Cyprus News
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Amr spent three days and nights adrift in the Mediterranean, battered by a storm in a fishing boat crammed with hundreds more Syrian refugees who thought they were going to die."We spent days at sea with no food and no water.
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Nicosia -
Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades was hospitalised in Brussels with high blood pressure Thursday and asked Greece's premier to stand in for him at an EU summit, the government said."After prolonged nosebleeds the president...
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Limassol -
Hundreds of mostly Syrian refugees rescued by a cruise liner in the Mediterranean agreed to disembark in Cyprus on Friday after a standoff triggered by their demand to go to Italy.
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Almost 300 mostly Syrian refugees rescued by a cruise liner were refusing Friday to disembark in Cyprus's southern port of Limassol, demanding instead to be taken to Italy, the cruise company said.
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Nicosia -
The Cypriot parliament adopted Saturday a controversial bill to streamline bank foreclosures of bad debts, clearing the way for international lenders to release the next tranche of a 10 billion euro loan.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday visited breakaway northern Cyprus and pressed for a two-state solution on the divided island, on his first trip abroad since his inauguration.
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Nicosia -
Economic sanctions by Europe against Russia "would destroy Cyprus's economy," Nicosia's foreign minister Ioannis Kasoulides said in a German newspaper interview published Wednesday."There are very strong economic ties between Cyprus and Russia.
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Nicosia -
Scores of Turkish Cypriots complained they were denied the right to vote in European Parliament elections in divided Cyprus on Sunday because they had no registered address, officials said.
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Nicosia -
Scores of Turkish Cypriots complained they were denied the right to vote in European Parliament elections in divided Cyprus on Sunday because they had no registered address, officials said.
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Nicosia -
US Vice President Joe Biden Thursday hailed Cyprus as a "key partner" and said its rival leaders had agreed to "speed up" efforts to end the island's 40-year division.Biden ended his visit, the highest level by a US official to Cyprus since Lyndon B.
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Strasbourg -
Turkey was ordered Monday to pay $123 million to Cyprus for its 1974 invasion, occupation and continuing failure to leave the island nation.
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Ziyamet -
Theodoros was one of only hundreds of Greek Cypriots who stayed put as the "enclaved" in their villages when Turkey seized northern Cyprus in 1974 and have faced isolation ever since.
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New York -
UN chief Ban Ki-moon named the first ever woman to serve as the head of a UN peacekeeping operation Monday, appointing a Norwegian commander to the UN mission in Cyprus.
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Strasbourg -
The European Court of Human Rights Monday ordered Turkey to pay 90 million euros ($124 million) to compensate Greek Cypriots who suffered discrimination as a result of the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
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With a nighttime procession lit by the glimmer of devotional candles and the flash of smartphone cameras, a church in Turkish-held northern Cyprus hosted its first Easter mass in nearly 60 years.
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Nicosia -
Economic sanctions by Europe against Russia "would destroy Cyprus's economy," Nicosia's foreign minister Ioannis Kasoulides said in a German newspaper interview published Wednesday."There are very strong economic ties between Cyprus and Russia.
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Nicosia -
Cypriot Chrystalla Georghadji became the eurozone's only woman central bank chief Thursday, facing the daunting task of guiding her country's banks out of a crisis that nearly sank the economy last year.
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Nicosia -
The boss of a Bitcoin company in Cyprus has fled abroad days after it suddenly stopped operations, in a blow to the virtual currency's once vaunted prospects on the island.
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Nicosia -
Cyprus on Friday abolished restrictions on cash withdrawals imposed a year ago to avoid a run on the banks during bailout negotiations in 2013.
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Nicosia -
Cyprus on Friday abolished restrictions on cash withdrawals imposed a year ago to avoid a run on the banks during bailout negotiations in 2013.
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Nicosia -
Cyprus's recently appointed Defence Minister Tasos Mitsopoulos died Saturday, aged 48, after suffering a brain haemorrhage a day earlier, a hospital official said.Mitsopoulos's health "deteriorated further today and, despite the efforts made by doctors...
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Paris -
The Moody's ratings agency has raised its outlook for Cyprus to positive, while confirming the island's Caa3 credit rating.The agency said on Friday it was raising the outlook to positive from negative because of a stronger than expected fiscal and eco...
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Nicosia -
Amnesty International on Tuesday condemned what it termed the "shameful" treatment of migrants and asylum-seekers in Cyprus, saying they were being detained in prison-like conditions for extended periods awaiting deportation.Refugees from the conflict ...
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Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades on Wednesday announced a mini-reshuffle of his cabinet after a walkout by his coalition partner over resumed reunification talks with the Turkish Cypriots.He brought three new faces into cabinet but retained the serv...
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Cyprus's recession-hit economy contracted by 0.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2013, a slight improvement on the 0.9 percent drop in the previous three months, revised official data showed Tuesday.A flash estimate issued last month had the economy d...
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Cyprus on Tuesday appointed a tough campaigner against government waste and corruption as new central bank governor after current chief Panicos Demetriades unexpectedly quit.Auditor general Chrystalla Georghadji has been appointed as new head of the B...
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In the 40 years since Marios Kouloumas saw his father led away by Turkish soldiers he has been unable to mourn him, even though he knows he's dead.His father is one of hundreds of Greek and Turkish Cypriots who disappeared during a decade of unrest and...
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Cyprus's parliament passed a controversial privatisation bill Tuesday hours before a deadline to receive the next tranche of a 10-billion-euro ($13.8 billion) international bailout.Following the vote, praised by the government but still a source of con...
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Cyprus is to hold a new vote on a privatisation bill hours before a deadline for the release of the next tranche of a 10-billion-euro bailout, after parliament rejected an initial draft.MPs failed to adopt a first version of the controversial bill in a...
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International aid to cash-starved Cyprus was thrown into turmoil on Thursday after its parliament rejected a privatization plan, throwing into disarray the disbursement of a new tranche of financial as...
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STOP: Barbed wire and abandoned buildings mark the dividing line between Cyprus and Turkish forces that invaded the island nation in 1974 and never left. Jorge Lascar/Wikimedia Commons
A 4.4 magnitude earthquake hits in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Greece and Cyprus. Screen Capture
Chanel store in Limassol, Cyprus.
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