Cyprus Bans 'Dangerous' Vuvuzelas from Stadiums
NICOSIA — Cyprus police announced on Friday that they would confiscate any vuvuzelas taken into the island's football stadiums because the tuneless plastic horns were "dangerous".
Police said the a...
Cyprus, A Familiar Stopover in Spy Lore
- Christopher Torchia - The Associated Press
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- July 06, 2010
LARNACA, Cyprus — The parade of foreigners who trod on Cypriot shores is long and ancient. Kings, sages, crusaders, merchants, tourists. Hittites, Assyrians, Romans, Venetians, Britons, Turks. They ca...
Cyprus to Issue Biometric Passports from October
- Cyprus Mail
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- July 06, 2010
Cypriot passports will start being converted into biometric ones in October, after the House yesterday decided to send the relevant bill to the Plenum on Thursday.
According to the chairman of the ...
Cypriot Authorities Searching Spy Suspect's Laptop
- Menelaos Hadjicostis - Associated Press
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- July 05, 2010
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Cyprus police are searching the contents of a confiscated laptop belonging to an alleged Russian spy who has vanished, the east Mediterranean island's justice minister said on Monday...
Cyprus: How an Alleged Russian Spy Eluded Capture
- Christopher Torchia - The Associated Press
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- July 04, 2010
LARNACA, Cyprus — The alleged paymaster of a Russian spy ring in the United States spoke no more than necessary. He stayed in modest hotels and dressed for the Mediterranean heat: shorts and untucked ...
Cyprus Official: Russian Spy Has Fled Island
- The Associated Press
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- July 02, 2010
NICOSIA, Cyprus — After eluding a dragnet extending from airports to yacht marinas, the suspected paymaster for a Russian spy ring nabbed in America has likely fled this Mediterranean resort island, t...
Cyprus Hunts for Alleged Russian Spy Paymaster, U.S. Embassy Assisting
- Christopher Torchia & Menelaos Hadjikostis - The Associated Press
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- July 02, 2010
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Russian money and influence have long made a splash on this Mediterranean resort island where a suspected spy paymaster vanished after being allowed to walk free on bail.
The...
Russian Spy Suspect Gone Missing in Cyprus
- Menelaos Hadjicostis - Associated Press
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- July 01, 2010
A Canadian man wanted in connection with an alleged Russian spy ring in the United States has gone missing in Cyprus where he violated the terms of his bail on Wednesday, police said.
Christopher R...
Cyprus Police Arrest Canadian Suspect in US-Russia Spy Case
- Charlie Charalambous - AFP
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- June 29, 2010
NICOSIA — Cypriot police said they had arrested a Canadian man wanted in connection with an alleged Russian spy ring broken up in the United States as he was about to board an early Tuesday flight to ...
Cyprus Okays Arms Ship to Continue Voyage
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - Cyprus' commerce minister says a ship loaded with arms and explosives can leave the island after inspectors confirmed the cargo doesn't breach a United Nations arms embargo rega...
First Ever Solar Powered Desalination Plant Coming to Cyprus
- Argyro Nicolaou - Cyprus Mail
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- June 24, 2010
The first ever combined solar power and desalination plant will be constructed in Cyprus, following the success of a Cyprus Institute research project.
The aim of the research was to provide a feas...
Boy dies after being left in car for 8 hours
- Daily Telegraph
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- June 04, 2010
NICOSIA - A five-year-old boy has died in Cyprus after being left for eight hours in a locked car by his father, a doctor who was rushing to a medical emergency.
The 40-year-old orthopaedic surgeo...
Eurobarometer: Cypriots heaviest smokers in EU
- Financial Mirror
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- May 28, 2010
Smokers in Cyprus consume more cigarettes per day than other Europeans, with the percentage of the smoking population standing at 32%.
Ahead of the 2010 No Tobacco Day on May 31, the European Comm...
Kurds set up ‘tent city’ in Cyprus asylum protest
- Patrick Dewhurst - Cyprus Mail
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- May 22, 2010
More than 250 Kurdish Syrian Asylum seekers are expected to camp out in Nicosia this weekend, in protest against the Cyprus government's refusal to grant them refugee status.
Around 185 protestors,...
Cyprus' first medical students planned for 2013
- Charles Charalambous - Cyprus Mail
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- May 05, 2010
The University of Cyprus (UCY) is on course to admit the first students to its planned Medical School in 2013, provided a ministerial-level meeting in September approves the necessary budget for the c...
Cyprus becoming ‘battlefield for beggars’
- Jacqueline Agathocleous - Cyprus Mail
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- April 28, 2010
Certain areas in Cyprus have become a battleground between various groups of organized beggars in the same way gangsters claim their own turf, the House heard yesterday.
Committee Chairman Sophocle...
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