Greek Cypriots remove wall, seek Turkish pullout
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Greek Cypriots razed to the ground a wall symbolizing Cyprus's decades-old division running through the heart of the capital Nicosia and challenged Turkey to respond by withdrawing its troops from the area.
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When the local government announced it was going to confiscate their homes and businesses to make room for a new development, residents of this village in southeastern China fought back.
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It used to be that European politicians could count on Greece and Cyprus to stand in the way of Turkey&#39;s aspirations to join the European Union.
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PADUA, Sep 5 (IPS) - 'Stop the Wall', say the posters on the  three-metre high metal panels that have come up to  isolate the  migrant estate on Anelli Road from their surroundings in Padua.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that a United Nations plan to reunite divided Cyprus that was rejected by Greek Cypriots could be revised as he called for new efforts to resolve the dispute.
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Cyprus considers what to do with an impounded Syria-bound ship said to be carrying air defence equipment.
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Cypriot police are looking for graveyard thieves who did not settle for their normal booty of flowers and went for the tombstone instead.
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Turkish Cypriots begin trading with Greek Cypriots in the south  for the first time in three decades.
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NICOSIA/BRUSSELS  - Cyprus fired a warning shot across the bows of its European Union partners on Friday as ambassadors met to consider an apparent softening of Turkey's refusal to open its ports to trade with the Greek Cypriots.
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Greek Cypriots begin demolishing a key section of the barrier dividing the island's capital city, Nicosia.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium: European Union and Turkish officials have rewritten the Cyprus portion of the EU&#39;s proposal on starting membership talks for Turkey, Turkish officials said Friday, raising hopes Ankara could accept a deal leading to full EU membership.
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LARNACA, Cyprus  - Hundreds of Americans and other   foreign nationals fleeing Israeli air strikes that have   pummeled Lebanon for eight days found safe haven in Cyprus on   Thursday.
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Turkey has offered to open a port and an airport to traffic from Cyprus in a dramatic last-minute bid to avert a partial suspension of its European Union membership talks, EU President Finland said on Thursday.
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BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell asks Turkish Cypriots what it feels like in the spotlight as the EU and Turkey fall out.
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Turkey wants the EU to ease its embargo on Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus. But Cyprus - an EU member since 2004 - will not agree to direct trade with the self-styled Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus , ...Comment
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The UK's Minister for Europe says any new efforts to resolve the division of Cyprus must come from Cypriots themselves.
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Greek Cypriots earned international praise on Friday for tearing down an emblem of the island's division but Turkey appeared in no rush to respond to calls to remove its troops from the area.