Новости за 11.01.2017

  By George Psyllides and Stefanos Evripidou in Geneva The maps on territory submitted by the two leaders were within the range agreed by both sides allowing Thursday’s conference on security and guarantees to go ahead as planned, said government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides last night. “It is the first time in the history of the […]

Cyprus Cup, Last 16, 1st Leg Results from Wednesday: Anorthosis 2 Asil Lisis 0 Olympiakos 2 Ethnikos Assias 0 Omonia 0 Ethnikos Achnas 0 AEK 2 Karmiotissa 1 Aris 0 AEL 2

Last year’s European Championship generated a 1.22 billion euro boost for hosts France, a study commissioned by the French government showed on Wednesday. It said that 2.5 million fans attended the games even as France extended a state of emergency and intelligence agencies warned of the threat of militant attacks during the month-long tournament. The […]

Police chief Zacharias Chrysostomou has requested a report into the presence of a number of far-right party Elam members at the peace rally on Tuesday in the Nicosia buffer zone, it was announced on Wednesday. According to the police spokesman Andreas Angelides, the police chief requested a report into events following the complaints by leftist […]

Barcelona’s hopes of offering talisman and all-time top scorer Lionel Messi an improved contract face a stumbling block because of the expenditure caps imposed by La Liga, the Spanish champions’ CEO Oscar Grau said on Wednesday. While Messi’s feted strike partners Luis Suarez and Neymar have each signed new deals until 2021, the Argentine maestro’s […]

The impact of the African Nations Cup on clubs in Europe is again likely to be keenly felt over the next weeks with teams losing significant players to the tournament in Gabon, which gets under way on Saturday. Clubs in England and France have lost 89 players to the three-week event, with Portuguese, Spanish and […]

Artist Theodora Pantopoli will present her first exhibition under the name Allegory and Feelings at Apocalypse Gallery in Nicosia on Friday. Within her drawings, Pantopoli dives into the depths of our souls. The drawings reflect joys, concerns, dilemmas, and the resistance some of us feel towards established bodies of power. They do much more than […]

US President-elect Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would not wait for negotiations with Mexico to be completed before starting to build a wall along the two countries’ border. “I could wait about a year and a half until we finish our negotiations with Mexico which will start immediately after we get into office, but […]

Russia’s actions during the US presidential election and its behaviour toward Ukraine dominated the confirmation hearing of Rex Tillerson, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state, as senators pressed him on Wednesday on how he would deal with aggression from Moscow. Tillerson, 64, the former chief executive of Exxon Mobil Corp, faced a grilling […]

Facebook Inc launched its “Journalism Project” on Wednesday, as the world’s biggest social media network looks to deepen its relationship with news organisations. The launch comes less than a week after the company said it was hiring former CNN reporter, anchor and host Campbell Brown to lead its news partnerships team. As part of the […]

Limassol port pilots went on strike on Wednesday morning after they were told that they had to train six Dutch colleagues of theirs, who are to assume duties after the private investors take over operations at the end of the month. The work stoppage, that ended at around noon as a sign of goodwill ahead […]

The Agriculture Insurance Organisation (OGA) is the backbone of the island’s farmers and should be modernised, not closed down, the general secretary of the Cyprus Farmers Union (EKA), Panicos Champas said on Wednesday. During a House agriculture committee meeting on Tuesday MPs were told of the government decision to close down OGA as it is now unable to […]

If the map that the Turkish Cypriot side presents at the UN-led talks in Geneva asks for over 29.2% Turkish Cypriot territory, then the conference scheduled for January 12 in Geneva with the participation of the guarantor powers will not take place, according to sources, CNA reported. The Greek Cypriot proposal is for 28.2%. The same sources […]

By Ralli Papageorgiou The Centre for Sustainable Peace and Democratic Development (SeeD) is proposing a new way of approaching the security issue in Cyprus, doing away with the traditional discussion concerning Turkish military guarantees which does not leave room for convergence between the two sides. SeeD is in Geneva and on Wednesday was expected to […]

The ombudswoman received 2,634 complaints last year, most relating to immigration issues and property, but also police brutality and health. Speaking in parliament, Ombudswoman Eliza Savvidou said of these complaints 158 were from individuals with disabilities filed complaints, 84 on equality issues and 124 concerned discrimination. “Most of the complaints concern immigration issues and foreign […]

In 2016, Cyprus failed to transpose into national law dozens of EU directives, which could lead to the island being slapped with millions in fines from the European Court of Justice. Last year alone, Cypriot authorities failed to undertake some 50 national execution measures, resulting in 23 formal notices and/or reasoned opinions from the European […]

The prime minister of Malta, who will oversee the launch of Britain’s negotiations to leave the EU, warned on Wednesday that the European Parliament could “scuttle” any Brexit deal and must be involved in talks. Joseph Muscat, whose government has the presidency of European Union ministerial councils until June, told a news conference he had […]

Islamic State supporters posted a video on Wednesday showing an elderly German man believed to have been kidnapped by Filipino Islamist Abu Sayyaf rebels last November. The video shows the German man in an orange jumpsuit standing in a freshly dug grave as black-clad and masked militants behind him spoke Arabic and threatened the German […]

Alois Brunner, an Austrian SS officer found responsible for the World War Two deportation of 125,500 European Jews to Nazi death camps, died in a Syrian jail cell in 2001, according to a report by two journalists published in France. Until now, Brunner, Adolf Eichmann’s right-hand man, was reported to have died around 2010 in […]

Unknown perpetrators caused damage worth €3,000 to three cars parked in a bonded warehouse in Limassol on Tuesday. From an initial investigation it emerged that the perpetrators entered the compound of the custom warehouse in the afternoon and maliciously damaged three new cars on the premises. In a separate incident another car was destroyed by […]

Peace talks in Geneva to resolve the decades-long division of Cyprus are ‘on track’, the U.N. envoy for the island said on Wednesday, saying many issues dividing the sides had been resolved. Espen Barth Eide said however that there was ‘still work to do’ in the reunification negotiations between estranged Greek and Turkish Cypriots. “We have […]

Government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides slammed the irresponsible actions of some and called on the media not to assist them in undermining the talks. The comment came after leaks earlier in the week relating to differences between the two sides on property and governance, and on Wednesday when the names of villages the Greek Cypriot side […]

The Cypriot banking system has improved its liquidity following two consecutive years of economic expansion but continues to face risks stemming mainly from the high non-performing loan portfolio, the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) said on Wednesday. “While financial conditions show a clear improvement, challenges persist,” the CBC said in a statement handed over to […]

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Wednesday that talks between the two Cypriot sides represented the “very last chance” to reunite the island, and hoped they would succeed. The Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders sit down to reunification talks in Geneva this week, although both have sought to temper hopes of a swift breakthrough. […]

The 84-page report on corruption in the police force, prepared by three independent criminal investigators over five months, contains alarming evidence, Attorney-General Costas Clerides said on Wednesday. The report focused on the chain of events leading up to the murder of businessman Fanos Kalopsidiotis in Ayia Napa last summer, in which three other individuals – […]