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Book your doctor's appointments online on OKYpY's website

Book your doctor's appointments online on OKYpY's website

With just a few clicks, you can make an appointment with any one of the 750 doctors of all specialties listed on the OKYpY website, according to an announcement released by the organization....

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Erdogan: Turkey has saved thousands left to die by Greece in the Aegean

Erdogan: Turkey has saved thousands left to die by Greece in the Aegean

Turkey has saved the lives of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers that were illegally pushed back by Greece, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed on Monday....

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Cyprus government: No comment on passport audit report just yet

Cyprus government: No comment on passport audit report just yet

The Government will study the report released Monday by the Audit Office on passports and the Cyprus investment program that granted citizenship by investment, Spokesperson Marios Pelekanos said, following the Cabinet’s meeting which convened Monday at the presidential retreat in the Troodos mountains....

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Woman with knife in Cyprus arrested at pro-Russia event

Woman with knife in Cyprus arrested at pro-Russia event

A woman in Larnaca has been arrested in connection with a knife incident during an event for Russian National Flag Day in the southern Cypriot town...

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Cyprus stoked about gas discovery’s EU prospect

Cyprus stoked about gas discovery’s EU prospect

Nicosia says preliminary estimates of a new gas discovery in the country’s exclusive economic zone raise the prospect that big players could still include the island in their plans to supply the European Union with much needed natural gas...

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Cabinet extends disbursement period of interest rate subsidy scheme

Cabinet extends disbursement period of interest rate subsidy scheme

The Cabinet decided Monday to amend the interest rate subsidy scheme for housing and corporate loans to further support the economy amid the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine....

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EU mulls military training for Ukrainian forces

EU mulls military training for Ukrainian forces

The European Union is considering the possibility of organizing a "training and assistance" mission for the Ukrainian army, which will take place in neighboring countries, the EU High Representative on foreign policy Josep Borrell said on Monday....

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Cyprus Investment Program problematic from the start

Cyprus Investment Program problematic from the start

Much ink has been spilled over the Cyprus Investment Program (CIP). From its inception in 2017 until its abolition, the CIP was a scheme wherein the Cyprus Government granted Cypriot citizenship to investors, "golden passports" as it is well-known....

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Interior Ministry aware passport applications did not meet criteria

Interior Ministry aware passport applications did not meet criteria

In the Audit Service's report on the naturalization program, references are made to the manner in which passports were granted, stressing that there were cases in which the Ministry was aware that there were applications that did not meet the criteria, characterizing its approval as illegal....

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Palestinians fly to Cyprus in Israeli airport pilot program

Palestinians fly to Cyprus in Israeli airport pilot program

Several dozen Palestinians flew to Cyprus on Monday from an airport in southern Israel as part of a pilot program to allow Palestinians from the occupied West Bank to fly abroad...

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A peek into the secret underwater lives of dolphins (video)

A peek into the secret underwater lives of dolphins (video)

Video footage from GoPro cameras strapped to a pair of Navy-trained bottlenose dolphins reveals the ocean animals' hunting habits up close for the first time....

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Portuguese volley women learn hard lesson in divided Cyprus

Portuguese volley women learn hard lesson in divided Cyprus

The Portuguese women’s national volleyball team is scheduled to play against Cyprus this week in Nicosia, vying for a spot in EuroVolley 2023, but the stakes for Wednesday’s match are not without politics after efforts by the guests to book accommodation in the north were blocked by the south...

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2.5 tcf deposit discovered by ENI-TOTAL consortium in Block 6

2.5 tcf deposit discovered by ENI-TOTAL consortium in Block 6

The ENI TOTAL consortium made an important discovery of natural gas in Block 6. According to an official announcement by the Italian company,...

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Cyprus opposes ban on Russian tourist visas

Cyprus opposes ban on Russian tourist visas

Cyprus opposes a ban on tourist visas for Russian citizens, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kornelios Korneliou, said with regards to a proposal expected to be put forward by Baltic countries during the informal Council of EU Foreign Ministers (Gymnich) in Prague....

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Cypriot Marios Georgiou wins gold in men's horizontal bar

Cypriot Marios Georgiou wins gold in men's horizontal bar

Cyprus is reeling from the success of its champion, Marios Georgiou, who won Cyprus’ first gold medal at the European Gymnastics Championships in Munich....

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Showers on and off this week in Cyprus

Showers on and off this week in Cyprus

A low pressure is moving over Cyprus on Monday brining chances of showers and thunderstorms in the interior along with powerful winds on the southern coast...

