Ionas Nicolaou

Cypriot media reports say President Nicos Anastasiades sacked the island's police chief after their meeting on Friday morning over the response to the killings of seven foreign women and girls.

The meeting between Zacharias Chrysostomou and Anastasiades came on the heels of Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou's resignation over the case on Thursday.

The two 11-year-old boys who were abducted on Tuesday morning were found with their suspected abductor in an apartment building in Larnaca, located behind their school, Kathimerini Cyprus reported.

Police said the boys appear to be in good health and are now being treated at hospital. They said they are questioning a 35-year-old suspect who has no previous criminal record.

An Egyptian man who hijacked a domestic EgyptAir flight in 2016 and ordered it to land in Cyprus has been extradited to his homeland after giving up a drawn-out legal fight, authorities said Sunday.

Greek Cyprus was expected to deport six French citizens to Switzerland on Nov. 23 after they were detained at the island's main airport and suspected of links to extremist groups, authorities said.

A Lebanese-Canadian man detained in Greek Cyprus after two tonnes of potential bomb-making material was found in his home was reported by media May 29 to be a member of the militant group Hezbollah.