In today's episode of Cyprus Beat, the Cyprus presidential elections kicked up a notch on Sunday when centre-right DIKO's central committee unanimously decided to support the candidacy of former foreign minister and independent, Nikos Christodoulides. In other news, a small tremor measuring 2.6 on the Richter scale was felt in some parts of the island on Sunday, the geological surveys department reported, and Interior Minister Nicos Nouris has urged both sides in the acrimonious Akamas debate to lower the tone, saying the truth of the new plan for the environmentally-sensitive area was somewhere in the middle between conservationists and landowners.
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