Новости за 23.07.2016

The Rialto theatre in Limassol will complete its summer cinema season on Tuesday with a screening of the 2015 Chilean drama La Vida Sexual De Las Plantas (Sex Life of Plants). The film, directed by Sebastian Brahm, has been called a “deceptively simple, human story about a woman’s right to decide the use of her […]

DISGRACED former Central Bank Governor Christodoulos Christodoulou was Friday charged with new offences stemming from a one-million-euro upfront fee for ten years’ advisory services paid into the account of his daughter’s consultancy company by Greek ship owner Michalis Zolotas, a close business associate of former Laiki bank strongman Andreas Vgenopoulos who is also due to […]

A German-Iranian teenager who shot dead nine people in Munich was a deranged lone gunman obsessed with mass killings who drew no inspiration from Islamist militancy, police said on Saturday. The 18-year-old, born and raised locally, opened fire near a busy shopping mall on Friday evening, triggering a lockdown in the Bavarian state capital. Seven […]

Briton Chris Froome of Team Sky was poised to retain his Tour de France title after holding on to his overall lead in the last competitive stage, won by Spain’s Ion Izagirre on Saturday. Froome will wear the yellow jersey in the closing stage, a largely processional ride to the Champs Elysees in Paris on […]

Heavy rain in China has killed at least 87 people and forced thousands from their homes, state media reported on Saturday. Seventy-two people have been killed and 78 are missing in the northern province of Hebei afterrain triggered floods and landslides, the Xinhua news agency reported, citing the civil affairs department. Nearly 50,000 homes have […]

Russian adventurer Fedor Konyukhov has landed safely in a field on a private property in West Australia after setting a world record for circumnavigating the world solo in a hot air balloon. The 64-year-old Konyukhov emerged from the balloon‘s gondola after more than 11 days aloft expressing his appreciation for the smell of the earth, […]

World championship leader Nico Rosberg seized pole position in a rain-delayed, stop-start qualifying session for Sunday’s Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix after team-mate and title rival Lewis Hamilton was hindered by yellow flags. Rosberg lapped the 4.3-km Hungaroring in one minute 19.965 seconds on Saturday, beating Hamilton by 0.143 seconds. The Briton, ahead of Rosberg […]

An artist couple who teach the subject, have created, along with help from students and art lovers, a huge portrait of Aphrodite made with stones, on the beach in front of the Anassa hotel on the Akamas peninsula. “Land art is art in nature from nature,” Katerina Foukara, who along with her sculptor husband Arsentiy […]

About 300 homes were evacuated as a fast-moving wildfire burned through some 3,300 acres (1,335 hectares) of parched land northwest of Los Angeles on Saturday, the County of Los Angeles Fire Department said. The so-called “Sand Fire” broke out on Friday afternoon and spread quickly near Santa Clarita, about 40 miles (65 km) northwest of […]

Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday that killed at least 61 people and wounded more than 200 when it tore through a demonstration by members of the mainly Shia Hazara minority. Graphic television footage from the site of the attack showed many dead bodies lying on […]

The International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama 2016 continues on Monday with a performance of the trilogy Oresteia by the Belgian theatre company de Roovers. The theatre company will present the last and greatest work by Aeschylus, which won first prize at the Dionysia festival in 458 BC. The first instalment of the trilogy, Agamemnon, […]

Britain faced calls on Saturday from some European and Asian countries to move more quickly towards leaving the European Union, but the United States said the process was too sensitive to be rushed. At the first meeting of leading economies since British voters shocked global markets in June by deciding to quit the EU, finance […]

President Nicos Anastasiades, has expressed Cyprus` solidarity with the government of Germany after the deadly attack in Munich on Friday. “We mourn with those who have lost loved ones and stand in solidarity with the government of Germany,” Anastasiades said on Saturday, in a post on twitter. Meanwhile, a foreign ministry on-duty officer in Nicosia, told CNA […]

A TALA resident is appealing to local authorities to ensure the removal of a number of metal shipping containers found close to his home, which he says store petrol-driven equipment and pose a serious threat to life. He has even written to the president. “I am particularly concerned as there was a fire in this […]

Sunderland appointed David Moyes as their new manager on Saturday, replacing Sam Allardyce who has taken charge of the England team. The 53-year-old Moyes, who has been without a club since being sacked by Spanish side Real Sociedad in November, has signed a four-year contract at the Stadium of Light, the Premier League club said […]

Usain Bolt delivered on his top billing by winning the 200 metres at the London Diamond League on Friday night but the Jamaican was upstaged for once as American sprint hurdler Kendra Harrison broke one of the oldest world records in the book. Bolt, running his first 200 metres race for a year in his […]

A 19-year-old Larnaca man was arrested for possession on cannabis with intent to supply after being stopped Friday evening on his moped by police. When traffic cops on Alexandros Panagouli Street indicated to the youngster to pull over, he was allegedly seen taking cannabis from a shoulder bag he was carrying and throwing it on […]

A 19-year-old man was arrested Friday in Paralimni following the beating unconscious of a 35-year-old motorcycle rental shop employee after the latter asked him to pay for damages to the bike he had rented, police said. According to police, at around 5pm the 19-year-old went to the bike rental shop to return the quad he […]

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has ordered the closure of more than 1,000 private schools and extended the period in which some suspects can be detained without charge, in his first decree since declaring a three-month state of emergency. Erdogan declared the state of emergency late on Wednesday saying it would enable authorities to swiftly and […]

President Nicos Anastasiades, in a comment certain to draw fire from the opposition said on Friday night at a Kyrenia event that it did not matter who would have administration of certain areas, as long as Greek Cypriots had the right to go back to their towns and villages in the north. “No corner of […]

In 2015, police booked 2,965 drivers for parking in spaces assigned for disabled persons out of a total number of parking offences of 3,574, they said on Saturday. They also said that in the first six months of this year, there were 1,103 cases of parking in disabled spots out of a total of 3,695 […]

President Nicos Anastasiades departs on Sunday on a one-day working visit to Israel. Anastasiades, who will be accompanied by the ministers of foreign affairs and energy as well as the government spokesman, will meet Sunday evening at 7pm with the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. At the meeting, the president and the prime minister […]

Bills slated for discussion at the House from now on will be submitted electronically in a bid to reduce printing paper as last year alone for the distribution of 300 bills more than 1.5 million paper sheets were used. The move followed the agreement of House speaker Demetris Syllouris and Undersecretary to the President Constantinos […]

By John Whitesides and Amanda Becker Hillary Clinton named U.S. Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate on Friday, opting for an experienced governing partner who will help her present the Democratic ticket as a steady alternative to the unpredictable campaign of Republican presidential rival Donald Trump. The selection of Kaine, a self-described “boring” Virginian […]

Not all those who live in Nicosia wander off in the summer months, some stay in the big city to enjoy the slower pace and almost empty streets. For those who will be sticking to the capital – or even for those who want to visit it for exactly the same reasons Nicosians choose to […]