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Christodoulides to speak on strategic autonomy in Maastricht before the European Council in Brussels
Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides leaves on Wednesday, October 14, for Maastricht and then Brussels, where he will take part in…
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News and analysis on the Republic of Cyprus: the Cyprus issue and the Turkish occupation of the north, the island’s defence and its National Guard, energy exploration in the Cypriot EEZ, and Cyprus’s role in the EU and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Occupied Cyprus: Üstel’s “Target 2033” plan with TRY 75 billion from Ankara, a cable and a pipeline to Turkey “despite the obstacles”
Ünal Üstel, the head of the occupation regime’s so-called government, unveiled in the occupied part of Nicosia on Monday, October…
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Cyprus: Kombos takes the illegal Turkey–occupied north memorandum on an undersea gas pipeline to the EU’s 27
Cyprus Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos is raising at the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg on October 12 the “illegal…
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Christodoulides sees a “window of opportunity” on Cyprus: new meeting with Erhürman, UN has finished its record of convergences
Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday, October 12, that he justifiably believes there is a window of opportunity on…
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Cyprus National Guard: Joint training with US Armed Forces and the New Jersey National Guard
Cyprus’s National Guard has held a series of joint courses with US Armed Forces and New Jersey National Guard personnel,…
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Lebanese Armed Forces chief officially visits Cyprus
General Rodolph Haykal, commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, made an official visit to Cyprus from October 6 to 8…
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Cyprus reportedly orders a third Barak MX, Drone Dome and Lite Beam lasers, and plans Iron Dome to replace its Russian BUKs
According to Cypriot press reports on October 11, the government has ordered a third Barak MX battery, Drone Dome systems…
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Cyprus National Guard to hold four days of live-fire drills at Kalo Chorio for exercise IRIS-2026
The Cyprus National Guard General Staff announced on October 11 that live-fire drills will take place by day from Monday,…
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Cyprus: Study to greatly upgrade the Mari naval base so it can host large warships
Cyprus’s Ministry of Defence has awarded a year-long study to expand the Evangelos Florakis naval base at Mari so it…
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Two 14th-century icons stolen after the Turkish invasion returned to Cyprus
Two Byzantine icons of the Evangelists Matthew and Mark, stolen from Kyrenia after the 1974 Turkish invasion and traced to…
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Analysis: Barak MX, the common air-defence “dome” of Greece and Cyprus with missiles out to 150 km that troubles Ankara, with IAI’s official video
Analysis: IAI’s official video of the Barak MX, its four interceptors from 15 to 150 km, the architecture of the…
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Üstel calls scenarios of an Israeli strike on the occupied north “dangerous” and attacks Greek and Cypriot armaments
Ünal Üstel, the “prime minister” of the breakaway regime in the occupied north of Cyprus, says discussions in Greek and…