Новости за 31.05.2016

Limassol district court on Tuesday ordered that a 35-year old man, charged with aggravated assault and causing serious bodily harm, remain in police custody until his trial on June 6. The 35-year-old, a Greek national, is suspected of injuring the father of his employer during a melee at a hotel in the Troodos area. According […]

PAPHOS municipality has again been awarded blue flag status for all six of its beaches this year, much to the delight of the head of the beaches committee. Nicos Simillides told the Cyprus Mail that he is also proud that three of the beaches have also been awarded a special recognition, a ‘Blue Flag 20 […]

The fire service on Tuesday rescued two women from their burning second-floor flat in Ayios Dhometios in Nicosia. The fire, the causes of which remain unknown, broke out in the afternoon. The women, a pensioner and a domestic worker, managed to get to the balcony and close the door behind them but they were still […]

Police on Tuesday said they respect a Nicosia district court decision which acquitted a 28-year-old man who reported he was beaten by officers in 2012 but was charged with causing bodily harm to policemen. Court instead, after its ruling on Monday, sent the case to the Attorney General’s office to decide whether the involved officers […]

Ruling DISY will reconvene on Thursday to decide on what course to follow regarding the election of House Speaker, its spokesman said on Tuesday, stressing that the party was not prepared to engage in horse trading ahead of the vote. The matter was discussed by the party’s political bureau on Tuesday but no decision was […]

An underwater virtual reality project, iMareCulture, which is being launched by the Cyprus University of Technology (TEPAK) in Limassol has secured total EU funding of €2.7m over the next three years after scoring 14 out of 15 in open competition. The EU competition called for projects that involve the creation of virtual museums and social […]

Fans spent more time looking at the murky Parisian sky then watching tennis on Tuesday as French Open organisers were accused of “not caring about the players” after the event was disrupted by more rain following the previous day’s washout. Czech seventh seed Thomas Berdych summed up everyone’s frustration on a day when nine hours […]

Ten deaths associated with drugs, six of which were attributed to direct overdoses, were recorded on the island in 2014, according to the latest European Drugs Report. Some 160 deaths in total were officially recorded in Cyprus in the previous ten years. Heroin was responsible for the majority of those deaths. According to the report, […]

Municipal authorities in Paris plan to build a camp to house several hundred refugees in the French capital, the mayor said on Tuesday, criticising the dire living conditions for migrants who have fled to Europe. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said city services were looking for a site in the north of the city and that […]

With the coming of June come two art exhibitions. The first is a painting and masks exhibition by Georgia Tombazou at Technopolis Cultural Centre in Paphos and the second a group exhibition entitled The New Colossus: Defying the (im)possibilities of Liberty by Andreas Tomblin and Tatiana Soteropoulos at the Collection Gallery in Nicosia. The abstract […]

Despite state and private efforts, the island’s tourism industry needs further boosting and the government has placed reforms in the tourism sector among its priorities, undersecretary to the President Constantinos Petrides said on Tuesday addressing the annual general meeting of the Larnaca Tourism Board. The government “listened to the problems and suggestions” of the tourism […]

Fans were left wet and miserable at a soggy Roland Garros on Tuesday — but not as drenched or depressed as Agnieszka Radwanska after the world number two’s French Open hopes fizzled out following a monumental meltdown against Tsvetana Pironkova. Leading her Bulgarian rival 6-2 3-0 when rain halted play on Sunday, Radwanska appeared to […]

Air and naval forces from eight countries took part in a search and rescue exercise on Tuesday, as part of the third and final phase of the Argonaftis 2016 exercise. Tuesday’s scenario included a serious accident involving a passenger ship. Ten aircraft and 12 naval vessels took part, as well as personnel from Cyprus, Greece, […]

Two fires in the same area of Paphos burned three hectares of pine forest and wild shrub, officials said on Tuesday. The fires broke out at around 1.30pm, one in Kannaviou, near the reservoir, and one further up near Asprogia. They were put under control at around 3pm by a strong fire fighting force made […]

Bank of Cyprus, Cyprus’s largest lender, said that it generated an after tax profit of €50m in the first quarter of the year, compared to a €29m after tax profit in January to March 2015, and a net loss of €512m in the last quarter of 2015. The rise in profitability was mainly on reduced […]

Results from the French Open Women’s Singles Round 4 matches on Tuesday Tsvetana Pironkova (Bulgaria) beat 2-Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) 2-6 6-3 6-3 21-Samantha Stosur (Australia) beat 6-Simona Halep (Romania) 7-6(0) 6-3

Sam Stosur powered into the French Open quarter-finals with a 7-6(0) 6-3 win against Simona Halep on Tuesday, adapting better to damp and heavy conditions than her higher-ranked Romanian opponent. In a match between two former Roland Garros finalists that spanned three days and was twice suspended due to rain, the 21st-seeded Australian overcame a […]

Hotels are overbooking rooms by up to five times, sometimes eight times, and are then forced to stop selling, the Association of Cyprus Travel Agents (ACTA) has warned in a letter to the ministry of tourism. In the letter, copied to the Cyprus Tourism Organisation and to the hoteliers association, ACTA said that unless the […]

Islamic State fighters halted an Iraqi army assault on the city of Falluja with a counter-attack at its southern gates on Tuesday, while the United Nations warned of peril for civilians trapped in the city and used by militants as human shields. The Iraqi army’s assault on Falluja has begun what is expected to be […]

Greece and its international lenders are inching towards an accord over a set of extra measures demanded from Athens to qualify for vital rescue funds, sources with knowledge of the negotiations said on Tuesday. The two sides wrapped up the bulk of reforms needed for badly needed bailout cash last week, but left some loose […]

Strikers Marcus Rashford and Daniel Sturridge made Roy Hodgson’s final 23-man England squad for Euro 2016 on Tuesday but winger Andros Townsend and midfielders Danny Drinkwater and Fabian Delph were left out. England are taking five forwards to the 24-team tournament in France, which starts on June 10, with Sturridge selected despite doubts over a […]

Deposits in the Cypriot banking system rose by €144.9m to €45.9bn in April, the first month following the completion of Cyprus’s adjustment programme, as loans dropped €86.7, in a month to €56.7bn, the Central Bank of Cyprus said. The liquidity gap narrowed as a result to €11.5bn, its smallest value since April 2013, the Central Bank of […]

Chief Returning Officer Constantinos Nicolaides on Tuesday declared Solidarity’s Giorgos Papadopoulos an MP for the Limassol district, replacing party leader Eleni Theocharous, who was initially elected to parliament but decided to retain her seat in the European Parliament. During the declaration ceremony, Nicolaides explained that, in a letter dated May 27, four days after the […]

President Nicos Anastasiades will take the witness stand on Wednesday, after being called by the defence in the trial of former deputy attorney-general Rikkos Erotokritou, lawyers Andreas Kyprizoglou and Panayiotis Neocleous, and the Andreas Neocleous & Co. The four are facing charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice and defraud, bribery, corruption, and proxy dealing, in […]

Play resumed after a rain delay of two hours 45 minutes at the French Open on Tuesday with world number one Novak Djokovic a set down against Roberto Bautista Agut. The Serbian lost the opening set 6-3 to the 14th-seeded Spaniard on Court Philippe Chatrier when play was halted at 12:47 pm local time. On […]