BRUSSELS -- The annual Commission review for development during 2012 in research and innovation was discussed during a meeting here today of the EU Competitiion Council, at which Cyprus was represented by Health Minister Stavros Malas.

Speaking during the meeting, the Minister...

  NICOSIA- Cyprus has welcomed the outcome of a Eurogroup meeting which decided to support Greece to enable the country to return as soon as possible to viability and development.

A statement, issued by the Cypriot delegation to Eurogroup headed by the Permanent Secretary of...

NICOSIA --- The Bank of Cyprus has announced losses of 1.01b  euro after tax and the impairment of Greek Government Bonds (GGBs), according to the preliminary Bank of Cyprus Group’s Financial Results for the year ended 31 December 2011.

However, according to the preliminary...

 NICOSIA -- President Demetris Christofias said Tuesday that discussion on properties began in the context of UN - led direct talks aiming at reaching a solution of the political problem in Cyprus.
In statements after a meeting held between himself and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis...

 LARNACA - A 24-year-old Vietnamese worker was killed Tuesday when he was attacked by a bull at a cattle farm in Troulli, Larnaca district.
The worker was repeatedly gored by the animal after he went into the enclosure where the animal was being kept along with other cattle.
He...

NICOSIA - Minister of Communications and Works Efthymios Flourentzou will hold a series of contacts with European Commission members while in Brussels, as part of a delegation accompanying the President of the Republic Demetris Christofias.
According to an official announcement, Flourentzou...

  PAPHOS - A Paphos bookmaker was robbed of €34,000  Monday night.
The 32-year-old owner had just closed the premises in Markantoni Vragadiou, Paphos when two attackers sprayed a noxious gas into his face.
They grabbed the bag containing the day’s takings and fled.
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 NICOSIA - President Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu, will be focusing on the issue of property during their next two meetings in the context of the UN-led direct talks to solve the Cyprus problem.

This is what the Special Advisor of the Secretary-General...

 NICOSIA – President Christofias described the buildings in which the main meetings of the EU Cypriot Presidency will be hosted as “jewels”.

Christofias visited the freshly-renovated buildings of the old International Conference Centre and the old Philoxenia hotel, which will...

 NICOSIA - The frontrunner in Greece's parliamentary election said Monday the indebted country should set out the borders of an offshore economic exploitation zone, a step towards hydrocarbon exploration that could antagonise its long-term rival Turkey.
Conservative New Democracy leader...