Rain, promised or threatened - actually more promised as it’s been a dry year and the crops need it - arrives in the afternoon. Temperatures expected to drop to the mid teens for the next couple of days and then return to the twenties. Tomorrow the first day of spring.
Some dispute over search and rescue efforts regarding would be refugees from Syria. There have been three separate events during the last week, the most recent being on Monday when Republic of Cyprus (South) patrols recovered two survivors and seven bodies about sixty miles off Cape Greco as a result of the collapse of a boatload reportedly carrying twenty-one refugees from Syria. The distance would have put it roughly half way between Cyprus and Syria.
UNHRCA, the UN refugee agency says that there have been accounts of Cypriot authorities forcibly returning would be refugees to Syria in defiance of international law. The Republic of Cyprus denies the allegations of pushbacks.
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