An investigation is underway against three Foreigners arrested in operations carried out by narcotics police in two homes in Famagusta.

The investigation is continuing that the narcotics police have carried out against three Foreigners arrested for drugs they have taken in operations in two separate homes in Famagusta.

Nigerian Abdulhamid Lokogoma Abdul, Kanu Odee Ojong and Fasial Ismail Aminu, who were arrested on the matter, were taken to the court yesterday and were given four more days for additional detention orders.

Prosecutor Serhan Bundak, who conducted the case on behalf of the Attorney General's Attorney General, called the sworn witness to police officer Mustafa Kavaz, who was in the Directorate of Narcotics and Smuggling Prevention Directorate of PGM, who undertook the investigating officer.

On 1 November 2017, the witness informed the police that the suspect Abdulhamid Lokogoma Abdul resides in Bayram Apartmanı on a court order and that the search result is within the dark blue leather purse under the pillow, believed that the drink had found a ready-made cigarette.

Mustafa Kavaz, Abdulhamid, the same day, the same day, Kanu Odee Ojong'dan learned that he received, Ojong'un apartment, the Fasial Ismail Aminu, while searching for increasingly stating,

the subject reminded me of the fact that in the common locker used by Kanu Odee Ojong and Fasial Ismail Aminu, he found the substance believed to be 3 grams in weight in the cigarette package.

The witness, who told the police that he had carried out the testimony and remonstration of the voluntary statement of the arrested Ojong during the period in which the suspects were detained, said that the results from the laboratory that he had not yet obtained could change the course of the investigation and the court demanded additional time against the suspects.

Judge Gokhan Asafoğulları gave permission and order for the suspects to remain in police detention for 4 more days.

Three people arrested in Girne for possession of jute, synthetic cannabinoid, pill containing drugs.

Three people were arrested at Girne Canbulat Sokak on the previous day at 6 pm due to crimes of taking illegal drugs (jute, synthetic cannabinoid, pill containing drugs), giving and saving them.

On the street, the suspect, Osaruese Elijah Uwoggren'in search over the police, the transparent nylon wrapped in the search for drugs believed to be about 5 grams of substance found.

Joseph Ogbowu and Anastassia were arrested in Kukunova, believed to have been interested in the incident after the investigation and the statement.

Yesterday about the possession of drugs and giving 3 days of detention on the Girne Accident Court received an order for detention.

The investigative officer gave evidence in the presence of sworn translator

Police Officer Mustafa Zor, a police officer who worked at the Directorate of Narcotics and Smuggling Prevention Directorate in the presence of Judge Musa Avcıoğlu, was accompanied by a sworn translator.

It is difficult to find the substance wrapped in transparent nylon around 5 grams which is believed to be a kind of encyclopedic drug in the search made on Osiruese Elijah Uwoggren (E-25), which is seen as a suspect in Canbulat Sokak on 03.11.2017 at 18.00 hours. he said.

Police officer Difficult to find Joseph Ogbowu (E-20), who is interested in the issue on the ground of an advanced investigation, on the residence and residence in Alsancak; a delicate balance believed to be a drug substance residue on one piece, a piece of substance weighing approximately 40 grams believed to be a jailbreaking drug, a piece of junk, believed to be a jailbreaking drug substance, a piece of cigarette wrapped paper wrapped in a piece of cigarette wrapped around 100 milligrams , a synthetic cannabinoid drug that is believed to be the drug of about 0.5 grams of substance, containing one full and one half-pill believed to contain drugs recorded as a circumstance.

Difficulty, he said, was arrested at the residence of Anastassia Kukunova, who is believed to have been linked to the incident as a result of voluntary statements from suspects.

Police officer Zor, who stated that the investigation had just begun, said that they accepted the crimes of voluntary expression given by the suspects.

Difficult, the suspects believed they could disappear in case of release, believing that they could influence the suspects in terms of salvation for this reason that the suspects for 3 days in the police wanted to remain in custody.

The judge, Musa Avcıoğlu, decided that the investigation had just begun, that the requested ward was appropriate and that the suspects would be held in police custody for 3 days in order for the investigation to be carried out in peace.

Three foreign students were sentenced to prison for drug saving, giving and raising.

