Новости за 24.04.2017

  The government is said to be considering launching yet another tender to secure natural gas for electricity production, with decisions expected in early May. According to daily Politis, the terms of the new tender will be different to previous ones – which fizzled out – in two key areas. First, the tender is to […]

Guaba beach club in Limassol is ready to open the summer season with a fiesta on Sunday and it plans to start the same way it will continue throughout the season: in style and with big beats. The party mood will get going early, at 10am, with sounds coming from a number of DJs that […]

  Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said on Monday that Turkey has no excuse not to push forward on settlement talks now that the April 16 referendum is over. “There is no further excuse for Turkey not to advance on the remaining parts of each and every chapter of the negotiations,” he told the Council of […]

Finance Minister Harris Georgiades asked the attorney-general on Monday to say whether the law mandated a disciplinary procedure against public servants who also held a party position at the same time. The minister was referring to the recent controversy over Savia Orphanidou – a finance ministry employee and a member of the Disy political bureau […]

Firebrand Irish singer and activist Bob Geldof denounced nationalism, Turkish President Reccep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a concert with his band The Boomtown Rats in Famagusta, addressing criticism of his decision to perform in the north Cyprus. “We’re from Ireland. We don’t like nationalism – it kills people!”, Geldof said after reminding […]

Three Yemeni civilians were killed when a drone attacked four suspected al Qaeda militants travelling in a vehicle in the southern part of the country, residents and a local official said on Monday. Residents said the attack in al-Saeed area of Shabwa province on Sunday afternoon was by a United States drone, part of a […]

  Reunification talks are currently going through a rough patch, but the Greek Cypriot side is ready and willing to press on to agree a settlement, the government said on Monday. “Just as there have been convergences and progress in the past, at this moment we are facing certain difficulties, which Turkey has brought about […]

A Philippines lawyer filed a complaint at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday against President Rodrigo Duterte and senior officials, accusing them of mass murder in a nationwide anti-drugs crackdown. Attorney Jude Sabio said in the 77-page complaint that Duterte “repeatedly, unchangingly and continuously” committed crimes against humanity and that under him, killing drug […]

  More action needs to be taken to deal with the growing problem of children from mixed marriages being abducted and taken abroad, the House human rights committee said on Monday. In 2016 there were 29 such cases compared with 24 in 2015, with most of the children being taken to Middle Eastern countries via […]

The attorney-general on Monday filed an objection against a writ of Habeas Corpus presented by the jailed former deputy attorney-general Rikkos Erotokritou last week asking for his release from prison. Erotokritou was convicted last month to three-and-a-half years in jail for conspiring to subvert the course of justice and bribery while serving as deputy attorney-general […]

The season cannot end quickly enough for fallen giants AC Milan and Inter Milan, whose unhappy form persisted over the weekend with embarrassing Serie A defeats. The two sides, European champions 10 times between them, have been reduced to scrapping for the last remaining Italian slot in the Europa League, although it is still possible […]

The Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, together with violin soloist Nicos Pittas, will perform the concert The Musical Contemplations of Jean Sibelius in Larnaca on Thursday and Nicosia on Friday. These two concerts will feature three pieces by Sibelius, who is considered Scandinavia’s most significant symphonist and one of the last great romantics. While the core of […]

President Nicos Anastasiades will refer a contentious bill transferring the power to set school celebrations from parliament to the government, to the supreme court on grounds of unconstitutionality, deputy government spokesman Victoras Papadopoulos said on Monday. Speaking to reporters at the presidential palace, Papadopoulos said a legal opinion by the attorney-general “says that unconstitutional issues […]

Iran‘s supreme court has upheld a five-year jail sentence for a British-Iranian charity worker who was convicted on unspecified charges relating to national security, her husband said on Monday. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested by the elite Revolutionary Guards in April 2016 at a Tehran airport, as she […]

Hardline parties Diko, Edek, and the Solidarity Movement will propose to their respective party members to support Nicolas Papadopoulos as their joint candidate in next year’s presidential elections. The announcement was made by Edek leader Marinos Sizopoulos following a meeting of the parties in Nicosia on Monday. The Green party will ask its party groups […]

The British government is seeking to delay publication of a report on tackling air pollution until September 15, breaking a court deadline for it to comply with European Union legislation. Concern over air quality has grown since the Volkswagen emissions scandal in September 2015 and reports that real-world emissions exceed those recorded during laboratory tests […]

At least 15 people, including a child, drowned when an inflatable boat carrying refugees and migrants sank off Greece’s Lesbos island, officials said on Monday. Eight bodies were recovered in Greek territory and another seven in Turkish waters, a Greek coastguard official said. The boat is believed to have set sail from Turkey late on Sunday. Citing […]

Arsenal are targeting an FA Cup win to honour manager Arsene Wenger and make up for an inconsistent season, midfielder Aaron Ramsey said after their semi-final victory over Manchester City. Arsenal beat City 2-1 in extra time to book a place in the final against Chelsea on May 27 and their progress is in contrast […]

Preparation is underway and will soon be completed, as Fasouri Watermania Waterpark in Limassol prepares to receive its thousands of visitors this year, too. The waterpark opens on Sunday, April 30th, and prepares to offer for another year the absolute refreshing and fun summer recreation in its plush green environment. Across an area of 105.000 […]

An estimated 100 million Europeans are affected by harmful levels of noise pollution with traffic by far the major cause, according to a new assessment published by the European Environment Agency (EEA) on Monday. Cyprus is no exception. More than 400,000 people in Limassol and Nicosia, which were investigated for the research, are regularly exposed […]

New measures to boost the island’s ability to fight fires were outlined on Monday by Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou to mark the start of Fire Safety Week. Following the large fire in the Solea area last summer the government appointed an independent expert committee to evaluate the effectiveness of the island’s fire-fighting system. A report […]

After 15 years of Cyprus Film Days, we’ve now reached the stage (we don’t mind; it’s a good stage) where certain points just get repeated from year to year, with the understanding that you already know them. Here they are in note form, to save time: Cyprus Film Days – jointly organised by the Ministry […]

Supporting a Vision for International Excellence The University of Nicosia (UNIC), the largest university in Cyprus in terms of enrolled students, is unveiling a new logo and brand identity that embodies its enduring vision and represents its current and future direction: an innovative, future-oriented university based in Cyprus, but with global reach, that aims to […]

The Cypriot government generated a fiscal surplus of €64.4m, or 0.4 per cent of economic output, in 2016, after posting deficits over the past in eight years, the statistical service said. Improved fiscal performance was on a 1.5 per cent increase in revenue last year to over €7bn, accompanied by a 2.4 per cent drop […]

Swedish police said they had arrested a second suspect linked to the deadly truck attack in Stockholm this month. The unnamed person was detained on Sunday on the order of prosecutors, the force said, without going into further details on the suspected offence. Four people were killed and 15 injured when a truck ploughed into […]