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1 month ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | Theo Panayides |Rebekah Gregoriades |George Kassianos |Johanna Pauls
A second case of suspected child abuse, this time in Nicosia, is being investigated by police, spokesperson Kyriaki Lambrianidou said on Monday. The case emerged after a video circulated on social media showed a nursery school teacher shaking a child and threatening to throw it out of the window. The child’s father had filed an official complaint at Omorfita police station on Sunday night.
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1 month ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | Theo Panayides |Rebekah Gregoriades |George Kassianos |Johanna Pauls
Sixteen nature trails were reopened on Monday after being closed to the public due to dangerous conditions over the winer.
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1 month ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | Theo Panayides |Rebekah Gregoriades |George Kassianos |Iole Damaskinos
Police in Limassol arrested a 25-year-old man following a car chase during which warning shots were fired, it was reported on Monday. According to the police, officers on overnight patrol spotted a car shortly after midnight without front registration plates, being driven by a person whose face was covered. When police signaled the driver to stop, he sped off, and police ascertained that the rear license plate did not match the car.
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1 month ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | George Kassianos |Alix Norman |Eleni Philippou |Tom Cleaver
Two men, aged 28 and 25, were arrested in the north for masquerading as doctors, Turkish Cypriot police said on Saturday. The police said the pair had between Tuesday and Friday been in the Mia Milia area, and had administered a serum treatment and offered other drugs. Further investigations found that the pair had forged a prescription in the name of a private hospital and taken 27,000TL (€684) from their victim as an “examination fee”.
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1 month ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | George Kassianos |Alix Norman |Eleni Philippou
At least 14 people were killed and 37 wounded, including five children, in Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine’s eastern city of Dobropillia and a settlement in Kharkiv region overnight, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said on Saturday. Russian forces attacked Dobropillia with ballistic missiles, multiple rockets, and drones, causing damage to eight multi-storey buildings and 30 vehicles, according to the ministry.
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1 month ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | George Kassianos |Alix Norman |Eleni Philippou
The SESAM Identity 2.0 Expo Day this weekend is the accumulation of a 10-day architecture residency event that is wrapping up on Sunday. The Nicosia event is taking place from 2pm to 7pm and is a free, open to the public event. During the event, the final results of the workshops will be showcased in various locations around the walled city of Nicosia. Visitors can start their journey at Melina Mercouri Municipal Hall, which will serve as the info point for the day.
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1 month ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | George Kassianos |Alix Norman |Eleni Philippou
Syrian security forces and affiliated gunmen killed more than 340 civilians, the vast majority of them from the Alawite minority, over the last two days, Rami Abdulrahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Reuters on Saturday. Syrian state media on Thursday cited an interior ministry source as saying “individual violations” had occurred during a government operation to crack down on militants linked to the ousted Assad regime and said it was working to address the incidents.
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1 month ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | George Kassianos |Alix Norman |Eleni Philippou
Britain’s Heathrow Airport is weighing changes to its previous expansion blueprint in a bid to cut costs and has been evaluating options such as building a shorter third runway, the Financial Times reported on Saturday. A Heathrow Airport spokesperson told Reuters in an emailed statement that the airport had been looking at plans on how to deliver the privately funded expansion project and would present them to the British government in the summer.
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1 month ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | George Kassianos |Alix Norman |Eleni Philippou |Tom Cleaver
A 21-year-old man was arrested in Limassol on suspicion of having promoted terrorism on social media platforms, police said on Saturday. The man was arrested on Friday after the police obtained a warrant to search his home. There, they found enough evidence to implicate him in such crimes, and as such arrested him. He appeared in court on Saturday morning and was remanded in custody for eight days. The police’s investigation into the matter is ongoing.
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1 month ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | George Kassianos |Alix Norman |Eleni Philippou |Tom Cleaver
A 21-year-old man was arrested on Friday evening after being found by the anti-poaching squad in possession of a large quantity of tobacco which had been smuggled from the north. The man was stopped near the village of Astromeritis at around 6pm, with a search of his vehicle finding 197 boxes of cigarettes “of various brands”, 166 boxes of heated tobacco products, 51 packs of rolling tobacco, and two boxes of cigars.
