Posts tagged with "anniversary"

Silent vigils, prayers mark one year since Grenfell fire Britain

Silent vigils, prayers mark one year since Grenfell fire

June 14th, 2018 Survivors of London's Grenfell Tower fire, and friends and relatives of the 71 people it killed, held vigils and prayed together as they marked the first anniversary of a tragedy that still haunts Britain. Grenfell Tower, a social housing block that was home to a close-knit, ethnically diverse community, was engulfed by flames in...
July 20 is a black day, president says Cyprus

July 20 is a black day, president says

July 20th, 2017 July 20 is a black day for Cyprus and everyone must consider the causes, President Nicos Anastasiades said. “Without a doubt, the criminal acts against the state before the coup, the treason by Greek junta officers, and ... division,” he said after a church service in Nicosia held to mark the 43rd anniversary of the 1974 Turkish...
Greek Cypriots don't want to be equal partners, Akinci says (updated) Cyprus

Greek Cypriots don't want to be equal partners, Akinci says (updated)

July 19th, 2017 Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said on Wednesday the Greek Cypriot side’s main objective was to become the sole ruler of the island instead of equal partners with the Turkish Cypriots. In a speech marking the 43th anniversary of the Turkish invasion of the north of the island, Akinci blamed the Greek Cypriot side for the...
Annan no vote far from the ‘highest act of dignity’ CM Regular Columnist

Annan no vote far from the ‘highest act of dignity’

April 30th, 2017 By Loucas Charalambous THE 13th anniversary of the Annan plan referendum of April 24, 2004 provided an opportunity to the pseudo-patriots of the ‘in-between political space, to advertise their patriotism, the patriotism of partition. They all celebrated what they called the “anniversary of the big no”. All the great patriots,...
U.S. honours 9/11 victims 15 years after attacks (Updated) World

U.S. honours 9/11 victims 15 years after attacks (Updated)

September 11th, 2016 Americans commemorated the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on Sunday with the recital of the names of the dead, tolling church bells and a tribute in lights at the site where New York City's massive twin towers collapsed. As classical music drifted across the 9/11 Memorial plaza in lower Manhattan, family members and...
Helios relatives to mark anniversary on Sunday in Cyprus and in Greece Cyprus

Helios relatives to mark anniversary on Sunday in Cyprus and in Greece

August 13th, 2016 About 70 relatives of the 121 Helios victims, along with Greek relatives of the victims, will visit the site of the crash on Sunday at Grammatiko, where the plane went down, for the annual memorial services. In Cyprus, memorial services for each victim will be held by each family individually, according to head of the Association of...
Over 1,000 Turkish Cypriots cross for Kokkina event Cyprus

Over 1,000 Turkish Cypriots cross for Kokkina event

August 8th, 2016 A total of 1,015 Turkish Cypriots travelled to the Kokkina enclave on Monday to commemorate the 53rd anniversary of the Tylliria bombing by Turkish warplanes in 1964. The crossing via the Limnitis checkpoint was completed shortly after 10am. The transportation, which went smoothly involved 57 buses accompanied by an ambulance....
Turkish Cypriots to mark Kokkina battle anniversary Cyprus

Turkish Cypriots to mark Kokkina battle anniversary

August 7th, 2016 Some 30 buses with Turkish Cypriots are expected to cross over at Limnitis on Monday to mark the 53rd anniversary of the bombing on Tylliria by the Turkish air force. The buses carrying the Turkish Cypriots will cross in the morning and make their way to the small enclave in the government-controlled areas between Pyrgos and...
Cyprus marks 42nd anniversary of the Turkish invasion Cyprus

Cyprus marks 42nd anniversary of the Turkish invasion

July 20th, 2016 AIR RAID sirens sounded across Cyprus 5.30am Wednesday to mark the moment in 1974 when an armada of 33 ships, including troop transporters, tanks and landing craft, alighted on the northern coast, near Kyrenia beginning the Turkish invasion and occupation of more than a third of the island for the past 42 years. Turkish forces...
International community sends message of support on talks’ anniversary Cyprus

