In today's episode, the leader of the People’s Party in the north, Kudret Ozersay, accused the United States of putting its own national interests ahead of regional stability and “violating” airspace in the north of the island as a means of sending a message to the Turkish Cypriot side following the US lifting a decades-old arms embargo against Cyprus. In other news, two men are wanted by Larnaca police in a case involving the attempted murder of a 34-year-old man in a hit-and-run that took place on Saturday night; and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar demanded the identification and conviction of those responsible for the death of a 41-year-old Turkish Cypriot inmate at the Central Prisons in Nicosia last week.

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