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Trump Administration plans to designate Houthis as terrorists, exacerbatin
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], January 18 (ANI): In what could be the last act of President Donald Trump, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on 10 January that the US Administration would designate Yemen's Ansar Allah movement (Houthis) as a terrorist organization.
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Was the ending of Qatar's blockade a victory, or does it signal the end of
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], January 11 (ANI): Last Tuesday, during a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain announced that they were ending the air, land and sea boycott of the state of Qatar. The summit issued a solidarity statement in which all s
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Women in Turkey are determined to stop femicide - murders of women
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], January 4 (ANI): On December 29 in Istanbul, a man named Kemal Delbe set on fire his former girlfriend Aylin Sozer, a lecturer at the Istanbul Aydin University, pouring a flammable liquid on her. Her murderer narrowly escaped lynching by Sozer's neighbours when taken in
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Netanyahu causes snap election in Israel to delay corruption cases against
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], December 28 (ANI): The Israeli Parliament dissolved last week after the deadline to approve the budget for 2020 expired.
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It is high time for US and EU to get tough with Trump's "favorite dictator
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], December 21 (ANI): The President of Egypt Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the ruler of the most populous Arab country, in his seven-year iron rule has been violating almost all human rights of the relevant Universal Declaration, but so far has been treated scandalously gently by the
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Will US and EU sanctions make Erdogan toe the line or make him more defian
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], December 14 (ANI): The past week must have been one of the worst for Turkey's arrogant President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as both the US and the EU, showing their frustration with his numerous unsavoury actions, decided to impose sanctions on Turkey.
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Autocratic Erdogan may soon be called by Biden to pay a price
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], December 7 (ANI): Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is becoming increasingly autocratic, reversing the secularist reforms of the founder of modern Republic of Turkey Kemal Ataturk, sends to jail thousands of journalists, writers, academics and people expressing opp
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Cypriot President confirms readiness to resume talks on Cyprus settlement
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], December 2 (ANI/Sputnik): Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades received the UN Secretary General's special envoy on the Cyprus dispute, Jane Holl Lute, at the presidential palace on Tuesday evening and informed her of the Greek Cypriot readiness to attend an informal confer
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Killing of Iran's top nuclear scientist, aimed probably at making Tehran r
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], December 1 (ANI): Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, an Iranian Professor of physics who was the brains behind the Project Amad, Tehran's alleged covert programme for building a nuclear bomb, was killed near the city of Absard, 50 miles from Tehran last Friday in an ambush, by highly trai
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While Trump considered bombing Iran, Biden ponders a new deal with it
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], November 23 (ANI): The New York Times reported that on November 12, US President Donald Trump asked his senior advisers to examine options for airstrikes against Iran's main nuclear facility at Natanz. Trump convened the meeting just one day after the International Atomi
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Biden is expected to change US policies towards the Palestinians and Israe
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], November 16 (ANI): Joe Biden's election victory over Donald Trump was greeted with a sigh of relief in many parts of the world and is believed that it will refocus US policy towards the Middle East and possibly reverse Trump's damage done in the region.
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Erdogan stifles further freedom of speech, slaps fines on Facebook, Twitte
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], November 9 (ANI): Turkey on Wednesday imposed 1.1 million euro fines on digital media giants including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Periscope and TikTok because they did not appoint official representatives in the country, as required by a new digital media law ad
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