Leaders restart Cyprus peace talks

Cyprus’s rival leaders have vowed to “work tirelessly” for a swift peace accord, a United Nations envoy said, after relaunching talks aimed at ending the Mediterranean island nation’s four decades of division.

In an echo of previous attempts to forge a peace deal, Greek Cypriot president Nicos Anastasiades and the leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots, Mustafa Akinci, met at the capital’s derelict airport in search of a breakthrough to one of Europe’s most stubborn conflicts.