Новости за 13.12.2016

Some pending issues are closing, but disagreements also remain in the negotiations, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Tuesday following a meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci. The two leaders met for over three hours “in a good atmosphere”, discussing issues still pending in the ongoing talks for a comprehensive settlement of the Cyprus problem. […]

New York City’s Times Square has long been famous for its neon advertising, giant billboards and characters dressed up as anything from Mickey Mouse to the Statue of Liberty. But in the past couple of weeks a look-alike of Vice President-elect Mike Pence has been attracting the attention of passersby in one of the city’s […]

The blocking of funds in the state budget for contracting consultancy services for privatisation projects does affect plans to commercialise Larnaca’s port, sources have confirmed to the Cyprus Mail. Last week, during the review of the 2017 state budget, opposition parties blocked a government expenditure of €1.4 million for the contracting of consultancy services. Consultants […]

Police urged members of the public on Tuesday to be vigilant as professional beggars are roaming the streets taking advantage of the festive season. On Monday alone police charged five peddlers during patrols in central areas of Nicosia for operating without a licence and for the deliberate obstruction of free passage of the public. Police […]

Conservationist group Initiative for the Protection of the Natural Coastline announced on Tuesday it will continue its fight for the Akamas peninsula to preserve its wildlife. The group said it “will continue and escalate the race, together with other environmental and scientific organisations of civil society, with the aim of environmental protection, biodiversity conservation and […]

President Nicos Anastasiades said that the settlement of the Cyprus problem will be the island’s most important reform, which will offer the greatest growth prospects over the next decades. “I am confident that we can complete this effort because the prerequisites differentiating the current negotiation from others in the past are there,” Anastasiades told an […]

A new ambulance station in Peyia will be up and running in a month. Peyia Mayor Neophytos Akousiotis said he has been informed by the health ministry the station will open on January 19. The mayor on Tuesday stressed the importance and usefulness of the new service as Peyia has many visitors and the distance […]

As the year draws to a close, there are a few theatre productions that are coming to a close too, some that are still touring the land and a few stories still to be told. The play Sourinam by Stefanos Stavridis will travel to Limassol on Friday and to Paphos on Saturday. The play, presented […]

A total of 44 trafficking victims have been identified so far this year, around the same as last year when 46 people were identified. “Two main forms of trafficking in Cyprus are sexual exploitation, where most victims are women, and labour exploitation, where most victims are men,” head of the Anti-trafficking task force Rita Superman […]

The new women’s wing at the Central Prisons in Nicosia, part of a broader strategy to upgrade and modernise the correctional facility, was officially unveiled on Tuesday. Construction of the wing, which started in December 2014 and was delivered within the designated timeframes and budgets, cost €700,000, and comprises 20 cells that can host 40 […]

Francois Fillon, tipped to win France’s presidential election next year, sought on Tuesday to dispel fears over his plans to reform public healthcare as opponents accused him of backtracking and sowing confusion. Fillon, 62, has raised concern even within his centre-right Les Republicains party with an election manifesto that foresees limiting public health insurance to […]

A Tunisian man accused of being the captain of a migrant boat that sank killing almost 700 people was found guilty of multiple manslaughter and people-smuggling on Tuesday and sentenced to 18 years in jail. Only 28 people survived the disaster in April last year, when the small fishing boat capsized off the coast of […]

Three male refugees from Syria who arrived on the island last week along with 24 other people from Aleppo and who were arrested as they had been deported from the country in the past, were released on Tuesday on the orders of the Attorney-general due to the situation in their country. The three men, aged […]

Police on Tuesday discovered two live fragmentation hand grenades near the Limassol home of a 40-year-old man killed last week after his motorcycle was hit by a car driven by a man he had allegedly threatened earlier that day. Officers with sniffer dogs searched the area around Andreas Stylianou’s house on Tuesday, finding the grenades […]

Police on Tuesday said they are taking all necessary measures to prevent vandalism in Kakopetria following reports by residents about the bad behaviour of visiting students who they say inundate the village at weekends. The case emerged after a Kakopetria resident made a cry for help on state broadcaster CyBC over the large numbers of […]

Rapper Kanye West visited Trump Tower on Tuesday morning but it was not clear if he would meet with President-elect Donald Trump. West arrived with a small entourage, but his wife, businesswoman Kim Kardashian, was not with him. Transition team officials were not immediately available to confirm that the rapper and the Republican president-elect would […]

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The Holy Synod on Tuesday expressed deep concern over reports regarding the reunification talks and asked to be briefed by the president. In a written announcement, the Church said the Holy Synod convened in an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday to discuss developments in the Cyprus problem. “Following a thorough discussion, all members of the Holy […]

Tonight will bring the last opportunity in 2016 for the public to see a supermoon, a moon that is significantly brighter than on normal days. This year’s two previous super moons occurred on October 16 and November 14. The one in November was the brightest in the past 68 years. While the one on November […]

International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde sought on Tuesday to convince judges she was not negligent in signing off on a €400m French state payout to a business tycoon in 2008. Lagarde, 60, is fighting charges of negligence leading to the misuse of public funds when she approved, while finance minister, a rare out-of-court settlement […]

Members of the public detained a suspected burglar on Monday night after he was seen coming out a Nicosia clinic where the alarm was going off. Police said the man was seen at around 11pm wielding a crowbar, and was chased by people who managed to catch him in the basement of a nearby apartment […]

Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure admitted on Tuesday to being over the legal limit following a drink-driving conviction but had no explanation for the reading after saying he does not consume alcohol because of his religious beliefs. Toure was arrested in London on Nov. 28 and was given an 18-month ban and an income-related fine […]

The 44-year-old actress was removed from a flight in June this year after a bizarre outburst, which she later claimed was caused by mixing her medication with alcohol, but she insists she has “recovered” now. She told People magazine: “It was embarrassing. I can only say that sometimes you just have a moment that you wish you didn’t […]

Half of the 5,000 outstanding applications for citizenship and naturalisation have been processed in the last two months, the interior ministry announced on Tuesday. Many of these cases have been delayed for years and the idea is to get the rest dealt with quickly. “The ministry decided to come up with a plan and developed […]

The Public Debt Management Office, a division of the finance ministry, said it will buy back outstanding government development stock maturing on July 1, 2019 at a price of €107.84 per €100. The total outstanding amount of this six-year security, which carries an annual rate of 4.5 per cent is €667.7m, according to the PDMO’s […]