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Lebanon, Cyprus to work on curbing migrant arrivals by boat

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France joins Cyprus for naval maneuvers amid gas dispute

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Cyprus' President Nicos Anastasiades, right, talks with European Council President Donald Tusk as he arrives for a meeting at the presidential palace in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Friday, Oct. 11, 2019. Tusk is in Cyprus for one-day visit. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

EU Council chief calls on Turkey to stop drilling off Cyprus

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Eni chief: No drilling off Cyprus if Turkish warships appear

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Egypt, Cyprus, Greece condemns gas exploration by Turkey

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Greece: EU to decide response to Turkey’s Cyprus drilling

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Turkish Cypriot Fiaka Deniz Pasha, member of Queer Cyprus Association talks during a festival marking the formal collaboration between the two gay rights groups inside the U.N. controlled buffer zone in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019. Gay rights groups from both sides of the ethnic divide in Cyprus have formalized their cooperation in raising public awareness about gay rights and working toward buttressing those rights through legislation. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

LGBT groups from both sides of divided Cyprus join forces

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Cyprus: Turkey’s new gas drilling bid ‘severe escalation’

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A construction worker works outside European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Friday, Oct. 4, 2019. British Brexit negotiator David Frost is continuing technical negotiations at EU headquarters on Friday, seeking ways to find a breakthrough in the stalled UK-EU divorce negotiations. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

The Latest: NGOs give helping hand to Brit expats in Cyprus

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What the Turkish settlement of Varosha would make clear

By Gus M. Bilirakis

Cypriot soldiers ride on tanks during a military parade marking the 59 years celebrations of independence in Nicosia in the divided island of Cyprus, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019. The island of Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkey invaded in response to a coup aimed at uniting the island with Greece. Cyprus gained independence from Britain in 1960. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Cyprus: gas drilling to proceed despite Turkey’s threats

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Cyprus' Energy Minister Georgios Lakkotrypis, right, General Manager of Total in Cyprus Yves Grosjean, second right, Manager director of ENI Cyprus Allesandro Barberis, second left, and Director of Kongas Cyprus Insu Woo sign a deal at the Energy ministry in Nicosia, Cyprus, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019. Cyprus' energy minister says a consortium made up of energy companies Total of France and Eni of Italy has been granted a license to explore for natural gas deposits in another area off Cyprus' southern coast. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Eni, Total join for another gas search license off Cyprus

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Cyprus' president Nicos Anastasiades smiles during an interview with the Associated Press at the presidential palace in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Tuesday Sept. 17, 2019. Anastasiades says Turkey's &quot;obsession&quot; to permanently station troops, secure military intervention rights and extend its influence over Turkish Cypriots in any peace deal is fanning fears that it wants to turn the island into a &quot;protectorate.&quot; (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Cyprus president: Turkey’s aim for control scuppers peace

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12 slightly hurt in northern Cyprus Turkish army depot blast

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Cyprus' defense minister Savvas Angelides, right, talks with his Egyptian counterpart Lt. Gen. Mohamed Ahmed Zak, left, after a meeting with Cypriot president Nicos Anastasiades at presidential palace in Nicosia, Cyprus, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019. Cyprus' defense minister says the east Mediterranean island nation and neighbor Egypt are exchanging information to bolster security around an offshore search for natural gas as part of enhanced defense ties. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Official: Energy security key in bolstered Cyprus-Egypt ties

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Cyprus' president Nicos Anastasiades, right, and Saudi Foreign Minister Ibrahim Bin Abdulaziz Al-Assaf talk during their meeting at the presidential palace in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Wednesday Sept. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Saudi foreign minister determined to bolster Cyprus ties

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Greece: Turkey ‘continues to provoke’ over Cyprus

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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, center right, and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci, center left, during a meeting in the Turkish occupied area in the northern part of divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Monday, Sept. 9, 2019. Cavusoglu is in the northern part of divided Cyprus for three-day visit. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Turkey: Turkish Cypriot power parity key to new peace talks

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A priest sits at the Archbishopric in Nicosia, Cyprus on Friday, Sept. 6, 2019. Chrysostomos says he will ask the Russian Orthodox Patriarch to act so that a Russian priest stops conducting liturgical services at a pair of churches in the breakaway, Turkish Cypriot north of the ethnically divided island nation. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Cypriot to Russian Church: keep out of breakaway north

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Cyprus repays remainder of Russian loan 2 years early

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