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Turkey's stance undermines prospects for peace in Cyprus and the wider region

Turkey's stance undermines prospects for peace in Cyprus and the wider region

Turkey's stance creates deadlock which undermines prospects for peace in Cyprus and in the wider region, said on Sunday the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Interior, Costas Constantinou....

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Cyprus goes light on Israel's Iron Dome

Cyprus goes light on Israel's Iron Dome

Foreign media are tracking a story on the Cypriot government’s aspirations to obtain Iron Dome, Israel’s field-tested defense system, but news and sources piling up over the weekend suggest the island’s neighbor warming up to Turkey and the war in Ukraine could tell a more complicated story...

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Tatar gets icy reception at Buyuk Han

Tatar gets icy reception at Buyuk Han

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar got the cold shoulder as he was out and about in north Nicosia on Saturday, when a mixed group of peace activists on the island refused to be cordial with the man they view as 'Ankara's puppet'...

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Sleepy Greek port becomes US arms hub

Sleepy Greek port becomes US arms hub

But the sleepy port of Alexandroupoli in northeastern Greece has taken on a central role in increasing the US military presence in Eastern Europe to contain Russian aggression. That flow has angered not only Russia but also neighboring Turkey, underlining how war in Ukraine is reshaping Europe’s economic and diplomatic relationships....

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Cyprus unemployment rate at 6.8% in 2nd quarter of 2022

Cyprus unemployment rate at 6.8% in 2nd quarter of 2022

The unemployment rate in Cyprus was 6.8% of the labor force in the 2nd quarter of 2022, recording a decrease of 1.6% compared to the corresponding quarter of 2021....

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The coasts of Cyprus, Lebanon and Syria recorded the greatest increase in temperature in the Mediterranean

The coasts of Cyprus, Lebanon and Syria recorded the greatest increase in temperature in the Mediterranean

Rising temperatures in the Mediterranean are negatively affecting marine life, according to scientists who studied seawater in the region and reported that water temperatures are 3 to 5 degrees above normal for the season, which will have many negative consequences....

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Finland's PM partying video causes backlash

Finland's PM partying video causes backlash

The Finnish Prime Minister, Sanna Marin, is facing a backlash after being seen partying in a leaked video....

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Covid plan for the fall still being hammered out

Covid plan for the fall still being hammered out

The meeting between the Minister of Health, Michael Hadjipantela, and members of the Scientific Advisory Committee, during which a COVID pre-emptive plan for the fall was discussed, ended earlier today resulting in the following statement from the Minister on the issues that will be addressed for the fall season and beyond....

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Russian ‘memorial collage’ in Limassol still vague

Russian ‘memorial collage’ in Limassol still vague

Reuters has picked up a story in Cyprus where a 'memorial collage' posted in public view in Limassol depicted nine Russian antiwar activists, with Cypriot police saying none of them wished to give a deposition except the person who filed the original complaint in late July...

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Greek minister vows to extend Evros wall by 80 kilometers

Greek minister vows to extend Evros wall by 80 kilometers

Greece’s border fence on the northeastern border with Turkey will be extended by approximately 80 kilometers, Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis reiterated on Friday, saying Greece cannot be a free-for-all and that Turkey is not a country at war....

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Eurocontrol approved flight plan of Turkish spy plane

Eurocontrol approved flight plan of Turkish spy plane

A Turkish spy plane that flew on Thursday within the Nicosia FIR (Flight Information Region) claims to have submitted its flight plan to Eurocontrol, which it followed, and, consequently, did not violate the 5 nautical miles and 3 thousand meters height required by NOTAM issued by the Republic of Cyprus, a well-informed source has stated....

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Dad’s hurried deportation stirs debate in Cyprus

Dad’s hurried deportation stirs debate in Cyprus

The hasty deportation of a detained man, whose wife and teenage son remain in Cyprus, has stirred up debate this week, bringing the child commissioner head to head with the state’s law enforcement authorities and even the interior minister himself...

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EAC: This is how corrections will be made on erroneous accounts

EAC: This is how corrections will be made on erroneous accounts

Since errors in electricity bills were discovered, the Electricity authority has received thousands of Viber and WhatsApp messages and emails with photos and meter numbers from panicked consumers trying to report the problem on their own bills....

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Unprecedented rise in dog abandonments this year

Unprecedented rise in dog abandonments this year

Dog shelters in Cyprus are "filled to the brim", volunteers say, as they are daily called to take in abandoned dogs, while adoptions from the UK – where the majority of dogs go to – have plunged due to Brexit, the pandemic and the economic crisis....

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Legislation aims to deepen U.S.-Cyprus ties, boost regional infrastructure, and support alternatives to Beijing’s global expansion. Photo credit: Unsplash
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New U.S. bill eyes Cyprus as key player in countering China’s Belt and Road

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