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Israeli President Isaac Herzog, left, and Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades speak to the media, during a press conference after their meeting at the presidential palace in Nicosia, Cyprus, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Herzog is in Cyprus on a day official visit. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou/Pool via AP)

Israel says outreach to Turkey won’t come at Cyprus’ expense

By Menelaos Hadjicostis - Associated Press

A woman wearing protective face mask walks outside of a closed cafe amid COVID-19 pandemic restrictions government in central capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Thursday, May 6, 2021. Cyprus has unveiled a phased rollback of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions over the next month including a shortened curfew and a reopening of all schools next week, but will enforce the compulsory display of proof of vaccination, virus testing or convalescence from the disease in areas were people gather in numbers, including restaurants and churches. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Cypriots will need tests or inoculation to eat out, worship

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Abandoned houses behind barbed wires inside the U.N controlled buffer zone in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Thursday, April 29, 2021. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says that Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots failed to make headway in informal talks on the future of their ethnically divided island, but talks will continue and “I do not give up.” The United Nations chief invested his political capital in overseeing three days of talks in Geneva aimed at re-igniting dormant negotiations to reunify Cyprus. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

UN-led informal Cyprus talks stall, new round planned

By JAMEY KEATEN and MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press

An abandoned Turkish military guard post, at top background in the north Turkish occupied area, and a blocked road with barrels in the Greek Cypriot south, in the divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Monday, April 26, 2021. U.N. chief Antonio Guterres will host an informal gathering this week in Geneva for the rival Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders. The foreign ministers of ethnically split Cyprus' ‘guarantors’ — Greece, Turkey and former colonial ruler Britain — will also be there in hopes of getting the two sides to embark on a fresh round of formal reunification talks. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

UN chief launches Cyprus talks, joined by Greece, Turkey, UK

By JAMEY KEATEN and MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press

A Greek Cypriot protestor waves a banner, during a peace protest in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Saturday, April 24, 2021. Guterres will host an informal gathering of the rival Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders in Geneva, as well as the foreign ministers of ethnically split Cyprus' ‘guarantors’ - Greece, Turkey and former colonial ruler Britain - in hopes of getting the two sides to embark on a fresh round of formal reunification talks. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

UN faces tough task to get Cyprus peace talks restarted

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Lebanese Army official website, Lebanese troops stand next to Syrian migrants who tried to go by boat to the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, in the northern region of Akkar near the border with Syria, Lebanon, early Sunday, April. 25, 2021. Lebanese troops thwarted the attempt and detained the smuggler. (Lebanese Army Website via AP)

Lebanon thwarts attempt to smuggle 69 Syrians to Cyprus

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An endangered Mouflon sheep runs in the forest near abandoned village of Varisia, inside the U.N controlled buffer zone that divide the Greek, south, and the Turkish, north, Cypriot areas since the 1974 Turkish invasion, Cyprus, on Friday, March 26, 2021. Cyprus' endangered Mouflon sheep is one of many rare plant and animal species that have flourished a inside U.N. buffer zone that cuts across the ethnically cleaved Mediterranean island nation. Devoid of humans since a 1974 war that spawned the country’s division, this no-man's land has become an unofficial wildlife reserve. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Biologists defy Cyprus’ ethnic cleave to protect environment

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday Dec. 11, 2019 file photo, Aphrodite Philippou, 73, takes out cheese from a saucepan as she makes Cyprus' halloumi cheese at a farm in Kampia village near Nicosia, Cyprus. Cyprus’ agriculture minister on Tuesday, March 30, 2021 said the European Union’s decision to recognize halloumi as a Cypriot traditional product will shield the country’s top food export from an increasing number of foreign producers using the cheese’s name to muscle into a 224 million euro ($267 million) market. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, file)

Cyprus’ famed halloumi cheese earns coveted EU quality mark

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press

Russia's Artyom Dzyuba, left, reacts after the World Cup 2022 group H qualifying soccer match between Russia and Slovenia at the Fisht Olympic Stadium in Sochi, Russia, Saturday, March 27, 2021. (AP Photo/str)

Russia beats Slovenia in WCup qualifying, Croatia wins

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A woman wearing a face mask against the spread of coronavirus, walks in front of Greek flags which are for sale in Athens, Friday, March 19, 2021. The military parade on March 25, marking 200-years since the war that resulted in Greece's independence from the Ottoman Empire and rebirth as a nation, will be held without spectators due to the coronavirus, and only Greek and foreigners political officials will attend it. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greece kicks off events for bicentenary of independence war

By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

Turkey slams Mediterranean undersea cable deal

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Women laying in coffins representing women killed in domestic violence during an event for upcoming International Women's Day in front of Tel Aviv's district court, Israel, Sunday, March 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

The Latest: Michigan makes homeless people vaccine-eligible

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Protestors gather to protest outside Cyprus' national broadcasting building, in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Saturday, March 6, 2021. The Orthodox Church of Cyprus is calling for the withdrawal of the country’s controversial entry into this year’s Eurovision song context titled “El Diablo”, charging that the song makes an international mockery of country’s moral foundations by advocating “our surrender to the devil and promoting his worship.” (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Protesters say out with Cyprus’ ‘Satanic’ Eurovision entry

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press

Cyprus: no waiting for EU, vaccinated Britons welcome May 1

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press

Cyprus Church says ‘satanic’ Eurovision entry must be yanked

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