US planes land in Cyprus

TWO AMERICAN military aircraft landed at Larnaca airport on Friday, having flown from an Italian military base en route to an Asian country, reported the Larnaca Press Agency yesterday.

According to the local news agency, a C-130 Hercules transport plane and a Harrier fighter plane arrived at Larnaca airport at around 10.30pm on Friday, carrying 11 people, ten of whom were in the transport plane.

The two US military aircraft left Cyprus at 3.50pm the following day.

Hermes Airports spokesman Adamos Adamis confirmed the arrival of the planes but refused to go into greater detail, saying the airports’ operator does not comment on issues of security and foreign policy.

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.