Новости за 12.11.2015

By Joseph Ax An 80-year-old reputed mobster was found not guilty on Tuesday of an alleged role in a brazen 1978 airport heist that helped inspire the Mafia movie ‘Goodfellas.’ Vincent Asaro, whose arrest last year had supposedly closed one of the country’s most infamous unsolved crimes more than three decades later, was cleared of […]

POLICE on Thursday evening arrested a 34-year-old man in connection with the murder of Moldavian national Daniella Rosca earlier this month. According to a police bulletin, the suspect – a Greek Cypriot and owner of a gym in Larnaca – was the last person to speak on the phone with Rosca. The suspect is set […]

A US B-52 strategic bomber flew near artificial Chinese islands in the South China Sea recently and was contacted by Chinese ground controllers but continued its mission undeterred, the Pentagon spokesman said on Thursday. “We conduct B-52 flights in international air space in that part of the world all the time,” Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook […]

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi The Syrian army and allied forces captured the town of Al Hader in the northern province of Aleppo on Thursday, state television said, opening the way for advances into a strategic rebel-held area northern Syria with the backing of Russian air power. The rebels fled the town south of Aleppo city after […]

By Mariam Karouny and Laila Bassam At least 43 people were killed and more than 240 wounded on Thursday in two suicide bomb blasts claimed by Islamic State in a crowded residential district in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a stronghold of the Shi’ite Muslim group Hezbollah. The explosions were the first attacks in more than a […]

By Elias Hazou PARLIAMENT on Thursday gave the nod to a bill governing the sale of loans by banks to third parties – passage of which was a precondition for the release of the last aid tranche to Cyprus. The item passed by 26 to 25 votes thanks to the ‘ayes’ from ruling DISY and […]

By Nate Raymond and Brian Ellsworth Two of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s relatives have been indicted in the United States for cocaine smuggling, according to court papers on Thursday, following an international sting that Venezuela cast as an ‘imperialist’ attack. The charge against the nephews of Maduro’s wife, Cilia Flores, follows announcements earlier this year […]

Israeli undercover forces raided a West Bank hospital on Thursday and shot dead a Palestinian during an attempt to detain another man suspected of carrying out a stabbing, the Palestinian health ministry and doctors said. The Israeli army confirmed the raid and shooting and said it was carried out to detain Azzam al-Shalalda, 22, over […]

Islamic State has released a video threatening attacks in Russia ‘very soon’ in revenge for Russian bombing in Syria, the SITE monitoring group said on Thursday, and the Kremlin said Russian state security services would study the material. Al-Hayat Media Center, the militant group’s foreign language media division, released a video in Russian with chants […]

CYPRUS is hosting its first ever children’s walk on Sunday called ‘The Teddy Bear Walk’ in a bid to raise money for refugees, handing out teddy bears to children that lost their homes in Cyprus and Greece. Organised by the ‘Bearfoot – children helping children’ charity initiative, it is expected to attract some 800 children […]

A FLURRY of activity surrounding the Cyprus issue is expected over the next 30-day period, as a succession of foreign diplomats are due to visit the island. According to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier will be coming here on an official visit on November 17. This will be followed two […]

By Maria Gregoriou The season seems to be filled with fairytales, with classical characters once again making their way to our stages and cinema screens, and with a new twist on the old. Two stories will make their way into our lives again, and each takes a different kind of young lady on her path […]

ONE of Greece’s top broadcasters, Alpha TV, has applied to set up shop in Cyprus, the radiotelevision authority confirmed on Thursday. The regulator now needs to evaluate the application in a meeting expected to take place soon, and according to reports, should it be approved it will begin to broadcast from the beginning of January. […]

FAMAGUSTA district court has referred to the criminal court three men suspected of smuggling 26 people to Cyprus earlier this month. The captain, engineer and money collector aged 29, 35 and 48, respectively, of a boat rescued earlier this month off the Famagusta coast, were on Thursday referred to the Famagusta criminal court in Larnaca’s […]

By Stelios Orphanides The state-bailed-out Cooperative Central Bank which manages 18 independent cooperative saving banks on the island posted a post provision loss of €228m in the first nine months of the year compared to a profit of €109.5m a year before and said that it may require additional capital injection from the state. The […]

By Angelos Anastasiou RUSSIAN lawyer Armen Davidyan took the witness stand for the prosecution on Thursday, as the trial of former deputy Attorney-general Rikkos Erotokritou, lawyers Andreas Kyprizoglou and Panayiotis Neocleous, and the law firm Andreas Neocleous & Co, continues to unfold. During questioning by prosecution lawyer Elias Stefanou, an objection on procedure was raised […]

THE fire which broke out at the Vassiliko cement factory on Wednesday morning was caused by the self-combustion of methane produced by organic waste, the fire service confirmed on Thursday. The factory used the waste as an alternative fuel source. The fire started at 5am and was brought under control five hours later. Send to […]

By Alastair Macdonald European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to invite Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to a summit very soon as they seek his help to stem a chaotic flow of migrants that threatens Europe’s unity and open borders. Donald Tusk, the European Council president who chaired the emergency meeting of EU leaders on Malta, […]

A FATHER of two pleaded guilty and was fined €450 by District court judge Panicos Michaelides on Thursday for stealing a mobile phone from a shop in the Mall of Paphos. The offense was committed on December 30, 2013. The man who was accompanied in court by his two underaged children, aged seven and nine, […]

By Aki Peritz It’s no secret that Washington wants Raqqa, Islamic State’s proclaimed “capital” in Syria, to fall sooner rather than later. President Barack Obama has announced that he is deploying Special Operations forces inside Kurdish-controlled regions of Syria. The United States recently dropped some 50 tons of ammunition for rebel groups in Syria. The […]

Paphos hunters have called for stricter enforcement of animal welfare laws after a series of cases of dogs being abandoned or abused during hunting seasons. The Paphos hunting association said it would push for strict implementation of dog welfare laws to avoid phenomena of abandonment and maltreatment, the group’s chairman Charalambos Pittokopitis said on Thursday. […]

By Stelios Orphanides Cypriots spent €224.4m in October to shop using plastic money, a 10 per cent rise compared to the respective month of 2014, card processing company JCC Payment Systems said. In the first ten months of the year, overall payments with the use of cards rose 1 per cent to almost €1.9bn compared […]

A Green Party vice chairman has resigned saying it was a “tired” movement that had nothing to offer the new generation. “As a youth, I am convinced that I have nothing else to offer to such a tired political movement,” Andreas Masouras said in a letter. Such a party, he said, “has nothing to offer […]

By Maria Gregoriou If you have an IKEA family card – if not, you still have time to get one – then grab your kids on Saturday and head to IKEA for the soft toys drawing competition. From 11am until 2pm, children up to 12-years-old can go to the store and put down on paper […]

By Denis Dyomkin in Sochi and Vladimir Soldatkin President Vladimir Putin said Russia needed to conduct its own investigation into allegations its athletes had systematically taken performance-enhancing substances and that someone needed to take personal responsibility for the problem. Putin, in his first comments since an independent commission from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) levelled […]