Новости за 26.01.2017

A 22-YEAR-OLD man in Paphos was on Thursday sentenced to four years in jail after being found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl. The incident had occurred in August 2015. The girl reported that, after she broke up her romantic relationship with the man, he visited her house to talk. When she refused, the man […]

THE process of dismantling and removing the oil and gas installations in Larnaca is about to start, Larnaca Mayor Andreas Vyras announced on Thursday, urging that the work be completed as soon as possible. The contractor, the Italian company General Smontaggi will install specialised equipment necessary for the removal of the oil tanks and the […]

  The Animal Party Cyprus said it supports a European-wide campaign to stop the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). The campaign, which in Germany has seen hundreds of thousands protesting in the streets, calls on EU governments not to ratify the free-trade agreements and suspend negotiations. […]

French former prime minister Francois Fillon said on Thursday he would stick to his presidential bid, rejecting press allegations that his wife drew a salary as his assistant but never actually worked. Fillon, who told TF1 television his two children also did work for him at some point when he was senator, added that his […]

The Cyprus Football Association (CFA) has received two more ‘red notices’ from European governing body UEFA regarding suspicious betting activity relating to two recent football games. According to UEFA, the betting activity around both games strongly suggests they may have been fixed. The first notice concerns the January 22 league fixture between Apoel and AE […]

Thousands of people lined the streets of Gambia’s capital Banjul on Thursday to welcome home new President Adama Barrow days after authoritarian leader Yahya Jammeh fled into exile under pressure from regional forces. Barrow, a former real estate agent, won a Dec. 1 election but Jammeh refused to step down, forcing his opponent to be […]

Germany‘s Social Democrats (SPD) may look reinvigorated with a new leader, Martin Schulz, set to take on conservative Angela Merkel in September’s election, but their chances of leading a left-wing coalition to oust the chancellor remain slim. The surprise leadership switch has given the SPD a psychological boost by ending months of dithering and installing […]

Saying “opposites attract,” Prime Minister Theresa May called on President Donald Trump on Thursday to build a stronger “special relationship” between Britain and the United States to withstand new, modern-day threats. Traveling to the United States on what will be the first meeting with a foreign leader since Trump was inaugurated last week, May sought […]

The National Unity Party (UBP) – Democrat Party (DP) ‘government’ in the north granted ‘exceptional citizenship’ to 127 foreigners in the last six months, daily Yenidüzen has reported. While the number of foreigners granted ‘citizenship’ in the north is known, the number of those recently granted by the ‘ministry of interior is not. Yenidüzen says […]

The island’s public transport is appalling and will have cost taxpayers some €500m over its 10-year contract period that expires in 2020, MPs heard on Thursday. The issue was discussed by the House watchdog committee, which looked into whether there was mismanagement and waste of public monies. Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides described the system as “appalling,” […]

Atomic scientists reset their symbolic ‘Doomsday Clock’ to its closest time to midnight in 64 years on Thursday, saying the world was closer to catastrophe due to threats such as nuclear weapons, climate change and Donald Trump’s election as US president. The timepiece, devised by the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and displayed on […]

Audit Service top technical auditor Andreas Hasapopoulos has asked police investigators to expedite work on the Nicosia Sewerage Board (SAL) as high-profile individuals involved may attempt to cover up the cases, daily Phileleftheros reported on Thursday. The investigations, which relate to contracts awarded by SAL from 2003 to 2014, have raised suspicions of kickbacks for […]

The first trilateral meeting of the Presidents of the parliaments of Israel, Cyprus and Greece wrapped up on Thursday in Israel with the signing of a joint statement, expressing their commitment to work with a view to secure tangible results of their trilateral cooperation. It was decided that the next trilateral meeting would be hosted in Cyprus. […]

The Cypriot Intangible Cultural Heritage Project team is hosting a screening of the documentary Karsilama on Sunday at Windcraft Music Centre in Nicosia at 6pm. The Cypriot Intangible Cultural Heritage Project is a bi-communal project funded by the European Union under the Cypriot Civil Society in Action IV programme. It was implemented by the Lefkosa […]

Α law passed by parliament in June, including banks in the provisions of the law on usury from which they were previously exempted, was deemed unconstitutional and struck down by the Supreme Court on Thursday. The law, which sought to amend the 2011 law on usury, effectively by capping the interest rate banks would be […]

Mexico’s president on Thursday scrapped a planned summit with Donald Trump in the face of insistent tweets from the US president demanding Mexico pay for a border wall, a spat that threatens Mexican efforts to salvage trade ties. Taking a page out of Trump‘s playbook, President Enrique Pena Nieto fired the salvo on Twitter, after […]

Greece’s supreme court ruled against the extradition of eight Turkish soldiers who fled to Greece in July after a failed coup attempt in Turkey, a decision which angered Ankara and further strained relations between the two neighbours. Turkey has demanded Greece extradite them, alleging they were involved in the coup attempt and has branded them […]

Tax authorities have so far identified some 2,400 individuals and corporations mentioned in the Panama Papers, MPs heard on Thursday. Of these, 1,300 are individuals and 1,000 legal entities, deputy tax commissioner Soteris Markides informed lawmakers. Among the names identified, around 700 had not submitted tax returns for years – a number going back to […]

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) have joined global human rights groups in their rebuke of US President Donald Trump for condoning torture. Trump told ABC in an interview on Wednesday that he thought that waterboarding “worked” as an intelligence-gathering tool but said he would defer […]

The US, as a member of the UN Security Council, would like to be part of discussions on the Cyprus issue when the timing is appropriate, Kathleen Ann Doherty, US Ambassador in Nicosia has said. Doherty met on Thursday with Andros Kyprianou, the general-secretary of opposition AKEL, and they discussed the latest developments in the Cyprus problem […]

The UN Security Council unanimously adopted on Thursday a resolution renewing the mandate of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp) until July 31. No speeches were delivered by the members of the Council following the adoption of resolution 2338. The resolution is a technical rollover with very minor changes from resolution 2300 adopted last July. The Security […]

A co-op cashier accused of embezzling over a quarter of a million euros, on Thursday changed her plea to guilty for some of the charges she faces at Larnaca court. Militsa Sorokou, 46, former chief cashier at the Dromolaxia co-op, changed her originally ‘not guilty’ plea, admitting to another 41 of 245 charges she faces […]

A week following the listing of Bank of Cyprus’s share on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) the balance has been positive, showing the way for more Cypriot public companies, a stock broker said. “The messages we receive are very positive and we hope that other serious companies seeking to gain access to the global markets […]

The attorney-general has suspended prosecution of former Paphos mayor Savvas Vergas and three others who were accused of threatening witnesses and obstruction of justice. The decision was made after an EU court ruled against storing telecoms data to be used by national authorities in the case of a crime. The case against Vergas and the […]

A German court jailed a teenage German-Moroccan girl on Thursday for stabbing a policeman at a train station on the orders of Islamic State militants. Safia S., a dual citizen aged 16, was convicted of attempted murder and being a supporter of the jihadist group by a regional court in the northern city of Celle. […]