A MAJOR league drugs baron, dubbed ‘The Milkman’ because he always delivered, is behind bars after being found guilty of smuggling more than 1,000 kilos of cocaine into the UK and Ireland.
A FOUR-YEAR-OLD girl from Greece was killed on Sunday morning after being hit by a car in Larnaca suburb of Livadia.
Tragic Kyriaki Zannetou had been attempting to cross the road on Gregoris Afxentiou Avenue when a 4×4 Pajero, driven by a 34-year-old woman, struck her.
POLICE HAVE remanded a Larnaca man in custody for eight days after he attacked and his ex-girlfriend and set her on fire in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The 34-year-old woman managed to put out the flames on the upper part of her body by diving into a puddle in the road in front of her apartment building.
THE GOVERNMENT has submitted new proposals to aid the Turkish Cypriot side economically and is waiting for the EU’s views on the package, spokesman Christodoulos Pashiardis said yesterday.
The new proposals are designed to deflect EU attention from the Turkish Cypriot side’s demand for direct trade with the bloc, a move being discussed in Brussels under the German EU presidency.
Turkish Cypriot leadership takes a stand on trade talks
FAILURE OF the EU to implement a trade package for the north could lead to a breakdown in relations between the Turkish Cypriot community and the EU, Turkish Cypriot officials said yesterday.
A MAN arrested after police discovered a large cache of explosives in his ex-wife’s home, is claiming to have no knowledge of how they got there.
The 48-year-old, a Syrian who is living in Limassol, was arrested on Saturday and remanded in custody for five days.
Most of the explosive material, discovered in bags hidden in the basement, was TNT.
BURGLARS yesterday broke into a Larnaca jewellery shop and stole around £10,000 by knocking down one of the walls of the shop.
Investigators, who were yesterday questioning one man in connection with the incident, said the culprits had an elaborate plan that was executed at around 4.20am yesterday morning.
A LETTER explaining why the Turkish Cypriot side halted talks aimed at kick-starting full-fledged negotiations for a solution to the Cyprus problem was to be delivered to the UN last night, Turkish Cypriot sources said yesterday.
PARTIES traded more barbs over the appointment of Kikis Lazarides as new executive chairman of Cyprus Airways (CY) yesterday, while the man himself said he was unfazed by the criticism.
Lazarides, 72, had served at the same post from 1989 to 1993.
THE NICOSIA offices of high-profile stockbrokers Suphire were bombed in the early hours of yesterday morning.
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