Turkey will freeze relations with the European Union if Cyprus assumes the presidency of the group of nations, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said, the official Turkish news agency reported Sunday.
An explosion at a naval base in southern Cyprus has killed several people.
Two top Cyprus officials resigned Monday after an explosion at a naval base killed at least 12 people in the island nation, state radio reported.
The Israeli navy took over an aid vessel that attempted to sail to Gaza on Tuesday despite a blockade to the occupied territory, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces said.
An aid ship sponsored by Jewish activist organizations around the world continued toward Gaza on Monday, despite a blockade to the occupied territory.
An aid ship sponsored by Jewish activist organizations around the world set sail Sunday from Cyprus to Gaza, despite a blockade to the occupied territory.
Cyprus is an island of one million people in the Mediterranean Sea and it's facing a water crisis.
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A leading figure in Greece's 1967 military coup died Monday after spending 35 years behind bars, according to state news reports in Athens.
In a column on CNN.com on June 7, David Frum wrote, "Cyprus may offer a good model for how the Israeli-Palestinian dispute might eventually be resolved" because "peace has in fact settled upon Cyprus." Nothing could be further from the truth.
A suspected Russian spy is missing after being arrested in Cyprus and released on bail, a police spokesman told CNN Wednesday.
A nationalist candidate won presidential elections in the unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Sunday, dealing a blow to efforts to bring the Mediterranean island's long conflict to an end.
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Police in Cyprus said Tuesday they have found the body of former President Tassos Papadopoulos, which was stolen from his grave late last year.
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The U.S. Embassy's top military official in Cyprus has been found dead in a wooded area north of Nicosia, the island's capital, an embassy official said Monday.
The captain and five other senior crew members of a Greek-flagged cruise ship which ran aground and sank off an island in the Aegean Sea have been charged with negligence and violating international maritime rules.
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As they waited for the U.S. Embassy to tell them when they'd be able to return to the United States, Monika Esseily and her family thought about the Lebanese who remained behind.
The pace of the departure of Americans from Lebanon in the face of bombing by Israeli warplanes quickened Thursday, as more ships moved into position off Beirut and made the 100-mile dash to Cyprus.
The United States brought in more sea and air assets to widen the bottleneck keeping thousands of Americans in war-torn Lebanon on Wednesday, a week after violence erupted.
The U.S. military is positioning Navy and Marine vessels in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, while the State Department charters airliners and a cruise ship to help in the evacuation of Americans trapped by the conflict in Lebanon, Pentagon officials said Monday.
France announced plans Sunday to begin evacuating its citizens and other mostly European nationals from Beirut by sea, while U.S. officials said they were planning a large-scale evacuation of Americans from battered Lebanon.
Americans could be evacuated from Lebanon using an "air bridge" of fast-moving aircraft, U.S. military officials said Saturday.
The following is the text of a message sent out Saturday to U.S. citizens registered with the U.S. State Department as traveling to or present in Lebanon.
Campaigners in Cyprus on Sunday said they had created the world's longest chain of bras to raise awareness of breast cancer and win a place in the Guinness Book of Records.
Turkey has put forward an "action plan" aimed at moving Turkey and Greece closer to a settlement over the divided island of Cyprus, beginning with the elimination of many "economic restrictions on the island."
Diplomats say the European Union has postponed a ceremony to mark the historic start of Turkey's membership talks, setting no new time.
Britain said the European Union was on the "edge of a precipice" on Monday over terms for historic membership talks with Turkey.
A text message reportedly sent to a relative by a "freezing" passenger onboard the Cypriot airliner that crashed in Greece, killing all 121 people onboard, was a hoax and the sender has been arrested, the airline says.
The co-pilot of a Cyprus airliner that crashed killing all 121 on board was alive when the plane went down, according to the chief coroner of the investigation.
Police in Cyprus have raided the offices of Helios Airways, officials said, a day after one of the company's jets crashed in Greece, killing all 121 people on board.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan returned home Saturday to an ecstatic welcome, with hundreds of supporters waving Turkish and EU flags at the airport to celebrate the agreement to start EU membership talks next year.
The European Union and Turkey reached agreement Friday on a deal that will allow Turkey to begin negotiations next year on full membership of the union.
After hours of intense negotiations, European leaders have agreed the European Union will begin membership talks with Turkey on October 3, 2005 -- a major step in Turkey's long pursuit of joining the EU.
In an effort to quell criticism after rejecting a plan to unite the divided island of Cyprus, the Greek Cypriot president has vowed not to stand in the way of Turkey's bid to join the European Union after Cyprus becomes part of the EU on May 1.
World leaders have expressed their disappointment after Greek Cypriots scuppered a U.N. plan to unite their divided Mediterranean island.
Greek Cypriots have overwhelmingly rejected a U.N. plan to unite their divided Mediterranean island, while their Turkish neighbors to the north supported the plan, according to exit polls by CNN-Turk.
The European Union says there is a "big risk" the reunification of the divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus could fail because Greek Cypriots refuse to give up revenue from tourism.
In Nicosia, Europe's last divided capital city, a Berlin-style wall separates Greek from Turkish Cypriots who are soon to vote on a U.N. plan for reunification.
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The European Commission has applauded a United Nations plan for the reunification of Cyprus and called on both sides of the divide not to throw away the proposal.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan presented Wednesday a final plan for the reunification of Cyprus and urged the Mediterranean nation to "seize this chance for peace."
Prospects for peace between Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots appear unlikely, according to the Greek government, as a deadline looms for agreement on a reunification plan for the divided island.
Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders have ended their first round of talks on a positive note despite an exposition outside the home of the Turkish enclave's pro-reunification prime minister.
Greek and Turkish Cypriot delegations to the United Nations have agreed to resume full negotiations next week to reunite the divided island of Cyprus.
A third day of talks between Turkish and Greek Cypriot delegations aimed at seeking to reunite the divided island of Cyprus have ended without a solution but are set to resume later.
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