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Cyprus became the latest euro zone domino to teeter in 2012 just when the worst of the crisis appeared to be over. In March 2013, a compromise rescue plan backed by euro zone finance ministers called for Cyprus to wind down one largely state-owned bank, Popular Bank. The raid on Popular Bank was intended to raise most of the 5.8 billion euros that Cyprus was required to raise as part of the bailout.

Capital

Nicosia

Head of State

President Nikos Christodoulides

Head of Government

President Nikos Christodoulides

With many EU markets enduring falling exports to China, the cumulative impact was a 22 per cent increase in the union’s trade deficit with the world’s second-largest economy in May. Photo: Shutterstock

China-EU relations

China’s shipments of hi-tech goods to EU surge as its exports to US plunge

Post’s analysis of Beijing’s trade data for May shows huge amounts of batteries, laptops, smartphones and solar panels going to the bloc.

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Israel-Iran conflict

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18 Jun 2025 - 2:38PM

United States

US-Russian citizen released in Moscow-Washington prisoner swap

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Food and Drinks

The wineries hoping to fuel a resurgence of oldest recorded wine

Commandaria has been drunk for thousands of years but is largely unknown outside Cyprus. Micro-wineries there hope to grow its global appeal.

13 Mar 2025 - 3:15PM

Bottles of Commandaria wine at the Karsera Winery in Dhoros, Cyprus. Photo: AP

Tourism

Avoid Cyprus’ crowded south and head to its more peaceful, pristine north

Millions of tourists flock to the Greek-Cypriot south every year but the cheaper Turkish-Cypriot north remains untouched by mass tourism.

14 Jan 2025 - 4:15PM

Israel-Gaza war

Australians evacuate from Lebanon via Cyprus

The evacuation is the first large-scale operation to get citizens out of the country amid the Israeli onslaught on Hezbollah.

5 Oct 2024 - 11:02PM

China-EU relations

China EV tariff vote leaves EU relieved yet wary of retaliation

Decision to slap duties of up to 35 per cent on mainland imports lays bare divisions in European leadership as complex negotiations continue.

6 Oct 2024 - 6:15AMvideocam

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Israel-Gaza war

Lebanon works to maintain friendly relations with Cyprus after Hezbollah threats

Militant group Hezbollah threatened to attack the Mediterranean island if it allows Israel to use its territories to attack Lebanon.

21 Jun 2024 - 4:40PM

Israel-Gaza war

Ships with second round of Gaza aid depart Cyprus as hunger concerns soar

World Central Kitchen said ships carried enough to prepare more than 1 million meals Also on board were dates, eaten to break the daily Ramadan fast.

31 Mar 2024 - 2:58AMvideocam

Tourism

The best things to do in Paphos, Cyprus, reputed birthplace of Aphrodite

The ancient and modern cities of Paphos, Cyprus, have something for every traveller – from temple ruins to mosaics, wineries, gorgeous places to swim, and modern-day relics in the form of shipwrecks.

26 Mar 2024 - 4:15PM

The archaeological site of Nea Paphos, near modern-day Paphos in Cyprus. Photo: Lucy Morgan

Israel-Gaza war

First aid boat unloads as Israel-Gaza war drags into Ramadan

The vessel was seen towing a barge loaded with 200 tonnes of food for Palestinians threatened with famine after more than five months of war.

16 Mar 2024 - 3:43AM

An Open Arms ship sails off the coast of the Gaza Strip on Friday. Photo: EPA-EFE

Israel-Gaza war

Ship loaded with aid for Gaza ready to set sail from Cyprus

Ship belonging to Spanish aid group Open Arms is loaded with 200 tonnes of aid.

11 Mar 2024 - 10:12AM

Racism and other prejudice

As Greece legalises same-sex unions, will other Orthodox nations join them?

Eastern Orthodox leadership has been united in opposing recognition of same-sex relationships, but there are signs of change with small majority-Orthodox countries of Montenegro and Cyprus authorising same-sex unions in recent years, as did Greece in 2015.

18 Feb 2024 - 8:00AMvideocam

Ukraine war

Opinion | Ukraine war stalemate makes ceasefire the only realistic option

While Russia has proved it has the capacity to keep fighting, Ukraine must depend on support from its Western allies that is ultimately unsustainable. When economic sanctions don’t work and military operations go nowhere, a ceasefire must be considered.

