EU interior ministers sought to ease resurgent tensions over illegal migration at an emergency meeting on Friday, after the fate of migrants rescued in the Mediterranean triggered harsh words between Paris and Rome.
The establishment of the Independent Authority for Combating Corruption in Cyprus is a new concept in the island’s political affairs, and the leader of the team appointed by President Nicos Anastasiades only four months ago to contain corruption in Cyprus admitted in a radio interview that “we don’t have a good name though.”
Development and Investment Minister Adonis Georgiadis attended a ceremony at Elefsis Shipyards to welcome the arrival on Friday of the first merchant ship – the supramax freighter Star Cleo, built in 2013 – to dock there for repairs in almost five years.
Barely a month after taking office as the United Nations’ new human rights chief, Volker Türk was in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region last week meeting victims of a conflict that has displaced millions.