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UN chief hopes talks in New York produce a breakthrough. Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general of the United Nations, will urge the leaders of Cyprus's Greek and Turkish...

Resignation follows blast that killed 13 and knocked out half of the island's power supply. Markos Kyprianou, the foreign minister of Cyprus, resigned today (18 July), a...

Greek and Turkish Cypriot to meet Ban next week. The leaders of the Greek and Turkish Cypriots will face calls to make a new push in unification talks when they meet Ban...

A parliamentary election in Cyprus on Sunday (22 May) could complicate the search for a solution to the island's division into Greek and Turkish halves. The left-wing...

Who is Androulla Vassiliou, the new European commissioner for education? This profile of her was written when, in 2008, Cyprus's former first lady arrived to take up her...

Agreement only achieved on power-sharing chapter; talks will now focus on property restitution. The division of Cyprus into a Greek and a Turkish part has become a textbook...

Tassas Papadopoulos, a nay-sayer whose ‘No' proved to mean ‘No'. All politics is local, goes the old saying. No doubt it still is, but ‘local' is becoming a big place,...

Despite more difficulty than he had expected, Demetris Christofias, the recently elected Greek Cypriot president, is moving the divided island closer to reunification....

With the possible exception of her husband, the island's former president, there are few in Cyprus as knowledgeable about the workings of Brussels as Androulla Vassiliou....

It was vintage Demetris Christofias, that as Cyprus's newly elected president, he would ask Mehmet Ali Talat, the leader of the island's Turkish community, to conduct their...

Why Cyprus should have two presidents. Kirsty Hughes is correct (‘Future hope for a united Cyprus', 6-12 March) in referring to Mehmet Ali Talat as the Turkish Cypriot...

The new Greek Cypriot president has raised hopes for a solution to the island's split. THE election of Demetris Christofias as Greek Cypriot president on 24 February has...

Markos Kyprianou has resigned as European commissioner for health to take up a new job as foreign minister in Cyprus's new coalition government. Demetris Christofias, the...

Diplomats and politicians are gearing up for a new push in 2008 for a peace agreement on the divided island of Cyprus. Presidential elections planned for February in the...

Greek Cypriots will vote in legislative elections on Sunday (21 May), the first major test of the governing coalition since a peace plan was rejected by voters two years...

Commission officials were briefing their newly appointed boss about the agenda for an imminent meeting of EU health ministers. Suddenly the commissioner interrupted and began...

THE European Parliament will be asked next week to waive the immunity of a newly elected Greek Cypriot member, facing allegations that he sought bribes from a police officer....

THE man who negotiated Cyprus' entry into the EU has launched a blistering attack against the Greek Cypriot government, alleging it is trying to stifle democratic debate on...

Dick Leonard is wrong when he says that the UN proposals for Cyprus were accepted by the Greek Cypriot side (‘Better prospects for Turkey's EU ambitions', European...

IN THE title of his prescient 1984 book on Cyprus, Christopher Hitchens refers to the bitterly divided Mediterranean island as a “hostage to history”. From the Ottomans...