Robert Malawusi (E-25), Masimba Chinhengo (E-22) and Glen Tendai Funi (E-22) were indicted in the Nicosia Assize Court for charges of "taking, giving and saving illegal drugs". Robert Malawusi, who was arrested in the month of April in Nicosia with 136 grams of drug substance, was sentenced to 20 months, Masimba Chinhengo for 15 grams of drug abuse and forgiveness, and Glen Tendai Funi for 10 months for his personal use and 10 months in prison.

Prosecutor Atilla Enver Etkin declared that he would bring charges against Ali Çetin Amcaoğlu, who allegedly provided drugs to the two defendants.

Lawyer Ramadan Sanivar said Zimbabweans were very sad and regretful and they could not renew their student records.

Ahmet Özsakallı, accused of stealing 500 pounds of iron from a building in Lefkoşa, defended itself in court:

Ahmet Özsakalli, accused of stealing 500 pounds of iron from a building in Lefkoşa, said in court, "The police also saw me when they came to pick me up. My kids were eating tea and bread. I stole to provide my child's bread, "he said.

The suspects arrested on charges of "Sirkat" Ahmet Özsakallı and Hussein Özsakallı were taken to the Nicosia Accident Court yesterday.

Prosecutor Ayşe Kaymak Şadi on behalf of TRNC Prosecutor's Office listened to Zübeyde Sennaroğlu, a police officer who served as a witness in the Judicial Branch of the Nicosia Police Department, in the presence of Senior Judge Tacan Reynar.

Sennaroglu, who sworn on the court, said that on November 5, 500 kilograms of construction work was stolen from the construction of Eray Eren in Yenikent district.

Police officer Zübeyde Sennaroglu said that the results of the camera inspection of the anchorage, which was examined in an advanced investigation, were determined to have been squeezed out with the EM 662 plate van using the suspect Ahmet Özsakallı.

Sennaroglu said that the suspect Ahmet Özsakallı was arrested and detained in Güzelyurt and that the suspect Hüseyin Özsakallı was handed over to the police.

Stating that the investigation continues, Sennaroglu, the suspects demanded additional detention.

Senior Judge Tacan Reynar ordered the suspects to remain in custody for two days.

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Dilek Witness, a sales consultant in the garment store, caught on security cameras while stealing clothes from the store.

From September 2017 to November 2017, Dilek Tanık worked as a sales consultant in a confection store operating on Karaoğlanoğlu Street in Alsancak, and was arrested after finding that his workplace had stolen cash and various clothing items. The witness who was arrested after the complaint of the owner of the workplace who noticed the incident on the records of the store's security cameras was removed yesterday from the Girne Accident Court. The witness will remain in custody for 2 days.

Girne Accident Court Judge Mesut Mesutoğlu'nun in the presence of the judge in the case of the prosecutor on behalf of the prosecutor Emine Taşkın, Girne Police Station Police Station officer Anıl Derindağ'in witnessed the police station.

Derindağ noted that the suspect, Dilek Witness, was "a metal from the guilt" by "the aristocracy."

The suspect witness stated that the investigation was continuing with a total of $ 677 in cash and a total of 45 pieces of clothing apparels worth TL 2,808, which were kept for sale at the work place, in the shop of the workshop subject to the suspect.

Derindağ said that he wanted to be taken, and at this stage he demanded his suspect remain in police custody for 2 days.

The court, which found the claim of the police in place, granted emrine the desired detention.

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Hunting Season Begins in North Cyprus..... Keep your head down!

You may hear gunshots ringing out in the TRNC today- don’t panic- it’s not war. Unless of course, you happen to be a small, defenceless creature like a rabbit, hare or bird of some sort.. The hunting season began yesterday 6th Nov. 2017, and will run for 11 days between 5 November and 31 December, the Council of Ministers have ruled.

It’s a well known fact that the population of several breeds of rabbits and some birds have drastically depleted on the island, and yet, every year, we see yet another ‘hunting season’.

Rabbits are already terribly depleted on the island

Hunting was once a necessity for families who lived in a sustained state of poverty. Often, the hunt would provide the only rare source of meat to eat.

But now, in 2017, is this really sensible?

The vast fields and mountains, which were once home to colonies of rabbit and hare are now a rarity. Pheasants, which were once a magnificent sight in the skies are barely ever visible.

One must ask, what exactly is this ‘hunting season’ in aid of?

