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In the company of women, or what bail-in pain has to do with botox, botched relationships and eating disorders

April 6th 2013

Once in a blue moon, Mercury catches up with his first love, the arts - more specifically, the performing arts.

And this past Friday night, in the midst of deliberating whether or not to take part in a quiz at the ESOBGA club house or head off to watch a local production of Eve Ensler's The Good Body at Melina Merkouri Hall, fate took a hand.

While Mercury was trying to weigh up how best to lay out an article on the escalating crisis in the Korean peninsula, while freeing up room on the page for a story on a building collapse disaster near Mumbai, the phone rang at the far end of the subs room.

Mercury heard the colleague who answered say to the caller "...no, just guys here, and [name of a female colleague], so I don't think so..."

‘Women will suffer twice as much’

By Maria Gregoriou 04/04/13
 THE WORSENING economic crisis will set women’s rights issues back years as unemployment and poverty grow, women’s groups said yesterday.At a seminar in Nicosia yesterday on the impact of the crisis on womenthe speaker stressed how funding cuts would also place women’s issues on the back burner after years of struggling to get where they are today.Antigoni Papadopoulou, a member of the European Parliament,  who spoke at the seminar said women were the victims of a silent crisis and would suffer twice as much because their struggle for equality would be compromised.“All those years of fighting for women’s rights in Cyprus will come to no avail now as we will have to start from the beginning,” she said... 7 comments

Mugging arrests

02/04/13
A 16 AND a 17-year-old youth were arrested on Sunday in connection with the mugging of two women in Larnaca on March 30, where gold chains and crosses they were wearing were stolen.After questioning police found that the two teenagers were also allegedly involved in another four cases of mugging earlier last month... Read on
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