International community sends message of support on talks’ anniversary

May 15th, 2016 By Maria Koniotou The importance of a settlement of the Cyprus problem for the island as well as the region was highlighted by the international community on the first anniversary of talks between President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci. Asked by the Cyprus News Agency to comment the ambassadors of...
Cyprus condemns Armenian Genocide on 101st anniversary Cyprus

Cyprus condemns Armenian Genocide on 101st anniversary

April 24th, 2016 President Nicos Anastasiades on Sunday condemned the Armenian Genocide by the Ottomans, which he called "a disgrace in the history of mankind". "The government expresses its full solidarity and sympathy to the Armenian people, supporting the effort for recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the international community,"...
Grief and frustration as Nepal marks earthquake anniversary World

Grief and frustration as Nepal marks earthquake anniversary

April 24th, 2016 By Gopal Sharma Grieving relatives mourned on Sunday the thousands killed in a huge earthquake in Nepal last year, as aid agencies warned about the health risks for the millions still living in sub-standard temporary shelter following the country's worst-ever disaster. The 7.8-magnitude quake struck high in the Himalayas minutes...
On Sandy Hook anniversary, U.S. activists call for gun restrictions World

On Sandy Hook anniversary, U.S. activists call for gun restrictions

December 14th, 2015 U.S. gun control activists called for expanded background checks for firearms purchasers and for a ban on sales to people on federal watch lists on Monday, in a protest marking the third anniversary of the massacre at a Connecticut elementary school. Speakers including U.S. Representative Gerry Connolly, a Virginia Democrat, and...
North Korea threatens South Korea ahead of island shelling anniversary World

North Korea threatens South Korea ahead of island shelling anniversary

November 22nd, 2015 Five years after North Korea fired shells onto a South Korean island, Pyongyang vowed on Sunday to retaliate mercilessly should Seoul holds fire drills near the border on the anniversary. North Korea fired scores of artillery shells at South Korea's Yeonpyeong island on Nov. 23, 2010, killing four people including two civilians in one...
All 15 teens in UDI attacks charged and released Cyprus

All 15 teens in UDI attacks charged and released

November 20th, 2015 All 15 teenagers arrested in connection with the attack on Turkish Cypriots were charged and released, police said on Friday. The suspects are all aged between 16 and 18 years old, go to the same school and were arrested for assault causing actual bodily harm, malicious damage, disturbing the peace, incitement to hate and violence,...
Cyprus Mail’s 70th anniversary archive highlights: The 1990s Cyprus

Cyprus Mail’s 70th anniversary archive highlights: The 1990s

November 4th, 2015 The beginning of the 1990s saw Cyprus in trouble internationally for breaking sanctions against Serbia and again at the end of the decade for the costly debacle of the S-300 missiles. On a more positive note, after years of debate the Cyprus University opened in September 1992. Two series of particularly gruesome murders also took...
Editorial: Cyprus Mail has been meeting challenges head on for 70 years Opinion

Editorial: Cyprus Mail has been meeting challenges head on for 70 years

November 1st, 2015 NEWSPAPERS sound smug at their peril - mistakes are made too easily - but we believe we are allowed to congratulate ourselves on a very special occasion. Tomorrow, November 2, marks 70 years since the first ever issue of the Cyprus Mail was published in 1945. For an independent, family-run newspaper to have survived the challenges of...
Cyprus Mail 70th anniversary archive uploads: the late 1970s Cyprus

Cyprus Mail 70th anniversary archive uploads: the late 1970s

September 26th, 2015 In the years after the invasion, the Cyprus Mail inevitably devoted many pages to the humanitarian and political crises that followed the events of July and August 1974. But there were other important highlights too. One was the sudden death of Archbishop Makarios on August 3, 1977. Another was the shooting dead of a former...
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