on Friday.

Andreas Mavrommatis, former Cyprus’ permanent representative to the UN, has been elected chairman of the UN committee against torture for a two-year term. The election took place at the start of the

Is Varosha lost forever? A handful of Greek Cypriot refugees, thought to be from Varosha, are preparing to accept compensation payments from the Turkish Cypriot compensation commission set up in the north

No money to pay potentially huge claims The government’s decision decades ago to treat Turkish Cypriot properties in the government-controlled areas as effectively having zero value could come back to haunt it

Former Foreign Minister and MEP for DISY and the European Popular Party, Ioannis Kasoulides, has issued a statement in reply to a recent Forbes article Fantasy Island (04.04.2006). Kasoulides underlines that, while

A census of the population took place in northern Cyprus on Sunday under strict curfew conditions which started at 5 am and lasted until 6 pm, as details were taken by face-to-face

Women in Cyprus made the longest bra chain in the world Sunday, collecting 114,000 pieces that stretched 95 kilometres long to raise funds for breast cancer awareness. The organisers of the event