CYPRUS SECURITY TALKS TO CONCLUDE THIS MONTH

Greece, Turkey and Britain were assigned as guarantor powers in a treaty adopted when Cyprus gained independence of London in 1960... READ MORE›

CYPRUS REUNIFICATION TALKS: RIVALS REJECT PROPOSED NEW BORDERS

Cyprus talks turkish troops will remain on island, vows erdogan... READ MORE›

FOR ISRAEL ENERGY BOOM COULD MAKE FRIENDS OUT OF ENEMIES

The government in Jerusalem envisions building pipelines that could transport Israeli gas as far away as Europe... READ MORE›

CYPRUS TALKS BRING NICOSIA TO 'A POINT WHERE WE CAN HAVE HOPE'

On both sides of the UN-patrolled buffer zone that divides their capital, Greek and Turkish Cypriots know that this is the last chance for peace... READ MORE›

'DIALOGUE WITH TURKS IN ITSELF IS AN ACHIEVEMENT'

The President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades says at this stage in the Geneva talks on reuniting Cyprus that dialogue is what is important... READ MORE›

CYPRUS TALKS STALL OVER FATE OF TURKISH TROOPS

Cyprus is home to about 800,000 Greek Cypriots and 220,000 Turkish Cypriots... READ MORE›

CYPRUS TALKS: TURKISH TROOPS WILL REMAIN ON ISLAND, VOWS ERDOGAN

President says Turkish troops will be on island in perpetuity and proposed terms of rotating presidency are unacceptable... READ MORE›

WHY HOPES ARE SO HIGH ABOUT THE TALKS TO REUNIFY CYPRUS

Nevertheless, conflict between pro-union Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots had spiraled out of control by 1963 and U.N... READ MORE›

U.N. CHIEF SAYS DEAL TO END CYPRUS DIVIDE COULD BE NEAR

The meeting in Geneva included the foreign ministers of Cyprus's so-called guarantor powers Boris Johnson from Britain, Nikos Kotzias from Greece and Mevlut Cavusoglu of Turkey... READ MORE›

NO 'QUICK FIX' IN TALKS TO UNITE CYPRUS

The 1974 invasion uprooted 165,000 Greek Cypriots, while about 40,000 Turkish Cypriots were displaced in intercommunal violence in the 1960s and a population transfer in 1975... READ MORE›

CYPRUS TALKS TO TAKE INTERNATIONAL TURN AMID HOPE FOR DEAL

Cyprus has been split since Turkish troops invaded in 1974 following a coup by Greek Cypriots backed by Athens... READ MORE›

CYPRUS REUNIFICATION TALKS: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST INTRACTABLE DISPUTES

The Greek Cypriots want it back but many Turkish Cypriots refuse to leave... READ MORE›

U.N. CYPRUS ENVOY SAYS A PEACE DEAL IS DIFFICULT, BUT POSSIBLE

Special envoy for the Cyprus reunification talks Espen Barth Eide speaks during a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland January 9, 2017... READ MORE›

SAUDI POLICE KILL EXTREMIST SUSPECTED OF PLANNING MOSQUE SUICIDE BOMBING

The same day, separate suicide bomb attacks targeted a Shiite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia and the US Consulate in Jeddah... READ MORE›

AS THE E.U.A??S LANGUAGE ROSTER SWELLS, SO DOES THE BURDEN

The European Union may add Turkish as its 25th official language, even if Turkey never becomes a member... READ MORE›

GEORGE MICHAEL'S BOYFRIEND REVEALS HE DIED ALONE AT HOME AND 'BATTLED A SECRET HEROIN ADDICTION'

She said yesterday George Michael worked anonymously at a homeless shelter I was volunteering at... READ MORE›

ALL PASSENGERS ARE SAFE AFTER LIBYAN JET IS HIJACKED

Libyan officials, though, believed the hijackers had more personal goals... READ MORE›

RECENT PLANE HIJACKINGS AROUND THE WORLD

Two hijackers seized control of a Libyan domestic flight Friday and diverted the Afriqiyah Airways plane to Malta before surrendering. All 118 people aboard left safely... READ MORE›

AFTER TOUGH 2016 EU MUST TACKLE THORNY QUESTIONS

Referendums, like Britain's June 23 vote to leave the European Union and Italy's Dec. 4 decision to reject constitutional changes, have made life harder for democratically elected leaders... READ MORE›

