Новости за 25.11.2016

LESS than a month before December’s local elections, parliament on Friday voted to amend candidates’ eligibility criteria, allowing anyone who runs a business in a municipality or village to run for office in that community, provided he or she has been registered as a voter there for at least five years. The proposal, tabled by […]

TWO legislative proposals reinstating auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides’ right to conduct administrative audits at the Co-operative Central Bank, which he had been stripped of earlier this month due to what opposition parties Akel and Diko described as an accidental vote, will be discussed in next week’s plenum, it was decided on Friday. According to a legislative […]

JUSTICE Minister Ionas Nicolaou confirmed on Friday media reports that two of the five terrorists arrested in France for allegedly planning attacks in the country, had passed through Cyprus a year and a half ago. According to the Daily Mail, two of the five men arrested this week in two French cities planning a terror […]

A prima facie case against Christakis Thoma, 31, who is standing trial in connection with the murder of two brothers and their cousin in Limassol last year, has been established by the prosecution and he will be called to defend himself, the criminal court ruled on Friday. Thoma is accused of having fatally stabbed the […]

THE settlement talks have not collapsed, Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said on Friday, following the deadlock in the discussion on territorial issues between the two community leaders. The minister briefed the members of the Standing Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, that is meeting in Nicosia, on the Switzerland talks between […]

BOTH the investor and the government have announced that negotiations for a giant project in Yeroskipou, Paphos, are going to continue until an agreement satisfying both sides has been reached. After it was reported that Hungarian investor Sandor Kenyeres, the man behind the planned €7bn property development ‘Eden City’ was withdrawing from the negotiations, his […]

Norway’s supreme court has rejected a lawsuit from fugitive former US spy contractor Edward Snowden against the Norwegian government, upholding the verdict of two lower courts, it said on Friday. Snowden‘s law firm said in April he would take the state to court to secure free passage to the Nordic country to receive a free […]

Israeli police arrested 13 people on Friday on suspicion of arson, authorities said, after massive wildfires tore through central and northern Israel, a conflagration that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu branded as “terrorism”. Firefighters kept battling the flames in wooded hills around Jerusalem and in northern areas on Friday, with support from Palestinian firemen and emergency […]

Crowds were thin at U.S. malls and stores on Black Friday morning, formerly the traditional start of the holiday shopping season, with stores opening earlier and online sales expected to take the biggest share of gains in retail sales over last year. In the New York and Chicago areas, shoppers said stores were less busy […]

A group of women demonstrated in front of the supreme court in Nicosia on Friday against the reduction by three years of the sentence passed on well-known Larnaca businessman Akis Lefkaritis, 59, on charges of sexually exploiting two girls, aged 14 and 15. “The decision of the Supreme Court reflects the patriarchal and gendered attitudes […]

This Monday night, poetry and art will come together in a dynamic manner to show how the arts can inspire and unite. At Gallery Gloria in Nicosia, where the solo exhibition by Hara Savvidou entitled Meshing Around is being displayed, the poetry selection Rose Falling into Night by Nese Yasin will be launched. The book […]

THE largest marina in Cyprus, hosting up to 1,000 boats, is envisioned in the terms of a tenders process for the development of the Larnaca port and marina, opened earlier this week. The first phase of the process calls for submissions of interest by prospective investors. According to the terms, submissions may be filed until […]

THE trial began in Larnaca on Friday of Panayiotis Alexandrou, the third man accused of involvement in the killing of Daniela Rosca from Moldova, last year, who has also been identified by the other two witnesses as the instigator of the attack Alexandrou’s trial was earlier postponed so sentence could be passed on Plamen Pelov […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin presented a Russian passport to US actor Steven Seagal on Friday and said he hoped it would serve as a symbol of how the fractious ties between Moscow and Washington are starting to improve. At a Kremlin ceremony where Seagal signed his new passport in front of Putin, the Russian leader […]

Lewis Hamilton landed an early psychological blow ahead of Formula One’s Abu Dhabi title showdown by lapping faster than Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg in both Friday practice sessions. The Briton, 12 points behind the championship favourite going into the final race, lapped the Yas Marina circuit with a quickest time of one minute 42.869 […]

Manager Slaven Bilic is not sweating over his future at West Ham United following the Premier League club’s poor start to the campaign and is confident he has the full support of the owners. After finishing seventh last season, West Ham have struggled to recapture that form and are 17th in the table, a point […]

The department of civil registry and migration department said that the public should submit applications for passports and ID cards well before the holidays. People who plan to travel abroad during the Christmas holidays should check the expiry date of their and their children’s travel documents in order to facilitate a timely application for their […]

The fourth Santa Run in Cyprus which supports the Centre for Preventive Paediatrics and its neonatal hearing screening programme will take place on Sunday, December 11, in Paphos. The annual run is part of a worldwide campaign, and people of all ages can take part, just by wearing a Santa Claus outfit. The starting point […]

British retailers reported strong online demand in early ‘Black Friday’ trading, as shoppers chased deals in a spending spree that is expected to top last year’s record level. Shoppers are looking for bargains ahead of an expected rise in prices in 2017 as a weaker pound starts to push up the cost of imports, putting household finances […]

The Paphos court decided on Friday that a 36-year-old man who faces charges of sexually abusing a 6-year-old girl will remain in custody until the next hearing on December 2. The man from Paphos pleaded guilty on Thursday on charges of sexually harassing the girl. The 36-year-old was arrested on October 26, following a complaint […]

The death toll from an attack on an Egyptian military checkpoint on Thursday in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula has climbed to 12, medical sources said on Friday. The military said late on Thursday that militants had killed eight soldiers and that it had killed three attackers. There was no claim of responsibility for the […]

From brown ales to golden pilsners to the strong trappist brews produced in monasteries, Belgian beer is enjoyed around the world. Now, Belgium is asking the United Nations’ heritage body to add its beer-making and drinking culture to a list of traditions worth protecting, saying that brewing fosters a unified identity in a country with […]

The 24-year-old singer admitted herself to rehab earlier this year in order to treat the mental illness that was brought on as a result of her battle with autoimmune disease lupus, and wowed audiences at the glitzy award show on Sunday (20.11.16) with a moving speech in which she claimed she was “absolutely broken inside”. […]

Five suspects, arrested in France on suspicion of planning attacks on security targets in and around the French capital, were directed remotely by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the Paris prosecutor said on Friday. Authorities said earlier this week that attacks had been planned for Dec 1 against police and intelligence headquarters in Paris […]

Two migrants were killed and two others were injured in a fire at a migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos late on Thursday, prompting clashes between other migrants and the police, authorities said on Friday. The fire broke out at 2020 GMT after a gas canister used for cooking exploded in a tent […]