Новости за 17.10.2016

For those of you who didn’t manage to see the performance of the opera Don Giovanni last month during the 18th Pafos Aphrodite Festival – or for those who want to relive the story – the Rialto theatre in Limassol will screen the opera as performed at the Metropolitan Opera Theatre on Saturday. In this […]

Police said on Monday they had received a report of three luxury cars and four sets of number plates stolen over the weekend from the garage of an importer in Larnaca avenue, Nicosia. The manager of the company told police that between the hours of 4.25pm on Friday and 7.45am on Monday, two brand new […]

The frontrunner to become the new leader of Britain’s anti-EU UK Independence Party said on Monday he was withdrawing from the race and resigning from the party, less than two weeks after an altercation with a colleague left him in hospital. UKIP, which played a key role in securing Britain’s vote to leave the EU […]

  There is sufficient progress in the ongoing reunification talks to warrant advancing to the thorny issue of territory, perhaps in November and at a venue outside Cyprus, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Monday. The president announced also a press conference for November 3 to inform the public of where the negotiations stand. Anastasiades and […]

Russian and Syrian armed forces will pause attacks on theSyrian city of Aleppo for eight hours on Thursday to allow civilians and rebels to leave the city, the Russian defence ministry said on Monday. But Moscow ruled out a lasting ceasefire, a step that Western governments have been demanding, saying that would only give Islamist […]

By Stelios Orphanides The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission said that it had fined Bank of Cyprus €25,000 and eight other board members and executives a total of €420,000 for misrepresenting the goodwill value of the lender’s Russian loss making unit Uniastrum in 2012. CySEC, as the commission is widely known, fined general manager Christis […]

The local band Gav, which came together in April last year, have managed to put their name right up there with other island-grown bands that have a stronger mark on the music scene. After playing in various venues across the island, this time the five-member band will take over the Exandas music stage in Nicosia […]

Only some 40,000 settlers from mainland Turkey will remain on the island post-settlement, President Nicos Anastasiades clarified on Monday. Anastasiades added that he “misspoke” a day earlier, when he told reporters that some 90,000 Turkish settlers in mixed marriages, or children of mixed marriages, would stay on in a federated state. He attributed his faux […]

Austria plans to convert and possibly tear down the house Hitler was born in to prevent it becoming a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis, the Interior Ministry said on Monday. Austria had already ordered the compulsory purchase of the building in Braunau am Inn, a town on the border with Germany where Adolf Hitler was born […]

Saudi Arabia is prepared to agree to a ceasefire in Yemen if the Iran-allied Houthis agree, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Monday, adding that he was sceptical about efforts for peace after previous ceasefire attempts had failed. The Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen has faced heavy criticism since an airC strike this month […]

Egypt passed legislation on Monday to crack down on people traffickers linked to a major surge in the numbers of migrants departing from the country’s Mediterranean coast on often disastrous sea journeys to Europe. A boat carrying about 450 people capsized off Egypt’s coast last month. About 202 bodies were subsequently recovered from the sea […]

Fourteen members of one family were killed in an air strike in rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Monday, emergency service workers said, as the Syrian government pursued its drive to capture opposition-held areas of the city. A list of those killed in the city, published by the Civil Defence, included several infants, among them two six-week […]

Finance minister Harris Georgiades said that while the Cypriot banks’ high stock of non-performing loans rate remains a serious challenge to the sector, customer confidence increases, which is reflected in more deposits, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Monday. The improved liquidity in the banking sector allowed the drop of Bank of Cyprus outstanding emergency […]

Dozens of trees are dead and dying in Academias and Athalassa national parks in Nicosia due to the prolonged drought, a forestry department official said on Monday. The parks are facing serious problems as there is no irrigation system and an increasing number of trees are under threat especially in Academias park. The majority of […]

Premier League champions Leicester City must pick themselves up to rediscover the winning habit and get their season back on track, winger Marc Albrighton has said. Leicester have not been able to replicate last season’s fairytale run under manager Claudio Ranieri, who led the 5,000-1 outsiders to the title against all the odds. They sit […]

Eighty per cent of participants in the voluntary awareness campaign European Night Without Road Conflicts held last weekend were below the permitted alcohol limit, according to the president of ‘Reaction’ youth organisation for road safety Marios Stavrou. The number is up from 77 per cent last year. “The percentage of people who kept their promise […]

The cooperation between Cyprus and Russia on issues of extradition and legal assistance was discussed between Attorney-General Costas Clerides and his Russian counterpart Chaika Yuri Yakovlevich, it was announced on Monday. Speaking to reporters after the meeting, which was held at the Legal Service in Nicosia, Clerides said he was “honoured to have received the […]

THE Organisation for the Blind on Monday said the state continued to stigmatise the visually impaired. “The situation regarding the rights of persons with visual disabilities has deteriorated dangerously in recent years,” the organisation announced on the occasion of the International Day of the White Cane on October 15. While the white cane, the universal […]

At least one person died and six people were injured on Monday by an explosion and subsequent fire at chemicals maker BASF’s biggest production site in Germany, the company said at a news conference. In addition, six people are still missing, the Ludwigshafen site’s chief, Uwe Liebelt, told journalists. The explosion occurred on a supply […]

State-funded Russian broadcaster RT complained on Monday that NatWest had withdrawn its banking services in Britain without explanation, questioning how the move squared with the right to freedom of speech. RT published NatWest’s letter on its web site, saying that the bank, which is part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, had reached the […]

Finance minister Harris Georgiades said that Cyprus’ economy may expand at a rate of up to 3 per cent this year, after growing a revised 1.7 per cent in 2015, and may continue to grow at a rate ranging between 2.5 per cent and 3 per cent in the medium-term, the Cyprus News Agency reported […]

A British toddler who disappeared on a Greek island 25 years ago may have died as the result of an accident on the day he went missing, British investigators said on Monday. “It is my professional belief that Ben Needham died as a result of an accident near to the farmhouse here … where he […]

Iraqi government forces launched a US-backed offensive on Monday to drive Islamic State from the northern city of Mosul, a high-stakes battle to retake the militants’ last major stronghold in the country. Two years after the jihadists seized the city of 1.5 million people and declared a caliphate from there encompassing tracts of Iraq and […]

The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre will host the lecture Ironic Historiography: on Art, Nationality and In-between Identities by Dr Sigal Barkai on Wednesday. Concentrating on Ironic Historiography – a hybrid notion, combining criticism of historical narratives concerning the Israeli state with ironic artistic expression – the presentation will deal with questions of identities of native […]

A prominent Russian separatist commander was assassinated in eastern Ukraine on Sunday evening, his allies said on Monday, accusing Ukrainian government forces of murdering him to try to destabilise an already fragile ceasefire. Arseny Pavlov, a Russian national who went by the nom de guerre “Motorola”, was blown up in the lift of his apartment […]