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Countries resume dialogue aimed at calming tensions in Aegean and Mediterranean after five-year gapAfter a five-year hiatus marked by increasingly heated relations, sabre-rattling and near conflict, Greece and Turkey will hold talks on Monday in an attempt to avert further military escalation in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean.The prospect of high-level contacts being resumed has been met with international relief following protracted tensions that...

Poll seen as vital to resumption of peace talks to end 46 years of ethnic division on islandVoting is under way across Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus in presidential elections deemed crucial for the resumption of peace talks that could end 46 years of ethnic division on the Mediterranean island.The 200,000-strong electorate began casting their ballots in polling stations following a campaign fraught with allegations of...