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. BY PETROS MAVROS The recent agreement between Hermes Airports and Ryan Air to open their fiftieth operational base in Europe has to be looked at as both a blessing and a

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* Turkey provokes with east Med exercises *  Cyprus and Israel discussed future energy cooperation during a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, as Turkey warned the island that

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The European Union's tax chief on Thursday rejected UK opposition to a planned levy on financial transactions, saying it would dampen risky trading and barely dent growth. EU Tax Commissioner Algirdas Semeta