Protest to UN at threat to settle Varosha

THE GOVERNMENT has protested to the United Nations over Turkish threats to settle the abandoned town of Famagusta with refugees from Kosovo. “The Cyprus government

Government sends aid to Yugoslavia

By Jean Christou CYPRUS will send humanitarian aid to Yugoslavia, the government said yesterday. Government spokesman Costas Serezis said medicine, food and clothing would be

Two remanded after van torched

By Athena Karsera TWO MEN were remanded for five days yesterday in connection with an early morning arson attack on a Limassol businessman’s car. Police

Police probe brutality claim

POLICE are investigating claims that a 19-year-old demonstrator was beaten senseless by riot police during a pro-Serb protest outside the US embassy in Nicosia on

Accident victim was father of five

A FATHER of five was killed in a road accident on Sunday. Vassilis Kyriakos Spaos, 42, a construction worker from Ormidhia, was driving on the

Boy loses five fingers in blast

A 12-year-old boy lost all five fingers on his right hand yesterday in a firework accident. Charalambos Charalambous was making the firework at his home

Galanos miffed at Spyros snub

EUROPEAN Renewal Party (Kea) chief Alexis Galanos yesterday said that he had been repeatedly told by House President Spyros Kyprianou that he had no place

Toddler hospitalised with meningitis

THE Ministry of Health yesterday confirmed that Paphos General Hospital admitted a toddler suffering from meningitis late on Sunday night. Ministry officials said the three-year-old,