Новости за 02.03.2016

Police is searching for 85-year-old Katerina Michail from Anavargos in Paphos, who was reported missing since Wednesday afternoon. Michail has short white hair and suffers from Alzheimer’s. Relatives told police she left her house in Anavargos at 4.40pm and has been missing since. She was last seen in the area near Kykkos Lyceum. Police are […]

Turkish prosecutors have opened nearly 2,000 cases against people for insulting Tayyip Erdogan since he became Turkey’s president 18 months ago, the justice minister said on Wednesday. Insulting the president is a crime in Turkey punishable by up to four years in jail, but the law has previously been invoked only rarely. Critics accuse Erdogan […]

English footballer Adam Johnson, who was sacked by Premier League club Sunderland last month, was facing jail after being found guilty on Wednesday of sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl. The 28-year-old winger, who has played 12 times for England, had admitted kissing and grooming the teenager at the beginning of his trial but had […]

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi Jordan‘s security services said on Wednesday they had thwarted a plot by sleeper cells of Islamic State militants to blow up civilian and military targets in the US-allied Arab kingdom. One of Jordan‘s biggest security operations in years tracked down militants with suicide bomb belts to a hideout in the northern city […]

The Cyprus Sports Organisation (KOA) has granted to Space Hellas – Hellenic Technical Enterprises Ltd consortium the contract for the introduction of the football fan identity card, an announcement said on Wednesday. KOA said the group had submitted the “most economically advantageous bid”. Last August, Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou said that eight companies had expressed […]

Former rector of the University of Cyprus Stavros Zenios, said on Wednesday he has rejected DISY’s offer to run in May’s parliamentary elections because he doesn’t want to be on the same ticket as candidates who do not pay their speeding fines, hurl insults at their female colleagues or who advertise online their illegal culinary […]

By Elias Hazou The natural gas in Egypt’s Zohr reservoir originated in geological formations within Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), Energy Minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis said on Wednesday. He was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the 7th Mediterranean Oil and Gas Forum in Nicosia, where he had outlined to participants government plans with regard […]

North Korea faces harsh new UN sanctions to starve it of money for its nuclear weapons programme following a unanimous Security Council vote on Wednesday on a resolution drafted by the United States and Pyongyang’s ally China. The resolution, which dramatically expands existing sanctions, follows North Korea’s latest nuclear test on Jan. 6 and a […]

After months of wrangling, the deal between the breakaway Turkish Cypriot state and Turkey for the management of water piped to the north was signed on Wednesday in Ankara. The deal was signed by Turkish Cypriot ‘Prime Minister’ Omer Kalyoncu and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. The agreement came after months of negotiations and disputes […]

Defending champions APOEL are top of the Cyprus football championship at the end of the regular season after the Nicosia giants produced a narrow 1-0 win in Limassol over Apollon on Wednesday afternoon. Giorgos Efrem scored the only goal of the game as APOEL racked up their ninth straight win. They are also unbeaten away […]

A piece of debris found along the eastern African coast between Mozambique and Madagascar may be from the tail section of the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared two years ago, NBC News reported on Wednesday. Citing US, Malaysian and Australian investigators who have looked at photos of the possible debris, NBC said the piece could […]

On Saturday K-Cineplex in Nicosia and Paphos and the Rialto theatre in Limassol will screen a performance of Giacomo Puccini’s four act opera Manon Lescaut. Manon Lescaut was composed between 1890 and 1893 and is based on the 1731 novel L’histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost. Five librettists worked […]

Farmers using government or Turkish Cypriot land will have to apply to legitimise its use by signing contracts and paying rent, it emerged on Wednesday. “Anyone cultivating state or Turkish Cypriot land without a contract must apply to the interior ministry to legitimise possession by renting the property, through the proper procedures,” Agriculture Minister Nicos […]

The Larnaca and Famagusta criminal court on Wednesday sentenced Stelios Nicolaou, 28, to six years in prison for possession and intent to sell cannabis, as well as growing 217 cannabis plants. According to the court, in June 2015, drug squad members raided the 28-year-old’s home in Avgorou, Famagusta, but found nothing. Behind the house, however, […]

Police on Wednesday continued their investigation into the murder of a 40-year-old man on Tuesday evening in the Pyla area who appears to have been shot sniper-style from a distance. Giorgos Georgiou, aka Chiquito, was gunned down at around 8.45pm on the way to enter his house, which is located near the motorway exit to Pyla. He sustained two bullet wounds, […]

Defence Minister Christophoros Fokaides voiced his certainty on Wednesday that political parties would display the necessary sense of responsibility and allow the reduction of military service to go ahead in the next few months. The cut in military service was announced by the government last week amid a chorus of disapproval over its timing from […]

Turkish champions Galatasaray have been banned from European football competition for one year over the club’s failure to meet Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations designed to limit losses, UEFA said on Wednesday. Galatasaray’s chairman last month told Reuters the Turkish champions had lost about 164 million euros over the last three seasons, overshooting guidelines set […]

Transport minister Marios Demetriades said that the government will resume its effort to commercialise Larnaca’s port and marina after a previous attempt ended in failure. The government already met with the advisory team – led by Ernst and Young – on Monday which will consult with the government through the process, Demetriades told reporters according […]

PAPHOS municipality has launched a war on ugly billboard advertising by ridding the town of all illegal signs and setting new guidelines for future advertisers, according to a local councillor. The ‘face’ of the town has changed dramatically, most obviously in the last few days, when a number of large hoardings have been removed from […]

Persons working at the first integrated casino resort in Cyprus must have no criminal record, while the gaming authority is empowered to revoke the casino licence, according to the relevant legal ordinances. Highlights of the regulations governing the establishment and operation of the casino were published by daily Simerini in its Wednesday edition. According to […]

A massive and shallow earthquake struck on Wednesday off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, a region devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean quake and tsunami, and there were early reports of deaths. A tsunami alert was called off, TV said. Neighbouring Australia issued a tsunami watch for parts of its western […]

By Gabriela Baczynska and Alastair Macdonald The European Union, faced with a burgeoning refugee crisis in Greece, launched a new aid programme on Wednesday worth an initial 700 million euros that mirrors the kind of disaster relief it offers developing nations. As European states have closed borders following the arrival of nearly a million migrants […]

By Angelos Anastasiou The decision of the president of the Supreme Court of Greece to revisit an investigation that cleared Andreas Vgenopoulos of any suspicion for his role in Laiki Bank’s demise has been questioned by the Greek financier’s lawyer, it emerged on Wednesday. On Tuesday, Supreme Court president Vasiliki Thanou ordered a disciplinary investigation […]

The first phase of a project to rehabilitate the Apostolos Andreas monastery in the occupied north is nearing its end, MPs heard on Wednesday. Takis Hadjdemetriou, the head of the Greek Cypriot side in the bicommunal technical committee on cultural heritage, said there might be a slight delay but the monastery will be delivered in […]

Matches at this year’s European football championship in France could be moved or played in empty stadiums if security services considered there was the danger of an attack, a UEFA official was quoted as saying on Wednesday. Martin Kallen, tournament director for Euro 2016, which will be staged across France from June 10-July 10, told […]