Dr Margaret Chan nominated WHO Director General

Dr Margaret Chan of China was nominated by the Executive Board of the World Health Organization for the post of Director-General, the technical and administrative officer of the UN organisation. The nomination

EU report contains stinging criticism of Turkey

Freedom of speech in Turkey is not guaranteed, the military still plays a “significant” political role and non-Muslim religious communities face discrimination, the European Commission is set to say in a report

EU urges phone users to turn off mobiles

The European Commission has urged mobile phone users to turn off their handsets when abroad in protest at “excessively high” roaming charges. Its call came after a survey conducted for the Commission

New Cyprus Archbishop – CV

The newly elected Archbishop of the Church of Cyprus, Chrysostomos, was born on 10 April 1941, in Tala village, in Paphos district on the west of the island. Having finished elemetary education,

NewZealander joins Limassol fraud list

A 38-year old person from New Zealand has filed a complaint with police claiming that the Limassol lawyer who has defrauded up to nine persons so far also took money from him

French journalists kidnapped by illegal regime

Two French journalists, kidnapped and detained yesterday by the so-called Turkish Cypriot military authorities in the Turkish – occupied north of Cyprus, are due to appear before a “military court” today.They were