Cyprus

Cyprus

• Coach of Cypriot champion APOEL resigns

  The coach of newly crowned Cypriot champion APOEL Nicosia has resigned after guiding the club to its 22nd title this week. A statement posted on the ... 

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  Cyprus tries to make politicians more accountable

  Cyprus' president and other politicians will have their immunity from prosecution significantly curbed as part of a package of new reforms aiming to ... 

• APOEL Nicosia wins 22nd Cypriot championship title

  APOEL Nicosia has been crowned Cyprus champion for the 22nd time in its 86-year history. Omonia Nicosia's 4-0 thrashing of Anorthosis Famagusta gave ... 

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  Cyprus further eases limits on money transfers

  Cyprus significantly eased restrictions on money transfers inside and outside the country Thursday to help businesses spur a deeply slumping economy. 

• Briton admits manslaughter in UK soldier's death

  A British man pleaded guilty Monday to manslaughter in the stabbing death of a 19-year-old British soldier during a nightclub brawl last year in ... 

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  Cyprus says insurance firm deposits to take losses

  Cyprus' central bank says all insurance firm deposits in the bailed-out country's second largest bank will now take a loss of 27.5 percent. The bank ... 

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  Cyprus to open casinos to restart economy

  Cyprus' president said Friday that the bailed-out country will open casinos and bolster its tourism sector to get the economy going again. 

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  Official: Cyprus lawmakers to vote on bailout deal

  Cyprus' parliament must vote on the 23 billion euro ($30 billion) bailout deal the country has agreed upon with international creditors, the Cypriot ... 

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  Cyprus president to ask EU for more help

  Cyprus' president said Friday he will ask the European Union to provide more help for the crisis-hit country, which has to pay for most of its ... 

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  Cyprus bailout swells to $30 billion

  The cost of bailing out Cyprus has swollen to 23 billion euros ($30 billion), with the crisis-hit country having to take on the lion's share of the ... 

• 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 ...