Cypriots Worry Over Younger Generation
KOILANI, Cyprus—From Elli Polycarpou's modest stone house, perched in the hills of rural southwestern Cyprus, the country's future looks bleak.
The 80-year-old widow labored for years to send her thr...
Cyprus Church leader promises help amid crisis
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The leader of Cyprus' Orthodox Christian church vowed to do all he can so that ordinary people "won't go hungry" amid the country's worst financial crisis in decades.
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Court fines Cyprus over
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A Cyprus court has ordered the government to pay €324,000 ($417,668) in damages to the wife and two daughters of a soldier who was killed during Turkey's 1974 invasion of the co...
In Cyprus, New Cheese Edict Gets the Goat of Dairy Farmers
- Gabriele Steinhauser - The Wall Street Journal
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- October 12, 2012
NICOSIA, Cyprus—A battle is raging on this Mediterranean island, where civilizations have clashed for centuries. Roman, Ottoman and British forces have occupied it, and Turkey still controls almost ha...
MEDAL FOR CYPRUS
The Associated Press
For the first time at an Olympics, there's a medal for the country of Cyprus — and a new hero who will carry it home.
Sailing champion Pavlos Kontides has earned the small isl...
Cyprus: Foreign terror suspect had no accomplices
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus police say a foreign national being detained on suspicion of helping plan a terrorist attack on the island was acting by himself.
Police spokesman Andreas Angelides said...
Cyprus: Plane skids off runway, no one hurt
- The Associated Press
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- July 11, 2012
LARNACA, Cyprus (AP) — An airport spokesman says a Russian passenger jet carrying 287 passengers and crew skidded off the runway at Larnaca Airport in Cyprus after a tire blew out during landing. No o...
Cyprus Church Blasts Priest Nabbed with Drugs
- The Associated Press
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- April 06, 2012
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The Orthodox Christian Church of Cyprus said Friday that it is "deeply distressed" over the arrest of a parish priest on suspicion of trafficking drugs to the island from abroad...
Cyprus Without Electricity After Power Grid Fails
- The Associated Press
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- April 04, 2012
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — An electric company spokesman says the whole island of Cyprus is waking up without electricity after a problem at one of the island's power plants resulted in the entire grid sh...
APOEL Hopes for Another Miracle Against Madrid
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Real Madrid is next in line for APOEL Nicosia, the small Cypriot club that has reached the Champions League quarterfinals for the first time in its history.
APOEL advanced by b...
Cyprus Drops Gambling Charges Against 98-year-old
- The Associated Press
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- March 02, 2012
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus' attorney general has dropped gambling charges against about 40 elderly women, including a 98-year-old, whose weekly poker-and-bridge party had been raided by police.
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Cyprus: 98-year-old Faces Gambling Charge
- The Associated Press
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- March 01, 2012
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The daughter of a 98-year-old woman says her mother is among some 40 elderly ladies ordered to appear in a Cyprus court later this month to face a gambling charge after police r...
Cypriot Students Raise Cash for Greek Schoolkids
- The Associated Press
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- February 21, 2012
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cypriot schoolchildren have donated pocket money to help needy students in debt-crushed Greece.
Cyprus' Education Minister Giorgos Demosthenous said Tuesday's "symbolic" fund...
Cyprus Gynecologist Admits Raping Patients
- The Associated Press
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- February 20, 2012
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus police say a gynecologist has pleaded guilty to charges of raping and performing lewd acts on female patients he had sedated while examining them at his private clinic.
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Arid Cyprus Gets Major Boost from Recent Rainfall
- Cyprus News Agency
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- February 02, 2012
This winter’s rainfall is a “huge injection” to the island’s reservoirs, Director of the Water Development Department (WDD), Kyriacos Kyrou, has said, adding that water reserves in the country’s dams ...
Cyprus FA Postpones Match Over Betting Concerns
- The Associated Press
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- January 21, 2012
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The Cyprus Football Association on Saturday took the highly unusual move of indefinitely postponing a first division match after judging there was "unreasonably excessive" betti...
Recent Rainfall Fills over 50% of Cyprus Reservoirs
- Cyprus News Agency
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- January 17, 2012
Total inflow of water in Cyprus’ dams in the past three days has reached 5.056 million cubic meters, according to data of the Department of Water Development. In statements to CNA, Director of the Dep...
Attorney General to Appeal HELIOS Ruling Next Week
- Cyprus News Agency
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- December 31, 2011
The Attorney General has announced that by Wednesday he will appeal against a Court ruling which acquitted all five defendants in the case of a fatal air crash in 2005 in which 121 persons died. Speak...
Cyprus Court Acquits 4 in Helios Plane Crash
- Menelaos Hadjicostis - Associated Press
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- December 21, 2011
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A Cyprus court has acquitted four former airline officials of manslaughter charges in the crash of a Cypriot airliner six years ago that killed 121 passengers.
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