LARNACA and Paphos airports were brought to a standstill for two hours yesterday, disrupting around 10 incoming and outgoing flights and inconveniencing thousands of passengers after civil aviation workers staged an impromptu strike.
Sir,
I think it is great that the two extremist parties have joined forces and I would urge DIKO to join them too so that all the right-wing extremist parties are together out in the open.
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Fellow Armenians, recognition of the Armenian Genocide yes, but do not let it be used as a blocking tactic by those in the EU who do not want Turkey to join, these are separate issues, give some serious thought to what is best for Armenia.
First and foremost we have no right to interfere in EU matters, as Armenia is not a member.
WHILE the past 40 years may have seen the Turkish Cypriot economy stagnating in backward isolation, things may be changing – albeit slowly.
INTERPOL’S Executive Director of Police Services, Jean Michel Louboutin, said yesterday that, thanks to the force’s new communications system, I-24/7, the number of people arrested over the past few years had increased by 80 per cent.
A CYPRIOT serial rapist brutally attacked a string of young women, dragging them kicking and screaming off well-lit streets as they walked home, a London court heard this week.
Petros Anthia, 35, allegedly struck at night as his victims, most of whom were in their late teens or early 20’s, walked home after nights out.
A EUROPEAN arrest warrant and Interpol ‘red bulletin’ has been issued against Gary Robb, one of the north’s most notorious British fugitives, for carrying out construction projects on Greek Cypriot-owned properties, according to reports in the Turkish Cypriot press yesterday.
“I WOULD go swimming in almost every area of the European coast,” EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas told a news conference in Brussels yesterday, to underline that the quality of bathing water is in general very good.
THE requirement to fit seat belts in commercial vehicles should be in force by the end of this year, the European Commission said yesterday.
The Commission welcomed the European Parliament’s decision to adopt three directives on the mandatory fitting of seat belts.
THE TOP court in the country yesterday paved the way for investors to have money lost in the 1999-2000 Cyprus stock exchange (CSE) fiasco returned through the civil courts.
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