29 Oct 2023 - 9:44AMvideocam

South Korean soldiers stand guard as they face North Korea’s Panmon Hall at the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarised zone separating North and South Korea on May 9. With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine grinding to a standstill, advocates for a ceasefire are looking to Korea, Kashmir and Cyprus for ideas on how to sustain a halt to hostilities. Photo: AFP

Israel-Gaza war

Iran warns of ‘pre-emptive action’ as Israel readies Gaza ground offensive

Iran has repeatedly warned that a ground invasion of Gaza would be met with a response from other fronts – prompting fears of a wider conflict.

17 Oct 2023 - 10:49AM

Rockets being fired toward Israel from the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, on Monday. Photo: AP

Singapore

Singapore’s US$1.3 billion probe exposes Chinese criminals’ paid-for passports

Seven of the 10 Chinese suspects arrested in Singapore’s massive money-laundering probe held foreign passports from the likes of Cambodia and Vanuatu, where citizenship can be bought for as little as US$130,000.

16 Sep 2023 - 3:11PM

Israel

Israeli PM pitches fibre optic cable linking Asia and Middle East to Europe

Benjamin Netanyahu said he is ‘quite confident’ such an infrastructure ‘corridor’ linking Asia to Europe through Israel and Cyprus is feasible.

4 Sep 2023 - 11:00AM

Cyprus police make more arrests as racism-fuelled violence spreads

Shops belonging to migrants in the island’s second city Limassol were smashed and Asian delivery drivers assaulted in a string of violent incidents which started on Friday night.

4 Sep 2023 - 8:26AM

A shattered shop window after protesters attacked a hair salon belonging to a migrant in Limassol, Cyprus. Photo: Zuma Press Wire / dpa

Greece

Turkish Cypriot forces assault UN peacekeepers on buffer zone

They attempted to block construction of a controversial road in the buffer zone – the line that slices between the Greek and Turkish sides of the island.

19 Aug 2023 - 1:09AM

Britain

British man who killed ailing wife cleared of murder

David Hunter made a snap decision to suffocate his 74-year-old wife because he could no longer stand to see her weeping in pain, court said.

21 Jul 2023 - 11:26PMvideocam

European Union

In Cyprus no-man’s-land, owls come to the rescue of farmers

Initiative by BirdLife Cyprus NGO and Cypriot government aims to encourage farmers to abandon poison to deal with the rodent problem and help boost the barn owl population.

11 Jun 2023 - 1:25PM

A member of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus holds a female adult barn owl near the abandoned villages of Agios Nikolaos and Agios Georgios in the UN buffer zone separating the two parts of the divided island. Photo: AFP

Africa

UK has evacuated more than 300 people from Sudan

The British government says the intention is to keep running evacuation flights in the ‘fast-moving situation … time-limited ceasefire’ and estimates there are about 4,000 Britons stuck in Sudan.

26 Apr 2023 - 10:30PMvideocam

British nationals boarding an RAF aircraft after being evacuated from Sudan. Photo: EPA-EFE

European Union

Cyprus ex-foreign minister becomes new president

Nikos Christodoulides was elected president in a run-off vote, promising a unity government tasked with breaking a deadlock in peace talks with estranged Turkish Cypriots.

13 Feb 2023 - 10:10AM

Greece

Cyprus presidential vote goes to second round

Former foreign minister Nikos Christodoulides or diplomat Andreas Mavroyiannis need 50 per cent plus one to succeed President Nicos Anastasiades.

6 Feb 2023 - 5:09AM

Greece

Greek Cypriots vote for new president in close contest

Three front runners stand among a record 14 candidates, with the winner needing 50 per cent plus one vote to succeed two-term President Nicos Anastasiades.

5 Feb 2023 - 8:53PM

A painting on a classroom window reads “We need Peace” in Greek as a man casts his vote during the Cypriot presidential elections. Photo: AP

Central Asia

Swiss court helps UK probe into late Uzbek ruler’s daughter

UK investigators are on the trail of US$48.8 million used to buy property in Britain, which they believe may have been laundered. Gulnara Karimova is in prison on embezzlement and criminal conspiracy charges.

29 Dec 2022 - 11:16AM

Gulnara Karimova, the eldest daughter of Uzbekistan’s late president Islam Karimov in Chirchik, outside the Uzbek capital near Tashkent in 2012. Photo: AFP

Britain

UK, France seen striking migrant deal to stop illegal Channel crossings

The two countries are set to agree a deal as soon as Monday to ramp up joint efforts to stop illegal migrants from making crossings of the English Channel.

13 Nov 2022 - 2:31AM

European Union

Greece can defend islands despite Türkiye’s threats: defence minister

Defence Minister Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos said Türkiye’s ‘revisionist and destabilising behaviour’ undermines security in the wider eastern Mediterranean region.

2 Oct 2022 - 4:23AM

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