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• LONDON (AP) -- As it grapples with the prospect of years of economic pain, Cyprus will try to draw strength from its not-so-distant experience of invasion -- and the fact a whole generation knows what it means to rebuild from scratch.
• But it's a tough task.
• Any inspiration will be badly needed on the small east Mediterranean island nation of under a million people, as even the most optimistic forecasters predict years of recession and sky-high unemployment.
• In many ways, the challenge facing Cyprus now following an international bailout that effectively wipes out a hefty chunk of the banking sector is more daunting than the events of 1974 when the island was split into an internationally recognized, Greek-speaking south and a breakaway Turkish north, following Turkey's invasion in the wake of an attempted coup by supporters of union with Greece.
• The country's room for maneuver is limited, given that it has already largely exhausted the potential for development from a primarily agricultural state.
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• JERUSALEM (AP) -- Hundreds of Christians are marking the crucifixion of Jesus in the Holy Land.
• Worshippers have packed Jerusalem's Holy Sepulcher church, where Jesus is believed to have been crucified, buried and resurrected, for a morning mass that started Good Friday events.
• Roman Catholics and Protestants will walk in processions following Jesus' footsteps in Jerusalem's Old City later in the day. And a mass at a church in Bethlehem, built atop the site where Jesus is believed to have been born, takes place in the evening.
• Pilgrims and tourists from around the world descend on holy sites in Jerusalem for Easter week.
• Christians believe Jesus was crucified on Good Friday and resurrected on Easter Sunday. Orthodox Christians, who follow the older, Julian calendar, will this year mark Good Friday in May.

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