In parting shot at Israel, Kerry warns Middle East peace in jeopardy
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday said Israel’s building of settlements on occupied land was jeopardising Middle East peace, voicing unusually frank frustration...
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Seventy two crews on entry list for Cyprus Rally 2016
A total of 72 crews from nine countries are on the entry list for Cyprus Rally 2016. The event will take place from October 7-9...
Russia well and truly back on the world stage
By Farid Mirbagheri The Russian Federation is gradually but surely reclaiming some of its lost influence in the world particularly in west Asia and north...
Eighty years on: is 2016 the new 1936?
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the...
Two California men convicted of plotting to support Islamic State
Two men from Anaheim, California, were found guilty on Tuesday of conspiring to provide material support to Islamic State militants, one of them going so...
Global violence worsens, driven by Middle East conflicts – peace index
The world has become increasingly violent with deaths from conflict at a 25-year high, terrorist attacks at an all-time high and more people displaced than...
Bloodshed blurs Middle East borders set 100 years ago by Sykes-Picot pact
By Dan Williams A century after Britain and France secretly mapped out a Middle East they would control upon defeating the Ottomans in World War...
Time for a new Sykes-Picot Agreement to fix the Middle East
It’s time to renegotiate the contract that put the Middle East together. The “contract” is the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, which divided up most of the...
Is it time for the United States to dump Saudi Arabia?
By Josh Cohen After the recent execution of Shi’ite cleric Nimr al-Nimr by Saudi Arabia, the Middle East once again risks devolving into sectarian chaos....
Cobalt Air says it secured Chinese equity, launching operations in spring
Cobalt, a Cyprus based airline, said it had secured an unspecified amount of capital injection from an unnamed investor based in Hong Kong who is...
Left without their children
By Andria Kades Margarita Charalambous has not seen her children – Yerasimos and Olymbia aged six and five – since one Thursday afternoon last June...
Biden chides Turkey over freedom of expression
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said during a trip to Turkey on Friday that intimidating the media, curtailing internet freedom and accusing academics of treason...
Arab winter has become markets’ chief worry
By Andy Critchlow For financiers, the Middle East has turned from a source of oil-rich clients to a major anxiety. That was the view of...
Extremism in Syria and beyond
By Ozay Mehmet TO DESCRIBE Western involvement in the Middle East as an unmitigated disaster would be an understatement. But virtually no attention has been...
Cyprus and Jordan step up energy cooperation
Cyprus and Jordan announced on Tuesday the activation of technical committees to discuss the details of possible cooperation in the gas sector. The announcement was made at...
LAVROV VISIT IN BRIEF: Archbishop, Akinci and ‘principled stances’
Church lauds Russia support for Mid-East Christians ARCHBISHOP Chrysostomos said the Church of Cyprus supported the position of Russia in its strikes against the Islamic...
War in Syria today could spell war for Cyprus tomorrow
By Ertan Karpazli Whoever still thinks the war in Syria is about toppling Bashar al-Assad’s regime or annihilating ISIS militants is surely mistaken. From the...
Kerry to visit Mideast in bid to calm Palestinian-Israeli tensions
By Scott Malone US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday he plans to travel to the Middle East to try to calm violence...
Trump: Middle East would be more stable if Saddam, Gaddafi still in power
U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Sunday the Middle East would be more stable if Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein were still in...
France’s Fabius heads to Mideast to sell peace initiative
By John Irish France’s foreign minister heads to the Middle East this weekend with an initiative aimed at bringing Israel and the Palestinians back to...