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Cyprus seeks arrest of ex-army boss in blast trial

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Chicago Tribune:

A judge in Cyprus issued an arrest warrant for the island's former army chief on Monday after he failed to appear at a hearing into a deadly munitions disaster last year.

Petros Tsalikidis, a Greek national and the former head of the national guard, two former ministers and five other people face charges of manslaughter and negligence over the blast of confiscated Iranian weapons in July 2011, the island's worst peacetime disaster.

The explosion killed 13 people, destroyed Cyprus's largest power station and triggered the dissolution of a centre-left governing coalition.

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