Nicosia
Cars torched outside Cyprus banker's home
NICOSIA ? Arsonists torched two cars early on Tuesday outside the home of the head of Bank of Cyprus, who has overseen a major restructuring of the island?s largest lender, police said.
John Patrick Hourican ? a former Royal Bank of Scotland senior executive who joined BoC in October 2013 ? was out of the country on business at the time of the arson attack.
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Cyprus eyes gas export pipeline to Egypt
NICOSIA ? Cyprus signed an energy deal with Egypt on Monday that could see the island supplying its Mediterranean neighbor with gas.
Cyprus is keen to exploit the Aphrodite field off its southeastern coast but the reserves proven so far are not considered sufficient to make it viable for the island to develop onshore export infrastructure of its own.
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Cyprus slips deeper into recession
NICOSIA ? Cyprus?s recession deepened in the fourth quarter of 2014 as gross domestic product shrank by 0.7 percent from the previous three-month period, official data showed on Friday.
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Independent films comes to three Turkish cities
The !f International Independent Film Festival is coming to Istanbul, Ankara and ?zmir with the most talked-about and award-winning films of the year The 14th !f International Independent Film Festival will bring together the year's most anticipated films in Istanbul between Feb. 12 and 22, followed by Ankara and ?zmir from Feb. 26 to March 1.
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Russian, Greek foreign ministers eye closer ties
Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias met his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Wednesday for talks described by the latter as ?successful, honest and constructive.?
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Greece plans military exercises with Cyprus, others
Greece plans joint military exercises with Israel, Cyprus and Egypt, Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said Wednesday, amid continuing tensions between Cyprus and Turkey over oil exploration in the eastern Mediterranean.
Greek FM to visit Berlin and Moscow
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias will visit Berlin Tuesday and Moscow Wednesday to hold talks with his German and Russian counterparts at a time when European governments are concerned that the debt-wracked nation is cozying up to the Kremlin.
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Cyprus to return to growth in 2015
Bailed-out Cyprus will return to growth in 2015 following a three-year recession, a survey showed, after the island won praise from European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi (photo) on Thursday.
An economic review by the small EU member?s second-largest bank, Hellenic, said Cyprus could be on course for marginal 0.5 percent GDP growth from a decline of 2.3 percent in 2014.
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Greek-Cypriot leader calls for common Cyprus future
Greek-Cypriot administration leader Nicos Anastasiades said a solution to the Cyprus dispute was possible by bringing the island under a single sovereignty, a single citizenship and a single internationally-identified federation that was compatible with European legislation.
ECB glimpse of Cyprus debt shows limits of bank cleanup
By Jeff Black & Georgios Georgiou
There was a time when a Cypriot on a moderate income could take a gamble on foreign real-estate worth more than his life savings.