Stratos Efthimiou

A spokesman for the Greek foreign ministry accused Turkey on Wednesday of audacity, and of fooling the international community, in response to a statement by Ankara earlier in the day regarding last week's collapse of talks at a Swiss resort aimed at reunifying divided Cyprus.

Pilgrims and monks at the Greek Orthodox monastery of Saint Catherine - one the world's most ancient Christian monasteries - in the Sinai peninsula in Egypt are reportedly well after gunmen attacked a checkpoint near the entrance to the complex late Tuesday, killing two officers and injuring four.