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Cyprus says willing to resume peace talks with Turkish-Cypriots but not under threats
Cyprus is committed to reunification talks with estranged Turkish-Cypriots but not at gunpoint, its president said on Thursday on a dispute which has deepened Greece-Turkey tensions. A simmering decades-old conflict which split the east Mediterranean island’s Greek and Turkish-Cypriots has come full circle with the issue featuring prominently in disputes between NATO allies Greece and Turkey, and now holding up EU plans to impose sanctions on Belarus.
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Coronavirus: Drone walks dog on empty streets of Cypress
A man in Limassol, Cyprus found a clever way to walk his dog amidst a government-mandated coronavirus lockdown.
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Cyprus 'selling' EU citizenship to super rich of Russia and Ukraine
Billionaire Russian oligarchs and Ukrainian elites accused of corruption are among hundreds of people who have acquired EU passports under controversial “golden visa” schemes, the Guardian has learnt. The government of Cyprus has raised more than €4bn since 2013 by providing citizenship to the super rich, granting them the right to live and work throughout Europe in exchange for cash investment. More than 400 passports are understood to have been issued through this scheme last year alone.
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'We were so close,' says diplomat as another Cyprus reunification bid flops
The best chance in generations to end the partition of Cyprus collapsed in acrimony early on Friday, throwing the prospect of any reunification between Greek and Turkish Cypriots into disarray.
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Building Totalitarianism in Europe – The Last Coup of Victoria Nuland
"Nobody, including the President of Cyprus, the Greek PM or any international conference are entitled to take any decisions infringing, directly or indirectly, upon the sovereignty of the Republic of Cyprus or alter its constitutional structure." By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos.
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The Divisions of Cyprus
Enlargement, widely regarded as the greatest single achievement of the European Union since the end of the Cold War, and occasion for more or less unqualified self-congratulation, has left one inconspicuous thorn in the palm of Brussels... By Perry Anderson
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AP Interview: Turkish Cypriot head: Gas may fund peace deal
Cyprus' potential wealth from newly-found offshore gas reserves could be used to partly fund a costly deal reunifying the ethnically-divided island, the leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots said Monday.
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