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Rival Cypriot leaders hold rare meeting
Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat met on Monday for the first time in two years over the conflict on the divided Mediterranean island.
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Grieving Cyprus demands answers after deadly air crash
Grief-stricken Cyprus mourned the victims of its deadliest air disaster after 121 people, most of them Cypriot, were killed in a plane crash in Greece amid angry questions over the doomed aircrafts safety.
Turkish-Cypriot leader fails to form government
Turkish-Cypriot political party leader Dervis Eroglu has announced he failed to form a new government in breakaway northern Cyprus.
High ground won
Far from despairing at their Greek rivals’ rejection of reunification, Turkish-Cypriots felt they had won the moral high ground by backing a UN peace deal for the island, and deserved to be rewarded with a lifting of economic sanctions.
One last chance
After 30 years of division, the Mediterranean island of Cyprus is embroiled in what must be, for the foreseeable future at least, a last push for reunification.
Rival Cypriot groups agree to resume talks
Greek and Turkish Cypriot parties agreed in New York Friday to resume talks on reunifying their divided island under the auspices of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Greek Foreign Minister Tassos Yannitsis said.
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Eritrea has “questioned” the role of the envoy UN chief Kofi Annan appointed last week to end an impasse in the peace process between Ethiopia and Eritrea, insisting that the onus for progress lay with its neighbor.
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Iran has extradited a number of Al Qaeda suspects to Saudi Arabia in recent months and is also handing over vital intelligence on the network’s activities. The number and names of those extradited has not been released.
Northern Cyprus gets new PM
Turkish-Cypriot opposition leader Mehmet Ali Talat was named prime minister of the breakaway region of northern Cyprus on Monday – the first step in an uphill battle to speed up the reunification of Cyprus.
