Posts tagged with "Egypt"

President to attend EU-League of Arab States summit Cyprus

President to attend EU-League of Arab States summit

February 19th, 20191034 President Nicos Anastasiades will attend the EU-League of Arab States (LAS) summit taking place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt on Sunday and Monday. Government Spokesman Prodromos Prodromou said this is an important summit that will bring together heads of state or government from both sides for the first time. European Council president...
Three Egyptian policeman die after Cairo blast World

Three Egyptian policeman die after Cairo blast

February 19th, 2019642 Three policemen were killed when an explosive device carried by a militant they were pursuing exploded in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Monday, an interior ministry statement said. The blast occurred in the city's historic centre close to the Al Azhar mosque and left several people wounded, two security sources said. More
Egypt-Cyprus deal on Aphrodite field ‘is attracting great investor interest’ Energy

Egypt-Cyprus deal on Aphrodite field ‘is attracting great investor interest’

February 11th, 20193127 The intergovernmental agreement signed between Egypt and Cyprus for Aphrodite gas field resulted to great interest from International oil companies, down-streamers and financial institutions, Egypt’s Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tarek El-Molla said. In an interview with CNA, the Egyptian minister said that after the...
Cabinet approves bill for Egypt pipeline deal Energy

Cabinet approves bill for Egypt pipeline deal

January 31st, 20192740 The cabinet on Thursday approved a bill governing an inter-state agreement with Egypt for the construction of a subsea natural gas pipeline crossing through the exclusive economic zones of the two nations. The legislation follows through from, and sanctions, the inter-state pipeline agreement signed between Cyprus and Egypt in...
Salah voted African Footballer of the Year Premier League

Salah voted African Footballer of the Year

January 9th, 20191351 Egypt striker Mohamed Salah was voted as the African Footballer of the Year for the second successive year at the Confederation of African Football’s awards ceremony in Dakar on Tuesday. Salah beat fellow nominees, Liverpool team mate Sadio Mane and Arsenal forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. He edged the same two players last...
Hijacker who forced plane to land in Cyprus to face charges in Egypt Cyprus

Hijacker who forced plane to land in Cyprus to face charges in Egypt

December 6th, 20181405 A man who hijacked a plane and diverted it to Cyprus in 2016 will go on trial in Egypt facing a number of charges, judges decided on Wednesday. Egypt’s public prosecutor said the case has been referred to the country’s criminal court, the Daily Mail reported. A date for the trial has not yet been announced. Seif Eldin...
US energy official to tour East Med Cyprus

US energy official to tour East Med

November 10th, 20184191 US Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources Francis Fannon will travel to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Nicosia, and Cairo starting Monday, November 11 to 20, the State Department announced on Friday. During his trip, Fannon will be meeting with government officials and private sector representatives to discuss energy security and...
Egypt court upholds death sentences for three suspected militants Middle East

Egypt court upholds death sentences for three suspected militants

October 14th, 20181049 An Egyptian court on Sunday upheld death sentences for three people for establishing and running a militant group known as Ansar al-Sharia, two judicial sources and state news agency MENA said. The charges included killing at least 10 police officers and attempting to kill more in a series of attacks between August 2013 and May 2014....
Four firms express interest in gas pipeline Energy

Four firms express interest in gas pipeline

October 11th, 20183935 Four major investment firms have expressed an interest in financing the construction of a pipeline that would transport natural gas from Cyprus to Egypt, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The banks and investment houses asked the Cypriot government for more information on the progress of the Aphrodite reservoir, whose gas Royal Dutch...
Leaders at Crete summit tell Turkey to leave Cyprus’ EEZ alone Energy

Leaders at Crete summit tell Turkey to leave Cyprus’ EEZ alone

October 10th, 20185112 Cyprus, Greece and Egypt on Wednesday called on Turkey to cease all illegal activities within the maritime zones of Cyprus and to refrain from similar actions in the future. President, Nicos Anastasiades, his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and his Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras, made the statement following their 6th...
FM says deal close to export gas to Egypt Energy

FM says deal close to export gas to Egypt

October 9th, 20183466 The consortium with the licence on the Aphrodite gas field in block 12 is “very close” to a deal to export natural gas to a liquefaction terminal in Egypt, Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides has said. Speaking to an Egyptian newspaper, Christodoulides said the companies – Noble Energy, Delek and Shell – are in talks with...
FMs of Greece, Cyprus and Egypt meet to prepare for new trilateral Cyprus

FMs of Greece, Cyprus and Egypt meet to prepare for new trilateral

September 27th, 20182086 The foreign ministers of Cyprus, Greece and Egypt met in New York on Thursday to prepare for the upcoming trilateral summit of the heads of state of their respective nations. Nicos Christodoulides, Nikos Kotzias and Egypt’s Sameh Shoukry reportedly discussed energy issues and broader cooperation in the southeast...
Cyprus, Egypt sign gas pipeline agreement (Updated) Cyprus

Cyprus, Egypt sign gas pipeline agreement (Updated)

September 19th, 20189486 Egypt and Cyprus on Wednesday signed an agreement for the construction of an underwater pipeline to export natural gas to Egypt. The deal was signed at the presidential palace by Energy Minister Yiorgos Lakkotrypis and Egypt’s Oil Minister Tarek el-Molla. Lakkotrypis said the agreement aimed at ensuring the timely and safe...
Cyprus and Egypt geared up to sign pipeline agreement Cyprus

