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Cyprus

#Greece and #Egypt are reportedly discussing the possibility of changing the route of East Med gas pipeline to exclude #Cyprus in order to tackle the technical difficulties of the project as well as respond to the question of its economic viability https://t.co/fUQ0niuqM3 pic.twitter.com/2xIH8XOUc8
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) March 4, 2021

#Turkey condemn a forum held in Athens with the participation of #Greece, #France, #Egypt, #Saudi Arabia, the #UAE, #Bahrain and #Cyprus - all of which have broadly sided with Greece in the Eastern Mediterranean dispute - as an alliance against the country https://t.co/F74BbWhjNY pic.twitter.com/PRg42BS3ZZ
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) February 11, 2021

The #EU will be an observer at the 5+1 summit on the #Cyprus problem in April, European Council President Charles Michel says after Turkish Cypriot Foreign Minister Tahsin Ertugruloglu says the TRNC will not accept the participation of the EU in the talks https://t.co/VBxAGHYoK2 pic.twitter.com/AFu8QdMWFL
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) February 27, 2021

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to hold an informal meeting in April to discuss ways to restart deadlocked peace talks on the divided island of #Cyprus involving Turkish and Greek Cypriots and the three guarantor powers #Turkey, #Greece and #Britain https://t.co/lrgxW94xuu pic.twitter.com/kuy5xetjS7
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) February 25, 2021

Egypt

#Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi meets #Libya's incoming interim Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah in Cairo and offers his country’s support in achieving stability in its troubled neighbour while looking to reopen the Egyptian embassy in Tripoli https://t.co/kXynh7FSAK pic.twitter.com/Du2OVFeLVx
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) February 19, 2021

#Turkey may negotiate a maritime demarcation agreement with #Egypt in the Eastern Mediterranean, depending on the condition of bilateral ties, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says amid signs of a possible reconciliation between the two countries https://t.co/Fy08GZESft pic.twitter.com/PhEjI2yJob
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) March 4, 2021

#Greece and #Egypt are reportedly discussing the possibility of changing the route of East Med gas pipeline to exclude #Cyprus in order to tackle the technical difficulties of the project as well as respond to the question of its economic viability https://t.co/fUQ0niuqM3 pic.twitter.com/2xIH8XOUc8
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) March 4, 2021

#Qatar and #Egypt to appoint envoys and reopen their embassies after the AlUla agreement, which was signed on Jan. 5 during the GCC summit in Saudi Arabia and resulted in Cairo and Doha ending a dispute over Qatar's support for the Muslim Brotherhood https://t.co/ns0T5X7PBh pic.twitter.com/OoHf4zGfGv
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) February 25, 2021

Greece

The Republic of #Cyprus and #Greece reject #Turkey's proposed division of the island and say UN resolutions calling for a single state under a federal umbrella were the only basis for a peace deal https://t.co/KFBNy77ClG pic.twitter.com/pbzGhsHx8p
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) February 8, 2021

#Turkey says four Greek F-16s harassed Turkish research vessel TCG Cesme as it was carrying out a scheduled hydrographic survey in international waters near the Aegean island of Limnos, accusations #Greece denies https://t.co/vadeHVWIdr pic.twitter.com/qPsfo7Oi6O
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) February 24, 2021

#Turkey condemn a forum held in Athens with the participation of #Greece, #France, #Egypt, #Saudi Arabia, the #UAE, #Bahrain and #Cyprus - all of which have broadly sided with Greece in the Eastern Mediterranean dispute - as an alliance against the country https://t.co/F74BbWhjNY pic.twitter.com/PRg42BS3ZZ
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) February 11, 2021

#Greece and #Egypt are reportedly discussing the possibility of changing the route of East Med gas pipeline to exclude #Cyprus in order to tackle the technical difficulties of the project as well as respond to the question of its economic viability https://t.co/fUQ0niuqM3 pic.twitter.com/2xIH8XOUc8
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) March 4, 2021

Israel-Palestine

Report says over 20 agents working for #Israel's intelligence agency Mossad, including Israeli and Iranian nationals, smuggled a one-tonne gun into Iran to kill nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh outside Tehran late last year after months of surveillance https://t.co/lEb1y1Q0Ti pic.twitter.com/1lGqlsAIuz
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) February 11, 2021

#Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blames #Iran for a blast aboard an Israeli-owned ship in the Gulf of Oman last week amid accusations that "Iranian commandos" attacked the MV Helios Ray vehicle-carrier using limpet mines https://t.co/mN8mOCXM8u pic.twitter.com/Rk6bRDruaZ
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) March 1, 2021

#Israel and #Syria exchange prisoners in an agreement brokered by Russia which saw two Syrian shepherds held by the Israelis walk free I'm return for an Israeli woman being held in Syria for illegally entering the country in the Golan Heights area https://t.co/CN1B6hnLDJ pic.twitter.com/Y6qsp9OsU9
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) February 19, 2021

Israeli authorities say that a Libyan-owned tanker suspected of smuggling oil from #Iran to #Syria was responsible for spilling tons of crude into the Eastern Mediterranean last month, causing one of #Israel’s worst environmental disastershttps://t.co/dGjXiR5mqE pic.twitter.com/p7jSPePJa6
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) March 4, 2021

