The audit service’s job is to monitor all government spending, including the defense ministry and national guard. The audit service found that the mislabeling and inappropriate storage of weapons in national guard camps, which had been previously ignored, led to the devastating explosion in Mari in 2011.
Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar rubbished reports that he will be forced to accept UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’ proposals during their upcoming meeting in New York. Reports in Greek Cypriot media suggesting that he will have to accept proposals made to President Nikos Christodoulides are mere speculation and not based on reality.
Fact: Panayiotis Hadjicostas, 65, died after his car plunged into a ravine approximately 20 meters deep in the village of Gerakies.
The installation of undersea fibre optic cables in Yeroskipou will not impact areas under the Natura 2000 framework or other Special Protection Areas (SPAs).
Two sizable adjacent broods of periodical cicadas are set to emerge simultaneously, one on a 17-year cycle and the other on a 13-year cycle, totaling more than a trillion cicadas. These two broods emerge together only once every 221 years, last occurring in 1803.
Fact: House President Annita Demetriou and the finance minister got into a verbal spat over the issue of pensions given to state officials.
476 irregular migrants have been intercepted in the last 72 hours, with nine people arrested on suspicion of people smuggling.
Fact: The performance titled Touch(ed) by Physical Plastic will be presented in Limassol, shining a light on womanhood, art, and the boundaries both experience.
The government of Cyprus has asked Greece’s Independent Power Transmission Operator (Admie) to carry out a cost-benefit analysis for the Great Sea Interconnector project, which aims to link the electricity grids of Cyprus, Greece, and Israel. The project, previously known as the EuroAsia Interconnector, is estimated to cost €1.9 billion. Cyprus is considering investing €100 million in the project and wants an updated analysis before making a final decision.
Pyotr Verzilov, a Russian-Canadian activist and founder of an independent news site, was sentenced to eight years and four months in absentia for criticizing the war in Ukraine on social media.