Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has extended the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus through January 2013, and again urged the Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriot leaders to speed up talks aimed at reunifying the divided Mediterranean island nation. The council adopted the resolution 13-0 and with two abstentions - from Azerbaijan and Pakistan. It noted that the decades-long Cyprus stalemate has failed to move toward a comprehensive and durable settlement. The UNFICYP peacekeeping force has been deployed on the island since 1964 to...
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