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Canadian envoy in Cyprus to draw on its experience accommodating needs of women migrants and minors
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Canada is drawing on Cyprus ' experience of accommodating the needs of women migrants and children and those fleeing regional conflict zones at a time of unprecedented global displacement, the Canadian envoy on women, peace and security said Wednesday. The...
Cyprus and the US sign a defense deal outlining ways to tackle regional crises
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus and the United States have signed a defense cooperation framework agreement that outlines ways the two countries can enhance their response to regional humanitarian crises and security concerns, including those arising from climate change. Cyprus...
Rights group alleges Lebanon and Cyprus violated refugees' human rights and EU funds paid for it
BEIRUT (AP) — European aid sent to Lebanon in an attempt to regulate migration by sea is funding practices that violate human rights, according to a global watchdog report published Wednesday. As part of a policy to contain migration, authorities in Cyprus have physically pushed...
A sailor is rescued at night off Cyprus 5 hours after falling off a vehicle carrier
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A sailor is thanking his lucky stars for being rescued unharmed from the dark waters of the east Mediterranean early Sunday, nearly five hours after falling 18 meters (60 feet) off a commercial ship. Cypriot authorities say 24-year-old Lebanese national...
UN refugee agency urges Cyprus government to process asylum seekers pushed into a UN buffer zone
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The United Nations refugee agency on Friday said government authorities in ethnically divided Cyprus have rounded up dozens of migrants and pushed them back inside a U.N.-controlled buffer zone that they crossed to seek asylum. UNHCR spokeswoman Emilia...
Future of undersea electricity cable linking Greece, Cyprus and Israel will be decided next month
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The future of an electricity cable linking the power grids of Greece, Cyprus and Israel will be cleared up next month when a ruling is expected on whether Cypriot consumers would pick up the tab for the cable's four-year construction costs, Cyprus' energy minister said...
Turkish president dampens hopes for restarting talks on Cyprus' 50-year ethnic split
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Turkey's president on Saturday put a damper on hopes for a quick resumption of talks to heal a half-century of ethnic division on Cyprus, reaffirming his support for a two-state deal that Greek Cypriots dismiss as a non-starter. President Recep Tayyip...
AP PHOTOS: Remnants of lives interrupted by war half a century ago captured in Cyprus' buffer zone
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A rickety piano leans crookedly against a peeling apartment wall, pots and pans filled with dust rest on a stove that has seen much better days and a book, its pages turning yellow with time, lies open next to a rusty tin can; signs of homes, once teeming with life, but...
Chinese-led consortium pulls out of contract to build Cyprus' first natural gas import terminal
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A Chinese-led consortium on Thursday pulled out of its contract with Cyprus to build the island nation’s first natural gas import terminal over what it says was the Cypriot government’s failure to pay what it owed for work completed this year. The...
Cocked rifles and infrared cameras along Cyprus buffer zone stoke tensions that could spread farther
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The clang of unseen assault rifles being cocked carries across the United Nations-controlled buffer zone in ethnically cleaved Cyprus, ratcheting up concerns that the embers of the island's stagnant conflict could again be rekindled. The rifles are just the...
