From Academy Award-Nominated Director Richard E. Robbins. Film to be Screened at Shoe Factory, Nicosia on October 11, 2013. With Cate Blanchett, Priyanka Chopra, Selena Gomez, Anne Hathaway, Salma Hayek, Alicia Keys, Chloë Moretz, Liam Neeson, Freida Pinto, Meryl Streep, and Kerry Washington World Vision is bringing to Cyprus a global campaign to eradicate poverty
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Asian shares ran out of steam on Friday, as investors pondered the Federal Reserve's next move, but a regional benchmark was on track for its best week in more than a year thanks to the U.S. central bank. Indian financial markets were roiled after the Reserve Bank of India unexpectedly raised the key policy rate
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Cyprus champions APOEL FC scraped through and shared a point in Group F in the opening round of the Europa League after a goalless draw with Maccabi Tel Aviv who were playing in front of a record home crowd. The other Cypriot side, Apollon Apollon FC, lost several scoring opportunities in Nicosia’s GSP and went
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Red tape for EU businesses was reduced by €32.3 bln a year, in the past five years, after measures initiated by the European Commission, Commission President José Manuel Barroso said on Thursday. Barroso discussed ways of boosting growth and jobs with the High Level Group on Administrative Burdens, chaired by Dr Edmund Stoiber, the former
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Four icons from the 16th century looted from a Greek Orthodox church in the Turkish occupied northern Cyprus have been handed over from the government of the Netherlands to the Cyprus ambassador in the Hague. The icons of Saints Peter, John, Mark and Paul were returned by Dutch Director General of Culture and Media Marjan
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Delia Velculescu, head of the IMF mission for Cyprus, has called for a strong implementation of the Cypriot adjustment programme as risks are tilted to the downside. In a teleconference after the first programme review, Velculescu said that although figures of the public finances for the first half of the year have faired better than
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Cyprus is gradually regaining its credibility as an international business centre and the banking sector is starting to recover, making it a promising place for the future of Russian investors, despite the rescue package and the austerity measures imposed in March, officials said at a conference on Thursday. Marios Tsiakkis, Director General of the Cyprus
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The Cyprus Central Bank Governor Panicos Demetriades has come under unprecedented criticism and is being forced to quit amid allegations of tardiness that has caused irreparable damage to the island’s sector and the economy in general. President Nicos Anastasiades revealed in a TV interview late Wednesday that Demetriades was uncooperative in dealing with the economic
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Emirates, one of the world’s fastest-growing airlines, is offering low season Economy Class fares to 10 selected destinations for leisure and business passengers in Cyprus. Emirates return Economy Class fares start from as low as €473 for travel to Dubai. Qatar’s capital Doha starts from €573, while fares to Mumbai and Delhi in India start
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A former Cyprus government minister was ordered detained by an Athens prosecutor on Thursday in a major graft case that has seen the arrest of former Defence Minister and socialist Pasok leader-in-the-making Akis Tsohatzopoulos. The Greek minister, who had led a power struggle to head the historic party and become prime minister, is facing corruption
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