PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos yesterday lashed out at the international community, in the morning launching an angry broadside against top US officials for their “hostile” and “counterproductive” stance on the Cyprus problem, before last night accusing the island’s “foreign friends” of acting as “censors and overlords”.
AFTER US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s unprecedented reference to Mehmet Ali Talat as “Mr Prime Minister” in New York on Tuesday, the US has taken a further step towards giving Turkish Cypriots a voice in the international community by saying it will back the community’s membership to organisations such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, Organisation of the Islamic Conferenc
ONLY one per cent of recruits to the National Guard are in excellent physical condition according to the Cyprus Sports Organisation (KOA).
The revelations were made yesterday by KOA chairman Costas Papacostas during a meeting of the House Defence Committee, at which the issue of improving soldiers’ fitness levels was discussed.
THE accession of Cyprus to the EU could create the preconditions for the solution of the Cyprus problem in such a way that it will safeguard the viability and the functionality of the state, a study released by Intercollege Research and Development Centre said yesterday.
TWO deputies expelled from DISY on Wednesday yesterday had to abandon the party’s bench in the plenum and move to new separate seats.
Prodromos Prodromou and Rikkos Erotocritou were expelled by the party’s political bureau for divisive behaviour in the run-up to the April 24 referendum.
THE HOUSE Plenum yesterday rejected a bill tabled by Green Party deputy George Perdikis that would have banned the use of substances containing methomyl, commonly known as Lanate.
Lanate is used for agricultural purposes but is also commonly used by people wanting to poison animals.
A COURT in the occupied north has dropped charges against 30 members of the Turkish Cypriot Teachers Union (KTOS) after a ‘state prosecutor’ deemed that none of the charges referred to an actual criminal offence.
THE issue of swift issue of visas to Russian visitors is a priority for the Foreign Ministry since it is linked with the vital interests of the island’s tourism industry, the ministry said yesterday.
ONE week into the EU bloc and Cyprus’ education service has already begun to receive applications from European citizens to enter the public sector.
Head of the Education Service Commission Christos Theophilides said yesterday the government had received applications from France, Greece and the north.
PHILELEFTHEROS “Bitter climate” There was an intense climate yesterday when the National Council met to discuss the intense atmosphere that was developed before the referendum.
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