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6001. State attorney faces disciplinary action

Attorney-General Costas Clerides gives the green light for disciplinary action against senior state attorney Eleni Loizidou, whose emails with Russian officials were hacked and made public, damaging the image of the Republic of Cyprus and raising multiple legal questions....

6002. Dead Texas bomber was unemployed man

6003. Co-op Bank en route to healthy future

Cyprus Co-operative Bank will be healthier without a massive NPL problem. Already it has managed to cut down on the number of branches and reduce its staff, but now the big step is finding investors with the right kind of portfolio to move banking forward....

6004. Academic behind Facebook breach says he is a 'scapegoat'

Facebook has been rocked by a whistleblower who said that Cambridge Analytica had improperly accessed information on 50 million users...

6005. Ayia Napa is not the new Monte Carlo

In order to improve the image and quality of Ayia Napa, the real perpetrator has to be identified because a crime has been committed in the area and the culprit is our very own greedy, pretentious attitude....

6006. Sixth Texas parcel bomb leaves US investigators baffled

Officials have appealed to the bomber to reveal the motives for the attacks...

6007. Erdogan to send drillship into East Med

Erdogan: Turkey's stance towards exploration projects for oil and gas has “hopefully taught some a lesson”...

6008. Cop impersonator loses stripes

A former cop who was deemed to be deviant in the 1970's actually managed to impersonate a senior officer and represented Cyprus Police internationally...

6009. French ex-president Sarkozy in custody in campaign funding probe

France opened a judicial inquiry in 2013 into allegations that Sarkozy’s successful 2007 election bid benefited from illicit funds from late Libyan leader Gaddafi...

6010. Self-driving Uber car kills woman crossing street

The ride services company said it was suspending North American tests of its self-driving vehicles...

6011. Cooperative Bank looking to attract investors

The investor can acquire some or all of the share capital...

6012. Politics Blog

Politics Blog has the inside scoop on all things political, people, and agendas. This issue: buddy Mitchell, the fox of Argaka, and tales from DIKO....

6013. Inspectors analyse toxin used on Russian spy

Inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) began running independent tests...

6014. Three held in Kouklia site theft

Cyprus police have arrested three men in connection with a case of illicit trade in antiquities. A concerned citizen had phoned the police after spotting a car parked in a remote area near Kouklia, Paphos, which is also the site of a current archeological dig. ...

6015. Mueller subpoenas Trump business

US Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed the Trump Organization for documents, including some related to Russia. The White House had no comment on the matter but said they were going to fully cooperate, while the Trump Organization said this is old news....

6016. London says corrupt Putin allies may be targeted

Britain’s National Crime Agency and Economic Crimes Unit is nvestigating a wide range of individuals...

6017. First ExxonMobil research vessel sails into Limassol

Test drilling in Block 10 is scheduled to take place in October...

6018. Britain and Russia brace for showdown

England may also cut back participation in the World Cup which Russia is hosting in June - July...

6019. Moody's sees robust economic recovery helping Cypriot banks

It expects that banks will continue to make progress on restructuring troubled loans and selling real-estate collateral...

6020. Max’s killer gets three months

The Supreme Court hands down a three-month prison sentence to a man who stabbed a German Shepherd to death, overruling an earlier suspended sentence that was seen by the public as too lenient...

6021. Visit of US diplomat is seen as 'important'

The Spokesman said that Cyprus’ energy programme continues as normal ...

6022. Givenchy, tower of French fashion and tailor to the stars, dies at 91

Givenchy branched out into menswear soon after opening his fashion house...

6023. Norway underlines faith in London with unlisted property bets

The Norwegian fund is one of the biggest foreign investors in Britain...

6024. ExxonMobil ship to set anchor off Limassol

Cyprus energy minister says ExxonMobil is sending two ships, one arriving Tuesday night, to locate targets for October drilling in Cypriot EEZ...

6025. Boozy Brits no longer welcome in Ayia Napa

The mayor of Ayia Napa, like his counterparts in resorts such as Magaluf, Ibiza and Hvar, has called time on the “low quality youth” market...

6026. Seven Cypriots named in Forbes' Billionaire list

Foreign businessmen are among the Cypriots listed on Forbes’ Billionaire list in 2018, with all seven of them totalling €17.6 billion in combined net worth despite none of them residing on the island. ...

6027. Paphos holds title for selling land to most foreigners

The booming city of Paphos has managed to defend its title for being at the top of real estate sales to foreign buyers, surpassing Limassol which is a very popular investment destination particularly for Russians. But there is some criticism over some of the tools being used to attract buyers, namely the cash-for-passport scheme....

6028. For Putin’s Russia, a poisoned spy sends a political message

Any state body using a nerve agent so blatantly is clearly disregarding the traditional rules of international order...

6029. Russia says London spreading propaganda over spy poisoning

Lavrov said Russian officials had not received a single fact or piece of concrete evidence about what happened to Skripal and his daughter...

6030. Neo-Nazi suspects spill the beans about attacks

The group’s usual method of intimidation was splashing gasoline around the premises of the target...