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ExxonMobil, Qatar Sign Cyprus Gas Deal Despite Turkey Opposition

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US giant ExxonMobil and Qatar Energy signed a contract Friday for oil and gas exploration and production-sharing off the divided island of Cyprus despite Turkey’s opposition to the deal. Cypriot Energy Minister Natasa Pilides, Varnavas Theodosiou, CEO of ExxonMobil Cyprus, and Ali al-Mana, director of Qatar Energy’s International Upstream and Exploration, signed the contract in …

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Pope To Relocate Two Asylum Seekers Trapped In Cyprus Buffer Zone

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Two Cameroonian asylum seekers who had been stuck for months in divided Cyprus’s buffer zone are among 50 people who will be relocated to Italy thanks to Pope Francis, authorities said Friday. “Today is my happiest day,” said Daniel Ejube, 20, as he left Nicosia’s Church of the Holy Cross, where the visiting pope held …

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