CYPRUS: At least seven people have been hospitalised after Cypriot police rescued 60 Syrian migrants found aboard a rickety wooden boat some 34 miles off the island nation’s south-eastern tip, authorities said today.

The migrants have reportedly been at sea for six days.

LEBANON: A Libyan delegation visited Beirut today to reopen talks with Lebanese officials on the fate of a prominent Lebanese cleric who has been missing in Libya for decades, and on the release of late Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi’s son, Hannibal, who has been held in Lebanon for years, officials said.