Demonstrators demand removal of barbed wire from buffer zone
Residents of villages in or next to the buffer zone where the government is currently installing barbed wire have held a demonstration against it, saying the wire is affecting some ...
Bloody clothing found by police may link to murder investigation
Police investigating the murder of woman have found a suitcase with bloody clothing in a plot near the residence of one of the suspects, reports said on Friday.
Investigators received ...
Three held for woman’s murder re-remanded by Nicosia court
Nicosia district court on Thursday renewed for another eight days the remand of three men held in connection with the murder of a woman whose body was found in a ...
Three men remanded on suspicion of murdering woman found in field
Three men were remanded in custody for eight days on suspicion of murder, police said Wednesday, after the badly decomposed body of an unidentified woman was found in a field ...
Barbed-wire controversy grows (Updated)
The interior ministry is on the defensive following widespread criticism over its installation of barbed wire along rural sections of the buffer zone in Nicosia to deter the uncontrolled crossing ...
Buffer-zone fence not ‘a border’ interior ministry says
The placing of a razor wire fence along a segment of the buffer zone is not, nor can it be construed as, erecting a border, the interior ministry said Thursday ...
Minister heads off Turkish Cypriot criticism of buffer zone razor wire
Interior Minister Nicos Nouris defended a decision to install razor wire along the buffer zone to stop migrants from crossing, challenging Turkish Cypriot detractors to stop the flow from Turkey.
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Our View: Although options limited, barbed wire unlikely to stop flow of migrants
To fight the flow of immigrants from the north, the interior ministry decided to install barbed wire along the buffer zone, along an 11km stretch from Astromeritis to Nicosia airport. ...
Buffer zone barbed wire to stop migrants leaves farmers stranded (Updated)
The installation of barbed wire along the Green Line in rural Nicosia to prevent irregular migration from the north has caused concern among residents, community leaders said on Monday.
The ...
Police find stash of unused gas cylinders in buffer zone
Police on Wednesday said they located 35 unused air conditioning gas cylinders in an area in the buffer zone near Potamia village.
Officers from the Pera Chorio police station searched the ...
Open-air cinema being created inside Dherynia buffer zone
An open-air cinema is due to open inside the buffer zone in Dherynia this spring, mayor Andros Karayiannis said.
Designed by internationally known artist and filmmaker Rosa Barba, the project ...