Новости за 13.02.2016

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said on Saturday that he and President Nicos Anastasides had discussed ways to speed up the negotiations during their meeting earlier in the day. Akinci said at the beginning of their meeting, he and Anastasiades had discussed recent statements made by both sides. The Turkish Cypriot leader had responded earlier […]

Even though nine in ten Cypriots are not drug users, the economic crisis and high unemployment has led many young people into depression and the use of drugs, the head of the Cyprus Anti Drugs Council Chrysanthos Georgiou said on Saturday. Speaking at the 21st conference organised by non-governmental organisation against addictions KENTHEA in cooperation […]

The Pharos Arts Foundation will present a performance by the Erato Piano Trio – considered to be among the UK’s leading young ensembles – on Wednesday at The Shoe Factory in Nicosia at 8.30pm. For their first concert in Cyprus the trio will perform works by Joseph Haydn, Alfred Schnittke and Johannes Brahms. These are […]

France burst into life when Maxime Medard’s second-half try inspired them to their first victory over Ireland in five years with a 10-9 win in the Six Nations on Saturday. Coach Guy Noves, who took over from Philippe Saint-Andre after last year’s World Cup, had promised spectacular rugby and Les Bleus did their best to […]

Brazil’s government launched a nationwide campaign on Saturday to fight the Zika virus, with President Dilma Rousseff and cabinet ministers personally visiting homes and handing out leaflets along with 220,000 troops. Under a scorching sun in the neighborhood of Zepellin in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, which will host the Olympic Games in August, […]

Britain must renew its submarine-borne Trident nuclear weapons system if it is to maintain its “outsized” role in world affairs, US Defence Secretary Ash Carter said in comments published on Saturday. A decision on replacing the ageing fleet of four submarines which carry nuclear warheads is due to be made this year and while Prime […]

Giorgos Efrem scored twice on Saturday as champions APOEL beat arch-rivals Omonia 2-0 in the Cyprus football championship. The Cypriot grabbed the opener after only nine minutes and added his second three minutes before half-time as APOEL moved to 53 points at the top of the table. Second-placed AEK can cut the gap to one […]

Independent MP Zacharias Koulias, announced on Saturday he would be running in the upcoming parliamentary elections as a DIKO candidate. Koulias, who was kicked out of the party in 2011, when he refused to endorse Marios Garoyian’s candidacy for House Speaker, and cast the deciding vote that elected then-EDEK leader Yiannakis Omirou as chairman of […]

Russia said on Saturday a ceasefire deal for Syria agreed by major powers was more likely to fail than succeed, as Syrian government forces backed by further Russian air strikes gained more ground against rebels near Aleppo. International divisions over Syria surfaced anew at a Munich conference where Russia rejected French charges that it was […]

David de Gea’s late own goal earned Sunderland a 2-1 win over Manchester United on Saturday and a vital three points in their bid for Premier League survival. Tunisian Wahbi Khazri gave the hosts the lead after three minutes when his wide free kick from 30 metres eluded everyone on its way into the far […]

Energy Minister George Lakkotrypis on Saturday said that the Larnaca municipal council’s rejection of the request of the hydrocarbon companies for the temporary extension of their stay at the town’s port would lead to the delay in Total’s exploratory drilling by three to four months. On Monday, the council voted against allowing the operation of […]

Greek Orthodox Easter may be very late this year, making Greek Monday also later than we normally expect, but the art of making traditional kites doesn’t wait for any man, and that is why the AG Leventis Museum in Nicosia is inviting families to come and make their own traditional kites at the beginning of […]

The foreign ministers of Cyprus, Greece and Lebanon will have a meeting on Monday, on the sidelines the EU Foreign Affairs Council, in Brussels, in a bid to establish a new trilateral cooperation scheme. Government Spokesman Nicos Christodoulides told CNA that this would be the first meeting between the three countries, at ministerial level, to explore […]

Icy blast before Canada warms up for All-Star Game The NBA got a frosty welcome as it brought its All-Star Game north to Canada for the first time where fans and players were greeted by an Arctic blast on Friday but a forecast for plenty of heat over a party packed weekend. Mother Nature and […]

Where do you live? Currently on a 70 foot yacht that roams the earth with 20 other strangers! I lived in London for the last eight years, my hometown though is beautiful Larnaca Best childhood memory? Waiting for my father to return from work during summer, so he would take myself and my sister on […]

Two wooden prefabricated storage facilities near Filousa in the Paphos district owned by a 36-year old man were destroyed by fire on Friday night. The damage is estimated at around €20,000. According to police reports, the fire was caused by a petrol heater which the owner had left lit in one of the two units. […]

In the coming days, President Nicos Anastasiades is to take some decisions on how the National Council operates, and whether he will still hand over negotiations documents to the party leaders, CyBC reported on Saturday. Citing Government Spokesman Nicos Christodoulides, CyBC said Anastasiades was very concerned over the leak of a document he had distributed […]

President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci were meeting on Saturday, their first this month. According to CyBC the main topic on the agenda was property. The meeting was taking at the residence of the Lisa Buttenheim, the UN Secretary-General`s Special Representative in Cyprus. At an event on Friday night, Anastasiades said the […]

On Tuesday both Nicosia and Limassol will welcome the National Theatre as THOC and the Rialto will screening a performance of Les Liaisons Dangereuses as part of their National Theatre Live production season. The performance is based on the 1782 epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos where former lovers, and now rivals, the Marquise […]

PERTH, Australia, Feb. 13 (Reuters) – Doctors at an Australian hospital are refusing to release a baby girl facing repatriation to an offshore immigration detention camp, after she was treated for serious burns, adding to pressure on the government over its tough asylum seekers policy. The one-year-old girl will not be released from Lady Cilento […]

HAVANA, Feb 12 (Reuters) – Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill embraced and kissed on Friday in a historic meeting, uniting to issue a global appeal for the protection of Christians under assault in the Middle East. Nearly 1,000 years after the Eastern and Western branches of Christianity split apart, the meeting at an […]

MUNICH/AMMAN, Feb 12 (Reuters) – Major powers agreed on Friday to a pause in combat in Syria, but Russia pressed on with bombing in support of its ally President Bashar al-Assad, who vowed to fight until he regained full control of the country. Although billed as a potential breakthrough, the “cessation of hostilities” agreement does […]

Two games that may go a long way this weekend in deciding who will claim the title for the 2015-16 season. On Saturday leaders APOEL are at home to their arch rivals Omonia while the two teams just off the top, AEK and Anorthosis, clash the following day in Larnaca. Despite leading the race APOEL […]

By Martyn Herman Leicester City will be wary of a reality check when the Premier League front-runners visit Arsenal on Sunday before Tottenham Hotspur’s burgeoning title ambitions come under scrutiny at Manchester City. A quirk of the fixture list has pitted the top four against each other and although there are still 13 matches to […]

By Bejay Browne THE Paphos carnival parade will next month will take place along Poseidonos Avenue, due to ongoing road works in the town centre, according to the municipality cultural services. The parade usually takes place along Grivas Dighenis Avenue which runs through the town centre while in previous years, it had taken place along […]