IRELAND LABELED AS ONE OF WORLD'S WORST FACILITATORS OF TAX AVOIDANCE BY OXFAM

Oxfam puts Ireland on par with Bermuda and the Cayman Islands when it comes to helping big business dodge taxes... READ MORE›

IRELAND IS SIXTH-WORST FOR TAX-DODGING BY BIG CORPORATIONS

Oxfam insisted the issue was not Ireland's relatively low corporation tax rate of 12.5 percent, but about loopholes and sweetheart deals... READ MORE›

HE SAYS HE WANTED TO HELP HIS FAMILY ESCAPE WAR BUT HUNGARY THINKS HE IS A TERRORIST

Ahmed Hamed, 40, was sentenced in Szeged, Hungary, to 10 years in jail for his role in a 2015 riot along Hungary's border with Serbia... READ MORE›

ISRAELI PM TRYING TO BENEFIT FROM HAIFA FIRES

Palestinian Knesset member Jamal Zahalka accuses Israeli prime minister of seeking political gains from Haifa fires... READ MORE›

GERMAN AIR FORCE SCOUTING ALTERNATIVES TO TURKISH AIR BASE FOR FIGHT AGAINST DAESH

Bild reports that moving Germany's Tornado reconnaissance jets and a refuelling plane from the Turkey base would take several weeks... READ MORE›

TENS OF THOUSANDS FLEE AS FIRES HIT HAIFA

Homes and cars were damaged, and 300 students were evacuated from a school, in Talmon, an Israel settlement in the occupied West Bank, police said... READ MORE›

DEBT, NOT TRUMP, IS FOCUS OF OBAMA'S TALKS IN GREECE

ATHENS -- Americans have had seven days to come to terms with the election of Donald Trump as president... READ MORE›

IN EUROPE OBAMA WARNS OF CRUDE SORT OF NATIONALISM

Mr. Trump has questioned the value of NATO, the bedrock Western military alliance between Europe and the United States... READ MORE›

OBAMA URGES DEBT RELIEF FOR GREECE

US President Barack Obama visiting Athens on Tuesday has backed Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' call for a restructuring of Greek debt... READ MORE›

HOW MOSCOW USES INTERPOL TO PURSUE ITS ENEMIES

Russia pushed three times between 2012 and 2015 to get Interpol to issue arrest orders against Mr. Browder... READ MORE›

ANDREAS VGENOPOULOS, GREEK TYCOON, DIES AT 63

Mr. Vgenopoulos was vilified as the man who precipitated Cyprus's banking crisis in 2012, which led to an E.U... READ MORE›

'I'M A REFUGEE' SAYS SKITTLES PHOTOGRAPHER

Donald Trump Jr's tweet comparing Skittles to refugees has caused a furore on social media... READ MORE›

GREECE VOTES NO: THE EUROPEAN UNION IS DYING BEFORE OUR EYES

An outdated European Union has been found out and rejected emphatically by young Greeks in the 21st century... READ MORE›

GERMANY RIOT TARGETS NEW ECB HEADQUARTERS IN FRANKFURT

Police cars were set alight and stones were thrown in a protest against the opening of a new base for the European Central Bank ECB ... READ MORE›

ITALY COAST GUARD BOARD MIGRANT SHIP

Mirror.co.uk second ship packed with migrants sailing on autopilot towards italian coast 14 hrs ago... READ MORE›

ECB OFFERS GREEK BANKS EXTRA EUR3.3BN EMERGENCY CASH

Greece is asking the eurozone for a six-month extension of its European loan, a Greek government official said on Wednesday... READ MORE›

US JETS JOIN IS SYRIA BORDER BATTLE

Us-led air strikes hit is on syria's border with turkey... READ MORE›

MERKEL RULES OUT GREEK DEBT RELIEF

Greece election German Chancellor Angela Merkel has ruled out cancelling any of Greece's debt, saying banks and creditors have already made substantial cuts... READ MORE›

'NO SOS CALL' FROM RUSSIAN AIRBUS, SAY EGYPTIAN AUTHORITIES

Rescuers claim they have heard voices in the wreckage of the Russian plane that has crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, according to Sky News... READ MORE›

IS FIGHT MAY EXTEND TO SYRIA

The US began a series of air strikes in Iraq last month, and on Monday it began attacks on targets in Syria... READ MORE›

PANICKED GREEKS SPEND IN DROVES

When banks in Cyprus had to be bailed out in 2013, depositors with more than 100,000 euros lost about 40 percent of their money... READ MORE›

