THE FOREIGN Ministry last night officially confirmed the kidnapping of a Cypriot national in Iraq six days ago.
Cypriot businessman Garabet Jean Jikerjian, 40, who has been listed as missing from the Iraqi capital of Baghdad since September 11, was officially declared kidnapped by the Foreign Ministry in a bulletin last night.
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Reading the letter about the English nurse, Edith Gavell, it took me back to my teenage days, more than 65 years ago. I read in a book that Edith Cavell working in her profession in Belgium, a country overrun by the German military. She was wrongly convicted of being an English spy and executed by firing squad at dawn, on October 12, 1915.
Diplomat says still hope for agreement
THE E.U. member states once again failed to agree on their response to Turkey’s declaration that it does not recognise Cyprus, during an extraordinary ambassadors meeting (COREPER) called by the British Presidency.
THREE families of the Helios Airways air disaster have filed a lawsuit in the United States against Helios, Boeing and Libra Holidays, seeking millions of pounds in compensation.
Lawyers from American firms were in Nicosia yesterday, where they outlined their plans.
SOCIALIST International Women (SIW) has arranged a regional meeting, which aims to help women become more involved in the resolution of the Cyprus problem.
SHIPPING authorities said yesterday they would be raising the Turkish ban on Cypriot-flagged vessels with EU Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot during the Maritime Cyprus Conference in Limassol from September 26-28.
THE trial of Christodoulos Nicolaides, the man accused of attacking and injuring a Turkish Cypriot and his Greek Cypriot friend at a Nicosia caf? on July 29, began yesterday at the Nicosia Assizes.
AFTER a year of legal stalemate, the Committee of Legal Affairs of the European Parliament has adopted a proposal by German MEP Klaus-Heiner Lehne to vote on whether the EU should lift parliamentary immunity for Cypriot MEP Marios Matsakis.
JUSTICE Minister Doros Theodorou has said that the police investigative report into the violent scuffles between police and journalists during a trucker’s strike in August has been handed to him. He added that the report would now be handed to the Cabinet, which would decide on what to do.
THERE WAS drama in the Limassol villages of Yermasoyias and Ayios Athanassios in the early hours of yesterday with a separate bomb and arson attack occurring in the space of ten minutes.
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