Nicosia

Athens is on high alert in the event that Lebanon becomes a theater of military operations.

Athens and Nicosia are coordinating for the necessity to evacuate, first and foremost, citizens of Greece and Cyprus, and, if necessary, citizens of third nations, mostly from the EU.

As fears of a wider Middle East conflict escalate, Athens and Nicosia are closely monitoring developments in the region, with authorities on heightened alert.

Further destabilization is expected to increase migration flows, as well as uncertainty in energy supplies and impacts on supply chains.

NICOSIA - Serbian FM Marko Djuric met with Cypriot Deputy Culture Minister Vasiliki Kassianidou in Nicosia on Tuesday to discuss opportunities for bilateral cultural cooperation.

Important decisions concerning the Great Sea Interconnector, an electric cable linking Cyprus and Greece, are anticipated in August.

Following a recent visit of the CEO of Greece's ADMIE, the project's implementing body, to Nicosia and the presentation of the cost-benefit study, Cyprus is expected to address the outstanding issues.

Cyprus was cited as an example to follow regarding its startups environment that is second only to tourism in contribution in the island's economy at a major conference in Athens last week.

The reports of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on UNFICYP (the peacekeeping force in Cyprus) and its Good Offices Mission have been released.

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The threats by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan that the war in the Middle East would spread westward, especially to the Republic of Cyprus and Crete, are seen to constitute a clear rhetorical choice and yet another dissonance in the process of normalization of Greek-Turkish relations over the last 16 months. 

The Republic of Cyprus has requested an investigation by the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) into allegations that universities in the Turkish-occupied north of Cyprus have been facilitating migrant smuggling into the European Union.

A Cyprus health official said a second elderly person has died from heatstroke after a weeklong heatwave that baked the east Mediterranean island nation with reportedly record temperatures for the month of June.