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U.N. Assistant Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas Miroslav Jenca leaves the presidential palace after holding talks with Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, on Monday, Aug. 28, 2023. Jenca said U.N. Chief Antonio Guterres will use "all his good offices" in order to assist efforts an reaching a deal ending Cyprus' nearly half-century ethnic division. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
Official says the UN remains committed to helping reach a deal healing Cyprus’ ethnic split
A senior United Nations official says the U.N. chief is paying very close attention to the situation on war-divided Cyprus and will use all means at his disposal to help reach an agreement to heal the Mediterranean island nation’s ethnic split. U.N.
 
Cyprus dismantles human smuggling ring bringing Syrian migrants from Syria, Lebanon and Turkey
Cyprus says it has dismantled a criminal human smuggling ring responsible for bringing boatloads of Syrian migrants from Syria, Lebanon and Turkey.
 
FILE - A woman walks by a UN sign at the UN buffer zone inside Pyla village, outskirt of coastal city of Larnaca, Cyprus, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. Three United Nations soldiers had to be treated for minor injuries after angry Turkish Cypriots punched and kicked a group of peacekeepers who obstructed crews working on a road that would encroach on a U.N.-controlled buffer zone in ethnically divided Cyprus. The U.N. said Friday, Aug. 18, 2023, the assault happened as peacekeepers stood in the way of work crews building a road to connect the village of Arsos in the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north with the mixed Greek Cypriot-Turkish Cypriot village of Pyla. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)
Turkish Cypriots attack UN peacekeepers trying to halt road work inside divided Cyprus’ buffer zone
Angry Turkish Cypriots have punched and kicked a group of international peacekeepers who obstructed crews working on a road that would encroach on a U.N.-controlled buffer zone in ethnically divided Cyprus.
 
UN says it will block road construction that would encroach on a buffer zone in divided Cyprus
The United Nations peacekeeping force in the ethnically divided Cyprus says it will block road construction by breakaway Turkish Cypriots that would encroach on a U.N.-controlled buffer zone.
 
FILE - Migrants walk near the Pournara Emergency Reception center, in Kokkinotrimithia, on the outskirts of the capital Nicosia, Cyprus, April 18, 2022. The United Nations refugee agency said Friday, Aug. 11, 2023, it was “extremely concerned” over the return of more than 100 Syrian nationals from Cyprus to Lebanon without being screened to determine whether they need legal protection and who may be deported back to their war-wracked homeland. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)
Cyprus is sending Syrian migrants back to Lebanon. The UN is concerned but Cypriots say it’s lawful
The United Nations refugee agency says it’s “extremely concerned” over the return of more than 100 Syrian nationals from Cyprus to Lebanon without screening to determine whether they need legal protection and who may be deported back to their war-wracked homeland.
 
An aircraft drops water over a fire in Apesia, a semi-mountainous village near Limassol, southwestern Cyprus, Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. Greece on Monday dispatched two Canadair fire-fighting aircraft after a call for assistance from fellow European Union member Cyprus to help fight a blaze that has scorched miles of mountainous terrain. (AP Photo/Philippos Christou)
Multinational force fights stubborn wildfire in Cyprus, including Lebanon, Greece and Jordan
Officials say a multinational force is helping Cyprus fight a stubborn wildfire that has scorched miles of mountainous terrain in the summer heat.
 
FILE - Cats sit in a shelter at the main linear park, in the capital Nicosia, Cyprus, on July 19, 2023. Cyprus’ veterinarians association on Friday Aug. 4, 2023 lauded a government decision to allow its stock of human coronavirus medication to be used on cats to fight a local mutation of a feline virus that has killed thousands of animals on the Mediterranean island. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)
Cyprus allows human COVID-19 medications to be used against deadly virus mutation in cats
Veterinarians in Cyprus are lauding a government decision to allow its stock of human COVID-19 medication to be used against a feline virus that has killed thousands of cats on the Mediterranean island.
 
