Greek Cypriots tear down dividing wall
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NICOSIA, Cyprus -- Greek Cypriots won international praise yesterday 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.
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Israeli tanks and bulldozers pulled back from this Palestinian town Thursday, after tearing up roads, flattening strawberry greenhouses and knocking down walls in what residents said was the most devastating raid in four years of fighting.
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Taking his campaign to succeed Yasir Arafat to the foot of Israel&#39;s West Bank separation wall, interim Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas has said there will be no peace until Israel tears it down.
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Thousands of Palestinians poured out of the Gaza Strip and into Egypt early Wednesday after masked gunmen blew dozens of holes in the border wall
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Greek Cypriots razed to the ground a symbol of 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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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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Israeli tanks, bulldozers and armored personnel carriers knocked down a fence and barreled over the Lebanese border Saturday as forces seized a village from the Hezbollah guerrilla group.
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NURIA, Gaza Strip  - Israeli forces blew up two  large apartment blocks in the Gaza Strip on Thursday,  destroying the homes of hundreds of Palestinians, two days  after suicide bombers killed 16 people in Israel.
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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.
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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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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Egypt started to close its breached border with the Gaza Strip on Friday but Palestinian militants bulldozed a new opening in a challenge to Cairo and Israel's blockade of the Hamas-run territory.
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Guardian correspondent Rory McCarthy reports from the Rafah border, where thousands of Palestinians are crossing the border after blowing up a wall dividing them from  Egypt to buy food, fuel and other supplies that have become scarce during the Israeli blockade
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Palestinian militants detonated a land mine near the border with Egypt on Thursday, blowing open a large hole in a wall near the border, witnesses and officials said.
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A standoff between rival Palestinian factions shut down a West Bank university on Monday, reflecting the growing state of chaos plaguing the Palestinian territories.
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Armed militants forced the closure of Palestinian parliament buildings in the West Bank town of Jenin.
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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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Egyptian police attempt to reseal border with Gaza as Palestinians continue to pour through smashed wall