Новости за 14.12.2016

  President Anastasiades and the Turkish Cypriot leader on Wednesday pledged to do their best to reunify the island in addresses to hundreds of people who braved the cold to take part in a peace march that started in northern Nicosia and ended in the south. Organised by the bicommunal movement for peace and reunification, […]

For the sixth year OPAP Cyprus and the Cyprus Basketball Federation is organising the basketball event All Star Day on Saturday. Under the slogan, I play with rules, I drive with rules, the event is organised in support of road safety. Apart from top basketball players, Olympic Game winners and wheelchair basketball teams all set […]

England captain Dylan Hartley was banned for six weeks on Wednesday for striking an opponent playing for his club Northampton, European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) said in a statement. The 30-year-old hooker, who will be available for the start of England’s Six Nations campaign, was shown a red card for a swinging arm tackle shortly […]

The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption of the Council of Europe (Greco) said on Wednesday that Cyprus has shown progress in making political financing more transparent and toughening laws against political corruption though more needed to be done. In its second interim compliance report, Greco said Cyprus has made tangible progress in […]

Moody’s Investors Service on Wednesday upgraded, by one notch, the long term local and foreign currency deposit ratings of Bank of Cyprus to Caa2, and Hellenic Bank to Caa1, and affirmed their not-prime short-term local and foreign currency deposit and commercial paper ratings. Moody’s said its action was driven by an improved operating environment, which […]

  The Nicosia criminal court will issue its verdict in the corruption trial of former deputy attorney-general Rikkos Erotokritou and others on February 8 next year, it was announced on Wednesday. Erotokritou, along with lawyers Panayiotis Neocleous, Andreas Kyprizoglou and the Andreas Neoclous law firm, are facing charges of conspiracy to pervert the course of […]

Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni won the backing of the fragmented senate on Wednesday, allowing his government to formally take office as a new threat emerged to the legacy of predecessor Matteo Renzi. Renzi resigned last week when he lost a referendum on his proposed reform of the constitution. Looking to stave off political turmoil, […]

Eurozone lenders have put on hold the implementation of a short-term debt relief deal for Greece on Wednesday after the Greek government proposed to make a one-off payout to pensioners in December, the eurozone bailout fund ESM said. Euro zone finance ministers agreed on Dec 5 to grant Greece short-term debt relief that would reduce […]

Mexican team America will be fired up by the thought of marking their centenary year by beating Real Madrid and becoming the first team from the CONCACAF region to reach the Club World Cup final, Real manager Zinedine Zidane has said. America, the CONCACAF Champions League holders, beat South Korean side Jeonbuk Motors 2-1 to […]

The tenders process to pick a successor to Helector, the Greek waste-management company embroiled in an overcharging scandal, has been suspended pending a final ruling on an appeal filed by a German company that was not considered. In the meantime, Helector is still operating the Koshi waste-management site. The Tenders Review Board interim decision to […]

Three people were arrested in the north on Tuesday night after they had been caught by police in Louroudjina with around 2.5 tonnes of meat, believed to be smuggled from the government controlled areas. According to media reports in the north, the three were arrested during an operation of the drug squad in a military […]

A case was filed at the Nicosia district court against the 26-year-old man who was arrested on Sunday for allegedly killing his dog after throwing it from a third-floor balcony, police said on Wednesday. The trial is set to begin on January 20, police said, while the 26-year-old was released under conditions. The suspect was […]

Paphos bus company Osypa ended strike measures on Wednesday and gave the transport ministry until January 10 to meet the company’s demands regarding the modernisation of the fleet. Officials from the Paphos bus company met on Wednesday with Transport Minister Marios Demetriades in an effort to solve the town’s bus strike, which inconvenienced residents who […]

  PAPHOS has secured four new listings on the national list of Intangible Cultural Heritage, which is under the Cyprus national commission for Unesco and the government cultural services. Seven new Cyprus entries on the list have been announced and four of them refer to Paphos, according to Nasos Hadjigeorgiou, head of the Paphos regional […]

One of the island’s biggest football clubs, Omonia, on Wednesday asked for the resignation of the football association’s (CFA) board, accusing it of corruption. Speaking at a news conference, club chairman Antonis Tzionis said Omonia had no confidence in the CFA and the referee committee, nor in the current structure of Cypriot football. “Enough is […]

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday named former Texas Governor Rick Perry to head the US Department of Energy, handing the job to a climate change sceptic with close ties to the oil industry who once proposed abolishing the department. The choice adds to a list of drilling proponents who have been tapped for top jobs […]

Growing lettuce in the desert is not most people’s idea of how to make a success of farming, but Amr Bassiouny believes he is on to something. The 30-year-old chief executive of Egyptian Hydrofarms says he is growing salad greens at his farm on the outskirts of Cairo using 90 percent less water than traditional […]

By Stelios Orphanides Bank of Cyprus is about to repay its outstanding emergency liquidity assistance (ELA) which it mostly inherited from Cyprus Popular Bank in March 2013. The bank’s chief executive officer John Hourican said on Tuesday that its remaining ELA had dropped by yesterday to €0.4m, half of what it was in August. On […]

Spain’s constitutional court blocked on Wednesday a resolution by the Catalan parliament to hold an independence referendum next September, in another setback for the region’s efforts to break away from Madrid’s rule. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s conservative government had asked the court to stall any separatist push by Catalonia, a wealthy region of northeastern […]

A Larnaca-based children’s charity is under investigation by police for the alleged misuse of financial donations, it was reported on Wednesday. The discrepancies reportedly emerged in 2012 following a check of the charity’s books by the Audit Office. According to media reports, the audit had revealed that the foundation did not keep accounting books, nor […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May condemned as “appalling” a rail strike that left hundreds of thousands of London commuters facing a second day of travel chaos on Wednesday. Speaking in parliament, she urged the two sides to find a solution to avoid prolonging Britain’s worst rail disruption for two decades. Passengers trying to get to […]

The number of vacancies rose in the third quarter to 4,989, more than doubling compared with the respective quarter of 2015, as the economy generated 16,140 jobs in a year, the statistical service said. Compared with the third quarter of 2015, the increase in vacancies resulted mainly from 1,079 more jobs offered in the hospitality […]

Kashima Antlers became the first Japanese side to reach the Club World Cup final when they beat Colombia’s South American champions Atletico Nacional 3-0 on Wednesday. Kashima’s first goal came after 33 minutes when Shoma Doi converted a penalty given for an off-the-ball trip by Orlando Berrio on Daigo Nishi after video evidence was used […]

The 43-year-old actress divorced from Peter Loughran in 2013 after six years of marriage, and are now locked in a heated custody battle over their six-year-old son Wylie. Peter is now reportedly filing new court documents asking that the star cough up the $40,000 to pay for his legal fees. TMZ is reporting that the […]

  British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson raised the issue of northern Cyprus’ refusal to hand over to the Republic the two suspects wanted for the murder of a British tourist in Ayia Napa during his visit to Cyprus last month, Britain’s prime minister said on Wednesday. Theresa May was responding to MP Gareth Johnson ‘s question […]