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Cyprus holds parliamentary elections
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Athens [Greece], May 30 (ANI/Sputnik): Cypriots go to the polls on Sunday to elect 56 members of parliament for the next five years.
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Turkish mafia boss revelations rattle Erdogan's government and top officia
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus] May 29 (ANI): In a series of seven You Tube videos released so far, and watched by more than 57 million people, notorious Turkish mafia leader Sedat Peker made bombshell revelations with his claims that the Turkish government and politicians are in cahoots with the crimin
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Cease-fire allows both Netanyahu and Hamas to declare a victory of sorts
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus] May 24 (ANI): Both Israel and Hamas have claimed success after the cease-fire in the 11-day conflict between them that left behind 243 Palestinian and 12 Israelis dead, as well as scores of wounded on both sides.
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict may escalate into full-fledged war and even c
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], May 17 (ANI): The first three months of this year have been the least violent in Israel for many years as there were no missiles fired from Gaza and no successful lone-wolf attacks. However, all this changed at the start of Ramadan when the Israeli Police Force started usin
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews are a state within a state in Israel
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], May 10 (ANI): The Meron Tragedy, the worst civilian disaster in Israel's modern history in which 45 people were killed and about 150 were injured shows that ultra-Orthodox Jews - called the Haredim (singular Haredi) - are really a state within a state in Israel and that due
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Erdogan's 'crazy' canal project may turn into Turkey's White Elephant
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], 4 May (ANI): Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after trying to change the country's history through his involvement in numerous conflicts in the Middle East and Nagorno Karabakh, appears to be determined to change the geography also by trying to create a second Bospo
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Angering Turkey, Biden makes good of his promise to recognize the Armenian
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], May 2 (ANI): US President Joe Biden last month made good of his campaign pledge to formally recognize as genocide the deportation and mass killing of approximately 1,500,000 Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
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Will the sabotage at the Natanz nuclear facility harm both Iran's nuclear
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], April 19 (ANI): A day after the Iranian government unveiled its new uranium enrichment centrifuges in the Natanz nuclear plant, on April 11 the facility was sabotaged by an explosion causing damage both to the central power and the emergency power cable as well as to an unk
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Is China-Iran strategic cooperation a myth or a game changer?
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], April 12 (ANI): On 27 March Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Iranian countarpart Mohammad Javad Zarif signed in Tehran a Comprehensive Strategic Cooperation Agreement between the two countries, expressing a desire to increase cooperation and trade relations over the
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Egyptian President el-Sissi issues stern warning over Grand Ethiopian Rena
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Nicosia (Cyprus) April 5 (ANI): Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi last Tuesday issued a stern warning to Ethiopia that Egypt's share of the waters of the Nile is "untouchable" and added ominously that "if the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is filled and operated without a l
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Israel faces a deadlock after the 4th election in two years
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], March 29 (ANI): Israel’s 4th election in two years failed once again to produce a clear winner, as the pro-Netanyahu group has the declared support of 52 members of the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament), while his opponents have 57 Knesset Members (KM). To form a go
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Cyprus scraps mandatory Coronavirus quarantine for Russian tourists from A
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Moscow [Russia], March 24 (ANI/Sputnik): Russian travellers arriving in Cyprus will not have to go into quarantine starting April 1 as the coronavirus-hit island nation begins reopening in a bid to kick-start tourism.
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