By bne Gulf bureau The unavailability of alcohol has been identified as a constraint for tourists in Saudi Arabia, according ...

The discovery of the highly promising Aphrodite gas field in 2011 presented Cyprus with economic and political opportunities, ...

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Tensions in the Middle East are escalating following an Israeli-suspected attack that led to the explosion of pagers and ...

Overshadowing the Sept. 17 gathering, however, were two sad reminders of ongoing strife: the upcoming first anniversary of ...

Cyprus approved the electric cable link with Greece in a multi-billion project that would also link Europe's grid to Israel.

Nicosia has today approved Cyprus’s participation in the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) project with a cabinet decision that ...

During the Late Pleistocene, an epoch lasting from around 130,000 to 12,000 years ago, Cyprus was home to only two species of ...

In the 1950s, “Bearded” Celal, a little-known Turkish philosopher, quipped that Turkey “is a ship heading east. Those aboard ...

We have just passed the 50th anniversary of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus - yet its history as a colonial enterprise is ...

The so-called Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) seeks to link the transmission networks of Greece via Crete, Cyprus and eventually Israel in a project costing 2.4 billion euros ($2.7 billion). As far as ...

There has been progress in talks between Cyprus and Greece on the creation of a high-speed electric cable network linking Europe to the Middle East across the Mediterranean seabed, a Cypriot official ...