Greek Cypriots dismantle barrier
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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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Archaeologists excavating the seabed off Cyprus have discovered the tools of ancient mariners, which they believe were used by foragers more than 10,000 years ago &#151; before the island had permanent settlements.
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Greek Cypriots demolished a wall Friday along the boundary that for decades has split Europe's last divided capital
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Egyptian soldiers deploy rolls of barbed wire as they start to close the Gaza/Egypt border
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A daylong hostage siege ended early yesterday morning after two gunmen who had hijacked an Athens-bound commuter bus surrendered to the authorities and released their six remaining captives.
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Israeli tanks rumbled out of the Gaza Strip on Friday, ending a massive 16-day offensive that killed at least 100 Palestinians in an attempt to stop rocket fire into the Jewish state.
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U.N. police pulled out of a Kosovan  border post that was destroyed on Tuesday by Serbs who vow  never to submit to the authority of Kosovo's Albanian  government and its Western backers.
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Barbed wire, an earthen barrier and a minefield separate Lebanon from the last piece of its territory yet to be returned by Israel.
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By Zeus, Greece did it! With the Olympic flame now snuffed out after burning brightly for two weeks, the 28th Summer Games should be remembered for those amazing Greeks who pulled together at the last minute
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A massive cleanup, reconstruction and anti-flood effort was being launched Monday for fire-stricken parts of southern Greece as one fire front continued to burn while others abated, officials said.
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Palestinians retrieved belongings from the rubble of dozens of homes and work crews patched up roads and water pipes Saturday &#151; the aftermath of Israel's 17-day military offensive, the deadliest in the Gaza Strip in four years of fighting.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip -- Tens of thousands of Palestinians on foot and on donkey carts poured into Egypt from Gaza Wednesday after masked gunmen used land mines to blast down a seven-mile barrier dividing the border town of Rafah.
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A Greek Cypriot village school reopens in the Turkish-held north - but many families have left the area.
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UN troops and Haitian police seal off a house in Port-au-Prince occupied by former members of the army.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Egyptian security forces greatly reduced their presence along the breached Gaza border late on Friday after Palestinian militants defied their attempts to seal the gaps by bulldozing a new opening.
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RAFAH, Egypt  - Thousands of Palestinians streamed home through the breaches in Gaza's border with Egypt on Sunday after Egyptian authorities choked off supplies to the area and moved to restore control.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Haitian police and UN troops moved into a slum neighborhood yesterday and cleared street barricades that had paralyzed a part of the capital.