Cyprus’ rival leaders held productive talks over their war-divided island’s future Thursday in their first substantive meeting aimed at ending nearly 35 years of stalemate, a U.N. envoy said.

Cyprus’ rival leaders began their first substantive talks aimed at reunifying the war-divided island, meeting on Thursday at an abandoned airport inside the U.N.-controlled buffer zone.

Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat said Wednesday he accepts a reduction of Turkey’s military contingent but that his side will still need security guarantees from Ankara as part of a deal to unite the divided island.

Cyprus’ rival Greek and Turkish leaders started new peace talks Wednesday and said they hoped for a deal soon aimed at reuniting an island divided by war 34 years ago.

International protesters who defied Israel’s blockade of Gaza to aid Palestinians sailed into Cyprus’ Larnaca port late Friday, pledging to make a return voyage.

Two boatloads of international activists who defied Israel’s blockade of Gaza set sail for Cyprus on Thursday, carrying seven Gaza Palestinians who had been confined to the territory.

Two boats carrying members of a U.S.-based activist group left Cyprus for Gaza early Friday to try and break Israel’s blockade of the Palestinian territory.

Rival Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders said Friday they will start historic reunification talks Sept. 3, ending years of deadlock and sparking hope that the island’s 34-year division could finally end.President Dimitris Christofias, who is Greek...

The rival Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders have agreed to start negotiations on Sept. 3 to reunify the ethnically divided island.The agreement ends a four-year deadlock on peace talks since Greek Cypriots rejected a United Nations reunification plan...

Greece and Cyprus say their delegations left a U.S.-hosted nonproliferation conference over objections about how Macedonia was represented.The two countries’ embassies say their delegations left after learning that Macedonia would be identified as the...