Sir,
Having read the contents of the letter sent by the UN to Mehmet Ali Talat, the Turkish Cypriot Leader, I am apalled to read how Tassos Papadopoulos distorted the facts to his own people and the world. It is a big shame!

One is beginning to think that Tassos has proved over and over again that he is not a serious leader to lead his own people to a united Cyprus.

A 27-YEAR-OLD Nicosia man was arrested in the early hours of yesterday morning, charged with threatening two motorists with a knife.

According to reports, two young women, aged 18 and 20, were stopped at traffic lights when for reasons unknown, the suspect approached their vehicle and pulled a knife on them. The terrified women fled the scene and called the police.

‘European Commission is working to avoid a train crash at the end of the year’

RELATIONS BETWEEN the European Union and Turkey face turbulence later this year over Cyprus and it will take deft diplomacy to avoid a “train crash”, EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said yesterday.

THERE were tense scenes at a Nicosia court yesterday when a Romanian defendant in the dock for working illegally threatened to kill his boss, who was also in the dock for illegally employing foreigners.

LIMASSOL police were yesterday investigating claims a local pharmacy had sold one of its customers expired medication.

The incident came to light when a officer from the Port Authority visited a late-night pharmacy on Monday night asking for a specific medication.

NEGOTIATIONS with a weapons manufacturer have been suspended while the military investigates allegations of kickbacks to military officers, Defence Minister Koullis Mavronicolas has said.

REPORTS yesterday that some people in parts of Turkey have left their homes to camp out for the next few days due to today’s solar eclipse underline the dread that mankind has viewed cosmic phenomena down through the ages.