Новости за 22.09.2016

The unemployment rate fell to 12.1 per cent of the labour force during the second quarter of 2016, compared to 14.1 per cent in the previous quarter, and 14.6 per cent in the same period last year, according to the latest data released in the Labour Force Survey. The unemployment rate for men stood at […]

Yahoo Inc said on Thursday information associated with at least 500 million user accounts was stolen from its network in 2014 by what it believed was a “state-sponsored actor.” The data stolen may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and hashed passwords but may not have included unprotected passwords, payment card […]

A new bill banning smoking in all common indoor areas is to be finalised over the next fortnight and forwarded to parliament so that it can pass it as soon as possible. The item is intended to align national legislation with the European Union’s Tobacco Product Directive – which Cyprus should have done by end-July. […]

The Rialto theatre in Limassol is getting ready to entertain us with some international and local talent over the next few days. The theatre may be small, but the sounds it attracts are big in talent and energy. The first event will take place on Sunday when one of Russia’s most prominent and celebrated guitarists, […]

More than 29,000 people were employed in hotels and restaurant businesses in 2015, comprising 8 per cent of total employment in that year, Tourism Minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis said on Thursday. Addressing a seminar in Protartas on sustainable tourism, Lakkotrypis said that the industry was a central pillar of economic development, contributing significantly to the country`s […]

STATE institutions including schools should operate as such and not as faithful adherents to religious traditions and practices, Ombudswoman Eliza Savvidou said, following complaints that a Nicosia public kindergarten took children to a church to worship the relics of a saint during teaching time. The report to the education ministry was prepared following a complaint […]

More than 1,000 pupils will have the opportunity on Friday to chat through Skype with the European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Paolo Nespoli who is getting ready to be launched to the International Space Station on a five-month mission. According to an announcement by the Cyprus Space Exploration Organisation (Cseo), which organised the event, the […]

Yahoo Inc will disclose details this week of a data breach that compromised the data of several hundred million users, technology news site Recode reported on Thursday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the company’s plan. Reuters was not able to immediately confirm the report. It was not clear how such a disclosure might affect Yahoo’s […]

West Bromwich Albion’s Tony Pulis reached for one of the oldest cliches in the book as he looked forward to his 1,000th match in management and a return to his former club Stoke City on Saturday. “Football is a funny old game,” observed the Welshman, who started the campaign as the bookmakers’ favourite to become […]

Two Spanish men have been arrested in Madrid accused of publicly praising Islamic State attacks on Paris and planning to join the militants, the interior ministry said on Thursday. Police detained the elder of the two after learning he had travelled to Turkey before returning to Spain several days later, the ministry said in a […]

Details emerged Thursday at a triple murder trial in Limassol during the examination and cross-examination of the coroners called to the scene of the frenzied knife attack last November in the busy Anexartisias area of the city. The accused Christakis Thoma 31, who was brought to court under tight security, appeared calm showing no emotion […]

Rome is reopening its famed Spanish Steps after a privately funded restoration but has urged visitors to treat the 18th century staircase with greater respect to prevent it falling again into disrepair. The site of one of cinema’s most famous ice cream breaks in the film Roman Holiday has been largely shut since last October […]

Paphos court Thursday set October 3 for hearing a case against a 53-year-old man from Paphos arrested earlier in the day in connection with obtaining money under false pretences, theft, money laundering and theft by an agent. According to police a complaint was made by twin brothers, contractors from Larnaca, aged 58, who reported that […]

A car worth €15,000 was stolen from a Larnaca residence on Thursday. It was reported to police that around noon on Thursday unknown perpetrators broke into the house and took the car keys but didn’t steal anything else before driving off. Police has not yet found the vehicle.  

Six people, including five children, were wounded when a rocket from Syria hit the Turkish border town of Kilis on Thursday, officials said, the first such attack since Ankara-backed rebels cleared Islamic State from Turkey’s southern border this month. Windows were shattered and dust rose from smashed concrete on a busy shopping street, footage following […]

The most significant differences in the Cyprus talks on property, territory, security and guarantees will weigh significantly on whether a solution will be feasible, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Thursday in his address to the UN General Assembly in New York. In this respect, he said what still needed to be address were the financial […]

A couple who were arrested after the drug squad discovered eight cannabis plants and three kilos of the drug at their home were remanded for eight days by a court in Limassol. The find was made following a judicial warrant being secured for a search of the house in which a 35-year-old man lives with […]

The Larnaca Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced a 47-year-old man to 10 years in prison for raping an underage girl while living with her mother around six years ago. The defendant, of Greek origin, was jailed for rape, corrupting a young woman between the age of 13 and 17, and sexual exploitation of a child. […]

Bank of Cyprus has filed an appeal against the ruling of the Larnaca district court, which banned it from applying the modernised foreclosure law in disposing a collateral for which a court ruling existed based on the previous legislation. The Cyprus Business Mail understands that the appeal was filed on Thursday. Bank of Cyprus declined […]

Egyptian authorities have arrested four crew members of a boat carrying almost 600 migrants which capsized off Egypt’s coast, killing at least 43, judicial sources said on Thursday. The boat sank on Wednesday in the Mediterranean off Burg Rashid, a village in Egypt’s northern Beheira province where the sea and the Nile meet. Rescue workers […]

The ARTos foundation in Nicosia will host the lecture Future Museum with Chris Dercon on Monday at 7.30pm. The Belgian art historian and curator, and former director of Tate Modern in London, will speak about how solid, vertical and expensive buildings may be a thing of the past when it comes to museums. In fact, […]

The death toll from an Arab coalition air strike which hit a house in a residential area in western Yemen has risen to 26 people, medics and residents said on Thursday. A spokesman for the Saudi-led alliance was not immediately available for comment on the strike, the latest in a string of deadly raids that […]

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has lashed out at football’s “Einsteins” for criticising him during the English Premier League club’s run of three successive defeats. Despite winning the first four games of his tenure, Mourinho has come under scrutiny from the media after United’s slump in form with the club currently six points behind leaders […]

Britain has raised concerns with Hungary over a description of areas of London, Paris and Brussels as ‘no-go’ areas dominated by illegal immigrants who increase the risk of militant attacks. Ahead of an October 2 referendum on whether to reject European Union migrant quotas, Hungary released an official leaflet setting out the government’s case for […]

The Nicosia district court on Thursday sentenced Kyriakos Syllouris, the son of the House President, to one year in prison for causing the death of 26-year-old Sebastian Petros Karapateas through negligent, reckless, and dangerous driving. Members of both families involved in the tragedy packed the courtroom as Judge Pavlos Kyriakides read out the sentence concluding […]