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Canadian veterans remember how they eased tensions as UN peacekeepers in ethnically split Cyprus

Nov. 11, 2024 07:51 AM EST

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — It was the first time that Canadian U.N. peacekeeper Michelle Angela Hamelin said she came up against the raw emotion of a people so exasperated with their country’s predicament. Seared in her memory from her eight-month tour of duty on the ethnically...

Cyprus president fires police chief and deputy over the embarrassing escape of a convicted killer

Sep. 29, 2024 16:25 PM EDT

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The president of Cyprus on Sunday fired the chief of police, his deputy and the acting director of the country’s central prisons complex following the embarrassing escape of a convicted murderer while under guard during an eight-hour pass to visit family. ...