Nicosia Cyprus pledges €850,000 humanitarian assistance in Sudan & other countries
Cyprus has pledged to provide at least €850,000 as humanitarian assistance in Sudan and the neighbouring countries in 2026, the Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
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CYPRUS
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POLITICS 
April 20, 2026 Lefkada MP named deputy agriculture minister
Lefkada MP Athanasios Kavvadas has been appointed deputy agriculture minister following the resignation of Makarios Lazaridis, the government said Monday.
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HISTORY
April 20, 2026 20 April 2026: This day in history
1290: Round Table tournament held near Winchester, England, in imitation of King Arthur, to commemorate betrothal of daughter of Edward I, and attended by the king 1862: First pasteurization test is completed by Frenchmen Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard 1902: Marie and Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive compound radium chloride 1968: British politician Enoch Powell […]
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WORLD
April 19, 2026 UK and France to lead defensive mission in Strait of Hormuz
The UK and France will lead a multinational mission to protect commercial shipping routes in the Strait of Hormuz, Sir Keir Starmer has said. Speaking after a meeting of 51 countries, the prime minister underlined the work would be “strictly peaceful and defensive” and would only be put in place once fighting in the region […]
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GREEKS ABROAD
April 19, 2026 Community invited to ANZAC Day service at St Spyridon church in Sydney
St Spyridon Greek Orthodox Parish in Sydney, a designated war memorial church, will host a special ANZAC Day service this Sunday, April 19, bringing together the community to honour Australians and Greeks who served and died in war.
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POLITICS
April 19, 2026 Lazaridis resigns as deputy agriculture minister amid qualifications row
Makarios Lazaridis resigned as deputy agriculture minister on Saturday, saying he was stepping down to avoid distracting the government from its work, amid an ongoing dispute over his academic qualifications and political pressure within the administration.
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HISTORY
April 19, 2026 19 April 2026: This day in history
1770: British explorer Captain James Cook first sights Australia and writes in his logbook that “what we have as yet seen of this land appears rather low, and not very hilly, the face of the Country green and Woody, but the Sea shore is all a white Sand” 1775: American Revolution begins in Lexington, Massachusetts, […]
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EUROPE
April 18, 2026 EU plans major new investment in pan-European reporting
By Martin Banks The EU has launched a multi-million-euro initiative aimed at “improving the quality” of news gathering at EU level.
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HEALTH
April 18, 2026 New approaches to tackling cervical cancer
By Martin Banks More than 27,000 women in Europe die from cervical cancer each year.
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ECONOMY
April 18, 2026 Delphi Economic Forum starting next week
The 11th Delphi Economic Forum is opening on Wednesday, at the ancient town in central Greece, with its five main pillars this year being geopolitics, the planet, sustainable economy and finance, the future, and people.
