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1621. Syrian refugees picked up off Cape Greco

A boat carrying seventeen people was spotted off Cape Greco on Monday, with reports suggesting they are all presumptive refugees from Syria...

1622. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP choice unconstitutional

1623. China opens world's longest sea bridge

1624. Bookie’s after work drink cost her 50 grand

A female bookie in Paphos had €50,000 in cash stolen from her vehicle, telling cops her car was burglarised while she went for a drink late after work...

1625. Exxon Mobil is placing big bets on China’s soaring liquefied natural gas demand

1626. Opinion: Reaction over US evacuation helicopters in Cyprus unjustified

1627. Traffic camera citations by registered mail

Drivers who commit traffic offences and are caught on camera will receive the bill in the mail, if a current proposal for a new network to be rolled out next year goes forward...

1628. Sex selection in Cyprus raises ethical issues

Cyprus has been a sex selection destination for British couples who want to get pregnant without legal troubles in the UK, but a recent Daily Mail story on Turkish Cypriot IVF clinics is raising additional legal and ethical questions...

1629. IMF: The Cypriot economy continues its rapid recovery from the 2012–13 financial crisis

1630. Ticking bombs

1631.  Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war

1632. Cyprus opens bids for offshore energy exploration at block 7

1633. Tsipras’s last card

1634. Bank of Cyprus plans voluntary layoffs in 2019

1635. Co-working spaces and Entrepreneurship

1636. EU’s Barnier offers better Irish terms to get Brexit deal

1637. Team launches world’s first ocean cleanup system

A first trial of a massive cleanup of plastic in the ocean, an effort that has been in the works for five years, was launched in San Francisco on Saturday...

1638. World’s largest offshore wind farm opens off northwest England

1639. Cyprus makes the case for regional headquartering

Cyprus has emerged as a serious contender in the world of international investment, putting a conference in Limassol next week in a unique position to promote the island as a regional headquartering centre...

1640. Cyprus goes all out in the maritime insurance game

Cyprus has been a serious contender in the maritime and shipping industry, but recently it emerged as one of few unbeatable alternatives for big foreign P&I clubs looking to set shop home away from home...

1641. Bank of Cyprus gets rid of small business bad loans

The Bank of Cyprus says it has sold a portfolio of non-performing loans worth €2.8 billion to Apollo Global Management, a transaction that will reduce its stock of NPLs to €5.2 billion...

1642. Ryanair adds Athens in 2018 winter route

Low-cost carrier Ryanair announced on Thursday a new route from Athens to London’s Luton airport, which will be part of the company’s winter 2018 schedule with three flights per week....

1643. Bulgaria scrambling over Olympic bankruptcy

The bankruptcy of Cyprus-based Olympic Insurance Company has become the focus of attention and a regulator has resigned, after 200,000 Bulgarians were left without insurance...

1644. Legal department terminates Agusta helicopter probe

The Legal Services department is closing the case of the controversial purchase of Agusta helicopters, saying investigators did not find evidence of wrongdoing...

1645. Cyprus puts team together to save gas deal

The Cyprus government is willing to renegotiate terms with an energy consortium, following concerns on the part of companies that worry new developments and low gas prices would render a current deal not profitable...

1646. Nicosia ups pressure on EU migration policy

Nicosia is pushing for a single EU migration policy that would make refugee redistribution not only mandatory but also relative to population sizes of member states...

1647. Shadows loom over government’s ‘clean exit’ scenario

Greece’s bailout exit has been eliciting condescending and bitter commentary on the country’s beaches and in its near-deserted cities, as few Greeks believes their lives are going to improve or that the country’s prospects will be akin to those of other bailed-out eurozone states. Greece’s “return to normalcy” and “clean exit,” much touted by the government, appear to be happening somewhere else....

1648. The heavy cost of cowardice

I’ve heard a government minister speak about a vital agency of the Greek state and admit that “there’s nothing that can save this department – it ought to be shut down and rebuilt from scratch.”...

1649. Reignited Dherynia fire under control

A Sunday night fire in the buffer zone, which was thought to have been contained Monday morning, reignited hours later with authorities on both sides going on full alert and UN officials saying the fire is once again under control...

1650. Manafort lawyer blames Cyprus accounts on oligarchs

Prosecutors described Paul Manafort as a “shrewd” liar and accused him of misleading his tax preparers, banks, and US authorities in claiming that secret accounts did not exist...