The United Nations has welcomed the new maritime humanitarian corridor to Gaza. Spokesman Stéphane Dujarric noted that the sea corridor brings much-needed additional assistance to those in the besieged enclave. He also said that it is part of a sustained…

Recently, I read and reread A Traveller’s Guide to Cyprus, the third edition published in 1971, by Hazel Thurston. As is known, the island’s spotlight brightened after the troubles of the early 1960s and dimmed again in 1974. Though the unrest kept some…