The House of Representatives is voting for a speaker on Oct. 17, two weeks after the chamber ousted Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is the frontrunner. But after the first round of voting, the Ohio congressman failed to secure enough support. Dozens of U.S. citizens from Israel arrived at the island of Cyprus […]
NICOSIA, Cyprus—A deal for a British man to plead guilty to manslaughter for killing his wife in Cyprus fell through Tuesday amid recriminations between prosecutors and defense lawyers. David Hunter, 75, remains on trial for premeditated murder after the plea deal on the lesser charge collapsed. Hunter’s wife Janice, 74, died of asphyxiation in December […]
PAPHOS, Cyprus—Defense lawyers for a British man on trial for causing the death of his wife in Cyprus’ coastal resort town of Paphos said Monday they’re hopeful the court will suspend any sentence it hands down to their client after he pleads guilty to manslaughter next week. Briton David Hunter faced a charge of premeditated […]
NICOSIA, Cyprus—The trial of a British man charged with the premeditated murder of his sick wife got underway Thursday in Cyprus’ coastal resort town of Paphos, with defense lawyers arguing that David Hunter should instead be charged with assisting a suicide. State Prosecutor Andreas Hadjikyrou said the postponement was due to a court scheduling conflict […]
A team of scientists in Cyprus has identified a strain of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus that reportedly combines many of the characteristics of the Delta and Omicron variants, according to a professor of biological sciences at the University of Cyprus. Leondios Kostrikis, who is also head of the Laboratory of Biotechnology and Molecular Virology at the […]
NICOSIA, Cyprus—Cyprus search crews discovered four charred bodies outside a fire-swept mountain village on Sunday in what the interior minister called the “most destructive” blaze in the eastern Mediterranean island nation’s history. Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said Civil Defense volunteers discovered the remains just outside the village of Odou on the southern edge of the […]
BRUSSELS—The European Commission launched infringements procedures Tuesday against Cyprus and Malta over their “golden passport” programs, in which wealthy people can acquire EU citizenship in exchange for an investment. The EU’s executive said the lucrative schemes are in violation of EU law and undermine the “essence of EU citizenship.” Cyprus recently announced that it was […]
A controversial pathway to immigration has been officially closed. A passport-for-sale scandal in Cyprus, an island country in southern Europe, put an end to the practice. Chinese tycoons and communist regime officials had used it to migrate to Europe. According to documents leaked this August called The Cyprus Papers, around 500 Chinese tycoons and Chinese […]
MITSERO, Cyprus—Cypriot investigators hunting for victims of a suspected serial killer retrieved a suitcase containing the decomposing remains of a woman from the bottom of a man-made lake on April 28. The body is believed to be that of one of the victims of a Cypriot military officer who has confessed to killing seven foreign […]
Police forces at the Mediterranean Island of Cyprus are currently investigating a possible series of killings after two bodies were discovered several days apart from one another in an abandoned mine shaft near the capital Nicosia. “This is a form of crime unprecedented for the norms of Cyprus,” Cyprus Police Chief Zacharias Chrysostomou told reporters […]
The Mediterranean island of Cypress is enduring record-setting—in some cases, deadly—heat. Two women, aged 60, and 75, have died of heat stroke. Tourists who weren’t expecting the heat have had problems. Barry Richardson and his partner came from Bedfordshire, England, for a summer vacation. They weren’t expecting to be staying in an oven. My partner […]
A sad and dark history lays buried on the Mediterranean island paradise of Cyprus, an island divided in two, with a U.N. patrolled buffer zone keeping the peace. A war over 40 years ago split the country between the Greece junta-backed Cypriot Greeks on one side, and Turkish troops and Turkey-backed Cypriot Turks on the […]