FILE - A police officer escorts British David Hunter from the grounds of the courthouse complex after a trial on a premeditated murder charge in the death of his wife, in Paphos, Cyprus, on July 21, 2023. A Cyprus court on Monday July 31, 2023 sentenced Hunter who killed his ailing wife in their retirement home to two years in prison, rejecting a defense request to hand down a suspended sentence after convicting him earlier of manslaughter. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)
Cyprus authorities free British man despite a 2-year prison sentence for killing his ailing wife
A British man has been freed immediately after a Cyprus court sentenced him to two years in prison for killing his wife in their retirement home to spare her the pain from her ailment.
 
Cyprus' President Nikos Christodoulides, second right, and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, right, visit the anthropological laboratory of the Committee on Missing Persons, a UN facilitated body tasked with uncovering the fate of Greek and Turkish Cypriots who disappeared during inter communal fighting in the 1960s and a 1974 Turkish invasion that ethnically split the island nation, at a United Nations compound inside the U.N buffer zone in the divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Friday, July 28, 2023. The two leaders appealed to those with any information leading to the discovery of remains of the missing to step forward, especially as many are now passing away. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
Divided Cyprus’ rival leaders appeal for information on the missing as eyewitnesses die
The rival leaders of ethnically divided Cyprus have made a joint appeal for information that could lead to the buried remains of people who vanished amid violence and war decades ago, as more eyewitnesses die.
 
A police officer escorts the Briton David Hunter from the grounds of the courthouse complex after a trial on a premeditated murder charge in the death of his wife, in Paphos, Cyprus, Friday, July 21, 2023. A Cyprus court has found a British man who killed his ailing wife in their home guilty of manslaughter, saying that the prosecution didn't prove beyond reasonable doubt that the 76-year-old man committed premeditated murder. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
He killed his ailing wife. A Cyprus court ruled it was manslaughter, not murder
A Cyprus court has found a British man who killed his ailing wife in their home guilty of manslaughter, saying that the prosecution didn’t prove beyond reasonable doubt that the 76-year-old man committed premeditated murder.
 
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, waves during a military parade, in the Turkish occupied area of the divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Thursday, July 20, 2023. Erdogan is in Cyprus for the 49th anniversary celebrations of the Turkish invasion on July 20, 1974. (AP Photo/Nedim Enginsoy)
Turkish president doesn’t rule out Cyprus peace talks restart, but sticks to two-state stance
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hasn’t ruled out reviving deadlocked negotiations to resolve Cyprus’ nearly 50-year ethnic division.
 
Cypriot official says probe backs Mossad claims that hitman plotted to kill Israelis on the island
Cyprus police investigations support claims by Israel’s Mossad spy service that an Iranian-backed hit squad planned to kill Israelis and other Jews in the east Mediterranean island nation.
 
A bather takes a shower during a hot day at Alimos beach near Athens, Friday, July 14, 2023. Temperatures were starting to creep up in Greece, where a heatwave was forecast to reach up to 44 degrees Celsius in some parts of the country over the weekend. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Acropolis’ midday closure leaves many tourists in the lurch as a heat wave lashes southern Europe
Disgruntled tourists are bemoaning the temporary closing of the Acropolis in Athens as Greek authorities proactively shut the world monument’s gates between midday and early evening amid a heat wave gripping southern Europe.
 
This photo provided by Peter M. Fischer, Senior Professor Cypriot and Near Eastern Archaeology University of Gothenburg, Dept. of Historical Studies, shows students during the excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke at the Salt Lake area in southern coastal city of Larnaca, Cyprus, Tuesday, June 13, 2023. New discoveries including gold ornaments and fine pottery at an ancient port city in Cyprus dating back more than 3,000 years indicate that the settlement was one of the Mediterranean’s most important trading posts in the late Bronze Age, an archeologist said Tuesday July 11, 2023. (Peter M. Fischer via AP)
Jewelry, ornate pottery show 3,000-year-old Cypriot city was a key trading hub, scientist says
An archaeologist says new discoveries including gold ornaments and fine pottery at an ancient port city in Cyprus dating back more than 3,000 years indicate that the settlement was one of the Mediterranean’s most important trading posts in the late Bronze Age.
 
