Новости за 24.01.2016

Thieves with a stolen van removed an ATM from the front of a supermarket in the Acropolis area of Nicosia on Sunday, CyBC reported. The theft, captured on CCTV, was discovered by a security guard and reported to police on Sunday morning. According to CyBC the thieves, who could not be identified from the footage […]

AKEL leader Andros Kyprianou said on Sunday that Turkey was allow Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci a free rein on internal issues associated with the Cyprus issue at the negotiating table, while Ankara was more concerned with security and guarantees. Kyprianou was speaking Sunday afternoon on his return to Cyprus from Istanbul where he met […]

LONDON, Jan 24 (Reuters) – Arsenal 0 Chelsea 1 Arsenal missed their chance to go back to the top of the Premier League after being forced to play with 10 men for much of the game against London rivals Chelsea on Sunday. Defender Per Mertesacker was sent off in the first 20 minutes for a […]

By Paul Carrel and Thorsten Severin A senior figure in German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party has proposed setting up “border centres” along the frontier with Austria to speed up the repatriation of those asylum seekers deemed unqualified to stay. Julia Kloeckner, leader of Merkel’s Christian Democrats in the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate, said she […]

Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides has said that Turkey’s stated commitment to wanting to help solve the Cyprus problem would ultimately be put to the test at the negotiating table. In an interview with Simerini newspaper published on Sunday, Kasoulides said that though Turkey says it wants a solution, the issues that directly involve Ankara such […]

Britain might take in refugee children who have been displaced by the war in Syria and have travelled to other countries in Europe, a government minister said on Sunday. International Development Secretary Justine Greening said the government was considering whether it could do more for the estimated 3,000 children who have fled the conflict without […]

The United States is scrutinising developments in Poland, the U.S. trade czar said on Sunday when asked if Washington was concerned about the European Union’s rule of law inquiry into Poland and Standard and Poor’s cut to Warsaw’s credit rating. “As a fellow democracy we do follow developments here very closely,” U.S. Trade Representative Michael […]

By Bejay Browne PEYIA municipality should take back control of the two so-called beach bars at Coral Bay, both of which are licensed as kiosks, in the light of the auditor-general’s scathing report highlighting the town’s mismanagement, a local councillor has said. “We will decide if the kiosks will go to tender in a few […]

The European Union’s planned border patrol will be too small and member states should contribute soldiers to build up a force to protect the bloc’s external frontier, Czech President Milos Zeman said on Sunday. The EU has plans to create a European Border and Coast Guard with 1,500 personnel as part of measures to tackle […]

Monday’s visit by Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas will open new avenues of cooperation for Cyprus with countries the island has not traditionally had close ties with, according to Undersecretary to the President Constantinos Petrides. In statements to Cyprus News Agency on Sunday, Petrides said this would be the Estonian Prime Minister’s first visit to […]

More than 400 applications requesting exemption from debts and relating to the restructuring of loans have been filed with the Insolvency Service, according to its chief George Karotsakis. But he said that as banks move to foreclose, he expected this number to rise. Speaking to CNA, Karotsakis said that at the beginning of February five […]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he would allow Jewish settlers evicted by the Israeli army from two houses in the West Bank city of Hebron to return once proper permits were in place. Israeli settlements in occupied territory, deemed illegal by most countries, are a fundamental issue in the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process […]

By Angelos Anastasiou AMIDST controversy and attempts to crush the idea, discussion of the proposal to introduce a ‘mini-national health scheme’ (NHS) in mid-2017 with all stakeholders will commence this week, a spokesperson for embattled Health Minister Giorgos Pamboridis has told the Sunday Mail. Pamboridis, a plain-spoken outsider who has diagnosed an “unholy alliance of […]

Turkish Airlines flight TK34 has been diverted to Shannon, Ireland, after a bomb threat. The plane was headed from Houston, USA, to Istanbul, Turkey, RT reported on Sunday. The report said that a package discovered on board was suspected to be an explosive device. Emergency vehicles, it added, were currently on standby around the aircraft, […]

A major earthquake hit southern Alaska early on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, setting off tremors felt more than 170 miles (280 km) away in the state’s biggest city Anchorage. Twitter users reported feeling shaking, but there were no immediate reports of casualties in the region. “Long and pretty strong earthquake and power out […]

A memorial service in memory of EOKA founder George Grivas in Limassol was marred on Sunday after vandals spray painted and defaced his statue overnight, organisers said. The president of the ‘General George Grivas Dighenis’ foundation of the Monument Avgerinos Papares said the vandals “wrote insulting slogans against Digehnis and desecrated the monument”. It was […]

Only 2.4% of the workforce in Cyprus – some 8,600 people – are employed as Information and Communication Technology (ICT) specialists compared to 3.7% on average across the EU, according to a new Eurostat report. The figure for 2014, only rose 0.4% since 2011. According to Eurostat, in recent years, both the number and the […]

Syrian pro-government forces recaptured the rebel-held town of Rabiya in the western coastal province of Latakia on Sunday, Syrian state television and a Britain-based monitoring group said. The advance was backed by Russian air strikes and was directed partly by Russian officers, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. It would likely allow pro-government forces […]

By Tim Hepher Iran plans to buy 114 aircraft from European plane maker Airbus as soon as March, and is looking for other deals, senior Iranian officials said on Sunday as their country emerges from sanctions and international isolation. The republic could need as many as 500 new planes over the next three years, lawmaker […]

By Ian Ransom Champion Novak Djokovic put down the threat of a French revolution at Melbourne Park by fending off Gilles Simon 6-3 6-7(1) 6-4 4-6 6-3 to reach the quarter-finals of the Australian Open on Sunday. Having hurtled into the match without dropping a set, Djokovic found a brick wall in the form of […]

By Dustin Volz and Steve Holland Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, has told his aides to draw up plans for an independent campaign for the U.S. presidency, according to a source familiar with the situation. Bloomberg has advised friends and associates that he would be willing to spend at least […]

AKEL leader Andros Kyprianou said it was clear from his meetings with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Foreign Minister Melvut Cavusoglu in Istanbul on Saturday that Ankara did want to see a Cyprus solution but, he tweeted on Sunday that this needed to be proved at the negotiating table. Kyprianou said late on Saturday, […]

Sergio Aguero scored twice to answer an Enner Valencia double for West Ham United and earn Manchester City a crucial point in their push to regain the Premier League title on Saturday. Not for the first time City were thankful to their Argentine luminary who twice struck when the 2014 champions found themselves behind to […]

By Greg Stutchbury World number one Serena Williams set up a rematch of last year’s Australian Open final against Maria Sharapova after she comfortably accounted for Russian Margarita Gasparyan 6-2 6-1 in the fourth round on Sunday. The victory for Williams, who is seeking a seventh Australian Open title and 22nd grand slam trophy overall, […]

Damage was caused to a patio and French window of a home in Oroklini in Larnaca in the early hours of Sunday as the result of an explosion, police said. According to police, at around 3.15am an explosive device went off at the back terrace of the house owned by a 32-year-old woman. Oroklini police […]