TWO teenage brothers were yesterday remanded in custody for five days in connection with the beating of a youth after the end of a Nicosia football match on Sunday.
Ten police officers were also slightly injured in the violence, while damage to the stadium is estimated at £20,000.
THE police and the Sovereign Base Area (SBA) authorities will today discuss the fate of 15 illegal immigrants found hiding in a dry reservoir bed at Achna within the British Bases.
PRESIDENT Glafcos Clerides yesterday fired deputy police chief Nicos Serdaris for his part in a delayed radar tender process.
PRESIDENT Glafcos Clerides yesterday kicked off a circle of briefings with party leaders to inform them about natural gas reserves discovered in the southeastern Mediterranean, some of which may lie in Cyprus territorial waters.
EIGHT halloumi factories have been approved by the European Union and certified to export to the EU, two years ahead of the 2003 deadline date for harmonisation.
That means the 2,600 tonnes of exported halloumi from Cyprus meets EU standards.
A DOCTORS of the World Cyprus team is to fly to India on Sunday to help with the humanitarian disaster resulting from last Friday’s devastating earthquake.
The quake, measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale, hit the western state of Gujarat. The Red Cross says more than 50,000 people are feared dead in the rubble.
A 32-YEAR-old Lebanese man was yesterday remanded in custody for six days, suspected of attempting to swindle $69,000 and circulating a forged document.
Antonio Ibrahim was arrested yesterday outside his house, minutes before leaving for Larnaca airport.
NIT-PICKING and hair splitting were the order of the day yesterday as representatives of Airbus and Boeing made a last media fling in the bid to refurbish the Cyprus Airways fleet in a contract worth as much as £400 million.
THE ATTORNEY-general has given the go ahead for the Central Bank to hand over the accounts of seven Yugoslav offshore companies to the Chief Prosecutor of the war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
THE CASE of a Greek man accused of spying against the Republic was yesterday referred to the Nicosia Criminal court, which will convene on February 20.
Soteris Katsikas, currently serving a one-year jail term for credit card fraud, appeared in court without a lawyer yesterday, claiming he was only a “pawn”.
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