Cypriot prosecutors formally charged five defendants Thursday during a trial over the crash of an airliner in Greece nearly four years ago.

Turkish Cypriot nationalists won a parliamentary election on Sunday that could stifle a promising effort to reunite Cyprus, an ethnically divided island.

Turkish Cypriots are voting Sunday in elections that analysts say could stifle a promising effort to reunite the ethnically divided island.

Civil aviation authorities are only told about 20 percent of dangerous flight incidents because pilots and air traffic controllers are afraid of losing their jobs or being prosecuted, a top European air safety official said Tuesday.

An executioner’s bullet left a coin-sized hole in the skull of Huseyin Mehmet Buba, a Turkish Cypriot army private whose remains were found in a well two years ago, a generation after his death.

A key Security Council committee reported Tuesday that Iran violated U.N. sanctions by trying to send weapons-related material, reportedly to Syria, on a cargo ship now docked in Cyprus.

The manslaughter trial into the crash of a Cypriot airliner nearly four years ago that killed 121 people was adjourned Thursday until next month and one of the defendants was mobbed by angry relatives of victims.

A Cypriot official says a ship suspected of transporting Iranian arms to Gaza is free to leave the island, as its cargo has been unloaded.

A ship detained off Cyprus has breached a U.N. ban on Iranian arms exports, Cyprus’ foreign minister said Tuesday.

A ship suspected of carrying arms to Gaza will not be returned to Iran, Cypriot officials said Saturday, but they refused to say what exactly was found onboard the boat or whether the cargo contravened U.N. resolutions.