The importance of the geographical position of Cyprus in Southeastern Europe was stressed at a Lebanon Crisis Seminar, organised by the Minister of Foreign Affairs on Thursday in Nicosia. The seminar, which was held with the participation of around 50 representatives of crisis management teams from EU member states and representatives of the European Commission,
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The Republic of Cyprus opened on Thursday the 1st Licensing Round Offshore Cyprus for the grant of hydrocarbon exploration and development licenses. The official opening of the 1st Licensing Round Offshore Cyprus for the grant of hydrocarbon exploration and subsequent development licenses took place in Nicosia in the presence of Egyptian Minister of Petroleum Amin
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The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe is still waiting for clear indications as regards the implementation of a European Court of Human Rights judgment relating to the case Greek Cypriot Titina Loizidou won against Ankara for violation of human rights. This was said here on Thursday by Deputy Secretary General of the
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Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe Maud de Boer Buquicchio urged on Thursday CoE member states to ratify the Council’s Convention on action against trafficking of human beings, that would give the member states a ”pioneering treaty” in combating human trafficking.The CoE in collaboration with the Cypriot Ministry of the Interior opened a
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PandLabs has detected the Nurech.B worm, which arrives under the guise of Valentine’s messages. Its predecessor, Nurech.A, caused an orange alert status some days ago using the same jeans. Panda’s TruPreventTM proactive technologies have detected and blocked Nurech.B with no need for prior identification. Computers that have them installed have therefore been protected at all
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Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic Tuesday in one of the most significant attacks against the Internet since 2002, CNN reports. Experts said the unusually powerful attacks lasted for hours but passed largely unnoticed by most computer users, a testament to the resiliency of the
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Security experts have found a pair of security bugs in Microsoft’s Windows Mobile which, if exploited, could crash phones and other devices running the software, CNET reports. The vulnerabilities lie in Windows Mobile Internet Explorer and Windows Mobile Pictures and Video. Viewing a rigged Web page or malicious JPEG image file on a Windows Mobile
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Louis Pcl, the fourth largest cap stock listed on the Cyprus Stock Exchange confirmed that it is in talks to sell a number of its hotels in Nicosia in response to a daily newspaper report which suggested that the buyer is the Marfin Popular Bank Group. Louis said that it is engaged in talks adding
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Bank of Cyprus Public Company Limited announced that on 16 February 2007, the Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) has approved its Offer Document for the Competitive Revised Public Offer of Bank of Cyprus to Cytrustees Investment Public Company Limited for the acquisition of up to 50% plus one share of Cytrustees issued share capital at EUR2,45
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The Cypriot government, exercising its sovereign rights, will proceed with the procedures for research and exploitation of oil and natural gas deposits, believed to exist in its exclusive economic zone, despite the threats expressed by Turkey, Government Spokesman Christodoulos Pashiardis has said.Cyprus launched on Thursday the 1st Licensing Round Offshore Cyprus for the grant of
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