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Every summer, this settlement 46 miles (75 km) north of the Arctic Circle experiences the never-setting midnight sun. But any time of year Sisimiut holds plenty of small wonders. Scattered across rocky inlets, the town's wooden houses are painted in primary hues - a tradition that started as a practical measure to make the hospital and police station easy to identify. Up on the craggy hills, you can enjoy stunning views of the town and find ancient Inuit burial mounds overlooking the sea, marked by piles of rocks...
...claimed the girl was buried at sea; another said the McCanns had participated in wife-swapping orgies. The leaks typically first appeared in Portuguese news outlets before being repeated by the British media. The McCanns countered by successfully suing the Express Newspaper group for libel, winning a $1 million settlement and front-page apologies in March...
...talks aimed at finding a political settlement to end the island's division could change all that. In February the Greek Cypriots elected President Dimitris Christofias, an old left-wing acquaintance of the Turkish Cypriot President, Mehmet Ali Talat; the two are more open to an agreement than their predecessors were. And while cooperation improved somewhat after a first crossing opened in 2003, there are now real hopes that some form of loose federation is in sight. Formal negotiations could begin in June...
...North's isolation eases, Turkish Cypriot leaders concede that their territory has fallen into ill repute. "Mistakes were made," Turkish Cypriot Prime Minister Ferdi Soyer told TIME by e-mail. "We are determined to clean up our country and remove all these people who have done bad things." A settlement, if it materializes, would probably lead to tougher regulations and extradition treaties. Dervis Deniz, a former Economy Minister of the North, says it's high time: "The longer we stay isolated, the longer we attract the cowboys and gangsters...
...This April, the US House of Representatives took the first step toward remedying this imbalanced demand for a refugee right of return. They passed United States House Resolution 185, which affirmed that U.N.’s Resolution 242’s call for a “just settlement of the refugee problem,” resolving that any just resolution must address the rights of both Arab and Jewish refugees and that the United States must grant equal recognition to these refugees. In passing this resolution, Congress underscored the importance of addressing the wrongs done to all victims...