Author: Menelaos Hadjicostis
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Israeli security minister releases videos taunting detained flotilla activists
JERUSALEM (AP) — Detained activists from a flotilla that tried to get past the Israeli blockade of Gaza arrived Wednesday in Israel where the national security minister released videos taunting them and saying they should be imprisoned for a very long time. The videos showing National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir walking among some of the…
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Christoulides wins Cyprus presidential election
NICOSIA, Cyprus • Former foreign minister Nikos Christodoulides was elected as the new president of Cyprus in a runoff election Sunday, pledging to revive stalemated reunification talks with the nation’s breakaway Turkish Cypriots and to form a coalition government with women filling half of the Cabinet positions. With 100% of ballots counted, Christodoulides had 51.9%…
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AP Exclusive: US probes banking of ex-Trump campaign chief
WASHINGTON — U.S. Treasury Department agents have recently obtained information about offshore financial transactions involving President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, as part of a federal anti-corruption probe into his work in Eastern Europe, The Associated Press has learned. Information about Manafort’s transactions was turned over earlier this year to U.S. agents working…
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Religion builds bridges in ethnically split Cyprus
FAMAGUSTA, Cyprus (AP) — An unexpected moment during the Good Friday service in a long-abandoned church in Cyprus’ breakaway north illustrated how religion is helping to bring together Christian Greek Cypriots and Muslim Turkish Cypriots on this ethnically divided island. It came when Turkish Cypriot Umit Inatci handed the key of the church of Agios…