Новости за 02.10.2015

By Angelos Anastasiou Celebrity theologian and former DISY MP and MEP Andreas Pitsillides was excommunicated by a Synod Committee on Friday, which cited his heretical views on Orthodox faith and teaching as the reason he was thrown out of the Church of Cyprus. Announcing the decision, the committee said Pitsillides’ removal from the Church would […]

By Philip Pullella Pope Francis’ meeting last week with an American woman at the centre of a row over gay marriage was not something he had sought and should not be seen as an endorsement of her views, the Vatican said on Friday. One Vatican official said there was ‘a sense of regret’ that the […]

By Jason Lange US employers slammed the brakes on hiring over the last two months, raising new doubts the economy is strong enough for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates by the end of this year. Payrolls outside of farming rose by 142,000 last month and August figures were revised sharply lower to show […]

Tourism authorities were left reeling on Friday on news that Russian airline Transaero had been declared bankrupt, and scrambled crisis talks to assess the situation. With 40,000 Russian tourists currently on the island, Russian tour operator Biblio Globus, which brings in 70 per cent of all Russian tourists to Cyprus and relies on Transaero, said […]

By Maria Gregoriou The Nostalgia Soundtrack was originally planned for the start of this month but, as luck would have it, music was not the only thing that wanted to blow into Nicosia. Dust also wanted to have its say, and say it did that the event would be cancelled. But now, with all that […]

By Annette Chrysostomou The Times Higher Education has ranked the University of Cyprus (UCy) among the 351 to 400 top universities in the world. Among European universities, the UCy was positioned at between 172 to 197. The influential ‘Times Higher Education World University Rankings’ have been published for 12 consecutive years. The results are used […]

Police returned seven hard drives to the Central Bank (CBC) on Friday after it seized them in late May for investigations into a leaked list of MPs loan portfolios at the Bank of Cyprus. The matter has put the CBC governor Chrystalla Georghadj under fire after independent deputy Zacharias Koulias, named on the list filed […]

Interior minister Socratis Hasikos chaired a meeting with the leaders of various Paphos villages on Friday, in which he pledged government funds for emergency and mature projects. The session was held at the local council office of Steni, Paphos, and was attended by the leaders of villages Yiolou, Goudi, Lysos, Miliou, Peristerona, Skoulli, Filousa Chrysochous, […]

By Shravanth Vijayakumar and Simon Jennings Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho says he is going through the worst period of his managerial career with his team winning just four of their 11 matches this season. The Premier League champions currently sit 14th in the table after seven games, having won just twice in the league. It […]

John Kerry has expressed the wish to visit Cyprus in November, Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said on Friday after meeting the US Secretary of State in New York. Akinci said Kerry had expressed continuing US support for a Cyprus solution based on a bizonal, bizonal bicommunal federation. He also said, according to Turkish Cypriot […]

By Francesco Canepa European Central Bank supervisory chief Daniele Nouy said on Friday the ECB had the power to suspend a Greek bank’s payments to its creditors if that institution was deemed about to be resolved or liquidated. Nouy made her comments in a letter responding to a query by a member of the European […]

By Stelios Orphanides Bank workers union ETYK warned that it could call for labour action at Societe Generale Bank Cyprus Limited after the latter asked workers to express their thoughts about a change in working hours. Send to Kindle

Three men were charged over the past week in connection with poaching across the Famagusta district. On Thursday, a 57-year-old man in Frenaros was stopped by police who found a trapping net in his car at about 7am.  He was charged in writing and released. Just an hour and a half later, a 62-year-old from […]

By Maria Gregoriou We all enjoy a bit of clowning about, a bit of a juggling act and a bit of a charity festival. Because, let’s face it, variety is the spice of life and when the spice makes you sing along, dance or laugh it is really the best you can get. This weekend, […]

Greek health authorities urged the public to take health precautions on Friday after a suspected cholera case was discovered on Kos island, a tourist destination and entry point for migrants from the Middle East and Asia. An official for the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention told Reuters a 79-year-old Dutch tourist was transferred from […]

A 40-year-old man was arrested on Thursday in Limassol after he was allegedly caught red-handed during a burglary, said police who also found drugs in his possession, they said. At about 11:15pm, an off-duty police officer was informed by a friend that a flat was broken into and it was possible the suspect was still […]

By Linda Sieg A new slogan adopted by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and meant to show that all Japanese will benefit from economic growth is raising eyebrows among those who see it as an eerie echo of wartime propaganda. Abe unveiled the goal of building a “Society in Which All 100 million People can be […]

President Nicos Anastasiades formalised the dismissal of Rikkos Erotokritou as deputy attorney-general on Friday by issuing a presidential decree, following last week’s decision by the Judicial Council, comprising the full bench of the Supreme Court to sack him. “The President of the Republic, as the guardian of the constitution, proceeded today with a presidential act, in […]

Russia estimates its air strike campaign in Syria could last three to four months, the head of the lower house of the Russian parliament’s foreign affairs committee said on Friday. “There is always a risk of being bogged down but in Moscow, we are talking about an operation of three to four months,” Alexei Pushkov, […]

Turkish police detained 44 people in Istanbul on Friday on suspicion of links with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in a continuing crackdown on militants ahead of a snap national election in November, local media reported. Fighting between the Turkish military and the outlawed PKK resumed in the country’s mainly Kurdish southeast following the collapse […]

By Stelios Orphanides Creditors of defunct Cyprus Popular Bank, also known as Laiki, hope to recover a significant part of the money they lost after administrator Chris Pavlou filed a complaint at the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, a spokesperson of the beneficiaries said. Send to Kindle

By Ed Osmond Georgia are determined to rise to the occasion in their first ever game against the mighty All Blacks, who can book a World Cup quarter-final place with victory in the Pool C match at the Millennium Stadium on Friday (10pm). The Georgians began their campaign well with a 17-10 win over Tonga […]

By Courtney Sherwood and Curtis Skinner The man killed by police on Thursday after he fatally shot nine people at a community college in southern Oregon was a nervy 26-year-old who lived close to the campus and described himself as shy, according to neighbours, media and online reports. A law enforcement source said multiple agencies […]

A 30-year-old woman and a 29-year-old man were arrested on Friday in Paphos, in connection with the stabbing of two men aged 47 and 52, allegedly over financial differences. The 52-year-old man is currently in the Intensive Care Unit at the Paphos Hospital. Paphos police spokesman Nicos Tsappis told the Cyprus News Agency that the […]

Broadcaster Rosie Charalambous takes a weekly look at the stories and cultural events making the news. 800 years after it was signed by an unwilling King John, the Magna Carta is still considered to be an important document. Desmond Browne QC (l) spoke about its significance at the British High Commission in Nicosia this week; […]