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“The closest genetic neighbors to most Jewish groups were the Palestinians, Israeli Bedouins, and Druze in addition to the Southern Europeans, including Cypriots,” as Ostrer and Skorecki wrote in a review of their findings that they co-authored in the journal Human Genetics in October 2012.

Ok folks, if you live in Cyprus and are one of the common people there, perhaps a "wealthy" person such as a businessowner but not one of the "connected few", now it has come out how you were screwed. Laiki Bank customers in the UK face no restrictions on access to their cash and have been told it is "business as usual" at the firm's four British branches, despite an overnight decision to close its Cyprus parent. .... Ruth Harvey of Laiki Bank in the UK said that although not all of the details of the impact of the agreement...

Rule Of Law: Markets tumbled after Cyprus and the EU said they might tax private bank accounts to pay for a bailout. Arbitrary property grabs are a new low and a bad precedent in this crisis. Worse still, it can happen here. As bad as tumbling markets around the world are, they seem to be the only signal strong enough to catch the attention of Europe's otherwise unaccountable bureaucrats who have long since learned to ignore street riots. As stocks fell from Tokyo to New York, Europe's leaders are scrambling to say they had nothing to do with the cause...

Cyprus has been destroyed by Greece many times over. Its people is indigenous and does not belong to the Greek racial characteristics, although many migrants from Greece arrived during the Ottoman Empires open borders which allowed Greeks to prosper and migrate to other lands. Many Greeks also migrated during the period which the British Empire temporarily monitored the island at the approval of the Ottomans. The Greeks arrived in huge numbers during the period where economic, political and social conditions in Greece were horrendous after the Greeks declared their independece from the Ottoman Turks. The Greek government suffered greatly after...

Turkey has rejected as unacceptable the European Union's decision last week in Copenhagen to invite the divided island of Cyprus to be member of the Union by 1 May 2004. In breach of international agreements ''The EU does not have the right to take unilateral decisions about the future of Cyprus by violating international agreements and to create international obligations,'' the Turkish foreign ministry said in a statement stressing that Turkey does not accept the Copenhagen Summit's final declaration on Cyprus. The statement pointed to the 1959-60 agreements, which established the Republic of Cyprus and authorised Turkey, Greece and Britain...