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NICOSIA, Cyprus, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Challengers advanced in the first round of presidential elections on Cyprus, surprising incumbent Tassos Papadopoulos, who'll be sitting on the sidelines.
Right-wing moderate Ioannis Kassoulides collected 33.5 percent of the vote, edging Communist party leader Dimitris Christofias, who had 33.3 percent, Ekathimerini.com reported Monday. Papadopoulos garnered 31.8 percent of votes.
Kassoulides and Christofias will face each other in a runoff Sunday.
The elections were presented as a choice between Papadopoulos' hard-line stance on efforts to reunite the island's Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities against pledges of his two rivals to revive peace talks.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 12 (UPI) --
U.S. tennis great Andre Agassi bid farewell Wednesday night on "Late Show with David Letterman" to the mullet-style hairpiece he used to wear.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 12 (UPI) --
Crude oil prices fell Thursday on the New York Mercantile Exchange to under $77 per barrel, despite the dollar's trend towards weakness.
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