Новости за 21.03.2017

TUS Airways will launch direct flights from Paphos to Israel in the summer, it was announced on Tuesday. The company plans to start flights to and from Haifa and Tel Aviv this summer, using Paphos airport as its hub. TUS said it will have four to six flights to Haifa every week and between two […]

Nearly two-thirds of young people do not care to vote in the 2018 presidential elections, a new survey has found. The poll, conducted by the Cyprus Institute of Statisticians, found that 63.2 per cent of people aged 18 to 35 intend to abstain from the elections, citing various reasons – primarily disaffection with the political […]

Discussion of a legislative amendment that could help break the deadlock in the Cyprus problem talks is scheduled to begin at Wednesday’s House Education committee session. Tabled by ruling Disy in the aftermath of the damage caused by the introduction of a brief annual commemoration of the 1950 Enosis (union with Greece) referendum in state […]

French Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux resigned on Tuesday over payments of public funds to his daughters, denying he had done anything wrong but saying he did not want the scandal to affect the government’s work. The employment of family members by politicians has become a hot-button issue in France after conservative presidential election candidate […]

Former Bank of Cyprus deputy CEO Yiannis Pehlivanides reiterated in court on Tuesday that he had acted in good faith and at no time did he conceal or otherwise attempt to misrepresent the lender’s capital shortfall in 2012. Pehlivanides along with former bank CEOs Andreas Eliades and Yiannis Kypri, former board chairmen Theodoros Aristodemou and […]

The Pharos Arts Foundation, in collaboration with The Keyboard Charitable Trust in London, will present a piano recital by British concert pianist Mark Viner on Friday at the Shoe Factory in Nicosia. Viner, who is recognised as one of the most exciting British concert pianists of his generation and who is becoming increasingly well-known for […]

Hundreds of relatives of individuals killed in the September 11, 2001, attacks have sued Saudi Arabia in US court, seeking to take advantage of a law passed by Congress last year that allows victims of such attacks on US soil to sue state sponsors. The lawsuit filed on Monday in federal court in Manhattan is […]

Opposition parties remained tight-lipped on Tuesday as to whether they will support the cabinet decision to appoint state attorney Maria Stylianou Lottidis as the new ombudswoman. Lottidis’ appointment – that was announced by the cabinet last week – must be approved by parliament, which is expected to discuss the matter soon. Lottidis is married to […]

Authorities had warned an Ayia Napa businessman that his life was in danger before he was murdered along with two other people – a police officer and his wife – in a restaurant in June last year, a court heard on Tuesday. Yiannis Theophanous Kalopsidiotis, the nephew of Phanos Kalopsidiotis, 52, who was also a […]

A year after Islamic State suicide bombers killed 32 people in Brussels, Belgian authorities say much remains unclear about who ordered the attacks, even if those who staged them are either dead or in jail. The March 22 bloodshed in Brussels hit Zaventem airport and a metro train, coming four months after bombings and shootings […]

After nurses and apparently now doctors too have been assured a pay rise, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians on Tuesday said they too are seeking a pay upgrade in light of the planned restructuring of the healthcare sector. Their union Kyfy said these were long-standing demands which they temporarily relinquished as a goodwill gesture in the […]

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides will no longer deliver to the president and publish his report once a year, instead releasing the findings of each investigation as and when it is concluded. Speaking at a conference on corruption, organised by the Oxygono think tank and the University of Cyprus Economics and Administration school on Monday night, Michaelides […]

Singapore remains the world’s most expensive city to live in, a study showed on Tuesday, with two Japanese cities – Tokyo and Osaka – returning to the top 10 thanks to the strengthening of the yen. Almaty in Kazakhstan was the least expensive, followed by Lagos in recession-hit Nigeria. Only one US city, New York, […]

Britain is set to ban passengers from carrying most electronic devices on flights from certain countries in the Middle East, Sky News reported on Tuesday, following similar measures introduced in the United States. The United States imposed restrictions on carry-on electronic devices bigger than cellphones on planes coming from 10 airports in Muslim-majority countries in […]

Police on Tuesday said that they would arrange for the man who rescued a two-and-a half-year-old toddler found wondering alone along a road in the centre of Limassol on Monday to file an official report so that they can investigate. The toddler, a girl, was spotted by a man on Monday morning, at around 9.30am, […]

An 83-year-old man from Nicosia was found dead on Tuesday at around noon next to his car in a private road in the Baths of Aphrodite area of Paphos. Following preliminary investigations, no foul play was suspected, police said. The body was found near the apartment complex in which he was holidaying. Police said investigations […]

Apple Inc unveiled an updated version of its iPad tablet with a brighter screen on Tuesday, available to order from Friday and with a $329 starting price that is the lowest ever for a full-sized tablet from Apple. Apple also said its smaller iPhone SE model will be available in 32 and 128 gigabyte (GB) […]

Germany’s Lukas Podolski will receive an appropriate farewell when the world champions meet England in a high-quality friendly on Wednesday with the winger having become one of the country’s all-time greats, coach Joachim Low said on Tuesday. The game is expected to provide a perfect stage with Podolski, whois hugely popular among German fans, set […]

Some 6,000 migrants have been rescued on the central Mediterranean between North Africa and Italy in the last few days, as greater numbers take that route in warmer weather, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday. The human tide seeking to reach Europe by sea – most of them sub-Saharan Africans – is […]

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson‘s decision to miss his first meeting with Nato foreign ministers has unsettled European allies who fear the no-show reopens questions about President Donald Trump’s commitment to the alliance. Reuters exclusively reported on Monday that Tillerson would stay at home to attend Trump’s expected April 6-7 talks with Chinese President […]

Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy has said he was subjected to death threats and his wife targeted by aggressive motorists after allegations that he contributed to the sacking of manager Claudio Ranieri. The 30-year-old striker, on England duty for this week’s friendly with Germany and World Cup qualifier against Lithuania, said he had suffered abuse walking […]

The UN has refuted reports that its Secretary-General’s Special Adviser for Cyprus, Espen Barth Eide, has prepared a road map with the aim to have the settlement talks wrapped up by September. The talks, a UN spokesperson said, are led by the two community leaders and the UN is there to facilitate the dialogue, not […]

Italy’s anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, benefiting from a split in the ruling Democratic Party (PD) and divisions in the centre-right, has built a strong lead over its rivals, an opinion poll showed on Tuesday. The Ipsos poll in Corriere della Sera newspaper put the 5-Star, which wants a referendum on Italy’s membership of the euro, on […]

Against a panoramic view of Paphos one man has spent almost his entire life in the same hotel. NAN MACKENZIE meets the owner of the Axiothea The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life, hotel rooms inhabit a sort of separate universe, a place where all human life […]

Non-performing loans in the Cypriot banking system fell in December by almost €3.7bn in two years to €23.7bn, the lowest since December 2014, the Central Bank of Cyprus said. Total non-performing loans in the banking system still comprise 47 per cent of total loans, the central bank said in a statement on its website on Tuesday. […]