One dead and 17 arrested in human trafficking sting
A MAN was shot dead and around a dozen more arrested yesterday morning in a police sting operation gone wrong just shy of the bicommunal village of Pyla.
The victim, who was the driver, was yesterday identified as a Syrian political asylum seeker in Cyprus.
AGRICULTURE Minister Fotis Fotiou yesterday met with agricultural organisations and updated them on the water shortage crisis.
THE GOVERNMENT will from next week accept residency applications from European and third-country nationals who have been on the island for longer than three months.
A MAN accused of raping one woman and indecently assaulting another seven will stand trial before a Nicosia Criminal Court this week.
THE Movement for the Salvation of Cyprus from illegal immigrants said yesterday it was not racist or xenophobic but merely worried about the extinction of Greek and Turkish Cypriots from the island.
The Movement is planning a public discussion in Nicosia on Sunday to raise the issue of how the government and the Cypriot people should deal with illegal immigration.
PRESIDENTIAL candidate Ioannis Kasoulides yesterday weighed in on the debate about slashing military service to 14 months, with pro-government parties again calling the proposal unfeasible.
DEPUTIES yesterday expressed their concern over what they said was the lack of co-operation between public doctors and the two new child neurologists with which the state is co-operating.
The two new doctors started working three months ago.
BRITAIN yesterday denied that it has imposed an embargo on the import of halloumi following the foot and mouth outbreak.
According to a local press report, restrictions had been placed on the cheese after the UK issued a circular published by the Department of Environment.
A MAN and woman found guilty yesterday of defrauding a bank and stealing around £450,000, will find out next Thursday how long they spend in jail.
Renos Efthymiou and a clerk from the Kapedes village Co-op bank, Ourania Charalambous, were found guilty by the Nicosia Criminal Court on November 9 of theft, fraud and conspiracy after the vast amount of money went missing in 2003.
CYPRUS’ diplomatic service is in need of further modernisation, Foreign Minister Erato Kazakou-Markoulli yesterday told Parliament.
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