Social support body implores first lady to reconsider resignation

The social support body’s management committee on Tuesday implored First Lady Philippa Karsera Christodoulides to reconsider her resignation from her role as the body’s chairwoman.

She had resigned from the body, which was initially set up to offer financial assistance to disadvantaged students, after a video widely shared on social media last week linking it to alleged campaign finance violations on the part of President Nikos Christodoulides and his associates, but the committee said...