Archbishop of the Church of Cyprus Chrysostomos II and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew have agreed to the opening of a Church of Cyprus office in Brussels.The primate of the Greek Orthodox Church of Cyprus and Patriarch Bartholomew met in Georgia, where they participated in the celebrations for the 30th anniversary of Patriarch Elias assumption of duties
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Motorola, Inc. has expanded its offering of devices for “everyday communication” with the introduction of seven new W Series handsets. The new devices — W156, W160, W175, W180, W206, W213, and W377 — feature tools users need to stay connected, like FM radio, (optional headphones required), as well as Motorola’s proprietary CrystalTalk Technology, which automatically
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The stunning Nokia N95 8GB, the memory-packed big brother of the N95 multimedia computer, made its debut global shipments Monday and will be hitting a store near you soon. “Our Nseries family has expanded with added pizzazz and performance with the N95 8GB, a device as personal as it is powerful,” said Jonas Geust, vice
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With the new 2.1 Speaker Set SP-3920 (www.trust.com/15410), Trust has developed an exclusive speaker set that not only produces an excellent sound, but which is also a treat for the eyes. The speaker set has been designed by Peter Larsen, one of the world’s most prominent industrial designers. It is a modern design with an eye
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Cypriot drivers Charalambos Timotheou and Pambos Laos in their Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX won the Cyprus Rally, round 6 of the 2007 FIA Middle East Championship (MERC), making Timotheou the first Cypriot driver to win the island’s leading international sports event since 1991. Defending Middle East and P-WRC champion Nasser Al-Attiyah of Qatar and co-driver
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Cyprus National Guard remains a modern, strong, flexible and deterrent force, Cyprus Defence Minister Christodoulos Pashiardes said Saturday, after watching the last and main phase of “Nikiforos†military manoeuvre, held October 9-14. Pashiardes notd that the success of the manoeuvre showed once again the high level of fighting and operational effectiveness of the National Guard,
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The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has revised higher the GDP growth target for 2007 to 4.2% from 4.0% previously forecast but maintains the 2008 target at 4.0%, while inflation is expected at 2.5% in 2007 and 3.3% in 2008. The growth of inflation in 2008 results from the increase in VAT and the sustainability of
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Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are reported to have agreed to set up a fund of about $100 billion to help revive the asset-backed commercial paper market. The new fund, tentatively named the Master-Liquidity Enhancement Conduit (MLEC), is aimed at buying assets backed by mortgages thereby hoping to prevent
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Like the phoenix, gold has risen from its ashes where it was buried for most of the 1980s and 1990s. Since January 2000 it has provided an astonishing 13% return per year in US dollar terms according to the UBS investor’s guide 12 October 2007 edition. On Monday 1 October 2007 gold reached USD 747.20
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As luck would have it, both good and bad news hurts the USD these days. Any indication that the US housing recession is hurting US consumers causes the markets sell the USD because of the risk of recession and lower expected yields. But any news that US consumers are indeed alive and well and not
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