Gone are the days where families would look to father or husband with pleading eyes, hungry and desperate for him to bring home something that would be warm and nutritious and although there are many families in Cyprus who struggle financially, it’s certainly a far cry from the malnutrition which has plagued Cypriots several times in their history.

Pheasants were once a common sight, now rarely ever seen

In fact, when was the last time you went to a restaurant and saw rabbit on the menu? When was the last time you were planning meals for the week, and thought to yourself ‘I really fancy a bit of Pheasant…’? When was the last time you saw these meats at the butcher section of Lemar?

Rather, today, what we have are groups of ridiculous men, dressed up in camouflage, looking like a life-sized Action Man Doll, chests puffed up with outdated chauvinism and misplaced pride.

Anybody who loves their country would surely agree that it’s far more kind, and far more sensible to preserve the natural beauty, that is wild life, and encourage the growth of the Eco- System, which ultimately sustains the health and very lives of the human population. One does not need university education to understand the travesty of driving a species of your country into extinction.  Although this notion may seem far fetched, it’s not an impossible one, as Cyprus is well and truly on the fast track of causing the extinction of some of its wildlife hosted upon the island.

Perhaps one day, the hunting season can be replaced with an Eco season. Where men, women and children can come together as a community, clean up the natural spots on the island, and in place of mess, plant herbs, vegetation, trees and bushes which will feed, shelter, and perhaps, recover the wildlife which we are guilty of destroying. Surely, the sense of community spirit and the satisfaction that will come with bearing witness to the fruits of their labour, as seeds blossom into flowers, twigs turn into trees and wildlife returns, at the hands of those who may work to fix this, would be a real reason to feel proud? As opposed to the misplaced pride people feel when hanging small, dead animals from their belts, as though it’s a trophy of masculinity. Really?  Could there be anything more pathetic??

Maintaining tradition and culture is, without  doubt, an essential part of maintaining ethnic identity but sometimes, on rare occasions and matters such as these, some traditions need to be altered or reinvented entirely – lest we lose an enormous part of the beauty of this county, if it’s not already too late.

26 killed in church attack in Texas' deadliest mass shooting

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — A man dressed in black tactical-style gear and armed with an assault rifle opened fire inside a church in a small South Texas community on Sunday, killing 26 people and wounding about 20 in what the governor called the deadliest mass shooting in the state's history. The dead ranged in age from 5 to 72 years old.

Authorities didn't identify the attacker during a news conference Sunday night, but two other officials — one a U.S. official and one in law enforcement — identified him as Devin Kelley. They spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss the investigation.

The U.S. official said Kelley lived in a San Antonio suburb and didn't appear to be linked to organized terrorist groups. Investigators were looking at social media posts Kelley made in the days before Sunday's attack, including one that appeared to show an AR-15 semiautomatic weapon.

An Air Force spokeswoman said Sunday night that Devin P. Kelley received a bad-conduct discharge from the Air Force for allegedly assaulting his spouse and child, and was sentenced to 12 months' confinement after a 2012 court-martial. Kelley served in Logistics Readiness at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico from 2010 until his discharge, spokeswoman Ann Stefanek said.

At the news conference, the attacker was described only as a white man in his 20s who was wearing black tactical gear and a ballistic vest when he pulled into a gas station across from the First Baptist Church around 11:20 a.m.

The gunman crossed the street and started firing a Ruger AR rifle at the church, said Freeman Martin, a regional director of the Texas Department of Safety, then continued firing after entering the white wood-frame building, where an 11 a.m. service was scheduled. As he left, the shooter was confronted by an armed resident who "grabbed his rifle and engaged that suspect," Martin said. A short time later, the suspect was found dead in his vehicle at the county line.

Several weapons were found inside the vehicle and Martin said it was unclear if the attacker died of a self-inflicted wound or if he was shot by the resident who confronted him. He said investigators weren't ready to discuss a possible motive. Martin said 23 of the dead were found in the church, two were found outside and one died after being taken to a hospital.

Addressing the news conference, Gov. Greg Abbott called the attack the worst mass shooting in Texas history.

"There are no words to describe the pure evil that we witnessed in Sutherland Springs today," Abbott said. "Our hearts are heavy at the anguish in this small town, but in time of tragedy, we see the very best of Texas. May God comfort those who've lost a loved one, and may God heal the hurt in our communities."

