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The Cypriot Association of Liquid Fuel Retailers launched a protest on Tuesday morning in Nicosia, with gas station owners blocking the entrance of the Agios Dometios barricade with their tankers.

Two Greeks were injured in Khartoum on Saturday according to the Metropolitan of the Archdiocese of Nubia Savvas in a call with state broadcaster ERT. The two were reportedly injured after a missile fell near the churchyard after the end of Easter service.

Cyprus' Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Costas Kadis and Deputy Minister of Tourism Savvas Perdios met with representatives of the World Bank on Thursday in order to formulate a tourism strategy for Cape Akamas.

Cyprus reopened its airports on Tuesday after almost three months of lockdown, hoping its record in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and a pledge of free medical treatment for any Covid-19 cases will lure tourists back to its beaches.

Greece's luxury holiday home market is evolving into a new hotspot for the planet's ultra-rich. The country has appeared on the radars of individuals on the Forbes lists of the wealthiest people, property professionals say. Even more importantly, this is happening while the pandemic is ongoing and despite its consequences on the global economy.

Cyprus hopes to regain lost ground in its tourism sector from July and expects to be able to re-admit British and Russian visitors by then after weeks of lockdown.

The Mediterranean island moved swiftly to contain the outbreak, ordering a broad lockdown within days of its first registered case on March 9. It started easing it on May 4 and hotels will reopen on June 1.

Cyprus will reopen its airports on June 9 as it gradually lifts restrictions imposed to stem the spread of the coronavirus, the island's Deputy Tourism Minister Savvas Perdios said on Wednesday.

Soldiers practice a beach landing during the Medusa 9 military training exercise on Crete, on Wednesday. The joint exercise of the Greek, Cypriot and Egyptian armed forces was watched yesterday by the foreign ministers of the three countries, Nikos Panagiotopoulos, Savvas Angelides and Mohamed Zaki, respectively. It ends on Friday. [Hellenic Ministry of Defense/ANA-MPA]

The Defense Ministers of Greece, Egypt and Cyprus on Tuesday condemned Turkey's illegal activities in Cyprus' exclusive economic zone (EEZ), its violations of Greece's airspace and territorial waters, as well as the Syria incursion, in a joint statement issued after a trilateral meeting in Athens on Tuesday.

The defense ministers of Greece, Egypt and Cyprus are meeting in Athens on Tuesday before heading to Crete the following day to observe Medusa 9 exercise.