Articles written by Menelaos Hadjicostis
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A ship with Gaza aid is preparing to inaugurate a sea route from Cyprus to the war-ravaged strip
LARNACA, Cyprus (AP) — A ship bearing humanitarian aid was making preparations to leave Cyprus and head for Gaza, the European Commission president said Friday as international donors launched a sea corridor to supply the besieged territory that i...
A drug offers hope amid spikes in coronavirus infections
ATLANTA (AP) — As nations grapple with new outbreaks and spiking death tolls from the coronavirus, a commonly available drug appeared Tuesday to offer hope that the most seriously ill could have a better chance of survival. The pandemic has forced c...
More than a scent: Cyprus promoting its perfume past
KORAKOU, Cyprus (AP) — Before Cyprus gained fame as the mythical birthplace of the goddess of love Aphrodite nearly three millennia ago, Cyprus was known around the Mediterranean for its perfumes, scents that the mighty queens of Egypt coveted. W...
UK experts visit toxic lake in Cyprus serial killer case
MITSERO, Cyprus (AP) — British forensics experts helping to tackle the Cyprus serial killer case visited a toxic lake Tuesday where a suitcase was found with a decomposed body inside as criticism mounted of how Cypriot police initially handled the di...
Cyprus serial killer case: Body in suitcase pulled from lake
MITSERO, Cyprus (AP) — Cypriot investigators hunting for victims of a suspected serial killer retrieved a suitcase containing the decomposing remains of a woman from the bottom of a man-made lake Sunday. The body is believed to be that of one of t...
19 dead, 25 missing as migrant boat capsizes north of Cyprus
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Nineteen people drowned when a boat loaded with as many as 150 people who were thought to be migrants capsized off the northern coast of Cyprus, a Turkish Cypriot official said Wednesday. Tolga Atakan, the transport minister i...
Scholar: Dumping fossil fuels by 2050 needed to save climate
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Getting rid of fossil fuels by mid-century and making the switch to large-scale renewable energy sources and nuclear power offers the best chance of meeting the climate change targets set out by the Paris accord, a prominent Am...
Cyprus: new gas deposit too small to exploit, hopes for more
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A gas field discovered off Cyprus that contains "less than" 0.5 trillion cubic feet of the hydrocarbon is too small to make it commercially viable on its own, Cyprus' energy minister said Tuesday. But Yiorgos Lakkotrypis s...
Cyprus uses high-tech tools to speed search for its missing
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — With glue gun in hand, Turkish Cypriot anthropologist Sinem Hossoz meticulously pieces together tiny fragments — the pulverized skull of a child, one of the youngest victims of conflict on ethnically divided Cyprus. Pau...
Cyprus: gas search will continue despite Turkish 'threats'
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus said Friday it won't give up a search for oil and gas off its shores despite a call to stop by Turkey which warned that it would "take all necessary measures to protect its interests" in the eastern Mediterranean, as w...