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China signs MoU with Cyprus on higher education
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], May 14 (ANI): Cyprus and China signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation in higher education and scientific research, Cyprus' education ministry and the Chinese Embassy said in separate statements on Friday.
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Erdogan vows to send 1 million refugees back to Syria
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus] May 9 (ANI): Last Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a reversal of his previous policy, declared that his government was working on a project for "the voluntary and honourable return of 1 million Syrian refugees" back to their homeland.
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Erdogan pushes limit with US, NATO; strives to mend ties with S Arabia, UA
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], May 2 (ANI): Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has recently been pushing the limit with his US and NATO allies in the war in Ukraine, while at the same time, due to the dire economic situation facing Turkey, he is trying to mend relations with oil-rich former adver
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Granting citizenship to Syrian refugees could tip the scales in Turkey's e
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus] April 25 (ANI): The question of granting citizenship to refugees from Syria and Afghanistan is gradually becoming a controversial issue in Turkey, as the leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party Kemal Kilicdaroglu openly accuses President Recep Tayyip Erdog
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New cycle of violence in Israel, West Bank may lead to military confrontat
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus] April 18 (ANI): Last Friday's clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and the Israeli Police in Al-Aqsa mosque in the old city of Jerusalem were an accident (or rather an explosion) waiting to happen, following three weeks of serious violence in Israel and the West Bank, i
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Europe turns to Middle East, Mediterranean to reduce its dependence on Rus
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Nicosia (Cyprus) 11 April (ANI): As the war in Ukraine rages on, leaders of European countries, notably Germany, have come to realize that they made a serious mistake by becoming so dependent on Russian energy. Currently, Europe depends on Russia for roughly 40 percent of its natural gas
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Are the attacks by Israeli Arabs an ISIS operation or a new 'Intifada of K
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], April 4 (ANI): Three separate deadly attacks by Israeli Arabs in just a week in Be'er Sheva, Hadera and Bnei Brak caused fears of an unprecedented "terrorist onslaught" by ISIS sleepers or a repetition of the 2015-2016 "Intifada of Knives". These three attacks, in which
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Turkey plays again the role of the Evasive Neutral
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], March 28 (ANI): As professor Frank G Weber wrote in his famous book about Turkeys Alliance in World War II titled "The Evasive Neutral: Germany, Britain and the Quest for a Turkish Alliance in the Second World War.
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Cyprus approves 4th vaccine dose for vulnerable people due to COVID-19 spi
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], March 22 (ANI/Xinhua): The Cypriot government on Tuesday approved a fourth COVID vaccine dose for vulnerable citizens after health authorities announced a new spike in cases.
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Israel's shadow conflict with drones and cyber-attacks with Iran
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus] March 21 (ANI): A shadow conflict, a sort of "war between wars" has been going on for years between Israel and Iran, as well as between Israel and Iran's proxies in Lebanon and Syria. This shadow conflict has escalated since the beginning of the year.
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Middle East nations refrain from sanctioning Russia
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus] March 14 (ANI): The Russian invasion of Ukraine has put several states in the Middle East in a very difficult position. On the one hand, they cannot openly condone aggression and the invasion of an independent country by a powerful neighbor and so they must speak against it
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The Middle East will suffer from the grain shortage due to the war in Ukra
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus] March 7 (ANI): As Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues unabated, many countries of the Middle East are seriously concerned about the inevitable shortage of grain as Russia and Ukraine together account for 30 per cent of global wheat exports. Russia is the world's larges
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