The Foreign Minister of Greece, Giorgos Gerapetritis, addresses the media during a joint press conference with his counterpart from Cyprus, Constantinos Kombos, at the foreign ministry in Nicosia, Cyprus, Tuesday, July 4, 2023. Garapetritis is in Cyprus for official visit. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
Greek foreign minister says Athens is ready for talks with Turkey to resolve sea borders dispute
Greece’s newly-appointed foreign minister says his country is ready to start talks with Turkey to resolve a long-standing dispute over maritime borders that has repeatedly brought the two neighbors to the brink of armed conflict.
 
FILE - An employee walks by banners with name and sign of energy firm Eni at Strovolos area in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, on Friday, Feb. 23, 2018. The chief executive of energy company Eni said Tuesday, June 27, 2023, that Cyprus-Israeli plans for a pipeline to move offshore natural gas from the two countries to Cyprus is “part of our discussion” with the Cypriot government. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)
Eni chief executive says plan for pipeline to move gas to Cyprus ‘part of our discussion’
The chief executive of the Eni energy company says Cyprus-Israeli plans for a pipeline to move offshore natural gas from those two countries to Cyprus are “part of our discussion” with the Cypriot government.
 
Cyprus: EU stands ready to help restart dormant peace talks
Cyprus says the European Union is ready to “actively contribute” to a new push to revive dormant talks on reunifying the ethnically divided island.
 
Greek FM: Turkey’s moves to ease tensions ‘unconvincing’
Greece’s foreign minister says Turkey’s recent moves to de-escalate a clash with Greece and Cyprus over east Mediterranean energy reserves are “unconvincing” and European Union leaders need to take action that would prompt Ankara to heed international law.
 
France: EU sanctions on Turkey an option over gas standoff
France’s minister for Europe says the European Union should consider imposing sanctions against Turkey if the Turkish government won’t suspend its search for energy reserves in eastern Mediterranean waters where Cyprus and Greece claim exclusive economic rights.
 
Turkey criticizes US decision to lift Cyprus arms embargo
Turkey has called on the U.S. to reconsider a decision to partially lift a 33-year-old arms embargo against Cyprus, saying the move disrupts “equality and balance” between the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot communities on the ethnically divided Mediterranean island nation.
 
‘Second wave’ virus fears strike blow to tourism industry
 
Cyprus hastens lifting of most remaining virus restrictions
The government of Cyprus has accelerated the lifting of most of the country’s remaining coronavirus restrictions by three week.
 
Flights to Cyprus to resume from select countries next month
Cyprus has unveiled a roadmap for the phased resumption next month of commercial flights from a select number of countries with low COVID-19 infection rates to jump-start its vital tourism sector.
 
Cyprus blasts ‘pirate state’ Turkey’s new gas drilling bid
Cyprus is condemning Turkey as a “pirate state” for its renewed bid to drill for natural gas in waters where the ethnically split island nation has exclusive economic rights.
 
Gay inmates tie the knot inside Cyprus prison
Former heroin addict Kevork Tontian met the man he wanted to spend the rest of his life with behind bars. When he was released from prison, he twice got himself sent back so he could remain with Brazilian Wemson Gabral da Costa.
 
UK woman in Cyprus gang rape case gets suspended sentence
A Cypriot court has handed a four-month suspended sentence to a 19-year-old British woman who was found guilty of public mischief for making up claims that she was raped by up to a dozen Israelis.
 
Greece, Israel, Cyprus sign deal for EastMed gas pipeline
Greece, Israel and Cyprus have signed a deal in Athens to build an undersea pipeline to carry gas from new offshore deposits in the southeastern Mediterranean to continental Europe.
 
Cyprus moves to strip 26 foreign investors of citizenship
Cyprus’ interior minister says authorities are setting in motion procedures to strip 26 foreign investors of citizenship that was granted to them under a lucrative investment program.
 
Cyprus trial of Brit accused of making up rape claim starts
The trial of a 19 year-old British woman accused of making up a claim she was raped by a dozen Israelis in a hotel room in Cyprus began Wednesday with defense lawyers suggesting her alleged assailants had planned to commit the crime.
 
Cyprus president: Turkey’s aim for control scuppers peace
Turkey is undercutting efforts to quickly revive peace talks aimed at solving Cyprus’ decades-long ethnic split by imposing unacceptable terms, the island nation’s president said Tuesday.
 
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