Новости за 04.04.2016

Ruling DISY chief Averof Neophytou on Monday brushed off the notion of a low turnout during an internal party vote for MP candidates or that political mischief had altered the result. He was speaking a day after DISY party members cast their ballot for the candidates vying for the ticket in the Nicosia and Larnaca […]

Two Egyptian men held at the migrant detention centre in Menoyia were arrested on Monday in connection with assaulting police officers. The incident happened in the morning, after two individuals climbed on the roof of a building to protest their detention. Security staff tried to stop the men but were obstructed by other migrants. The […]

Under the baton of Iulian Rusu and with soloist Theodore Kerkezos on the saxophone, the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra will present a programme of Spanish and Latin American Rhythms, entitled Vivid Dance Rhythms on Thursday in Paphos and on Friday in Nicosia. The orchestra is hoping to capture the audience’s imagination and get them moving to […]

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday ruled out reviving peace talks with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and vowed to stamp out the conflict, at its deadliest in two decades, once and for all. Two members of the security forces were killed in fighting in the mainly Kurdish southeast on Monday, officials said. The […]

By Matt Spetalnick Two Libyans held for years at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been flown to Senegal for resettlement, the Pentagon said on Monday, the latest move in President Barack Obama’s final push to close the facility. The two men were the first of a group of about a dozen […]

By Wiktor Szary and Justyna Pawlak European officials visit Warsaw this week to discuss allegations of undemocratic behaviour in Poland but seem unlikely to start a row over amid the migration crisis and the looming vote over Britain’s EU membership. Since sweeping into power last October, the conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) government has […]

A 39-year-old man from Larnaca was fined more than € 2,000 when 44 cartons of cigarettes for which he had not paid taxes were found in his house by customs authorities. The cigarettes were found in a bedroom closet during a search of the man’s house at noon on Monday. They were seized as evidence […]

Attorney-general (AG) Costas Clerides on Monday called on any member of the public to come forth with information on the Marathounda and Koshi landfill scandals, provided however that their evidence can be documented. The AG was asked to weigh in on the political maelstrom raging since the weekend, after daily Politis – piggybacking on statements […]

Two people were taken to Nicosia general hospital on Monday after sustaining injuries from a car crash on the Athalassa-Yeri road. Shortly before 3pm, two vehicles crashed into each though the exact cause is still being investigated. One man and a woman were trapped in their car and had to be freed and were taken […]

World Tour cycling team Tinkoff are training in Cyprus ahead of the Giro d’ Italia, the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) said on Monday. The CTO said it was hosting the team in cooperation with the island’s cycling federation. Tinkoff, one of the World Tour’s elite, is training in Troodos between April 2 and 16, ahead […]

Yields on 13-week treasury bills rose to 0.79 per cent on Monday when the government tapped a total of €100m by selling this type of security at an auction, the finance ministry’s public debt management office said. The issue was oversubscribed by 29 per cent, with total competitive offers and non-competitive offers amounting to €51.7m […]

A large amount of cocaine seized on Sunday at Larnaca airport was probably smuggled inside the bodies of several people at some stage, investigators reported in court on Monday. The case at Larnaca court centred on a 23-year-old man who was arrested on Sunday at Larnaca airport with over 4.5 kilos of cocaine hidden inside […]

The remains of 15 Greek soldiers killed during an airborne operation in Cyprus during the 1974 invasion, have been identified and will be repatriated in the next few weeks, Presidential Commissioner Fotis Fotiou said on Monday. The soldiers, part of a Greek commando battalion sent to Cyprus in July 1974, had been buried along with […]

Iceland’s opposition called on the prime minister and government to resign and planned a no confidence vote after a leak of documents stoked anger over his wife owning a tax haven-based company with large claims on the country’s collapsed banks. The allegations in the so-called Panama Papers that were released globally over the weekend surfaced […]

Ayia Napa mayor Yiannis Karousos on Monday appealed to the state to resolve the shop opening hour dispute ahead of what is expected to be the best tourist season in years. “More than three million tourists are expected to visit our island this season and already in Ayia Napa hotels have been opened since mid-March […]

Fewer people are being sentenced to community service and are serving jail terms instead largely because newly appointed judges and lawyers are unaware of the system, the House human rights committee heard on Monday. There are 250 locations across Cyprus such as parks, volunteer organisations and libraries where people can serve community service as an […]

Five people were remanded for eight days on Monday in connection with the possession of 217 grammes of cannabis in Paphos on Sunday. Police were about to conduct a search of the house of a 27-year-old woman in Paphos but she refused to open the door and was seen running up the stairs inside the […]

A 50-year-old man from Larnaca was remanded in custody for five days on Monday on suspicion of raping and sexually abusing one of his underage stepdaughters 15 years ago. The twin sisters, 28, told police that their mother’s ex had physically abused them, starting when they were four, between 1992 and 2000. One of the […]

By Jean Christou There are still more than 7,000 anti-personnel and anti-tank mines in the ground across Cyprus, affecting two million square metres of land, and which would cost €7 million to clear, UNFICYP said on Monday. In a fact sheet to mark International Day of Mine Awareness, 2016, UNFICYP said that in 2015, four […]

Tottenham Hotspur’s title hopes suffered a setback on Saturday after they dropped points at Liverpool but manager Mauricio Pochettino was comforted by the knowledge that his young team will keep improving in the seasons to come. Spurs, second in the table with six games to play, needed a Harry Kane strike to salvage a draw […]

CARLOS Brathwaite’s four consecutive sixes that carried West Indies to victory over England in the World Twenty20 final capped what former players and journalists described as one of the sport’s greatest matches on Monday. With the West Indies requiring 19 runs for victory off the last over, the Barbadian needed just four of Ben Stokes’ […]

Coming home. A phrase with endless – and emotional – connotations for all of us. To me, it’s the fireplace of a cosy Cotswolds cottage, time to catch up on my reading and the possibility of a pork pie for tea. To you, it might be a Sunday drive to a mountain village, chattering cousins […]

It’s not the winning, it’s the taking part. That’s the most treasured adage in Olympic sport, and sport in general – but taking part isn’t, in itself, very exciting. Everybody loves a winner, nobody loves a taking-part-er. The only exception is when taking part is an accomplishment in itself – as, for instance, with Eddie […]

Five ‘government ministers’ coming from the Turkish Cypriot National Unity Party (UBP) handed in their resignations on Monday to ‘prime minister’ Ömer Kalyoncu, putting an end to the coalition in the north. The UBP has been unhappy with the delay in signing of the financial protocol with Turkey for 2016-2018, which led to a halt […]

The British government asked on Monday for a copy of leaked data on the clients of a Panama-based law firm so it can examine the information and act on any possible tax evasion. The leak, which reveals the details of hundreds of thousands of clients in multiple jurisdictions of law company Mossack Fonseca, could be […]