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House ratifies Cyprus-Egypt deal on subsea gas pipeline Cyprus

House ratifies Cyprus-Egypt deal on subsea gas pipeline

April 12th, 20191920 An agreement between Cyprus and Egypt on a direct subsea natural gas pipeline between the two countries was ratified on Friday by the House plenary. The agreement was ratified with 34 votes in favour and 16 abstentions. The bill which was urgently tabled for a vote on Friday, was discussed earlier at parliamentary committee...
Dozens killed and injured in crash and fire at Cairo train station Africa

Dozens killed and injured in crash and fire at Cairo train station

February 27th, 20191004 CAIRO, Feb 27 (Reuters) - At least 25 people were killed and 50 injured when a locomotive smashed into a barrier at Cairo's main train station on Wednesday, causing an explosion and a fire, state television and witnesses said. The fire sent black smoke billowing above Ramses station in the centre of the Egyptian capital. Inside the...
Anastasiades off to Egypt for first-ever EU-Arab League Summit Cyprus

Anastasiades off to Egypt for first-ever EU-Arab League Summit

February 23rd, 20191791 President Nicos Anastasiades leaves for Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt on Sunday, to attend the 1st EU-Arab League Summit, in the framework of which he is set to have bilateral meetings with heads of states in the region and to promote Cyprus’ initiative to play a coordinating role in introducing policies and strategies by neighbouring...
Interior minister underlines Cyprus' role in EU-Arab relations Cyprus

Interior minister underlines Cyprus' role in EU-Arab relations

February 23rd, 20191398 Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides has underlined Cyprus` role in EU-Arab relations, pointing out that because of its location and the trilateral cooperation with countries in the region, Cyprus could promote security and stability. The minister delivered a speech Friday evening during a twinning ceremony between Paphos and...
President to attend EU-League of Arab States summit Cyprus

President to attend EU-League of Arab States summit

February 19th, 20191491 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, 20191003 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, 20194641 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, 20193040 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, 20191519 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, 20181537 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, 20184362 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, 20181098 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, 20184122 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, 20185258 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, 20183599 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, 20182188 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, 201810377 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, 20184478 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, 20184053 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, 20181109 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, 20182010 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, 2018965 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, 20181575 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, 20187129 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...
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