Among those killed was the church pastor's 14-year-old daughter, Annabelle Pomeroy. Pastor Frank Pomeroy, and his wife, Sherri, were both out of town in two different states when the attack occurred, Sherri Pomeroy wrote in a text message to the AP.

"We lost our 14-year-old daughter today and many friends," she wrote. "Neither of us has made it back into town yet to personally see the devastation. I am at the charlotte airport trying to get home as soon as i can."

Federal law enforcement swarmed the small rural community of a few hundred residents 30 miles southeast of San Antonio after the attack, including ATF investigators and members of the FBI's evidence collection team.

At least 16 wounded were taken to hospitals, hospital officials said, including eight taken by medical helicopter to the Brooke Army Medical Center. Another eight victims were taken to Connally Memorial Medical Center, located in Floresville about 10 miles from the church, including four who were later transferred to University Hospital in San Antonio for higher-level care, said spokeswoman Megan Posey.

Hunter Green, 16, normally attends the church with his girlfriend but they skipped Sunday after a late date night. Attending a candlelight vigil hours later, he described the building as having only small exits on the side and in the back that would have made it very difficult to flee a shooter entering the front door.

"They wouldn't have had anywhere to go," Green said.

Alena Berlanga, a Floresville resident who was monitoring the chaos on a police scanner and in Facebook community groups, said everyone knows everyone else in the sparsely populated county.

"This is horrific for our tiny little tight-knit town," Berlanga said. "Everybody's going to be affected and everybody knows someone who's affected."

Regina Rodriguez, who arrived at the church a couple of hours after the shooting, walked up to the police barricade and hugged a person she was with. She said her father, 51-year-old Richard Rodriguez, attends the church every Sunday, and she hadn't been able to reach him. She said she feared the worst.

Church member Nick Uhlig, 34, wasn't at Sunday's service, but he said his cousins were at the church and that his family was told at least one of them, a woman with three children and pregnant with another, was among the dead.

"We just gathered to bury their grandfather on Thursday," he said, shaking his head. "This is the only church here. We have Bible study, men's Bible study, vacation Bible school. Somebody went in and started shooting."

President Donald Trump, who was in Japan, called the shooting an "act of evil" and said he was monitoring the situation.

"We're shocked. Shocked and dismayed," said state Sen. Judith Zaffirini, a Laredo Democrat whose district includes Sutherland Springs, a rural community known for its peanut festival, which was held last month. "It's especially shocking when it's such a small, serene area. These rural areas, they are so beautiful and so loving."

Later Sunday, two sheriff's vans were parked outside the gate of a cattle fence surrounding the address listed for Kelley on the rural, western outskirts of New Braunfels, north of San Antonio, preventing a group of waiting journalists from entering. Officials from the Comal County Sherriff's Office and the Texas Rangers declined to comment or say if they had raided his home.

Ryan Albers, 16, who lives across the road said he heard intensifying gunfire coming from that direction in recent days.

"It had to be coming from somewhere pretty close," Albers said. "It was definitely not just a shotgun or someone hunting. It was someone using automatic weapon fire."

The church has posted videos of its Sunday services on a YouTube channel, raising the possibility that the shooting was captured on video.

In a video of its Oct. 8 service, a congregant who spoke and read Scripture pointed to the Oct. 1 Las Vegas shooting a week earlier as evidence of the "wicked nature" of man. That shooting left 58 dead and more than 500 injured.

Until Sunday, the deadliest mass shooting in Texas had been a 1991 attack in Killeen, when a mentally disturbed man crashed his pickup truck through a restaurant window at lunchtime and started shooting people, killing 23 and injuring more than 20 others.

The University of Texas was the site of one of the most infamous mass shootings in American history, when U.S. Marine sniper Charles Whitman climbed the Austin campus' clock tower in 1966 and began firing on stunned people below, killing 13 and wounding nearly three dozen others. He had killed his wife and mother before heading to the tower, one victim died a week later and medical examiners eventually attributed a 17th death to Whitman in 2001.

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Associated Press writers Sadie Gurman and Eric Tucker in Washington, Nomaan Merchant in Houston, Will Weissert in Austin, Diana Heidgerd in Dallas, Michael Balsamo in Los Angeles and Paul J. Weber in New Braunfels, Texas, contributed to this report.