Tag: Cyprus
Smith to head to Middle East
Stephen Smith is leaving Australia tonight to make his first ministerial visit to Cyprus, Israel and the Palestinian territories.[MORE]
Downer helms Cyprus talks
Rival Cypriot leaders have begun talks on how to share power in a future unified state, their first substantive negotiations in a bid to end the Mediterranean island's 34-year division.[MORE]
France slump as England and Italy struggle
France, the 1998 world champions, suffered an embarrassing 3-1 defeat to lowly Austria on Saturday to endure a nightmare start to their 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign. [MORE]
Downer mediates new Cyprus peace talks
The Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders have begun formal peace talks to reunite their divided island.[MORE]
Rival Cypriot leaders meet to discuss reunification
Rival Cypriot leaders have launched negotiations to end the island's decades-old division, which is threatening Turkey's EU membership hopes.[MORE]
Sailing activists return to Cyprus with Palestinian patients
Activists who sailed to the Gaza Strip in two fishing boats in symbolic defiance of an Israeli blockade have arrived back in Cyprus with seven residents of the besieged territory on board, among them a teenager who needs an artificial leg.[MORE]
Online voyeur gets four years over remote webcam
An online voyeur has been jailed for four years in Cyprus for spying on a teenage girl using a webcam in her bedroom that he switched on remotely.[MORE]
Injury forces Baghdatis out of Games
Cyprus Olympic medal hope Marcos Baghdatis has pulled out of the Beijing Olympics because of a wrist injury, the Cyprus Tennis Federation said.[MORE]
UN names Downer as Cyprus envoy
UN boss Ban Ki-moon officially names Alexander Downer as special envoy to Cyprus.[MORE]
Sex curse found at ancient Cyprus site
An unexpected sexual curse has been uncovered by archaeologists at Cyprus's old city kingdom of Amathus, on the island's south coast near Limassol.[MORE]
Downer faces 'steep learning curve' on Cyprus
An expert on Cyprus says former foreign minister Alexander Downer will face a steep learning curve when he takes up his United Nations job on the divided Mediterranean island. [MORE]
Cypriots still slaughtering migratory birds: conservationists
More than 1 million migratory birds were illegally trapped and killed over the past year to feed an illicit Cypriot taste for such delicacies, a conservationist group said.[MORE]
Cypriot checkpoint reopens, then closes again
Greek Cypriot authorities shut a symbolic checkpoint just hours after it opened for the first time in half a century, claiming the Turkish Cypriot side had broken an agreement on the presence of police.[MORE]
Cypriots tear down barricades on division symbol
Greek and Turkish Cypriots have pulled down barricades separating them for half a century on Ledra Street, a thoroughfare which has come to symbolise partition on war-divided Cyprus.[MORE]
Rival Cypriot leaders begin fresh bid for unity
Rival Cypriot leaders have met and agreed to begin fully fledged talks on the future of the divided island in three months, with both leaders saying they aimed to find a solution quickly.[MORE]
Draft proposes adding 7 to Security Council
Cyprus and Germany have circulated a draft text that proposes adding seven new members to the UN Security Council, the latest attempt to try to break a deadlock on the issue of expanding the council.[MORE]
Cypriot leaders to discuss reunion: UN
New Cyprus President Demetris Christofias and Turkish-Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat will meet on March 21 to try to relaunch talks to reunite the island, a United Nations spokesman said. [MORE]
New Cyprus president says unity his priority
Cyprus communist leader Demetris Christofias has taken office as President vowing to make ending the three-decade-old division of the Mediterranean island his Government's top priority.[MORE]
New Cyprus leader seeks to meet Turkish Cypriots
New Cyprus President Demetris Christofias said he sought a United Nations (UN) brokered meeting with the Turkish Cypriot side.[MORE]
Christofias wins Cyprus presidential vote
Communist party leader Demetris Christofias has won Cyprus's presidential election, vowing to revive efforts to reunite the island.[MORE]
More countries formally recognise Kosovo
A growing number of countries are indicating their support for Kosovo by agreeing to formally recognise the newly proclaimed state.[MORE]
Cyprus president ousted in vote for change
Hardline Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos was ousted on Sunday in a first round of Greek Cypriot elections, a ballot seen as crucial for efforts to end the island's three-decade division.[MORE]
Polls open in Cyprus cliffhanger election
Polls have opened in Cyprus in a presidential election tipped to be one of tightest in the island's history with incumbent Tassos Papadopoulos facing off against two main rivals.[MORE]
No apology from Baghdatis in anti-Turkish row
Marcos Baghdatis has defended his actions after being captured on video chanting anti-Turkish slogans with the Greek supporters' group involved in a clash with police at the Australian Open.[MORE]
Cyprus, Malta to begin using euro
Two Mediterranean island states, Cyprus and Malta, begin using the single European currency today. [MORE]
