Новости за 14.04.2017

Collective efforts have led to an increase in biofuel production from waste frying oils and to fewer exports, it emerged this week. According to Agriculture Minister, Nicos Kouyialis, in his response to a parliamentary question put forward by the Greens MP Giorgos Perdikis, as to the collection of waste frying oils, there are currently 38 […]

When Homer told his tale of the Trojan war, he brought to life the heroic figures of Hector, Achilles, Odysseus and many more. Then the story was passed down, first by word of mouth then by the words being set to paper for generations to read. Now Hollywood creates blockbusters to remind us of a […]

Turkey could re-evaluate or suspend all agreements under its migration deal with the European Union if the bloc does not give a positive response on visa-free travel for Turks, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday. The Turkish government agreed in early 2016 to help curb a flood of migrants into Europe from its territory, […]

While the island is preparing to celebrate Easter three Cypriots are on the way to Nepal to donate shoes and clothing to poor children and Buddhist monks. Socrates Rossides, 31, and brothers Nicolas and Constantinos Nicolaou, 29 and 25, will travel to Nepal’s mountain village on motorcycles for 15 days to deliver 160 pairs of […]

Opening further EU accession chapters doesn’t make any sense while the situation in Turkey continues to deteriorate, said David McAllister, the Chair of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee (AFET) and EPP Vice President. The German MEP and close associate of German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed concern over the situation in Turkey, but says that […]

A Palestinian man fatally stabbed a British woman on Jerusalem’s transit network on Friday, Israeli police said, as Christians marked Good Friday and Muslims held prayers at respective holy sites nearby. The incident occurred in a train carriage on the light rail network near Jerusalem’s municipality building and the walled Old City. TV footage showed […]

Some 200 policemen in the north were being investigated in connection with potential links to Fetullah Gulen, a US-based Turkish cleric believed to be behind last year’s attempted coup in the neighbouring country, daily Kibris reported on Friday. During the investigation, which began two weeks ago, police personnel were asked questions such as where they […]

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, a pragmatist who championed the country’s nuclear deal with world powers, registered on Friday to run for a second four-year term in the May presidential election, state TV reported. Rouhani won election by a landslide in 2013 on a platform of ending the Islamic Republic’s diplomatic isolation and creating a freer […]

Street signs are being renamed with stickers in the north of Nicosia, by Turkish Cypriot left-wing activists, it emerged on Friday. The group Dayanisma (Solidarity), posted on their Facebook page a video showing a group of activists placing large stickers over street signs in areas of Nicosia. The action was done in solidarity with the […]

Where do you live? I live in Larnaca with my husband and my dog Best childhood memory? Cyprus is a sunny place to live with the summer 365 days per year, Christmas spirit is just like Miami so when I saw my beloved parents dressed like Mr and Mrs Claus placing gifts under a family […]

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has said he was unsure whether there were divisions in the club’s boardroom regarding his future and that he was more focused on salvaging his team’s stuttering Premier League campaign. Wenger is out of contract at the end of the season and calls for the Frenchman to end his 20-year reign […]

Even with the event scene so slow during this Easter period, the theatre is always a place that will welcome us with open arms – well, next week anyway. Firstly – as the holidays are all about kids – let’s mention a theatrical performance that will get all the kids huffing and puffing along with […]

A group of seven scientists four of whom hail from Cyprus has won a prestigious international competition for coming up with a handheld medical device similar to the tricorder used in the science fiction TV series Star Trek. The scientists won first place in the ’XPRIZE’ competition, receiving $2.6 million for their artificial intelligence-based engine, […]

Police are continuing intensive efforts to prevent and restrict possession, use, and trade and firecrackers, controlling bonfires, and preventing road accidents and crime in general, over the Easter period, spokesman Andreas Angelides said in a written statement on Friday. According to Angelides, police have been conducting a “targeted and intensive campaign to educate the public […]

Uzbekistan’s security services passed information on Rakhmat Akilov, the man accused of ramming a truck into a crowd of people in Stockholm last week, to the West before the deadly attack, Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov said on Friday. Kamilov told reporters Akilov had been recruited by the Islamic State militant group after he left the […]

Britain’s Jenson Button will stand in for Fernando Alonso at next month’s Monaco Formula One Grand Prix while the Spaniard competes in the Indianapolis 500 on the same day, McLaren announced on Friday. “I’m thrilled to be making a one-off return to Formula One racing, and I couldn’t think of a better place to make […]

China said on Friday tension over North Korea had to be stopped from reaching an “irreversible and unmanageable stage” as a US aircraft carrier group steamed towards the region amid fears the North may conduct a sixth nuclear weapons test. Concerns have grown since the US Navy fired 59 Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian airfield last […]

Buses began evacuating hundreds of people from two rebel-besieged Shi’ite villages in north-west Syria on Friday and rebels began to leave two towns near Damascus with their families, under a deal between the government and insurgents. Similar agreements have been reached in recent months, with Syrian rebels leaving areas long-besieged by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, […]

Two men aged 27 and 30 were remanded on Friday for five days in connection with the theft of electrical cables worth an estimated €20,000 from a Paphos warehouse. The two men were arrested on Thursday following a burglary earlier in the day that went bad for them when one – the 27-year-old – was […]

Two classrooms in two schools, one in Nicosia the other in Larnaca, were damaged Thursday in a suspected arson attack, the fire service said. The first fire broke out at around 3.45pm in a prefabricated room used as a classroom at the C Latsia primary school, in the Nicosia district. The fire – that burned […]

As many as 36 suspected Islamic State militants were killed in Afghanistan when the United States dropped “the mother of all bombs,” its largest non-nuclear device ever unleashed in combat, the Afghan defence ministry said on Friday. Thursday’s strike came as US President Donald Trump dispatches his first high-level delegation to Kabul, amid uncertainty about […]

Russia’s state broadcaster has said it will boycott this year’s Eurovision song contest after the host country, Ukraine, said it would bar entry to the Russian contestant and Moscow rejected two possible compromises suggested by organisers. Ukraine said Russian singer Yulia Samoylova could not travel to Kiev for the competition because she had performed in […]

Cyprus could see scattered showers and maybe some hailstorms in the days leading up to Easter, according to the latest weather forecast. On the weekend and Monday, there will be increased clouds and isolated rains and thunderstorms, mainly in the highlands and inland areas. Temperatures will gradually rise. Rain and isolated thunderstorms were also expected […]

Russia and the United States have a shared understanding that US air strikes on Syria should not be repeated, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told his Syrian counterpart Walid al-Moualem in Moscow on Thursday, Interfax news agency reported. He said this was “concluded” during Wednesday’s visit of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to Moscow. […]

The United Airlines passenger dragged from a plane in Chicago in an incident that sparked international outrage and turned into a corporate public relations nightmare suffered a concussion and broken nose and will likely sue, his attorney said on Thursday. “For a long time airlines, United in particular, have bullied us,” Thomas Demetrio told a […]