Новости за 17.02.2017

OFFICERS involved in corruption cases have no place in the police force, Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou warned on Friday. The minister attended the House Legal Affairs committee meeting where six bills were submitted aimed at amending the existing law and police regulations by providing more tools for the prosecution of cases of corruption and with […]

THE Nicosia criminal court set March 1 as the day of sentencing for former attorney-general Rikkos Erotokritou, two other lawyers, and a law firm, all found guilty on charges of bribery, conspiracy to defraud, and conspiracy to subvert the course of justice. Defence lawyers argued for leniency on Friday following last week’s guilty verdict in […]

A 57-year-old man was in critical condition on Friday after he was rushed to hospital with serious breathing problems caused by smoke inhalation while he was trying to put out a fire at a church in Nicosia district. The fire broke out at 4pm and was noticed by the man who tried to tackle it […]

FOLLOWING Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci’s insistence, for the second day, that Anastasiades was the one who left the negotiating table first, the president on Friday announced he would no longer engage in the ongoing blame-game. Referring to UN special advisor Espen Barth Eide’s comments on Thursday evening, in which he said that it was […]

If food is the way to a man’s heart, cutting tax on Britain’s much-loved fish and chips is the way Paul Nuttall, leader of the anti-EU Ukip party, hopes to win over the country’s voters. On the sidelines of mainstream British politics for years over what many derided as its overt populism, the UK Independence […]

A Cypriot from Limassol has won over €16m on the OPAP lottery, Joker, the highest amount ever collected by a single winner. An OPAP announcement said the winner was a woman who had already contacted the gaming company. Following 16 consecutive jackpots on Joker, the Limassol resident guessed the 5+1 numbers correctly, winning some €16.4m […]

A 17-year-old student was killed on Friday morning in Nicosia after he crashed with his motorcycle, police said. Michalis Antoniades was killed after his motorcycle hit the pavement and overturned on Pedieos Street in Lakatamia at 10am. He was rushed to hospital where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival. Police said the youth had not […]

President Donald Trump, scrambling to find a new top security aide after firing his first one and being spurned by another candidate, said on Friday he has four people under consideration for the job, including acting national security adviser Keith Kellogg. Trump ousted Michael Flynn on Monday in a controversy over the retired lieutenant general’s […]

Construction began on Friday of a mosque in Istanbul’s central Taksim square, a controversial project championed by Turkey‘s President Tayyip Erdogan but mired in years of court battles and public debate. Cranes moved into the site and first cement was poured at a modest ground-breaking ceremony on the edge of the square, long a rallying […]

THE government disagrees with an opposition proposal to cut the road tax for a certain category of diesel vehicles that mainly includes pickups and double-cabs of up to 2850 cc, the House transport committee heard on Friday. Committee chairman Giorgos Prokopiou said the proposal affects vehicles between 2250 cc and 2850 cc. Tabled by Akel, […]

Get fit and aid charity! It is time to start preparing for Dorian’s Coastal Challenge, an obstacle run for charity which takes place for the second year on April 8. Although you don’t need to be an elite athlete or marathon runner to cross the finish line, this doesn’t mean that you don’t have to […]

Ruling Disy on Friday tabled an amendment wresting control of in-school commemorations and transferring it to the education ministry, according to MP Nicos Tornaritis. The move is related to the furore raised by last week’s decision to introduce a commemoration of the 1950 ‘Enosis’ referendum, in which Greek Cypriots voted in favour of union with […]

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The deadlock at the Limassol port continued on Friday, after lorry drivers defied President Nicos Anastasiades’s appeal to resume the delivery of containers whose number increases by the day, making a swift alleviation of the current chaotic situation less likely amid increasing supply problems on the market. “The hauliers’ refusal to immediately return to their […]

Sean Dyche is confident Burnley will not take their opponents lightly when they host non-league side Lincoln City in the FA Cup on Saturday, the manager aware that several of his players have worked their way up from the lower divisions. Burnley are 12th in the Premier League, 81 places above Lincoln in the English […]

Tourist arrivals rose in January 29 per cent to 62,611 compared with January 2016 mainly on a Russian bonanza, the statistical service said. Arrivals from the UK, traditionally Cyprus’s largest market of incoming tourism, rose an annual 20 per cent in January to 17,404, while those from Russia, Cyprus’ second largest market, rose 158 per […]

Former Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang, the highest-ranking ex-official to be charged in the city’s history, was on Friday found guilty of one charge of misconduct in public office. The nine-person jury, however, found Tsang not guilty of a second misconduct charge, and failed to reach a majority decision on a bribery charge. Tsang, 72, […]

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, trying to reassure allies that Washington was not tilting towards Moscow over the Syrian conflict, told them on Friday that the United States backed UN efforts to broker a political solution to the war, officials and diplomats said. Tillerson also said military ties with Russia hinged on its stance […]

Much fun for four to eight year old is promised at a concert and workshop on Saturday called Carnival of the Animals. As part of the Bank of Cyprus’ Moments at the Museum series, it will feature piano duo Leoni Hadjithoma and Borislav Alexandrov presenting a funny, entertaining and educational programme for children with the […]

Mauricio Pochettino is eager to bring a swift end to Tottenham Hotspur’s “bad period” when they travel to second-tier side Fulham in the FA Cup on Sunday as the Argentine rejected the notion his side are in the midst of a crisis. Tottenham followed up a poor performance in Saturday’s Premier League defeat at Liverpool […]

Spain’s Princess Cristina, sister of the King, has been absolved from charges of being accessory to tax fraud following a investigation into her husband’s financial affairs, judicial authorities said on Friday. Cristina’s husband, Inaki Urdangarin, was sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in prison on charges of fraud and tax evasion, the authorities said […]

Where do you live? I live in Athens, alone Best childhood memory? The day I decided to take my first water ski class and so I did and I was really good at it. I may have been around 7 years old. What did you have for breakfast? At the moment I am in Paris […]

Martin Schulz, the German Social Democrats’ candidate for federal elections in September, would beat Chancellor Angela Merkel if balloting was based on a direct leadership vote, a poll showed on Friday. The poll carried out by Forschungsgruppe Wahlen for broadcaster ZDF showed 49 per cent of Germans wanted former European Parliament President Schulz to be […]

Around 50 Turkish Cypriot properties have been recovered over the past nine to 10 months from users who were not paying rent or where irregularities were detected, Paphos district officer Mary Lambrou said on Friday. According to the instructions given by the interior minister – who is the guardian of Turkish Cypriot properties – the Paphos […]

U.S. billionaire Wilbur Ross, who together with a group of investors participated in Bank of Cyprus’s August 2014 capital increase, is facing questions following his nomination as US Secretary of Commerce related to his ties with major Russian bailed-in shareholders, the Miami Herald reported on Thursday. Days after US president Donald Trump suffered a major […]