By Alexia Saoulli
TORRENTIAL rain lashed down in Nicosia yesterday afternoon in a freak spring storm, flooding homes, shops, churches and streets.
At around 2pm dark thunderclouds formed over the capital before the heavens opened and hailstones and rain pummelled the city centre and surrounding area for an hour and a half.
By a Staff Reporter
CYPRUS will contribute to the effort to enhance relations between the European Union and Russia in its capacity as an acceding country and later as a full EU member, President Tassos Papadopoulos said yesterday in an address to the EU-Russia Summit in St Petersburg.
By a Staff Reporter
ASTRONOMERS around the island yesterday saw this year’s first annular solar eclipse during the early hours of the morning.
By a Staff Reporter
THE Cyprus Association of Cancer Patients and Friends yesterday joined 460 other members of two global non-governmental organisations on ‘World No Tobacco Day’ in the fight to stop second-hand smoke.
According to the Association, men, women and children exposed to second-hand smoke involuntarily suffer from many of the diseases of active smokers.
By a Staff Reporter
A MILITARY rifle was stolen from a 45-year-old National Guardsman’s car in Larnaca yesterday morning, police said.
Savvas Minas, from Psevdas, told police he had been preparing to go on a military exercise when his G3 A4 weapon was stolen from his car, which had been broken into while it was parked on Zenonos Kitieos Street.
By a Staff Reporter
POLICE are searching for those responsible for the attempted murder of a 32-year-old Limassol man on Friday night.
At 8.40pm, Stelios Costas Christou, otherwise known as Ninjaki (‘little Ninja’), was driving on the Erimi-Kivides road towards his village, Pano Kivides, when the assailants opened fire on him, police said.
By Sir Edward du Cann
WINSTON Churchill said the essential quality for a politician is “the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next year — and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it did not happen”.
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.
