Cyprus

President of India Ram Nath Kovind is on an official two-day visit to the Republic of Cyprus, where he is expected to sign a number of bilateral agreements between the two countries.

A day after Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu warned Cyprus not to proceed with gas drilling in its exclusive economic zone (EEZ), his Cypriot counterpart said Sunday Nicosia would not be cowed by threats.

"Threats, wherever they come from, are a sign of weakness," Cypriot Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides said.

Greece has become a "safe haven" for Turkish criminals like the eight servicemen that fled to Greece after the botched coup in 2016, according to the country's foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglou.

Ahead of a flurry of diplomatic activity expected in September with regard to the Cyprus issue, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday warned that Ankara will "pursue an active policy" in the area stretching from the Aegean to Cyprus.

A British woman in Turkish Cyprus has been arrested for filming her own children for online pedophiles. 

Smugglers attempted to use a drone to fly illegal drugs over the frontier separating Turkish-occupied Cyprus with the rest of the island, one of the most heavily guarded areas in Europe, Turkish Cypriot media reported.

NICOSIA, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- EU member-states Bulgaria and Cyprus are at loggerheads over the failure of an insurance company based on the eastern Mediterranean island and on who is to foot the bill for insurance claims totaling 43.5 million euros, Cypriot media reported on Thursday.

Egypt's chief prosecutor says Cyprus has extradited the hijacker of an EgyptAir plane that was diverted to the Mediterranean island in 2016.

Prosecutor Nabil Sadek said late Saturday that Egyptian police have taken custody of Seif Eddin Mustafa in the Cypriot capital, Nicosia.

Next month could prove pivotal for Greek-Turkish relations as a series of contentious issues are expected to come the fore, including the possibility of a resumption of the Cyprus peace talks and Ankara's plans to drill for gas in the Eastern Mediterranean.

The main suspect of the 2016 murder of George Barker at a gym in Bexley, United Kingdom has been arrested in Turkish Cyprus.