Новости за 19.10.2015

Nicosia taxi drivers have called off a planned strike for Tuesday. Although they announced they would be closing a series of key roads, following a meeting with police chief Zacharias Chrysostomou the Nicosia taxi association announced that he had promised to resolve their problems. Their long standing requests are the creation of taxi ramps and abolishing […]

Cyprus said on Monday it would not end its opposition to Turkish accession negotiations with the EU, saying the reasons it had blocked chapters in the first place remained valid. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a joint news conference in Istanbul with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davugotlu on Sunday that her country “is ready […]

By Elias Hazou Rather than laying a pipeline straight from the Aphrodite reservoir to Egypt, a shorter pipeline could be built, connecting to Egypt’s newly-discovered Zohr gas field and then the gas brought to Egyptian shores, energy minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis has asserted. Under this scenario, the facilities to be built on top of the Zohr […]

Attorney-general (AG) Costas Clerides told the Nicosia criminal court on Monday that his former deputy Rikkos Erotokritou had deviated from a gentlemen’s agreement between the two regarding their respective functions. Clerides was taking the stand as a witness for the prosecution in the ‘Providencia’ trial, in which former deputy AG Erotokritou, lawyers Andreas Kyprizoglou and […]

By Elizabeth Piper President Xi Jinping will be feted by the royal family and leading politicians during a trip this week which Prime Minister David Cameron hopes will cement Britain‘s lucrative place as China’s closest friend in the West. Hailed as the beginning of a ‘golden era’ or ‘golden time’ in Sino-British ties, the visit, which […]

By Maayan Lubell An Eritrean migrant, shot by a security guard and kicked by an angry Israeli crowd that mistook him for a gunman, was identified on Monday as one of the dead from an attack on a bus station in the southern city of Beersheba. The Eritrean agricultural worker was named by his employer […]

Fire services were on Monday combating two fires in Limassol at Anogyra village and Ayios Akindin. At 2:16pm, the fire service received a call that an area in Anogyra village was in flames burning six hectares of dry shrub and wild vegetation. Two helicopters and six fire trucks were at the scene trying to put […]

Limassol police were on Monday investigating the crowd trouble that saw a top flight football fixture abandoned before it even started. The game between Limassol’s Apollon and Anorthosis of Famagusta at the Tsirion stadium was abandoned after fans of the away team invaded the pitch and attacked the home side’s officials and substitutes. It happened […]

Police chief Zacharias Chrysostomou ordered an investigation concerning abuse of power and other offences against a police officer from Limassol who allegedly arrested a bailiff on the pretext that he had entered his residence illegally, police spokesman Andreas Angelides said on Monday. The incident occurred Saturday afternoon, when the bailiff, who was reportedly trying for […]

By Evie Andreou In the past decade 30 women have lost their lives in Cyprus due to domestic violence, permanent secretary of the justice ministry Andreas Mylonas said on Monday. Speaking at the meeting of the House committee on human rights, Mylonas conveyed Minister Ionas Nicolaou’s commitment for the signing and ratification of the Istanbul […]

Εxcavations to locate a Greek military aircraft which was shot down by friendly fire in the summer of 1974 and the remains of the soldiers on board will be concluded in the next few days, Presidential Commissioner Fotis Fotiou said. In statements to CNA, Fotiou said that anthropological  tests and the identification of the remains […]

By Robin Emmott NATO and its allies opened their largest military exercise in more than a decade on Monday, choosing the central Mediterranean to showcase strengths that face threats from Russia’s growing military presence from the Baltics to Syria. As planes flew over a gala ceremony for NATO’s military and political leaders at an air […]

By Bejay Browne AN urgent appeal for blood donations has been launched in Paphos by friends and family of a British expat currently in intensive care, as stocks have run out. Len Maitland, 77, is currently in the intensive care unit at Paphos general hospital and has already received 10 units of ‘O’ negative blood […]

Iran’s nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi said on Monday he expected a deal with six world powers on shrinking Tehran’s atomic programme in exchange for sanctions relief to be implemented by year-end. “Hopefully before the end of this year certainly we would have the implementation day,” Araqchi told reporters after meeting senior officials from the United […]

By Stelios Orphanides Finance minister Harris Georgiades said that the troika’s downward revision to -0.5 per cent of an initial growth forecast of 0.4 per cent for 2015 undermined Cyprus’s efforts to attract investors. Speaking before the House Finance Committee on Monday, Georgiades said the downward revision of the 2015 growth rate forecast by the […]

By Brian Love Michel Platini said the two million Swiss francs ($2.1 million) he received from FIFA, a payment which has cast a cloud over his bid to become president of the world football body, was legitimate reward for genuine work. In an interview with the Le Monde newspaper published on Monday, the head of […]

By Alexia Evripidou Crimson Peak is an intense, claustrophobic and seriously atmospheric horror film that is definitely worth watching, once. This latest addition to Guillermo Del Toro’s long list of notable movies is a decent drama/fantasy/horror but it is by no means up to the calibre of his highly acclaimed Pan’s Labyrinth. Starring Jessica Chastain […]

The government urgently needs to invest €2.3mln for maintenance of the capital’s road infrastructure, according to Nicosia Mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis. The mayor alerted the government to this in a series of letters to the Public Works department and the Permanent Secretary of the Communications ministry Alecos Michaelides. The latest was sent this September when areas […]

By John Geddie Greek two-year government bond yields fell to their lowest level this year on Monday as investors welcomed Athens’ approval of a series of reforms needed to unlock bailout cash. Parliamentary approval of the reform bill late on Friday keeps Greece on track to secure the next 3 billion euro instalment of its […]

By Lin Noueihed Egyptians appeared to be shunning the ballot box for a second day on Monday in what one newspaper called “an election without voters”, highlighting growing disillusionment since the army seized power in 2013 and promised to restore democracy. Voting got off to a slow start, a day after polling stations visited by […]

A fire has broken out at the SOPAZ animal feed factory in the eastern outskirts of Nicosia, the fire service said on Monday. Spokesman Leonidas Leonidou said smoke could be seen coming out of the factory but no further information was immediately available.     Send to Kindle

By Alix Norman Coming up this week is a musical extravaganza which supports an excellent cause: the Freedom Opera in aid of the Freedom Dolls Initiative (FDI). Taking place on Friday, the event will see top performers provide an evening of classical entertainment in an exclusive setting – the historic Mouseio Theasis in Larnaca – […]

Mission chiefs of Greece’s international lenders will briefly visit the country on Oct. 20 to be informed about the pace of reforms following approval of key legislation last week, a Greek government official said. “We are expecting them tomorrow, they will stay for two or three days. It will be a short briefing about the […]

By Stelios Orphanides Investors have expressed an interest in buying Bank of Piraeus (Cyprus) the lender’s chairman Constantinos Loizides has said. He said the bank, which is a subsidiary of Greece’s Bank of Piraeus, had proactively sought potential buyers in an attempt to prevent a fire sale of foreign assets instructed by European authorities ahead […]

Cyprus said on Monday it would not end its opposition to Turkish accession negotiations with the European Union, saying the reasons it had blocked them in the first place remained valid. European Union leaders last week pledged to ‘re-energise’ long-stalled accession negotiations with Ankara in return for its help in tackling a migration crisis that […]