THE RUSSIAN government is clamping down on tourist companies that operate tours to the occupied north of Cyprus, on the grounds that they do so in breach of the country’s political sanctions against the self-declared ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus’.
THE U.S. Embassy in Nicosia has been linked to Operation Smoke Screen – an undercover operation to thwart fund-raising operations in the US for the Hizbollah group in Lebanon.
A SYRIAN suspected of attempted murder and his brother yesterday joined a third brother in police custody following their arrest on Friday night.
The suspect had been on the run since a Wednesday night stabbing incident in which a man was seriously injured. He was eventually apprehended at New Limassol Port’s passenger lounge at 10pm.
THE Group of Eight (G8) called upon the parties in Cyprus “to take the historic opportunity that now exists to intensify the negotiations” between the two communities.
The Attorney-general’s office has announced that enough evidence has been gathered against a National Guard colonel found by a military investigation to have tampered with documents for him to be prosecuted.
A NICOSIA company may be forced to pay a settlement of up to £25,000 in a precedent-setting lawsuit filed against it by an anti-smoking former employee.
ONLY straight cucumbers qualify for ‘admission’ to the European Union, at least according to one newspaper report yesterday.
Staff Reporters
TWO political party leaders were yesterday deliberating whether to accompany President Glafcos Clerides to Geneva for tomorrow’s resumption of the UN-led proximity talks on the Cyprus problem.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
