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Cyprus in talks with Gulf energy companies over natural gas licences, president says
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Energy companies from Persian Gulf states have expressed interest in searching for natural gas off the southern coast of Cyprus, President Nikos Christodoulides said Friday. Speaking at an energy conference in Nicosia, he said Cypriot authorities are in early...
In Cyprus, Ukrainians learn how to dispose of landmines that kill and maim hundreds
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — In a Cypriot National Guard camp, Ukrainians are being trained on how to identify, locate and dispose of landmines and other unexploded munitions that litter huge swaths of their country, killing and maiming hundreds of people, including children. Analysts...
Canadian veterans remember how they eased tensions as UN peacekeepers in ethnically split Cyprus
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — It was the first time that Canadian U.N. peacekeeper Michelle Angela Hamelin said she came up against the raw emotion of a people so exasperated with their country’s predicament. Seared in her memory from her eight-month tour of duty on the ethnically...
In Cyprus, officials from Algeria to Iraq train to keep WMD from crossing their borders
LARNACA, Cyprus (AP) — From as far as Algeria, Iraq and Georgia, an assortment of senior government officials converge on this small facility for training by top U.S. experts to prevent the kinds of materials used to build weapons of mass destruction from crossing their borders. In...
Cyprus is committed to expanding defense ties with the US, says its president
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The president of Cyprus said Sunday his administration is committed to expanding defense and security cooperation with the U.S., as his meeting with American President Joe Biden last week charted a course for the “next ambitious steps” in bilateral relations that are...
Europe's human rights watchdog urges Cyprus to let migrants stuck in UN buffer zone seek asylum
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A senior official with Europe’s top human rights watchdog has urged the government of ethnically divided Cyprus to allow passage to nearly three dozen asylum seekers out of a U.N.-controlled buffer zone where they have been stranded in tents for months. ...
Biden, Cyprus president discuss administration push to win cease-fires in Gaza and Lebanon
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday discussed a new effort by the U.S. administration and mediators in the Middle East to forge cease-fires to end fighting in Lebanon and Gaza. Christodoulides leads the European Union...
US and Cyprus launch a strategic dialogue to bolster security
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — U.S. and Cypriot officials on Wednesday launched a strategic dialogue they said would bolster security and stability in a crisis-wracked region through initiatives including counterterrorism training of personnel from Middle Eastern countries and fighting sanctions evasion....
Cyprus thwarted a digital attack against the government's main online portal
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus said Sunday that it has successfully thwarted a digital attack aimed at blocking access to the government’s central online portal, the latest in a string of similar attacks over a three-day period against state-run utilities and the Cypriot subsidiary of a Greek...
Russian and Ukrainian business dealings with Cypriot banks dwindled due to sanctions, banks say
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus' banks said Friday their exposure to Russian and Ukrainian businesses shrunk by more than 13,000 clients and 35,000 accounts, amounting to 2 billion euros ($2.17 billion), in the year after Moscow’s 2022 invasion of its neighbor as they adhered to sanctions that...
