Two ships full of pro-Palestinian activists pierce Israel's sea barricade around the coastal strip -- and Israel plays nice, for a day
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Two men who hijacked a Turkish passenger jet have surrendered to authorities after releasing the remaining passengers and crew they had been holding hostage.
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.
Preparations are now in the final stage for a unique European event that combines pride and embarrassment in equal measures.
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.
Celebrations of a nation's founding are typically occasions that emphasize national unity. But Turkey's Republic Day on Oct. 28, the 83rd anniversary of Kemal Atatürk's founding of the secular repu...
Bulent Ecevit, the Turkish politician, poet and journalist whose career spanned nearly half a century, has died aged 81.
CNN.com asked readers affected by the attacks in the Middle East to share their stories. Here is a selection of the responses, some of which have been edited:
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.
Two ships full of pro-Palestinian activists pierce Israel's sea barricade around the coastal strip -- and Israel plays nice, for a day
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Two men who hijacked a Turkish passenger jet have surrendered to authorities after releasing the remaining passengers and crew they had been holding hostage.
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.
Preparations are now in the final stage for a unique European event that combines pride and embarrassment in equal measures.
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.
Celebrations of a nation's founding are typically occasions that emphasize national unity. But Turkey's Republic Day on Oct. 28, the 83rd anniversary of Kemal Atatürk's founding of the secular repu...
Bulent Ecevit, the Turkish politician, poet and journalist whose career spanned nearly half a century, has died aged 81.
CNN.com asked readers affected by the attacks in the Middle East to share their stories. Here is a selection of the responses, some of which have been edited:
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 "tired or weakened" man sent two "Mayday" calls from a Cypriot airliner before it mysteriously crashed in Greece, killing all 121 people aboard, according to a preliminary report on the accident by a Greek investigator.
Authorities on Saturday verified that blood found in the cockpit of the Cypriot airliner that crashed near Athens, Greece, this week was that of a flight attendant, according to a source close to the investigation.
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.
The flight recorders from the Cypriot airliner that crashed near Athens will be sent to France for examination to determine why it went down, possibly with all 121 people on board already dead.
A Cypriot plane with "no sign of life" in its cockpit while approaching Athens crashed into a mountain near Marathon on Sunday, Greek officials said. They said all 121 people aboard died.
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.
Archeologists say they have evidence that a bond between cats and humans was forged thousands of years before previously thought.
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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