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Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his office at the Presidential Palace in Nicosia, Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. Christodoulides said Monday he personally asked an unnamed “third country” to send an experienced team of financial crime experts to help the east Mediterranean island nation with investigations into old and new allegations that Cypriot financial service providers helped Russian oligarchs skirt international sanctions. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Cyprus president has invited foreign experts to help with Russian sanction evasion investigations

By Menelaos Hadjicostis - Associated Press

Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his office at the Presidential Palace in Nicosia, Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. Cyprus is ready to “immediately” begin shipping large quantities of humanitarian aid to Gaza in vessels that can navigate shallow water once conditions on the ground allow for it, Christodoulides said Monday. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Cyprus’ president says his country is ready to ship aid to Gaza once a go-ahead is given

By Menelaos Hadjicostis - Associated Press

Cyprus' Energy Minister George Papanastasiou talks during an Associated Press interview in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, on Tuesday, Nov, 7, 2023. Papanastasiou says the political and economic ramifications from the ongoing crisis in Gaza could inject fresh impetus to plans for a pipeline conveying Israeli and Cypriot offshore natural gas to the east Mediterranean island nation for processing and export by ship to markets abroad. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Cyprus official says Israel-Hamas war may give an impetus to regional energy projects

By Menelaos Hadjicostis - Associated Press

FILE - A woman walks by a UN sign at the UN buffer zone inside Pyla village, outskirt of coastal city of Larnaca, Cyprus, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. The head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in ethnically split Cyprus said Monday, Oct. 9, 2023 that Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots have reached an “understanding” over a contentious road inside a U.N.-controlled buffer zone whose construction had stirred up tensions not seen in years. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

Deal struck on contentious road in divided Cyprus that triggered assault against U.N. peacekeepers

By Menelaos Hadjicostis - Associated Press

Cyprus' military helicopters fly over a military parade marking the 63th anniversary of Cyprus' independence from British colonial rule, with a Turkish Cypriots breakaway paint giant flag on a mountain in Nicosia in the divided island of Cyprus, on Sunday, Oct. 1 2023. Cyprus gained independence from Britain in 1960 but was split along ethnic lines 14 years later when Turkey invaded following a coup aimed at uniting the island with Greece. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

‘The Biden administration is not God’: Turkish Cypriot minister eyes progress on recognition

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Cyprus' president Nikos Christodoulides, right, and European Parliament President Roberta Metsola, left, take their positions before a military parade marking the 63th anniversary of Cyprus' independence from British colonial rule, in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, on Sunday, Oct. 1 2023. Metsola joined Christodoulides in receiving the salute from Cypriot National Guard forces during a parade marking Cyprus' 63rd Day of Independence from British colonial rule. The Cypriot government said Metsola is the first top EU official to attend the parade since Cyprus joined the EU in 2004. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

European Parliament president backs U.N. naming an envoy to help restart Cyprus peace talks

Associated Press

Ammar Hammasho, migrant from Edlib, Syria, who lives in Cyprus, kisses one of his four children after they arrived with their mother at a refugee camp in Kokkinotrimithia, outside the capital Nicosia, in the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, on Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017. Cyprus has formally called on the European Union to re-evaluate which areas of Syria can be declared safe and free from armed conflict so that Syrian migrants can eventually be repatriated there, the Cypriot Interior Ministry said Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

Cyprus calls on the E.U. to rethink Syrian safe zones for eventually repatriating Syrian migrants

By Menelaos Hadjicostis - Associated Press

A woman walks by a UN sign at the UN buffer zone inside Pyla village, outskirt of coastal city of Larnaca, Cyprus, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. Three United Nations soldiers had to be treated for minor injuries after angry Turkish Cypriots punched and kicked a group of peacekeepers who obstructed crews working on a road that would encroach on a U.N.-controlled buffer zone in ethnically divided Cyprus. The U.N. said Friday, Aug. 18, 2023, the assault happened as peacekeepers stood in the way of work crews building a road to connect the village of Arsos in the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north with the mixed Greek Cypriot-Turkish Cypriot village of Pyla. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

