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Cyprus

New communications facility at Dhekelia

The United Kingdom will build a new communications facility on one of two bases it maintains on Cyprus, a British Defense Ministry spokesman has said. The spokesman told the Associated Press that the purpose of [...]
Cyprus

Cyprus issues 10-year Eurobond for 1 bln euros at 1 percent

Cyprus has issued a ten-year Eurobond for one billion euros (1.15 billion U.S. dollars) at an interest rate of one percent to beef up its liquidity in the face of a budget deficit caused by [...]
Top Story

Turkey rolls out over 138 mln COVID-19 vaccine doses in 1 year

Turkey has so far rolled out more than 138 million COVID-19 vaccine doses within the framework of its national vaccination program, which started a year ago today, the Turkish Health Ministry reported on Friday. According [...]
Top Story

Turkey, Armenia agree to continue negotiations without preconditions

Turkey has said the first meeting between Turkish and Armenian envoys in Moscow was positive and that they will continue negotiations for full normalization of ties without preconditions. “During their first meeting, conducted in a [...]
North Africa and Mediterranean

Air Malta to halve workforce in bid to stay afloat

Air Malta, the country’s flag carrier, will reduce the number of employees by half as the government plans to make the airline financially viable, Finance Minister Clyde Caruana said here on Friday. The airline currently [...]

New communications facility at Dhekelia

Cyprus

January 17, 2022 0

The United Kingdom will build a new communications facility on one of two bases it maintains on Cyprus, a British Defense Ministry spokesman has said. The spokesman told the Associated Press that the purpose of [...]

Cyprus issues 10-year Eurobond for 1 bln euros at 1 percent

Cyprus

January 17, 2022 0

Cyprus has issued a ten-year Eurobond for one billion euros (1.15 billion U.S. dollars) at an interest rate of one percent to beef up its liquidity in the face of a budget deficit caused by [...]

Turkey rolls out over 138 mln COVID-19 vaccine doses in 1 year

Top Story

January 17, 2022 0

Turkey has so far rolled out more than 138 million COVID-19 vaccine doses within the framework of its national vaccination program, which started a year ago today, the Turkish Health Ministry reported on Friday. According [...]

Turkey, Armenia agree to continue negotiations without preconditions

Top Story

January 17, 2022 0

Turkey has said the first meeting between Turkish and Armenian envoys in Moscow was positive and that they will continue negotiations for full normalization of ties without preconditions. “During their first meeting, conducted in a [...]

Air Malta to halve workforce in bid to stay afloat

North Africa and Mediterranean

January 17, 2022 0

Air Malta, the country’s flag carrier, will reduce the number of employees by half as the government plans to make the airline financially viable, Finance Minister Clyde Caruana said here on Friday. The airline currently [...]

UNHCR provides solar lamps to thousands of households in Libya’s Benghazi

North Africa and Mediterranean

January 15, 2022 0

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)has started distribution of solar lamps to thousands of households in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi. Years of armed conflicts forced foreign companies responsible for the construction [...]

5.6-magnitude quake hits 40 km east of Qala-e-Naw, Afghanistan — USGS

World

January 17, 2022 0

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 jolted 40 km east of Qala-e-Naw, Afghanistan at 11:40 GMT on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined [...]

Russia’s daily COVID-19 cases near 30,000

World

January 17, 2022 0

Russia has recorded 29,230 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 10,803,534, the official monitoring and response center said Sunday. Meanwhile, the death toll grew by 686, below 700 [...]

Portugal registers new case of birds flu

Europe

January 17, 2022 0

Another outbreak of birds flu was identified on Friday in an aviary in the central Portugal region, said the Directorate-General for Food and Veterinary Medicine (DGAV). The case was detected in domestic animals in the [...]

Portugal reports highest number of COVID-19 hospitalizations since last March

Europe

January 17, 2022 0

Portuguese hospitals reported on Sunday that 80 people were hospitalized for complications arising from COVID-19, bringing the country’s total number of COVID-19-related hospitalizations to 1,813, the highest since March 3, 2021. According to the epidemiological [...]

Europe

French National Assembly adopts vaccine pass law

January 17, 2022 0

The French National Assembly, or the lower house of the Parliament, adopted on Sunday evening a law which will transform the health pass into a stricter vaccine pass in a bid to curb the country’s [...]

USA Ice Hockey women’s team roster for Beijing 2022

Sport

January 15, 2022 0

The final 23-player roster of the USA women’s ice hockey team has been announced. Hilary Knight was selected for a USA Ice Hockey record-tying fourth Olympics, one of 15 players on the roster with previous [...]