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Water crisis could lead to conflicts in the Middle East
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], 14 September (ANI): The Middle East is warming at twice the global average and this summer several countries like Kuwait, Oman, Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia recorded temperatures exceeding 50 degrees Celsius(122 Fahrenheit), as forests burn, and severe
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Police fail to crack down gang violence against Israeli Arabs
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], September 6 (ANI): "I have been following in astonishment, apprehension, and horror for a long time, especially in recent weeks and days, the terrible wave of murders befalling our country in general and Arab society in particular...There had been over 100 murders in the co
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Erdogan's grand and costly projects fail one after another
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus] Aug 30 (ANI): Turkey's increasingly autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdogan always had a penchant for very big projects and, according to official data, since 2003 when Erdogan came to power, some 181 mega public-private partnership projects were launched in Turkey.
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What are possible implications of US withdrawal from Afghanistan for Middl
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], August 23 (ANI): The withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, followed in a matter of days by the collapse of the government in Kabul, brought memories of the humiliating US prestige fall of Saigon in 1975 and send shock waves all over the world.
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Sinai insurgency- Egypt's hidden war
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], August 16 (ANI): Since 2013, the Egyptian government has been trying hard to stem a deadly insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula with scores of insurgents and Egyptian soldiers dead every month.
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Is the newly inaugurated Iranian President Raisi going to follow more hard
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], August 9 (ANI): With pomp and ceremony,ultra-conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi was sworn in last Thursday in Tehran as Iran's eighth President, in the presence of more than 100 representatives of various countries and organizations. Raisi, a protege of Iran's Supreme Lea
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Cyprus starts COVID-19 vaccination for 12- to 15-year-olds
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], August 2 (ANI/Xinhua): Cyprus' Health Ministry said it on Monday started a vaccination program for 12- to 15-year-olds.
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Pressure is increasing on Israel to explain its relationship with Pegasus
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], August 2 (ANI): Diplomatic pressure is increasing on the state of Israel to give convincing explanations on the nature of its relationship with the NSO Pegasus spyware system, following the revelations of an international investigative report by a team of 80 journalists
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Israel bans travel to four more countries over COVID-19 concerns
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Jerusalem [Palestine], July 31 (ANI/Xinhua): Israel decided to ban its citizens from travelling to Britain, Georgia, Cyprus and Turkey starting on Friday for fear of the high level of COVID-19 morbidity there, the Israeli Ministry of Health and Ministry of Transport said.
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Angering Egypt and Sudan, Ethiopia completes second phase of filling Afric
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], July 26 (ANI): The announcement made by the Ethiopian government last week that it completed the second phase of filling the giant Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD), which is Africa's largest dam, angered Egypt and Sudan.
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Deeply concerned about unilateral steps on Varosha contrary to UNSC resolu
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New York [US], July 22 (ANI): Permanent Representative of India to United Nations TS Tirumurti on Wednesday expressed concern about the transfer of parts of a coastal town of Varosha to Turkish Cypriot control.
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Cyprus slams Turkish move to open up Varosha as 'illegal, unacceptable'
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], July 21 (ANI): Cyprus slammed the Turkish move to open up Varosha, a fenced-off abandoned city under Turkish control as being "illegal and unacceptable".
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