Talks to be held with UN in attempt to revive solution efforts
THE UNITED Nations is to start talks with Greek Cypriot leaders in the next few days in a bid to revive efforts to reunite Cyprus.
POLICE yesterday issued European arrest warrants against three Turkish Cypriots and one British national for using occupied Greek Cypriot property, but it remained to be seen how and whether the court summons would be served in the north after authorities warned last week that anyone attempting to do so would be arrested.
A PLANNED hearing at Larnaca District Court over a Turkish Cypriot’s allegedly illegal occupation of a Greek Cypriot property in Famagusta was yesterday postponed until Friday because the court was unable to find a language expert able to translate the defendant’s claims.
THE EU Commission has expressed its willingness to play an “active and creative” role so that the blocked trade and aid package for the Turkish Cypriots can be adopted by the Council.
RESIDENTS of the Akamas peninsula have called off a hunger strike they were to hold outside the Presidential Palace yesterday.
THE mukhtar of a Nicosia district village and a land registry employee have been detained in connection with property fraud, police said yesterday.
The two, Kalo Chorio Klirou mukhtar Andreas Paphitis and civil servant Iosif Antoniou yesterday appeared before a district court, which reserved its decision on whether to remand them or not until today at 8.30am.
THERE is no question of patients being turned away for treatment, the Health Ministry insisted yesterday, despite complaints from cancer patient groups.
THE wife of a murdered man said her husband knew of her affair with a Pakistani college student after he discovered a message on her mobile phone.
She said the Pakistani was obsessed with her and pressured her to divorce her husband; otherwise he wanted them to die together.
NICOSIA will be in the spotlight of world culture in the autumn of next year, as it hosts Manifesta 6, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, considered to be one of the most important artistic events worldwide.
First staged in Rotterdam almost a decade ago, Manifesta has now grown into an acclaimed event, which offers a platform for emerging artists.
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