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Cyprus police say a Syrian man admitted to burying one of his four children at sea after the 6-year-old died aboard a boat loaded with migrants that had gone adrift for many days without food or water.

The drilling by Italian energy giant ENI in the Cronos-2 field in Block 6 of Cyprus' exclusive economic zone (EEZ) appears to have discovered another natural gas reservoir, with sources telling the Cyprus News Agency that gas flaring was successfully carried out on Thursday.

Cyprus' Energy Minister George Papanastasiou stated on Thursday that, during his discussions with consortiums operating in the Cypriot exclusive economic zone (EEZ), he suggested the option of importing natural gas quantities from the EEZ for power generation, in combination with LNG exports via a small LNG plant.

The Cypriot government does not intend to stop the measure that encourages the installation of solar panels in homes, but to enhance it, Minister of Energy, Trade and Industry Natasa Pilides pointed out last Friday.

Cypriot Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides will meet with his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock on Monday, just days after she warned any weak links in Europe's resolve would only embolden Moscow.

The health crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic greatly influenced the activity of European news agencies in terms of working procedures, and some expect a drop in revenues, according to the directors of some of these media outlets in interviews published on Monday on the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) website.

The United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) on Wednesday expressed concern over the "ongoing disruption" faced by residents of both sides of the island as a result of checkpoints remaining only partially open for specific groups.

Greek Cyprus' supreme court on May 29 upheld an order to extradite a suspected Hezbollah member to the U.S. on money laundering charges, official media said.

A five-judge bench unanimously dismissed an appeal against a decision by a lower court in September 2019 to extradite the man, identified only by his surname Diab, the Greek Cyprus News Agency said.

The Cypriot economy is losing 660 million euros a month during the coronavirus epidemic, Hellenic Bank's chief economist Andreas Assiotis has warned, calling on the Republic's government to implement targeted interventions that will support production so that the economy can restart after the end of the pandemic without being slowed down by any issues.

The interior minister of the Republic of Cyprus says the island cannot host more economic migrants as another boatload of refugees arrived on Tuesday, clarifying that authorities would not send back those whose lives may be in danger.