Cyprus and Egypt geared up to sign pipeline agreement

September 18th, 20183889 Cyprus and Egypt will sign an agreement for an underwater natural gas pipeline on Wednesday, set to be the first of its type for the region, Energy Minister Yiorgos Lakkotrypis said on Tuesday. Lakkotrypis and his Egyptian counterpart Tarek el Mollahad held a meeting in the evening with President Nicos Anastasiades, where they...
Cyprus and Egypt said to be close to inking gas deal Energy

Cyprus and Egypt said to be close to inking gas deal

September 17th, 20183951 By Elias Hazou Cyprus and Egypt are reportedly poised - perhaps even this week - to conclude an interstate gas export-import agreement. Energy minister Yiorgos Lakkotrypis will be signing the deal with his Egyptian counterpart Tarek El-Molla. Pen will be put to paper most likely in Nicosia. The agreement simply facilitates...
Thomas Cook says it found e-coli in Egypt hotel where Britons died Middle East

Thomas Cook says it found e-coli in Egypt hotel where Britons died

September 6th, 20181006 British tour operator Thomas Cook said it had found a high level of e-coli and staphylococcus bacteria at the hotel in Egypt where two holidaymakers died last month. The company said the poor hygiene standards it had discovered in independent tests were the likely cause of a rise in illness amongst its guests at the hotel, but they...
Thomas Cook removes 300 from Egypt hotel after couple dies (Update) Britain

Thomas Cook removes 300 from Egypt hotel after couple dies (Update)

August 24th, 20181906 Britain's Thomas Cook said it was evacuating all 301 of its customers from a hotel in Egypt's popular Red Sea resort of Hurghada as a precautionary measure after two of its holidaymakers died in circumstances it said were still unclear. Local officials said both deaths were from heart failure. John Cooper, 69, and his wife Susan...
Egypt ‘finalising details of long-term Hamas-Israel truce’ Middle East

Egypt ‘finalising details of long-term Hamas-Israel truce’

August 17th, 2018900 Egypt is finalising details of a long-term truce deal between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, an Egyptian security source said on Thursday, amid easing tensions on the border of the enclave where some two million Palestinians live. Cairo has brokered an interim truce that has allowed commercial goods into Gaza ahead of the...
Egypt security forces thwart church bombing World

Egypt security forces thwart church bombing

August 11th, 20181517 Egyptian security forces have thwarted a suicide bomb attack on a church just outside of Cairo, state television said on Saturday. A militant wearing a suicide vest was prevented from approaching a church in Qalyubiyah, a governorate north of Cairo, and detonated the vest about 250 metres from the church, killing himself but no one...
Gas pipeline deal reached with Egypt – CyBC Energy

Gas pipeline deal reached with Egypt – CyBC

August 6th, 20186693 Nicosia has reached an agreement with Cairo on a pipeline to connect the Aphrodite gas field in block 12 to Egypt, it was reported on Monday. According to state broadcaster CyBC, the inter-state agreement is expected to be signed in the autumn. The two countries had signed in 2017 a preliminary agreement to transport natural gas...
Car explodes in central Cairo, cause unclear Middle East

Car explodes in central Cairo, cause unclear

August 6th, 2018806 A car exploded in central Cairo on Monday after colliding with a microbus, injuring 13 people, the Egyptian health ministry said. Reuters reporters heard a loud blast in the area and saw a car on the side of the road completely destroyed, with bits of twisted and punctured metal scattered nearby. There appeared to be damage to a...
Tripartite meeting for diaspora to be held this week Cyprus

Tripartite meeting for diaspora to be held this week

July 1st, 20181400 Egyptian Minister of Immigration and Expatriate Affairs Nabila Makram will visit Cyprus on Tuesday for a series of meetings with Presidential Commissioner Fotis Fotiou and Greek Deputy Foreign Minister for the Diaspora Terence Quick. This is the first meeting between the three since the Nostos meeting in Alexandria at the end of April...
Slowdown expected in Russian tourism (Updated) Cyprus

Slowdown expected in Russian tourism (Updated)

May 10th, 20188098   By Elias Hazou and George Psyllides THE Cyprus Hotel Association (Pasyxe) was on Thursday quick to dismiss an estimate by the Ayia Napa mayor that the Famagusta resorts would see Russian tourism drop as much as 50 per cent this summer as neighbouring competitors re-emerge after several years of internal instability. Mayor...
Cyprus and Egypt close to signing gas deal, says minister Energy

Cyprus and Egypt close to signing gas deal, says minister

May 7th, 20184967 Cyprus and Egypt are close to signing an agreement for connecting the Aphrodite gas field to the North African country, Energy minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis said on Monday. Lakkotrypis, who was in Cairo on Monday for energy-related talks, met with Egyptian Petroleum Minister Tareq El Molla, after which talks were held between the two...
Cypriot Egyptians welcome to return says Egyptian minister Cyprus

Cypriot Egyptians welcome to return says Egyptian minister

May 5th, 20183683 Cypriot Egyptians and Greek Egyptians are welcome to return to Egypt if they wish to do so since this is their second country, Nabila Makram, the Minister of Immigration and Egyptian Expatriates’ Affairs said on Friday. Makram was speaking in Cairo during the Nostos, the Return initiative that brings 120 people together from Greece...
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