Daily News Briefing

In today’s episode, Diko is proud to have played a decisive role in the “selection, support and election of Nikos Christodoulides to the presidency of the Republic,” party leader Nicholas Papadopoulos said on Sunday saying the party had backed “an independent candidate who was not part of the traditional political system”.

Meanwhile, the traffic police have been kept busy with more than 2,300 traffic violations recorded in the seven days till Sunday.

Elsewhere, a human skull found by a farmer in Koloni on Sunday will be sent for specialised examinations, Paphos police spokesman Michalis Nicolaou said.

All this and more in the Cyprus Beat briefing brought to you by the Cyprus Mail.