TORRENTIAL bouts of rain and hail pounded the island yesterday, one day after Sunday’s Saharan sandstorm covered the island in gritty dust.
During the late morning and early afternoon hours, showers caused flash floods in the capital, trapping dozens of people in their cars.
THE GOVERNMENT yesterday called on the Turkish side to reconsider its stance with regard to last week’s European Court judgment, which found Turkey guilty of gross human rights violations in Cyprus.
CYPRUS’ Foreign and Defence Ministers, Yiannakis Cassoulides and Socratis Hasikos, left for Brussels yesterday to attend European Union meetings relating to their respective ministries.
THE results of tissue tests yesterday failed to shed light on what killed a 14-year-old boy who died in surgery last month while doctors were trying to clean an infected wound.
Giorgos Hadjidemetris from Yeri died on the operating table at the end of April while undergoing surgery at Nicosia General Hospital to clean an infected wound.
FOUR Larnaca men are being held in police custody in connection with the abduction and suspected gang rape of an 18-year-old Finnish tourist in Ayia Napa.
The men, aged between 18 and 24, were arrested after the woman’s Swedish boyfriend told police that four men in a pick-up had forced the woman into their car.
A GREEK Cypriot pensioner who strayed into the occupied areas on Sunday night was yesterday remanded in custody on charges of drink driving by a ‘court’ in occupied Nicosia.
Cyprus police raised the alarm yesterday evening after 74-year-old Costas Dalitis disappeared while driving his motorcycle along the old Nicosia to Larnaca road in the Dhali area.
INTERIOR Minister Christodoulos Christodoulou yesterday signed an agreement for the building of new refugee housing in the Nicosia suburb of Anthoupolis.
COMMUNICATIONS Minister Averoff Neophytou yesterday attended the opening of the new hi-tech postal sorting centre in Latsia yesterday.
The new centre houses automatic postal sorting machinery and is to service the whole island. The minister said yesterday it had been constructed in record time.
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