Новости за 07.10.2016

THE final round of the European Rally Championship (ERC), the CNP Asfalistiki Cyprus Rally, got under way Friday night on Limassol seafront, where crowds gathered in a carnival atmosphere to cheer the drivers on their way. For the first time in several years, night stages are included in the route – and the crews left the […]

AN imminent strike by Greek air traffic controllers will affect numerous flights to and from Larnaca and Paphos airports over the next few days. Trade unions in Greece are striking over a reform of the civil aviation service and there will be no flights to and from any Greek airport on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and […]

A 31-year-old man reported to police that at some point between Thursday and Friday unknown perpetrators stole three hunting dogs from his orchard in the farming area of Aradippou. Investigations confirmed the thieves had made their way in by cutting through the perimeter fence, before destroying the locks on the metal cages the dogs were […]

The Cyprus Theatre Organisation (Thoc) will offer an intensive three-day training course in improvised musical theatre covering all the skills that have made Showstoppers – The Improvised Musical – an Olivier Award-winning West End hit. The workshop, which will run from October 28 to 30 at Theatro Apothikes Thoc in Nicosia, will include improvised solo […]

THE Cyprus Theatre Organisation (Thoc) has backed down from its insistence not to cooperate with the state audit services, saying it will conform and officials from both sides will meet on Monday. The breakthrough was achieved late on Friday after government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides summoned Thoc Chairman Yiannis Toumazis and Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides to try […]

Following the UK’s referendum vote to leave the EU, many Remain voters scrambled to grasp hold of the Irish branches of their family trees, obtain Irish passports and remain in the EU. This resulted in a surge in demand for Irish passports from Britain in the months since. According to RTE, some studies estimate that […]

BOTH leaders on Friday stressed there was no question of signing an interim agreement on the Cyprus issue. Speaking separately after their third meeting so far this month, President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said there had been no such proposal. The terms of the negotiations, as laid down in the joint […]

GAME wardens caught an 80-year-old man illegally trapping wild birds using lime sticks and sound emitting devices in an area near Lefkara on Friday morning. According to police, the wardens came across the man at about 8am, catching him red-handed and confiscated the device used to reproduce bird songs which attract them to the lime […]

Estonia said a Russian jet violated its airspace on Friday, hours after neighbouring Finland said two similar planes passed over its territory as it prepared to sign a defence pact with the United States. Moscow denied sending planes across anyone’s borders – but one analyst said the flights could have been staged as a reminder […]

Italy’s defence minister is to personally officiate a same-sex civil union, in a move she said would send a strong message against discrimination and harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the armed forces. Italy in May became the last major Western country to legally recognise gay couples, but activists say homophobia […]

The customs department announced Friday the seizure of over 4,000 counterfeit items in operations carried out in the Famagusta district a day earlier. Six shops in the areas of Protaras and Paralimni were checked in raids by customs officers looking for goods violating intellectual property rights laws. From investigations carried out a total of 4,040 […]

Police are asking the public to lookout for a girl reported missing from her home in Paphos since Thursday 2pm. Seventeen-year-old Greek passport-holder Marietta Michaelidou is described as thin, around 1.60m in height with shoulder-length light-coloured hair with grey highlights. She was wearing black trousers, a white shirt with a Union Jack on the front […]

The House plenum on Friday shot down an urgent motion – by 28 votes against to 21 in favour – to pass a resolution rejecting any form of guarantees, and the presence of foreign troops or bases as part of a possible solution to the Cyprus issue. After an intense and lengthy session, the motion, […]

The European Parliament launched a disciplinary inquiry on Friday into a scuffle between members of the UK Independence Party that left one British MEP in hospital with a head injury. Martin Schulz, the speaker of the EU legislature, wished UKIP leadership hopeful Steven Woolfe a swift recovery. “The reported facts are extremely serious,” he added […]

On Sunday, after the down-town Nicosia roads are hopefully open again after the Cyprus Rally, the Goethe Institute will host its traditional beer festival Oktoberfest Light. The beer-filled event, organised by the Cyprus-German Cultural Association, will give us all a chance to taste a large range of German beers, enjoy German traditional delicacies – such […]

Protesters in Ethiopia have damaged almost a dozen mostly foreign-owned factories and flower farms and destroyed scores of vehicles this week, adding economic casualties to a rising death toll in a wave of unrest over land grabs and political rights. The violence also casts a shadow over a nation where a state-led industrial drive has […]

Italy forward Graziano Pelle has been kicked out of the national squad over his angry reaction to being substituted against Spain when he refused a handshake from coach Giampiero Ventura. The Italian football federation (FIGC) said in a statement that the 31-year-old had been excluded from the squad which will travel to Skopje to face […]

Larnaca court Friday adjourned until October 26 the trial of Giorgos Xiourouppas for the murder in April of Panayiotis Christodoulou. State prosecutor Thanassis Papanikolaou told the court he had delivered to defence lawyer Rikkos Mappourides, witness material that was not previously in his possession. Following the development, the prosecutor requested the postponement, and with the […]

Cyprus’s current account posted a €456.8m deficit in the second quarter of the year compared to a €69.6m surplus in the respective quarter of 2015, the Central Bank of Cyprus said. External debt dropped in the second quarter to €96.5bn from €98bn the quarter before, the central bank said in a statement on its website […]

An Army sergeant has married his partner in the first same-sex wedding in a British Forces overseas territory, the Press Association (PA) reported on Friday. Alastair Smith, of the 2nd Battalion the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment, tied the knot with civilian Aaron Weston in Dhekelia, Cyprus, the report said, citing the British ministry of […]

The value of retail purchases in Cyprus by Cypriots using plastic money rose in September an annual 11 per cent to €197.1m, JCC Payments System Ltd said. In January to September, the overall value of card purchases by Cypriots in Cyprus rose 6 per cent to €1.7bn, JCC, the payment processing company, which is a […]

The UK market remains the main source of wedding tourism accounting for 50 per cent of the 4,000 ceremonies that take place annually in Cyprus, the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) said on Friday. Paphos is the leader in wedding ceremonies from the UK, followed by the Famagusta area, a statement said following the CTO participation […]

Syria’s army and allies clashed on Friday in the south of Aleppo with rebels seeking to oust President Bashar al-Assad, a military source, rebels and a monitor said, part of a pro-government offensive to retake Syria’s once largest city. The fighting was concentrated in Sheikh Saeed, a rebel-held district of the city next to Ramousah, […]

South African students protesting against high tuition fees have demanded that all universities be shut until the government provides free education, Johannesburg’s University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) said on Friday. Student leaders, whose protests have forced Wits and Cape Town universities to suspend classes twice in less than a month, could not be reached immediately […]

Nine Turkey-backed Syrian rebels were killed and 32 were wounded on Thursday fighting in an operation to push Islamic State militants away from the border area in Syria, Turkey‘s military said on Friday, indicating a fresh surge in clashes. The rebels have seized control of just over 1,000 square km (386 square miles) of territory […]