Cyprus

Talks aimed at reunifying ethnically divided Cyprus are at risk of collapse because of a possible "international crisis," a United Nations envoy said Thursday, amid tensions over oil and gas exploration off the east Mediterranean island.

A large number of hotel units at Greek destinations that are particularly popular with foreign visitors have stopped taking bookings for peak summer season earlier than ever before, having already reached their full capacity for August bookings.

Michalakis Karaolis and Andreas Dimitriou were the first fighters of the Cyprus struggle sentenced to death and executed by the British.

President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades expressed on Sunday his regret over the fact that the Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General on Cyprus, Espen Barth Eide, appears to adopt positions expressed from one side in Cyprus, without listening first.

Rare and beautiful works of art by some of the most important Greek painters of the 19th and 20th centuries will be up for auction in the Cypriot capital on Wednesday, May 10.

It’s a question that arises surprisingly often among travellers, especially those considering renting a car. Which countries drive on the right and which drive on the left? Approximately two-thirds of the global population drive on the right side of the street. All in all, 163 countries and territories have right-hand drive traffic while vehicles use the left-side in 76 countries.

Turkey's violations of Cyprus's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) are having an adverse impact on the reunification talks, the island nation's President Nicos Anastasiades has warned in a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's Annual Meeting and Business Forum starts in Nicosia, Cyprus on Tuesday and lasts until Thursday.

Its title this year is "Targeting Green and Inclusive Growth: Meeting Regional and Global Challenges."

The president of Cyprus on Sunday criticized a UN envoy for perceived bias and undue haste amid troubled talks aimed at reunifying the ethnically divided Mediterranean island.

Espen Barth Eide, the U.N. secretary-general's special Cyprus envoy, will soon be meeting the leaders of the two peoples of Cyprus, to explain that many years of United Nations-sponsored Cyprus talks may be leading to a humiliating failure, perhaps forcing an "embrace of the serpent."