Landforms

A controversial citizenship-for-investment program scrapped by Cyprus in late 2020 had shortcomings and will not be replaced, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Tuesday.

Cyprus earned more than 9 billion euros ($10.8 billion) from a scheme awarding passports to foreign investors between 2013 and 2019, but the program unravelled amid reports of abuse and EU misgivings.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will travel to London on Tuesday for a meeting with British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.

The two ministers will discuss regional developments in the eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus and other issues affecting bilateral relations.

The Cypriot Archbishopric on Monday morning teared down four listed houses adjacent to the under-construction cathedral in the old quarters of Nicosia without having the necessary permit.

Greece's exploratory talks with Turkey are not a dialogue for the sake of dialogue. They are a structured debate in which both sides invest for a series of achievements. Greece's target, as far as exploratory talks are concerned, has always been:

a) That the matter under consideration is the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf.

Egremni is a fantastic large beach in Lefkada with exotic blue waters and soft sand on the shore

The second most famous beach in Kefalonia, Antisamos is located on the eastern side of the island

The abstract figures of naked women gyrating to the rhythms of a five-piece band had shocked many people almost 60 years ago as they eyed the artwork for the first time on the walls of a popular restaurant-nightclub in Cyprus.

Despite an initial interest shown by several companies in reviving a ferry link connecting Cyprus and Greece,not a single offer was submitted in the tender launched by the Cypriot government on December 2020, the country's Shipping Deputy Ministry announced Friday.

The tender process closed on January 29.

Cyprus' economy is expected to rebound by 4.5% of gross domestic product this year following a pandemic-induced contraction of around 5.5% in 2020, the country's finance minister said Thursday.

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides told an investment conference that the growth estimate comes attached with a "great level of uncertainty" because of how the pandemic may evolve.

Elsie Slonim, the only civilian woman living in a buffer zone in the largest city of divided Cyprus, has died at the age of 104, according to a statement by Turkish Cypriot police authorities.

Having lived a life of adventures for more than a century, Slonim died from a respiratory failure at her house next to the Turkish military unit on the Dereboyu border in Nicosia.