Major General Rob Thomson was sworn in at Episkopi as the new Sovereign Base Areas Administrator during an official ceremony. Maj Gen Thomson, who also assumed the role of Commander British Forces Cyprus
Washington is firmly against Turkey’s plans to open up the ghost-town of Varosha to people other than its original Greek Cypriot inhabitants. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo assured Cyprus Foreign Minister
Nearly 15,000 British nationals have applied for residence permits in Cyprus since the 2016 Brexit referendum. Currently a total of 32,281 residence permits for UK citizens are in force, according to figures
Cypriots seeking a late holiday escape to London or Athens must dig deep into their pockets as airfares have shot up due to the island’s flight connectivity being stunted since Thomas Cook
Cyprus Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides bumped into his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in New York for a prickly encounter with a rare exchange of words, diplomatic smiles but no cordial handshake. The
Cyprus is feeling the aftershocks caused by the collapse of global travel agent Thomas Cook with hotels once heavily dependent on customers from the company now in financial despair, while airfares soar.
A Cyprus government initiative to coordinate climate change actions in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East was given to the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres during the Climate Action Summit. The
Four rescue flights from Cyprus this week have been arranged to transfer some of the 15,000 stranded Thomas Cook passengers back home, according to airports operator Hermes. Due to Thomas Cook ceasing
Cyprus spends 0.8% of total expenditure (€59.8 mln) on recreation and sport putting it above the EU average of 0.7% but behind biggest spender Hungary. In 2017, the EU's 28 Member States
Cyprus is planning to bring the country closer to meeting its 2020 EU environmental targets by encouraging more people to drive electric cars. Reportedly, the government is preparing a set of incentive
