Cyprus

Cyprus

• Firecracker injures 5 in Cypriot football match

  Cyprus police say a teenager is recovering from burns to his head and shoulder after a firecracker went off in the stands during a Cyprus Cup football ... 

• Cyprus reports sharp cut in size of banking sector

  A draft bailout document between Cyprus and its international creditors shows that the size of the country's banking sector has been sharply reduced ... 

• Cyprus crisis ruins dying father's plans for kids

  When Costas Kalapodas was diagnosed with brain cancer two years ago and given months to live, he saw one sure place to put his money: Cyprus' biggest ... 

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  UN: Chemical investigators ready to go to Syria

  U.N. experts are ready to move into Syria immediately to investigate reported chemical weapons attacks but President Bashar Assad's government still ... 

• Cyprus government rejects euro area exit

  Cyprus' new finance minister is ruling out any notion that the cash-strapped country will abandon the euro as its currency. Harris Georgiades says the ... 

• Amid financial crisis, Cyprus convicts offer help

  With Cyprus' economy falling apart, even those behind prison bars are pulling together to help people in need. Dozens of central prison inmates ... 

• Cyprus allows limited bank-to-bank money transfers

  Cyprus' finance ministry further loosened restrictions on access to accounts in the debt-ridden country's two biggest lenders on Friday by allowing ... 

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  Cyprus bank workers to protest looming job cuts

  Bank employees in Cyprus will walk off the job for two hours and march toward parliament to protest against looming job and benefit cuts being taken ... 

• Cyprus to build gas plant with or without Israel

  Cyprus' offshore natural gas deposits are enough to warrant the construction of a gas processing plant to export excess supply, regardless of whether ... 

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  IMF agrees to its part of Cypriot bailout

  The International Monetary Fund said Wednesday it will contribute 1 billion euros to an overall financial rescue package of 10 billion euros ($12. 

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  ECB to face Cyprus questions at rate meeting

  European Central Bank President Mario Draghi will try Thursday to reassure markets that Cyprus's chaotic bail-out won't worsen the euro currency ... 

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  AP Essay: My Cyprus, changed forever

  Nicosia, Cyprus, 1973: Riding with my parents and two elder siblings in a taxi, the kind of large Mercedes favored in the Middle East. The driver ... 

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  Cypriot finance minister resigns amid crisis probe

  Finance minister Michalis Sarris resigned Tuesday after less than five weeks in the job, as the government begins an investigation into how the ... 

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  Euro area unemployment at record 12 percent

  The eurozone economy has passed another bleak milestone. Official figures Tuesday showed that unemployment across the 17 European Union countries that ... 

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  Turkish Cypriots: Solidarity tinged with relief

  Barbed wire-topped walls stretch across the narrow, twisted streets of Nicosia's walled medieval city, where abandoned buildings extend across a ... 

• Cyprus appoints judges to probe economic crash

  Cyprus' president has appointed a panel of three former supreme court judges to investigate how the country ended up nearly bankrupt. President Nicos ... 

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  Cyprus gains more time to achieve surplus

  Cyprus has been granted an extra year — until 2017 — to achieve a targeted budget surplus of 4 percent as part of bailout negotiations with ... 

• Cyprus Church leader promises help amid crisis

  The leader of Cyprus' Orthodox Christian church vowed to do all he can so that ordinary people "won't go hungry" amid the country's worst financial ... 

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  Bank of Cyprus big savers to lose up to 60 percent

  Big depositors at Cyprus' largest bank may be forced to accept losses of up to 60 percent, far more than initially estimated under the European rescue ... 

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  Little Cyprus thumbs its nose at EU 'bullies'

  The moment word broke that Cypriot lawmakers in Parliament had voted down a bailout deal that would have raided everyone's savings to prop up a ... 

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  No restrictions on local Cyprus card transactions

  Cyprus' central bank tried to kickstart spending in a country left reeling by a 10-day bank closure and financial near-collapse by telling Cypriots ... 

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  Israel faces geopolitical tangle with natural gas

  Recent discoveries of massive offshore natural gas deposits, set to begin flowing in the coming days, are turning into a mixed blessing for Israel. 

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  President urges Cyprus to 'share the burden'

  Cyprus's president called on the country to "share the burden" of solving its financial crisis Friday as banks opened for normal business for the ...