{"id":22364,"date":"2023-04-25T07:58:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T07:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/cyprus-offers-to-assist\/"},"modified":"2023-04-25T08:04:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T08:04:13","slug":"cyprus-offers-to-assist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/cyprus-offers-to-assist\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyprus offers to assist in evacuations from Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NICOSIA (Reuters) &#8211;     Cyprus said on Tuesday it had activated a humanitarian rescue mechanism for the evacuation of third-country civilians through the island from Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Republic of Cyprus intends to offer facilities to friendly countries for the repatriation of their nationals through Cyprus,&#8221; the Cypriot Foreign Ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Cyprus has facilitated humanitarian evacuations before. Tens of thousands of people were evacuated from Lebanon through Cyprus in 2006 during an escalation of violence with Israel.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Michele Kambas; Editing by Alison Williams)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/cyprus-offers-to-assist\/drone-video-shows-smoke-rising-over-sudanese-city-near-khartoum-6\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3O08C-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3O08C-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NICOSIA (Reuters) &#8211; Cyprus said on Tuesday it had activated a humanitarian rescue mechanism for the evacuation of third-country civilians through the island from Sudan. &#8220;The Republic of Cyprus intends to offer facilities to friendly countries for the repatriation of their nationals through Cyprus,&#8221; the Cypriot Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Cyprus has facilitated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3O08C-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22366,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22364\/revisions\/22366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}