Turkey says U.N. lost neutrality after world body condemns Cyprus roadwork, assault on peacekeepers

Associated Press

A woman walks by a UN sign at the UN buffer zone inside Pyla village, outskirt of coastal city of Larnaca, Cyprus, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. Three United Nations soldiers had to be treated for minor injuries after angry Turkish Cypriots punched and kicked a group of peacekeepers who obstructed crews working on a road that would encroach on a U.N.-controlled buffer zone in ethnically divided Cyprus. The U.N. said Friday, Aug. 18, 2023, the assault happened as peacekeepers stood in the way of work crews building a road to connect the village of Arsos in the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north with the mixed Greek Cypriot-Turkish Cypriot village of Pyla. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

Turkish Cypriots attack U.N. peacekeepers obstructing road work inside divided Cyprus’ buffer zone

By Menelaos Hadjicostis - Associated Press

Cats sit in a shelter at the main linear park, in the capital Nicosia, Cyprus, on July 19, 2023. Cyprus’ veterinarians association on Friday Aug. 4, 2023 lauded a government decision to allow its stock of human coronavirus medication to be used on cats to fight a local mutation of a feline virus that has killed thousands of animals on the Mediterranean island. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

Cyprus allows human COVID-19 medications to be used against deadly virus mutation in cats

By Menelaos Hadjicostis - Associated Press

Cyprus' President Nikos Christodoulides, right, and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, left, shake hands before their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Nicosia, Cyprus, on Monday, July 31, 2023. Mitsotakis is in Cyprus for an official visit. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Greek prime minister seeks improved relations with Turkey but says Ankara needs to drop aggression

Associated Press

FILE - A police officer escorts British David Hunter from the grounds of the courthouse complex after a trial on a premeditated murder charge in the death of his wife, in Paphos, Cyprus, on July 21, 2023. A Cyprus court on Monday July 31, 2023 sentenced Hunter who killed his ailing wife in their retirement home to two years in prison, rejecting a defense request to hand down a suspended sentence after convicting him earlier of manslaughter. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

Cyprus authorities free British man despite a 2-year prison sentence for killing his ailing wife

By Menelaos Hadjicostis - Associated Press

Greece's Defense Minister Nikos Dendias smiles before a press conference after a meeting with his Cypriot counterpart Michalis Georgallas at the Cypriot Defense Ministry in the capital Nicosia, Cyprus, on Thursday, July 6, 2023. Dendias, a former foreign minister of Greece, was on his first official overseas trip to Cyprus as defense minister following the re-election of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis last month. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Greece welcomes deescalation in the eastern Mediterranean without directly referring to Turkey

Associated Press

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greets the people as arrives in the Turkish occupied area of the divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Monday, June 12, 2023. Erdogan is in the Turkish occupied area of north part of the Cyprus island on his first trip after his re-election after the May 28 presidential election. (AP Photo/Nedim Enginsoy)

Turkey’s president unwavering on two-state policy to resolve Cyprus’ ethnic division

By Menelaos Hadjicostis - Associated Press

FILE - People on the beach take photos of the 'Tungsten Explored' drilling ship, in the southern coastal city of Larnaca, Cyprus, on Nov. 3, 2021. Cyprus and Israel are working on a deal to build a pipeline that will convey natural gas from both countries to the east Mediterranean island nation, where it will be liquefied for export by ship to Europe and potentially elsewhere, the Cypriot energy minister said Monday May 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

Cyprus, Israel working on deal for natural gas pipeline, processing plant in Cyprus

By Menelaos Hadjicostis - Associated Press

A visitor wearing a mask to protect against the coronavirus looks at ancient artifacts placed inside a glass-protected display area at Cyprus Archaeological Museum in the capital Nicosia, on Thursday, June 18, 2020. Cyprus' museums opened to the public earlier this month as the government gradually lifted most of a string of tough restrictions imposed in March to check the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

U.S. hands Cyprus ancient artifacts, some 4,000 years old

Associated Press

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

Associated Press

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