Cyprus

A university student of Nigerian-origin was killed on Jan. 31 by locals in Turkish Cyprus.

The Cyprus Women's Lobby, an umbrella of 16 women's organizations and NGOs, has presented the country's two presidential candidates with a list of 16 commitments to improve gender equality on the Mediterranean island.

Turkey has underlined that any future initiative for the resolution of the decades-old Cyprus problem should be based on “current realities” and on the fact that Turkish and Greek Cypriots have differing conceptions of a new federal state. 

Ruling SYRIZA expressed its support on Monday for communist-backed Stavros Malas, a former health minister, ahead of Sunday's runoff vote in Cyprus's presidential elections.

Greek Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades faces a tense run-off against a dovish challenger after he failed to win a majority at a vote Jan. 28 despite finishing first.

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades, supported by right-wing party Democratic Rally, and communist AKEL-backed Stavros Malas will contest the run-off of the presidential election on the island, after the first round on Sunday showed Malas performing better than expected.

A presidential election exit poll by Cyprus's state broadcaster shows incumbent President Nicos Anastasiades facing a runoff with independent candidate Stavros Malas, who's backed by the communist AKEL party.

Cypriots were voting Sunday for a new president who they hope will overcome years of failure and finally resolve the ethnic divisions that have torn the Mediterranean island nation into a Greek-speaking south and a breakaway, Turkish-occupied north.

Although Croatia is proud of its booming tourism industry, some analysts are warning that relying on one sector of the economy is potentially risky.

According to the EU statistic's agency, Eurostat, Croatia had 86.1 million overnight stays in 2017, as tourism grew by 10.6 per cent in comparison to 2016.

Buscovite pensioner Svetlana Bogomilova emerges from a Russian grocery store into the Mediterranean sunshine near the Limassol beachfront in Greek Cyprus.