CYPRUS has again been mentioned as a possible target within range of Middle East missiles, as rhetoric over possible air strikes on Iran increases in the western media.
A report in Britain’s Daily Telegraph yesterday named RAF Akrotiri as being a possible target within range of the Iranian Shahab-3 rocket, which has a range of 1,250 miles.
CYPRUS, GREECE and Turkey could form an “eastern Mediterranean union” that would realise “great potential” in the region – if there was a solution to the Cyprus problem, Turkish President Abdullah Gul said yesterday.
“This is Turkey’s vision,” Gul said, but added that it would only materialise if a comprehensive solution to the Cyprus problem was found first.
THE FOREIGN Ministry yesterday condemned Turkish President Abdullah Gul’s visit to the occupied areas and warned that Turkey’s behaviour would not be tolerated.
It also added that the visit would inevitably create obstacles to Turkey’s accession course.
CYPRIOT honeybees dispatch enemy hornets by surrounding them one at a time in large numbers and suffocating them, a researcher in Athens has discovered.
Scientific magazines are cautiously intrigued by the possible discovery of Alexandros Papachristoforou, a researcher who studied the bees in Cyprus for his doctorate at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki.
THE CLOCK is ticking for a family of Lebanese immigrants, who have until today to pay their daughter’s tuition fees or see years of education go down the drain.
The case of the Trabelsies, first reported by Politis, is a saga of foreigners living in limbo on the island for 18 years because of authorities’ refusal to grant them any residency status.
DISY and EDEK yesterday repeated their demand for the establishment of a Consumers’ Commissioner.
House Commerce Committee Chairman Lefteris Christoforou of DISY and EDEK deputy Giorgos Varnava agreed recent cases of profiteering in the Cypriot market demanded drastic measures to protect the consumer public, and an independent commissioner would be very useful.
CYPRUS Airways (CY) said yesterday it was laying on 42 extra flights between December and January, which could see as many as 13,000 European Muslims transit through Cyprus to reach Islam’s holiest shrine at Mecca.
TOURISM officials are conducting spot controls on restaurants around the island, checking for cleanliness, uniformed waiters, clearly placed price lists and general aesthetics, though the latter is more a matter of taste, according to one tourism industry source.
AN ONLINE resource described as, “the future of the internet” was yesterday unveiled to the world for the first time in Nicosia, with the promise that it is secure, accessible and usable.
We-r-you.com is said to be a, “a major new networking interface that introduces convergent core modelling technology.”
THE EUROPEAN Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is reportedly in the final stages of deciding whether to accept a land swap between a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
