"Hundreds gather for reopening of divided Cyprus street
View a gallery of the Ledra Street ceremony
For nearly half a century, the barricades that cut across Ledra Street, in the heart of Cyprus's capital city of Nicosia, have symbolised the ethnic division of the island.
But this morning, in a gesture that has revived hopes of a solution to the so-called Cyprus problem, Greek and Turkish Cypriot officials celebrated the reopening of Ledra Street. Hundreds of people gathered to cross from one side to the other at a ceremony marked by the launching of coloured balloons and expressions of goodwill on both sides."
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