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...settlement. International mediators have been trying to find a solution to the Cyprus question since intercommunal fighting broke out on the island in 1963. The 1974 division occurred when the Turkish army, in response to a Greece-backed coup, invaded and occupied roughly one-third of Cyprus along its northern shore. The result: the "green line" that separates the formerly thriving but now-underdeveloped Turkish northern part from the comparatively affluent Greek southern part. The U.N. plan calls for the Greek and Turkish regions of Cyprus to be reunited as a confederation of two states, joined loosely by a central...
...story and soon, politicians and pundits around the country were demanding to know why a girl who could get into the United States’ top university couldn’t get into Oxford. Many claimed that Spence had been discriminated against because she attended a public school in northern England...
...northern Michigan in a remote woodland outside of Petosky (not your major urban setting to begin with) staring at a 55 ft. tall wooden cross with a bronze statue of Jesus—whose foot was bigger than my head—nailed to it, and that’s what I was wondering...
...billion in financial aid to Turkey, and gets UN authorization to assuage the country's overwhelmingly antiwar public opinion. The Turks have also insisted that the price tag for allowing the U.S. to mount an invasion from their territory includes Turkey's right to protect its own interests in Northern Iraq, where it may be on a collision course with local Kurdish leaders. Turkey is unconvinced by the case for war, but will make practical arrangements to secure its interests once war becomes inevitable...
...President Chandrika Kumaratunga lives there; having survived an attempted assassination bombing three years ago, she's not taking any chances. In fact, there's little to fear. Nobody worries about bombs going off in Sri Lanka these days. You can travel just about anywhere on the island: to the northern peninsula of Jaffna or to the eastern beaches near Trincomalee, areas that were off limits for most of the past 19 years of civil war. The government and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) signed a truce a year ago which, to everyone's amazement, has held...