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Is the newly inaugurated Iranian President Raisi going to follow more hard
Updated : 4 years, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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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Angering Egypt and Sudan, Ethiopia completes second phase of filling Afric
Updated : 4 years, 10 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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Cyprus slams Turkish move to open up Varosha as 'illegal, unacceptable'
Updated : 4 years, 10 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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Hariri fails to form a government while Lebanon is facing total collapse
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], July 19 (ANI): Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri, who was tasked with forming a government in the country last October, after presenting on Wednesday his proposed cabinet to President Michel Aoun-which Aoun rejected once again for the 19th time in a row-announce
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COVID-19: Thousands protest against SafePass in Cyprus, demand end to vacc
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], July 19 (ANI/Sputnik): Thousands of people have gathered outside the presidential palace in the capital of Cyprus, Nicosia, to protest against SafePass and what they consider to be pressure to get vaccinated against COVID-19, local media report.
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Turkey's offer to secure Kabul airport could prove to be a very risky busi
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], July 12 (ANI): The proposal made by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to US President Joe Biden last month on the sidelines of a NATO summit that Turkey could undertake the security of the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul after NATO's withdrawal from Afghan
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Turkey rejects its inclusion in US list of countries implicated in use of
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], July 5 (ANI): The Turkish Foreign Ministry last Friday reacted angrily to its inclusion in a US report in the list of countries that are implicated for the use of child soldiers by Turkish-backed groups in Syria and Libya.
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Erdogan inaugurates the controversial canal project, Istanbul Mayor has ni
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], June 28 (ANI): Ignoring strong reservations and objections from many quarters, Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday took the first step for the implementation of his most ambitious mega project called the Canal Istanbul project, with the groundbrea
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Election of Ebrahim Raisi as President means that ultra-conservatives have
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], June 21 (ANI): Hard-line Chief Justice Ebrahim Raisi won Friday's elections in Iran, getting 17.8 million votes, while his main opponents - former Revolutionary Guard commander Mohsen Rezaei got only 3.3 million, and moderate former Central Bank Governor Abdolnasser Hemmati
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China challenges US position as the most important partner for Middle East
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], June 14 (ANI): Following the US policy shift to disengage from the Middle East region, which started under President Barack Obama and continued and accelerated under Donald Trump, China stepped in to fill the vacuum created and now plays a wider role in the region. China's
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