BRITISH PASSENGER TOOK A CHEEKY PICTURE WITH THE EGYPTAIR HIJACKER

Ben Innes grinned broadly as he stood next to Seif al-Din Mustafa and his suicide vest aboard the hijacked plane in Cyprus... READ MORE›

11.5 MILLION FILES FROM PANAMA-BASED LAW FIRM SHED LIGHT ON MURKY OFFSHORE MONEY AND TRANSACTIONS

Movie star Chan has at least six companies managed through Mossack Fonseca, files in the leak reveal... READ MORE›

EUROZONE ECONOMY SEES GROWTH PICK UP

Greece talks Of the 18 member states of the eurozone only three recorded a contraction in their economy Greece, Finland and Cyprus... READ MORE›

TUNISIA TRAVEL ALERT THOUSANDS OF BRITONS FLY HOME

Tunisia believes the beach attack gunman, Seifeddine Rezgui, trained with the Ansar al-Sharia group in the neighbouring country, though the Islamic State group claimed the attack... READ MORE›

HOUSE OF LORDS FEARED CHEAP CHAMPAGNE AND VETOED MERGING SERVICES WITH COMMONS

Negotiators here in Peru are working this week on a climate change accord, with the aim of producing one that will be signed by world leaders next year in Paris... READ MORE›

UK TO EXTEND TORNADO STRIKES IN IRAQ

The RAF Tornado mission against Islamic State militants in Iraq is to be extended by an extra year Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has said... READ MORE›

MIGRANTS AND ASYLUM IN THE EU

Mediterranean disasters, in which hundreds of migrants drowned, shocked Europe in 2013-2014... READ MORE›

USING CASH AND CHARM PUTIN TARGETS EUROPES WEAKEST LINKS

And in February, Mr.Putin visited Hungary, the European Union's autocratic backslider, peddling economic deals... READ MORE›

RUSSIAN PLANE CRASH IN EGYPT KILLS ALL PEOPLE ON BOARD

The plane was heading to St Petersburg, likely carrying tourists returning from holidays in Egypt's popular Sharm el-Sheikh resort... READ MORE›

BRITISH JETS BOMB ISIS-HELD OIL FIELD JUST MINUTES AFTER VOTE ENDS

British fighter planes bombed oil fields in Syria minutes after lawmakers in London voted to join the U.S.-led aerial campaign against ISIS... READ MORE›

EASYJET'S STELIOS IS HANDING OUT THOUSANDS OF FREE MEALS TO STARVING GREEKS

The program now has five distribution centres including one in Athens and four in Nicosia and Limassol, Cyprus... READ MORE›

MILITARY SEARCHING FOR WRECKAGE IN MEDITERRANEAN SEA, OFFICIALS SAY

Officials say a missing EgyptAir plane is believed to have crashed into the Mediterranean Sea... READ MORE›

MEDITERRANEANS BEST BEACH IS GHOST TOWN

The invasion set off fighting between Turkish Cypriots living here in Famagusta's medieval center and Greek Cypriots living just outside in the resort suburb of Varosha... READ MORE›

FREED JOURNALIST PETER GRESTE 'RELIEVED' BUT 'ANGST' OVER JAILED COLLEAGUES

Timeline Journalists' detention Mr Fahmy left and Mr Mohamed remain in jail 29 December 2013 Peter Greste and Mohamed Fahmy arrested in police raid on Cairo's Marriott Hotel... READ MORE›

HIJACKED EGYPTAIR PLANE: LIVE UPDATES

CNN An EgyptAir plane was hijacked this morning en route to Cairo and flown to Larnaca airport in Cyprus... READ MORE›

SUSPECT IN EGYPTAIR HIJACKING ARRESTED IN CYPRUS STANDOFF

Cyprus-bound flights were being diverted to Paphos Airport, the country's second-busiest airport, after Larnaca... READ MORE›

Israel, like the United States, is not a member of the International Criminal Court, but Dore Gold, an adviser to Mr... READ MORE›

EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK PLAYS KEY ROLE IN GREEK CRISIS

But tension between Greece and the European Central Bank could rapidly escalate over the huge credit line that is keeping the country's banks afloat... READ MORE›

EGYPTAIR FLIGHT GOES OFF RADAR EN ROUTE FROM PARIS

An EgyptAir flight on its way to Cairo from Paris disappeared from radar Wednesday night, according to a tweet from the airline... READ MORE›

EU WANTS PARIS CLIMATE DEAL TO CUT CARBON EMISSIONS 60% BY 2050

EU wants Paris climate deal to cut carbon emissions 60 percent by 2050... READ MORE›