Canadian veterans remember how they eased tensions as UN peacekeepers in ethnically split Cyprus
It was the first time that Canadian UN peacekeeper Michelle Angela Hamelin said she came up against the raw emotion of a people so exasperated with their country's predicament.
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Cyprus police arrest 8 Syrians suspected of helping to fund a militant group in their homeland
NICOSIA, Cyprus — A Cyprus court on Thursday ordered eight Syrians to remain in police detention for six days on suspicion they helped fund a “terrorist organization” in their native country.
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Cyprus arrests eight on suspicion of terrorism funding, say police
NICOSIA - Police in Cyprus on Thursday detained eight individuals for questioning on allegations they were involved in raising funds for a designated terrorist group in a third country ...
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Cyprus president fires police chief over embarrassing escape of killer that shocked the country
The president of Cyprus has 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.
Geopolitical and humanitarian perspectives on migration in Cyprus: the forgotten divided island
Migration dynamics in Cyprus are partly linked to conflicts in the Middle East and the 1974 war that divided the ...