Menelaos Hadjicostis

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Cyprus to block Turkey’s EU bid over gas dispute

Menelaos Hadjicostis · October 21, 2014 3:11 pm

Cyprus president suspends peace talks

Menelaos Hadjicostis · October 7, 2014 6:42 pm

Cyprus Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides speaks to the media at the foreign house in divided capital of Nicosia, Monday, Oct. 6, 2014. Cyprus' foreign minister says Turkey's stated intention to search for oil and gas in waters where the ethnically-split island nation has licensed an Italian-South Korean consortium to drill could upset reunification talks. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Cyprus: Turkey gas search could hurt peace talks

Menelaos Hadjicostis · October 6, 2014 1:57 pm

This Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014 photo taken from a cruise ship that rescued the migrants from a small boat stranded off the east Mediterranean island's main Limassol port, Cyprus, shows apparent refugees on the boat. More than 300 people, apparent refugees fleeing from Syria, refused to leave the cruise ship, a cruise line official said Thursday.(AP Photo/Haris Milonas)

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Syrian refugees see future in continental Europe

Menelaos Hadjicostis · September 26, 2014 8:24 pm

In this photo provided the Cypriot Defense Ministry, a small vessel loaded with 353 people who are believed to be refugees fleeing Syria lies around 50 nautical miles southwest of Cyprus' coast on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014. A cruise ship picked up all 353 people from the boat after it sent out a distress signal amid bad weather, and is making for Cyprus' main port of Limassol. (AP Photo/Cypriot Defense Ministry, HO)

345 rescued people refuse to leave Cypriot ship

Menelaos Hadjicostis · September 25, 2014 11:06 pm

A woman and a girl walks outside a branch of Bank of Cyprus in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Wednesday Sept. 10, 2014. The European Union warned Cyprus Wednesday that it may be flouting the terms of its multibillion-euro rescue package after the country's parliament approved legislation softening a crucial foreclosures law. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

EU says Cyprus legislation clashes with bailout

Menelaos Hadjicostis · September 10, 2014 7:49 pm

IMF says Cyprus will need more spending cuts

Menelaos Hadjicostis · July 30, 2014 5:47 pm

Cyprus passes international bailout review

Menelaos Hadjicostis · July 25, 2014 3:59 pm

A Turkish military officer gives instructions to military guards of honor as they wait for Turkey's President Abdullah Gul to arrive for ceremony following a meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu in the Turkish Cypriot breakaway part of the divided capital Nicosia in northern Cyprus, Saturday, July 19, 2014. Gul arrived in the breakaway north to attend celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of Turkey's invasion of the east Mediterranean island following a coup by supporters of union with Greece. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Cypriots mark 40th anniversary of invasion

Menelaos Hadjicostis · July 20, 2014 2:06 pm

Cyprus holds first public bond issue since bailout

Menelaos Hadjicostis · June 18, 2014 9:21 pm

Cyprus foreign minister Ioannis Kasoulides, right, speaks to the media during a press conference with his Bulgarian counterpart Kristian Vigenin after their meeting in Cypriot Foreign Ministry in the Cypriot capital Nicosia, Monday, June 16, 2014. Bulgariaâs foreign minister says Cyprus could supply his country and other central European nations with natural gas to lessen the regionâs heavy dependence on Russian deliveries of the fossil fuel. Vigenin said after talks with his Cypriot counterpart Ioannis Kasoulides that Cyprus could play âan important roleâ in an envisioned ânorth-south corridorâ supplying gas to central Europe via Greece ove. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Bulgaria sees gas supply potential from Cyprus

Menelaos Hadjicostis · June 16, 2014 11:22 am

An Christian Orthodox holds a cross as he joins the small group of Orthodox Christian protesters staged near the first gay pride parade in downtown Nicosia, Cyprus, Saturday, May 31, 2014. Several thousand people have turned out for Cyprus' first gay pride parade, an event which organizers say show that Cypriots are shedding their conservative views. One of the organizers, Costas Gavrielides, said he had initially hoped for just a few hundred people to attend the event in the heart of the capital Nicosia on Saturday. A small group of Orthodox Christian protesters in the east Mediterranean island nation staged a demonstration nearby to denounce the event they called "shameful." Tempers flared as police prevented them from nearing the parade. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Thousands march in Cyprus’ 1st gay pride parade

Menelaos Hadjicostis · May 31, 2014 6:55 pm