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Cyprus video news. www.cyprusnewsreport.com Hello, it’s Sarah Fenwick, and welcome to CNR News Club Headlines, where we report the news that's making changes, and feature blogs that are making a difference. Congratulations to our 2015 Blogging Award winners Anna Georghallides, Venetia Zannettis, and Helena Sage, for their outstanding blogs that are making a positive difference in the world. Each winner receives an advertising campaign worth 500 Euros on CNR and a certificate of recognition. We’re also delighted to announce the winners of the CNR-EMS Animal Rescue Awards, which go to Rochelle Van Buren in Cyprus and Tina Marie Lythgoe in the United States for their dedication to animal welfare. And now for the main news. ----Turkey grants access to 30 military sites in the occupied north suspected of being burial grounds for 1000 people missing since the 1974 invasion. ----The Cyprus Problem is a European problem, said President Anastasiades. ----Refugees from Tartus, Syria were rescued off the coast of Cape Greko overnight and are recover-ing in hospital, said authorities. Occupying force Turkey has granted access to 30 military areas in the north so the humanitarian or-ganisation Committee on Missing Persons – or CMP - can search and identify the remains of Greek-and-Turkish Cypriots lost in the 1974 invasion of Cyprus. President Nicos Anastasiades welcomed the Turkish military’s decision as a positive step towards learning the fate of the missing persons. The president also called on Turkey to make other steps, including providing unhindered access to the Turkish military’s archives and finding the burial sites of displaced bones belonging to missing per-sons. Access will be given over a three year period, starting in January 2016, with ten sites to be exca-vated each year. Meanwhile, members of the Greek-and-Turkish Cypriot political parties visited the CMP’s laboratory where nearly 80 Cypriot scientists and investigators have worked jointly for more than nine years. There are still over 1000 Cypriots missing since 1974. The Cyprus Problem is a European problem, said President Anastasiades in comments to Austrian President Heinz Fischer during his visit to the island on November 3rd. The EU is playing an im-portant role in the efforts to reunify the Greek-and-Turkish Cypriots under one umbrella, and Turkey is expected to fulfill its EU obligations, said the president.