Lebanon

The leader of #Lebanon’s Christian Maronite church, Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rai, warns that the country is facing the threat of a “full-fledged coup,” and calls for an international conference to avert “chaos, hunger and oppression" https://t.co/6fMiZV2UrZ pic.twitter.com/FrMRqZeeM4
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) February 28, 2021

Protesters block roads with burning tyres and dumpsters across #Lebanon after the Lebanese pound falls to 10,000 to the dollar, an all-time low, with the currency losing about 85% of its value in a country relying heavily on imports https://t.co/DDnbtfIwCS pic.twitter.com/puOrKxX7A0
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) March 3, 2021

Lebanese politicians have been accused of jumping the queue for the coronavirus vaccine, with the World Bank joining a chorus of condemnation and threatening to suspend its $34 million backing for #Lebanon’s vaccination drive https://t.co/8irUsPwXtM pic.twitter.com/yZNfYbD8WC
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) February 24, 2021

Gunfire breaks out in south Beirut as #Hezbollah fights off an apparent attempt by Lebanese security forces to arrest the man convicted of assassinating #Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik Hariri, who was killed in a suicide bombing in 2005 https://t.co/5EO3C2wDN8 pic.twitter.com/49gGKeKBS0
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) March 3, 2021

Libya

Mohammed al-Menfi is chosen to serve as the head of #Libya's new presidency council and Abdulhamid Dbeibeh as prime minister until elections are held in December, as a UN-led forum tasked with ending the Libyan conflict selects a new interim government https://t.co/j6vTrrEoqI pic.twitter.com/54lRmEEpIW
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) February 6, 2021

#Libya’s interior minister Fathi Bashagha, known for his close ties with #Turkey, survives unscathed an assassination attempt by gunmen on his motorcade as he drove across the capital of Tripoli following a visit to the National Oil Corporationhttps://t.co/Lg7tQAphkr pic.twitter.com/JtPpZszy2h
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) February 22, 2021

#Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi meets #Libya's incoming interim Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah in Cairo and offers his country’s support in achieving stability in its troubled neighbour while looking to reopen the Egyptian embassy in Tripoli https://t.co/kXynh7FSAK pic.twitter.com/Du2OVFeLVx
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) February 19, 2021

#Libya’s newly-elected Prime Minister-designate Abdul Hamid Dbeibah fails to name members of a much-anticipated Cabinet ahead of an expected deadline, raising questions over whether his transitional government can unite Libya’s factions https://t.co/eGJbU1sGbI pic.twitter.com/jHpLW599WV
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) February 26, 2021

Syria

The #US carries out airstrikes in #Syria targeting facilities near the Iraqi border used by Iranian-backed militia groups, the first military action undertaken by the Biden administration https://t.co/fcoCZPN80B pic.twitter.com/0D3QrPkGPv
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) February 26, 2021

Delegates from #Syria's regime, opposition and civil society start the fifth round of meetings aimed at revising the Syrian constitution, nearly 10 years after Syrians joined the Arab Spring, a wave of protests that spread across the Arab world https://t.co/tbi0AMaklf pic.twitter.com/X28HwKGQOl
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) January 25, 2021

A German court sentences Eyad al-Gharib, a former agent for #Syria's Assad regime, to four-and-a-half years in jail for complicity in crimes against humanity after being found guilty of helping to arrest protesters who were later tortured and killed https://t.co/91Lqi1Ws7p pic.twitter.com/BqqZ2mi9Ox
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) February 25, 2021

#Israel and #Syria exchange prisoners in an agreement brokered by Russia which saw two Syrian shepherds held by the Israelis walk free I'm return for an Israeli woman being held in Syria for illegally entering the country in the Golan Heights area https://t.co/CN1B6hnLDJ pic.twitter.com/Y6qsp9OsU9
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) February 19, 2021

Turkey

#Turkey may negotiate a maritime demarcation agreement with #Egypt in the Eastern Mediterranean, depending on the condition of bilateral ties, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says amid signs of a possible reconciliation between the two countries https://t.co/Fy08GZESft pic.twitter.com/PhEjI2yJob
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) March 4, 2021

#Turkey’s lira tumbles, losing nearly half the year’s gains this week, as the government defends the record of former finance minister Berat Albayrak, son-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, while speculation brews over his possible return to cabinet https://t.co/F5nrV7RNkV pic.twitter.com/AkjePGYpk7
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) February 24, 2021

#Turkey says four Greek F-16s harassed Turkish research vessel TCG Cesme as it was carrying out a scheduled hydrographic survey in international waters near the Aegean island of Limnos, accusations #Greece denies https://t.co/vadeHVWIdr pic.twitter.com/qPsfo7Oi6O
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) February 24, 2021

#Iran-backed Iraqi paramilitary group Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba, which is part of Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces), threatens to attack #Turkey's military forces if they continue to carry out operations in northern #Iraq against the PKK https://t.co/O4Nff10Try pic.twitter.com/I6DjniC4X3
— Radio EastMed (@RadioEastmed) February 14, 2021

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