Новости за 18.07.2016

Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said on Monday that the attempted coup in Turkey had been extremely worrying for Greek Cypriots with 43,000 Turkish soldiers stationed in the north left without a leadership for a number of hours. Addressing his counterparts at the proceedings of the 28 EU Foreign Ministers, which convened on Monday in Brussels, […]

The leadership of the Turkish army in the north has told Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci that Friday’s attempted coup has not impacted northern Cyprus. As the coup attempt in Turkey was unfolding late Friday and early Saturday, the Turkish Cypriot side was anxiously monitoring events, while it appears to have been a long night […]

Get ready to dance to the max at Guaba Beach Bar on Thursday when Dutch DJ Martin Garrix will be spinning the party atmosphere out of control. Currently ranked at number three on DJ Mag, as well as being the founder and owner of the record label STMPD RCRDS, the 20-year-old really hasn’t wasted any […]

The Faneromeni 16 festival is making sure no one in Nicosia goes wanting when it comes to music in the old town. Apart from showcasing performances before they head off to the Fengaros festival, the festival is also letting us see what else the island has to offer in musical terms. Now, if you are […]

Had the Republic of Cyprus been prepared, the attempted coup in Turkey would have been an opportunity to capture the north back, former DISY MP Christos Rotsas claimed on Monday. Following the events in Turkey on Friday and Saturday, when army forces tried to oust the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Rotsas posted on his […]

A 56-year-old UK man was sentenced to life in jail on Monday after having been found guilty by a London court for the rape and murder of a Greek Cypriot teenage girl back in 1982. James Warnock strangled then 17-year-old Yiannoulla Yianni in an attack described as “cruel, brutal and without mercy” at her family […]

A Baltimore police lieutenant was acquitted of manslaughter and two other charges in the April 2015 death of black detainee Freddie Gray, dealing prosecutors another setback in their efforts to secure a conviction in the highly charged case. Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams found Lieutenant Brian Rice not guilty in a bench trial. […]

The so-called ‘Central Committee of National Celebrations’ in northern Cyprus has decided that the July 20 ‘celebrations’ of the Turkish invasion will no longer feature tanks, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Monday. Citing sources from the north, the CNA said tanks, F-16 aircraft, and other heavy fighting vehicles are no longer to take part […]

Introducing horizontal voting, voting by mail, and extending the registration deadline, are among ruling DISY’s legislative proposals ahead of December’s municipal elections, MP Nicos Nouris announced on Monday. “At parliament’s last session [before the summer recess], DISY tabled a series of legislative proposals to modernise our electoral system and increase turnout at elections,” Nouris told […]

Greece needs to stick to reforms to regain credibility and earn further debt relief, EU Economic Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said during a visit to Athens on Monday. He said Athens and its eurozone partners financing its bailout need to reach an agreement with the International Monetary Fund on more debt relief by the end […]

The Competition and Consumer Protection Service has identified a total of 77 dangerous products on sale, including illegal toy air-guns, too-strong laser pointers and tattoo ink containing carcinogens. Inspections during June across Cyprus revealed that most unlicensed or banned products were sold in the Famagusta region. “The reason is that the tourist season in this […]

A 14-year-old Turkish Cypriot was arrested on Monday morning after allegedly threatening to set fire to a welfare services office in Limassol. The youth, who is under the care of the welfare services – his mother having reportedly left the family – is said to have visited the local office asking for cash and for […]

Over 100 people protested under the scorching sun outside the Supreme Court in Nicosia on Monday over a recent decision to reduce the jail term of two men found guilty of rape. The demo was a prompt reaction to the Supreme Court decision last week on a case concerning a 50-year-old woman from the Philippines […]

With the Rio Games less than three weeks away, the International Olympic Committee on Monday promised “the toughest sanctions available” after a report found Moscow had concealed the positive doping tests of athletes in many sports in the run-up to the Sochi Winter Games. The IOC did not spell out whether it would heed growing […]

The British bases announced on Monday they would continue to clear an area rife with illegal bird trapping of the acacia bushes planted by trappers to attract the birds. “This week the bases will chop down more acacia bushes at Cape Pyla ahead of the anticipated illegal bird trapping season,” said a news release from […]

The Board of Trustees of The Cyprus Institute (CyI) has ratified the appointment of Dr. Manuel Blanco as the EC-funded European Research Area (ERA) Chair holder in the field of Solar Thermal Energy. He will join the Energy Division of The Cyprus Institute’s Energy, Environment and Water Research Center (EEWRC). Prof. Manuel Blanco has thirty […]

An unknown assailant shot the deputy mayor of Istanbul’s Sisli district in the head on Monday and he was in a critical condition, Turkish broadcaster NTV reported. It was not immediately clear whether the incident was linked to Friday’s abortive military coup in which more than 200 people were killed. Turkey remains in a state […]

Emirates Airline has been awarded the inaugural Network Strategy award, at The Airline Strategy Awards run by the established air transport industry news and analysis provider Flight Airline Business. In its 15th year, The Airline Strategy Awards is a widely recognised and respected measure of industry leaders and players who are raising the bar in […]

A new school of the Arsenal Soccer School Cyprus will operate after the summer on the premises of the Grammar School.  The Arsenal Soccer School at the Grammar School will be added to the already existing Arsenal Soccer School in Strovolos, both schools will be run according to the instructions of the academy and follow […]

As part of the strategic expansion of its global footprint, Toll Global Forwarding (TGF), a division of Toll Group, has established a presence in Cyprus with a franchise office fully operational as of 01 July 2016.   The establishment of the office in Cyprus – through an agreement signed locally with Laktarget Freight Limited, a […]

The head of the Cyprus Tourism Organisation has said that the failed coup in Turkey would have negative effects on tourism in general and predicted that tourist arrivals to Cyprus would fall despite 2016 being a bumper year so far. He said this would happen irrespective of whether tourists who had planned this year’s holidays […]

Turkish soldiers who fled to neighbouring Greece in a military helicopter after the weekend coup attempt “fear for their lives” back home and do not want to be returned, one of their lawyers said on Monday as they appeared in a Greek court. The eight men, who have sough political asylum in Greece, landed in […]

US Secretary of State John Kerry paid tribute to the European Union on Monday as it tries to heal the wound of Britain’s vote to leave, saying detractors were overlooking what it had achieved in alliance with America. “I ask anyone who questions the importance of the EU or its relationship with the United States, […]

Larnaca court on Monday ruled that all six suspects being held for the bloody Ayia Napa contract killings of businessman Phanos Theophanous Kalopsidiotis and three others, will be held at Nicosia Central Prisons until their trial on September 5. Kalopsidiotis, along with police officer Elias Hadjiefthimiou, 46, his wife Skevi, 39, and the couple’s two […]

WikiLeaks said on Monday it was planning to release documents on Turkey’s political power structure after a failed coup attempt over the weekend. “Get ready for a fight as we release 100k+ docs on #Turkey’s political power structure,”WikiLeaks said on its Twitter feed.