ISTANBUL, Turkey, March 23 (UPI) -- U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's scheduled visit to Turkey this week is intended to burnish relations between the two countries.

ANKARA, Turkey, March 21 (UPI) -- Turkish and Greek Cypriot leaders agreed Friday to take steps together to begin negotiations for a Cyprus reunification.

NICOSIA, Cyprus, March 14 (UPI) -- The leader of the Greek population in Cyprus said Friday that reunification talks would be further stalled if Turkish Cypriots moved ahead with a U.N. plan.

NICOSIA, Cyprus, March 12 (UPI) -- After decades of disputes over sovereignty, the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders have agreed to hold direct talks under U.N. auspices.

NICOSIA, Cyprus, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Talks between Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos and Mehmet Ali Talat, a leader in Turkish Cyprus, produced no agreement on a reunification plan.

NICOSIA, Cyprus, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- President Tassos Papadopoulos of Cyprus and Turkish-Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat have agreed to resume their peace talks.

VATICAN CITY, June 6 (UPI) -- The bodyguards of Pope Benedict XVI stopped a man Wednesday who attempted to board the religious leader's jeep as it moved through Vatican City.

UPI almanac for Sunday, May 13, 2007.

NICOSIA, Cyprus, July 11 (UPI) -- The leaders of Cyprus and Turkish Cyprus have agreed to new talks that could lead to reunification.