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2 years, 2 months ago

EU official: East Med gas can wean bloc off Russian energy

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2 years, 6 months ago

Earl and Countess of Wessex to underscore UK-Cyprus ties

Associated Press

NICOSIA, Cyprus — The Earl and Countess of Wessex met Tuesday with the president of Cyprus as part of a three-day visit to the former British colony to underscore close bilateral ties and to meet soldiers serving with a U.N. peacekeeping force and those stationed at two U.K. military bases. Anastasiades was expected to discuss with the royal couple ways …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Cyprus to UN: Turkey seeks full control of breakaway north

Associated Press

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Cyprus will lodge a complaint with the United Nations over Turkey’s new financial assistance deal with breakaway Turkish Cypriots that demonstrates Ankara’s “complete control” over them, the president of the ethnically divided island nation said Monday. Many liberal Turkish Cypriots fear that both the financial deal and the airport designation are the clearest signals yet that Turkey’s …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Poland's president urges EU to stop Belarus migrant 'push'

The Independent

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3 years, 6 months ago

Cyprus’s worst forest fire in decades

Al Jazeera

A huge forest blaze in Cyprus has killed four people, destroyed homes and forced evacuations of villages as Greece, Israel and other countries deployed fire-fighting planes to the Mediterranean island. “It is a tragedy,” President Nicos Anastasiades said on Twitter, describing it as “the largest fire since 1974”. The blaze had caused “loss of life” and destroyed property and forest …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Vaccine passports': Key to safe travels is flawed

Deccan Chronicle

Stranded in London because of the Covid-19 pandemic-related travel restrictions, I cannot but welcome any innovation that might facilitate my return to India. But having grown up in Kolkata, I am also acutely aware of the self-defeating flaw from which the proposal for what are called “vaccine passports” suffers. “We’re catching up to 1,000 passengers every day with a fake …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Israel, Cyprus reach tourism deal for vaccinated travelers

The Independent

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4 years, 5 months ago

Cyprus election preview: Inexperienced minister goes to polls against career politician

The Independent

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4 years, 6 months ago

Cyprus: EU partners aim to rein in Turkey’s ‘expansionism’

Associated Press

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Cyprus and its European Union partners are working to rein in Turkey’s “expansionist policy” in the eastern Mediterranean amid heightened tensions over an offshore search for hydrocarbons, the island nation’s president said Tuesday. Anastasiades’ remarks came a day after Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said his country would “reciprocate” if the EU takes measures censuring Turkey for …

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5 years ago

Greece, Israel, Cyprus sign deal for EastMed gas pipeline

Associated Press

ATHENS, Greece — Greece, Israel and Cyprus signed a deal Thursday to build an undersea pipeline to carry gas from new offshore deposits in the southeastern Mediterranean to continental Europe. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who attended the signing ceremony with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, said the pipeline will offer Europe “better flexibility and …

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5 years, 3 months ago

Abbas slams US for ‘depriving peace process of credibility’

Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas took to the world stage on Thursday to slam the United States for “depriving the peace process of any credibility” and undermining prospects for a two-state solution to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict. U.S. policy, he said, is “pushing large segments of the Palestinian people to lose hope in the possibility of long-awaited peace,” …

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Israel, Cyprus reach tourism deal for vaccinated travelers

Cyprus election preview: Inexperienced minister goes to polls against career politician

Cyprus: EU partners aim to rein in Turkey’s ‘expansionism’

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