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Magnitude 6.3 earthquake jolts Northern Mariana islands

ISTANBUL: A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck northeast of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands on Monday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported.

The quake hit at 1136GMT at a depth of 32.9 kilometers (20.4 miles) around 263 kilometers (163 miles)…

PRESS RELEASE – UNIVERSITY OF NICOSIA

The Cyprus Center for European and International Affairs

is inviting you to a lecture and a discussion entitled

FROM THE FETTERED INDEPENDENCE OF 1960 TO THE CURRENT CHALLENGES AND THE IMPERATIVENESS OF AN EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS

by

Professor Andrea…

Typhoon Bebinca slams Shanghai, displacing over 400,000 residents

ISTANBUL: Life in parts of China was severely disrupted Monday as Typhoon Bebinca made landfall in Shanghai, state media reported.

The storm could be the most powerful to hit the financial hub in 75 years, prompting local authorities to issue a Level…

Fitch upgrades Hellenic Bank’s Shareholder Support Rating to ‘bb’

Fitch Ratings has upgraded Hellenic Bank’s (HB) Shareholder Support Rating (SSR) to ‘bb’ from ‘bb-‘. The upgrade follows the upgrade of Eurobank S.A.’s Long-Term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to ‘BB+’ from ‘BB’, on September 4th, since Eurobank is HB’s…