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Hunted Greek convict vows revenge for crisis by video
A CONVICTED member of a Greek guerrilla group that waged a 27 year campaign of killing appeared in a video on Monday promising to avenge the country’s debt crisis and calling for a revolution against...
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Central African Republic chooses capital’s mayor as president
Central African Republic lawmakers chose their capital’s mayor, Catherine Samba-Panza, to become interim president on Monday and lead the country out of months of sectarian killings towards elections....
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Ban speaks by phone with Davutoglu
By Jean Christou TURKISH Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has spoken over the phone with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the Cyprus issue, urging the international community to take a more decisive...
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Banks in ‘normalisation’ phase, says minister
By Elias Hazou THE island’s largest lender, Bank of Cyprus (BoC), as well as the banking system in general, have entered a phase of ‘normalisation’, finance minister Harris Georgiades said on Monday....
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Cyprus saw biggest decline in financial institutions last year
Cyprus had the biggest decline in the number of monetary financial institutions (MFI) in the eurozone, the European Central Bank (ECB) said on Tuesday. According to ECB figures, on January 1, 2014...
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Wawrinka dethrones Djokovic in Melbourne thriller
By Nick Mulvenney Stanislas Wawrinka brought a dramatic end to Novak Djokovic’s quest for a fourth successive Australian Open title in the quarter-finals on Tuesday when he finally found a way to beat...
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Thailand imposes state of emergency
The Thai government declared a 60-day state of emergency to start on Wednesday, saying it wanted to prevent any escalation of more than two months of protests aimed at forcing Prime Minister Yingluck...
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Turkish Cypriot airline to be re-born
Cyprus Turkish Airlines (CTA), the defunct carrier of the breakaway state in the north is to reborn as Karpas Airlines, reports said on Tuesday. CTA went bellyup in 2010. According to Star Kibris...
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Faltering Man United seek cup fillip
By Josh Reich Manchester United must shrug off the disappointment of their league title aspirations being all but ended if they are to retain hope of claiming domestic silverware in David Moyes’...
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Blind man burned to death in his home
The charred remains of a 58-year-old blind man were found in his home after it caught fire on Tuesday at around 4pm in Trachoni in Limassol, police said. Panayiotis Ioannou’s remains were found after...
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Road tax renewals up on last year
By Peter Stevenson THE number of vehicles that have not had their road tax renewed and will be removed from circulation has doubled compared to last year, acting head of the Road Transport Department...
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Police investigate rape allegation
Police are investigating a case of alleged rape after an 18-year-old woman reported that her father sexually assaulted her. The matter was reported to a police station in Fasouri in Limassol where the...
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EU leaders call for Cyprus solution
By Jean Christou EU LEADERS on Tuesday threw their weight behind calls for movement on Cyprus following a meeting in Brussels with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and ahead of today’s...
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Syria talks in disarray before they begin
Syrian and international delegates arrived in Switzerland on Tuesday for peace talks that few believe can succeed as the three-year-old civil war and geopolitical acrimony it has brought show no sign...
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Turkish judicial purge brings corruption investigation to halt
Turkey’s purge of the judiciary and police has brought a corruption investigation shaking the government to a grinding halt and could undermine confidence in state institutions, senior legal figures...
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Manduca steers APOEL past AEL in Coca Cola Cup
By Nemanja Bjedov GUSTAVO Manduca scored the only goal of the game at the Tsirion Stadium in Limassol yesterday as APOEL recorded a 1-0 win over AEL for an aggregate 2-0 victory over last season’s...
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Syrian enemies may discuss prisoner swaps despite talks acrimony
Syria’s government and opposition, meeting for the first time, vented their mutual hostility on Wednesday but a UN mediator said the warring sides may be ready to discuss prisoner swaps, local...
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Polis jewellery thieves
JEWELLERY valued at around €10,000 and close to €1,000 in cash were stolen from an apartment in Polis Chrysochous on Tuesday. The incident was reported just before midnight on Tuesday by the Cypriot...
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€13,000 stolen from car
AROUND €13,000 in cash was stolen from a company-owned van while it was parked outside a kiosk in Paphos on Wednesday afternoon. Police said the driver of the van entered the kiosk at around 1.40pm...
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Greens keep on with ‘tree for votes’ campaign
THE Green Party and the young Greens will be sponsoring unemployed people aged under 30 with two euros for every tree they plant. “The party’s goal is for 8,960 trees to be planted between 2011 and...
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