Talks to reunite the divided island of Cyprus to be launched Monday near the Swiss town of Montreux. UN chief Ban Ki-moon said at the start that peace is within reach, as much progress has been made in the preceding year and a half. However, there are according to Ban Ki-moon 'some sensitive and difficult questions unanswered.'
Mourad Laachraoui, the brother of one of the bombers in Brussels became European champion taekwondo and has thus qualified for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
US and Russian foreign ministers, Sergei Lavrov and John Kerry, each speaking Thursday in Vienna on the civil war in Syria. It is an introduction to the international Syria- consultation is scheduled Friday in the Austrian capital. Kerry has arrived Thursday morning.
