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• Nicosia brushes aside Turkish objections over block 6 exploration

  3-5-2017 eKathimerini

  Nicosia has reacted to objections from Turkey to planned hydrocarbon exploration in block 6, within the island’s exclusive economic zone...

• Cyprus can, so why can’t Greece?

  29-4-2017 eKathimerini

  Every visit to Cyprus is like a punch to the gut to me, because it reminds me of what Greece could be like if it was free of its hang-ups.

• Cyprus activists protest Turkey’s planned nuclear plant

  27-4-2017 eKathimerini

  Greek and Turkish Cypriot activists on Wednesday formed a human chain across Cyprus's ethnic divide to protest Turkey's planned nuclear...

• Cyprus leaders meet in bid to revive stalled peace talks

  20-4-2017 eKathimerini

  The leaders of Cyprus’s estranged Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities met on Thursday against the backdrop of Ankara’s plans to...

• Cyprus leaders meet in first encounter since Turkish referendum

  20-4-2017 eKathimerini

  The leaders of Cyprus’s estranged Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities will meet on Thursday in a first encounter of the two since...

• Athens calm over Turkey referendum, but keeping eye on Cyprus

  18-4-2017 eKathimerini

  Athens appeared relatively calm on Tuesday after the results of Sunday’s referendum in Turkey as the nationalist rhetoric emanating from...

• Turkey ups the ante with Cyprus over gas fields

  13-4-2017 eKathimerini

  Turkey upped the ante with Cyprus on Thursday, reiterating its warning that it will not accept “unilateral” actions by Nicosia with...

• UN envoy says Cyprus talks ‘at crossroads’

  13-4-2017 eKathimerini

  Greek and Turkish Cypriots have reached a critical juncture in negotiations to end the decades-old division of their island and only a small...

• Turkey gas exploration raises eyebrows

  12-4-2017 eKathimerini

  Tensions between Nicosia and Ankara could escalate next week as there are fears that Turkish plans to perform deep-sea drilling and seismic...

• Israelis eye Cyprus for affordable holidays

  12-4-2017 eKathimerini

  Israel’s booming economy has made the shekel soar, local prices rise and travel fans compare what their money can buy and come to the...

• UN-brokered Cyprus peace talks resume

  11-4-2017 eKathimerini

  A United Nations military police officer is seen inside the UN buffer zone that divides Cyprus, Tuesday. Talks aimed at reunifying the island...

• Cyprus reunification talks restart, tough challenges ahead

  11-4-2017 eKathimerini

  Against the backdrop of Turkey’s referendum on expanding presidential powers, talks aimed at reunifying ethnically divided Cyprus restarted...

• Anastasiades wants deal all Cypriots can live with

  7-4-2017 eKathimerini

  Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday that he will not put a peace deal before the people for a vote if it doesn’t meet the...

• Cyprus lawmakers amend law ensuring peace talks restart

  7-4-2017 eKathimerini

  Lawmakers in ethnically divided Cyprus have amended a controversial law about a commemoration in Greek Cypriot schools that angered breakaway...

• The element of timing

  6-4-2017 eKathimerini

  An announcement by United Nations special envoy for Cyprus Espen Barth Eide for the resumption of reunification talks on April 11 came as...

• Johnson to visit Athens for talks as Cyprus talks set to resume

  5-4-2017 eKathimerini

  The Cyprus peace talks, Greek-Turkish relations and Brexit will be the main topics of discussion between Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and his...

• ExxonMobil, Qatar Petroleum sign drilling deal with Cyprus

  5-4-2017 eKathimerini

  ExxonMobil and partner Qatar Petroleum have signed a deal with Cyprus to carry out exploratory drilling off the east Mediterranean island’s...

• Cyprus leaders to resume peace talks on April 11

  4-4-2017 eKathimerini

  Leaders of the divided island of Cyprus have agreed to resume peace talks on April 11, the United Nations said on Tuesday, following a two-month...

• Britain defends bird-trapping crackdown at Cyprus bases

  4-4-2017 eKathimerini

  The top law enforcement official for Britain’s two military bases on Cyprus said Monday that a yearlong crackdown on illegal bird trapping...

• More work needed to restart stalled Cyprus talks, leaders say

  3-4-2017 eKathimerini

  Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish-Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci say that more work is needed to lay the groundwork for the...