Asia Cyprus Alpine skier Yianno Kouyoumdjian was the flag bearer and only Cyprus athlete in these Olympics - he declared representing the country was one of his goals as an athlete; his mother and his uncle competed in the 1980 '84 '88 and 1992 Winter Games
Asia Cyprus Police has called to make football violence ‘a thing of the past’, implementing security inside and outside the stadium and neighbouring areas and inviting teams to tone down the rhetoric; measures are taken after recent episodes of inconsiderate behavior
Asia Cyprus The Cypriot diaspora amounts to 650.000-760.000 individuals, potentially surpassing the 719.252 Cypriots residing on the island according to latest data by foreign office; largest diaspora communities are the UK, which hosts 350.000-450.000 Cypriots
Asia Cyprus Around 2.000 animals at the Paphos animal shelter are at risk of losing their home after private landowners requested the return of the property where the shelter is based; the shelter operates through volunteer support and receives no government funding
Asia Cyprus Pro-reunification candidate Tufan Erhurman was elected as Turkish Cypriot leader, unseating pro-two-state solution incumbent Ersin Tatar and winning a record number of votes in an unprecedented landslide victory