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Over 1,800 illegal migrants arrive in Cyprus in Oct, most through Green Li
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], October 31 (ANI/Sputnik): The number of illegal migrants coming to the Republic of Cyprus has been increasing, with over 1,800 migrants recorded in October, most of which arrived though the "green line" that separates the Turkish-controlled northern part of the island from
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Ignoring diplomats, Erdogan charts a risky one-man show foreign policy
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], October 25 (ANI): Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, failed to achieve positive results in his two latest trips to the United States and Russia. This may be attributed to the fact that the autocratic Turkish leader has become overconfident, thinks that he can play
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Sectarian militias clash in Beirut raising fears of repetition of 15-year
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], October 18 (ANI): While Lebanon is facing unprecedented economic meltdown, the consequences of the huge explosion in Beirut port and the spread of Covid -19 pandemic, last Thursday unidentified snipers started firing at protesters in the Tayouneh area of capital Beirut, kil
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Turkey and Russia: Are they rivals or cooperating competitors?
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], October 11 (ANI): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 29 discussed the situation in northwestern Syria, where the two sides support opposing camps, as well as ways of deepening the cooperation between their defence indust
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Turkey condemns French-Greek arms deal as 'a threat to regional peace'
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus] October 4 (ANI): A French-Greek deal signed in Paris last Tuesday by which Greece will buy three state-of-the-art frigates and provides for France's immediate military assistance to Greece and vice versa, in the event of a third country attacking, even if that country is par
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Will Mikati's government stop Lebanon's economic and political paralysis?
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], September 27 (ANI): Last Monday, Lebanese billionaire Najib Mikati, succeeded in winning in parliament a vote of confidence for his 24-member government.
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Will the grey wolves- Erdogan's long arm in the world-end up on EU and US
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], September 20 (ANI): Last week US Representative (D. Nevada) Dina Titus proposed an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2022 National Defence Authorization Act to ban the Turkish ultranationalist group known as the Grey Wolves.
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Water crisis could lead to conflicts in the Middle East
Updated : 4 years, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 9 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, 9 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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