Новости за 08.03.2017

Hundreds of women from both sides of the divide and setting off from two different starting points, north and south, marched to the Nicosia buffer zone in a peace march on Wednesday. The bi-communal event was organised by around 40 organisations and groups to mark international women’s day. Greek and Turkish Cypriot women, who met […]

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Tugrul Turkes censured Turkish Cypriot media on Wednesday for not being tough enough on the Greek Cypriot side. The Turkish official is in the north to campaign ahead of the April 16 presidential referendum on the constitutional powers of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.  About 150,000 people living in the north are eligible to […]

Get out and about and learn how to take some breath-taking photographs during the photographic expedition with landscape and conservation photographer Silvio Rusmigo during the last weekend of the month. The outdoor photography workshop will take place in the village of Lemythou in the Limassol district and the surrounding area of Paphos and Troodos forests. […]

Germany and Turkey are the only bidders for the right to host football’s 2024 European Championship finals, continental governing body UEFA announced on Wednesday. The football federations of the two countries were the only ones to submit a declaration of interest before the March 3 deadline, UEFA said in a statement. “The respective national associations […]

A law to muffle mosques’ amplified calls to prayer in Israel and occupied East Jerusalem won preliminary approval on Wednesday in a charged parliamentary session where Arab legislators denounced the measure as racist. Supporters of the bill say it is aimed at improving the quality of life of people living near mosques who have been losing […]

At least 19 people were killed in a fire on Wednesday in a Guatemalan home for abused children, a spokesman for firefighters said. The Virgen de Asuncion home is in the municipality of San Jose Pinula, some 25km south-west of the capital Guatemala City and houses children of up to 18 years old. Oscar Franco, […]

Anorthosis are through to the semi-finals of the Cyprus Cup after a resounding 5-2 aggregate win over AEK on Wednesday evening. Taking a 3-1 advantage from the first leg into the match, Abdullahi Shehu extended Anorthosis’ advantage when he opened the scoring after 64 minutes. AEK’s Nestoras Mytides pulled a goal back for the visitors […]

European Union leaders will pledge “unequivocal support” for the Balkans on Thursday in order to counter Russian influence and reinvigorate the region’s bid to join the bloc, diplomats said. The leaders will make the promise at a summit dinner in Brussels in a reflection of the alarm in European capitals that the bloc’s plan to […]

Parliament is reviewing the law regulating the employment of former public servants in the private sector in light of the recent transfers of the Limassol and Larnaca harbour masters to companies with related activities. House ethics committee chairman, Disy MP Zaharias Zahariou, said it appeared that the law passed in 2007, though groundbreaking at the […]

A rock structure in the form of an arch which had featured in countless Malta tourism brochures collapsed into the sea on Wednesday in what Prime Minister Joseph Muscat described as a “heartbreaking event”. Geologists had long warned that the structure, on the north-western coast of the small island of Gozo, was eroding fast and […]

Serena Williams has withdrawn from the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells and the Miami Open due to a left knee injury and as a result will relinquish the world number one tennis ranking to German Angelique Kerber. Williams, a two-times champion at the showpiece event at the California desert resort, had returned to the […]

Turkey’s foreign minister accused Germany on Wednesday of hostility towards his country and Islam, and Berlin complained of increased Turkish espionage on German soil as acrimony between the two Nato allies showed no sign of abating. Ankara is furious over the cancellation of several rallies by Turkish ministers in Germany, while Berlin has demanded the […]

Concerns were raised in parliament on Wednesday over the legitimacy of certain provisions included in a bill regulating the operation of an internal affairs department within the police. The draft is part of a raft of bills submitted by the government in a bid to stamp out corruption on the force. Discussion of its articles […]

Police are investigating whether a pistol located on Wednesday morning by a crew of the Water Development Department in Geroskipou, in Paphos had been used in criminal activities. The pistol, according to the Cyprus News Agency, was found by the crew during works along a water channel in Geroskipou. The crew alerted the police who […]

Cyprus has the second lowest fertility rate of all EU countries with 1.32 live births per woman, Eurostat data published on Wednesday revealed. In Cyprus 9,170 babies were born in 2015, compared to 8,167 in 2001 but despite the increase the fertility rate has fallen – probably because of migration – from 1.57 in 2001 to […]

Car registrations rose an annual 34.5 per cent in the first two months of the year, to 6,223, the statistical service said on Wednesday. Car registrations in January and February 2016 reached 4,627, the service said. Passenger car registrations rose by 32.8 per cent, to 5,255, compared with 3,958 during the same period last year. […]

A three-member family from Iraq was arrested on Wednesday at the Paphos airport while attempting to fly to Germany with fake passports. The couple, aged 46 and 41, and their 16-year-old daughter were arrested at around noon after officers at the passport control realised they were all carrying fake travel documents. They are being investigated […]

Dutch nationalist Geert Wilders led a small protest outside Turkey’s embassy on Wednesday, denouncing its president as a dictator, as he tried to arrest his party’s slide in opinion polls with one week to go before a parliamentary election. Turkish politicians have announced plans to address rallies in Germany and the Netherlands to drum up […]

A 57-year-old man from Nicosia was found dead on Wednesday afternoon in his car in Dromolaxia in Larnaca. Police suspect that the death was caused from a heart attack. According to the police, the 57-year-old, lost control of the car he was driving near the Dromolaxia industrial area, which veered off the road and came […]

Dividing nurses into scientific and non-scientific staff in roughly equal proportion and introducing a rotating eight-hour shift schedule, are the key measures that will keep the cost of the government’s deal with nurses at state hospitals in check, Finance Minister Harris Georgiades said on Wednesday. Speaking on state radio, Georgiades attempted to explain away concerns […]

The Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) has been ranked number 16 in the Times Higher Education World’s Best Small Universities 2017, one of three university ranking lists which are the most prestigious internationally. To be eligible for the rankings, universities must appear in the Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings 2016-2017, teach more than four […]

Interior minister Socratis Hasikos may have violated the law on incompatibility with public office by owning a stake in a company that rents out a building to the Civil Aviation Department, and Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides has notified the attorney-general’s office, it emerged on Wednesday. According to daily Phileleftheros, Michaelides said in a letter to Attorney-General […]

Name: Strawberry Tree (Arbutus unedo) Otherwise known as: Manzanita Habitat: An evergreen tree member of the Ericaceae family growing to about 8m in deep, loamy soil in southern Europe. It has a thin, red bark, shiny, dark, serated leaves with clusters of honey-scented, creamy, bell-shaped flowers that transform into a scarlet to orange, strawberry-shaped fruit […]

The carnival season maybe over but a child’s imagination is never far away from creating new worlds and characters within it. To help children from eight to 12 to enter into a mythical world of their imagination, the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation in Nicosia will invite them to take part in an acting game […]

China, fearing a rapid escalation of tension on the Korean peninsula, called on North Korea on Wednesday to stop its nuclear and missile tests and for South Korea and the United States to stop joint military drills and seek talks instead. North Korea launched four ballistic missiles on Monday in response to the joint US-South Korea […]