Новости за 05.05.2017

OTHER options might have to be put on the table if Cyprus’ leaders failed to reach a deal in the near future, UNSG Special Adviser on Cyprus Espen Barth Eide has said. He did not elaborate on what those other options might be.  The comments came in an interview with the Cyprus News Agency in […]

The House education committee on Friday postponed for two weeks discussion of a bill on the new teacher appointment system after Attorney-general Costas Clerides withdrew an appeal he had filed over a court decision recognising the right for contract teachers who have worked in state schools for more than 30 months to obtain open-ended contracts. […]

Some 20 far-right thugs wearing hoods threw stones and verbally assaulted people attending a 7pm event at Limassol’s technical university (Tepak) slightly injuring two people. Around 100 people were attending the event, organised by the group ‘We Want a federation’, that discussed the Left’s role in a reunification and partition. Police said 20 thugs threw […]

A witness involved in a gangland shooting that saw four people killed in Ayia Napa last summer told the court on Friday that an accomplice had asked him to take one of the shooters to a suspected crime boss so that the latter could kill him off. Charalambos Andreou, 32, has already admitted his involvement […]

The Church of Cyprus has regained three religious icons dating from the 18th and the 19th centuries, which were stolen from churches in the north after the Turkish invasion. The three icons, depicting Jesus at the Temple and the Pentecost, both dated 19th century and Apostle James dating from the 18th century were discovered last […]

The commerce ministry has rejected the sole tender for the development and operation of Pentakomo Technology Park, Phileleftheros reported on Friday. Thai company Wyncoast Industrial Park requested an extension and negotiations to complete its tender for the park, which it had originally submitted in January, but the ministry said this would violate procedure. The park, […]

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday that by the end of the year, 23 development projects costing €60m will have been completed in Paphos since 2015. “This was a major development effort right after the stabilisation of our economy,” Anastasiades said at the opening ceremony for the reconstructed Tombs of the Kings Avenue in Paphos, […]

The Cyprus problem, Cyprus-Russia bilateral relations, Russia-EU ties, Syria and other international and regional issues, as well as stocktaking of the Cypriot Chairmanship of the Council of Europe (CoE) Committee of Ministers are expected to be the focus of discussions which the Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov will have in Cyprus on May […]

A US serviceman was killed and two were wounded in a clash with al Shabaab militants in Somalia, the US military said on Friday, in what appeared to be the first American casualties in the country since the 1993 ‘Black Hawk Down’ disaster. The White House has granted the US military broader authority to carry […]

Thursday’s inflation data, shaped by a 40 per cent annual increase in electricity prices has highlighted the continuing vulnerability of the economy to energy price shocks resulting from the over-reliance on heavy fuel oil used by the state-owned power producer. A government source said that the state wants to reduce it by encouraging private investment […]

FIFA has lifted a four-match suspension on Argentina forward Lionel Messi, world football’s ruling body said on Friday. Messi, 29, was banned for insulting an assistant referee during a World Cup qualifier against Chile in March FIFA’s appeal committee described Messi’s behaviour as “reproachable” but decided the evidence against him was insufficient.

Nicosia district on Friday morning ordered the remand of two men for three more days in connection with the kidnapping of four-year-old girl Marie Eleni Grimsrud on April 27. The lead investigator for the case told the court that new evidence suggests that one of the men, a 44-year-old taxi driver arrested three days after […]

Germany said on Friday it would not allow Turks to vote on its territory in any Turkish referendum on reintroduction of the death penalty – a measure proposed by President Tayyip Erdogan after July’s failed army coup attempt. Ankara accused Berlin of Nazi behaviour in March when some German local authorities cancelled events where Turkish […]

The Cyprus Wine Museum is planning to get us festive on wine and music on Sunday with a jazz performance by Georgos Krasidis on the sax and Georgos Morfitis on the piano. The duo, who will perform works taken from the standard jazz repertoire, are said to be among the most influential jazz instrumentalists on […]

This summer, you too should use an ecologically-minded bag. By buying the reusable bags from ALPHAMEGA Hypermarkets, we help CYMEPA keep our beaches clean. They are available at all ALPHAMEGA Hypermarkets in four modern designs, and each bag sends its own message in the fight to save the environment. Ask for them in your next […]

The UN spokesman in Cyprus hit back at claims in the British tabloid, The Sun on Friday that President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker was drunk at Geneva’s international conference on Cyprus., Unficyp spokesman Aleem Siddique, who posted a photograph with Juncker and suggested the reports carried by The Sun and the Daily Mail […]

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras sought on Friday to bring his leftist Syriza party on board to approve a deal reached with international lenders, sweetening the pot by saying any above-target savings this year would go to the Greek people. He also repeated his mantra that Greece has done its bit with austerity and reforms […]

MTN is expanding its presence in Nicosia with another MTN Store, at Stavrou Avenue. The new MTN Store differs from the rest, as it has a completely digital display, in a very contemporary environment, attributes that mark it the ultimate destination for technology lovers. MTN’s new Store at Stavrou Avenue, is based on a completely […]

A Turkish court on Friday rejected an appeal by the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia against a government decision to block access to its website, the state-run Anadolu news agency said, a case that has heightened concerns about censorship in Turkey. An Ankara court rejected the appeal from the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, Anadolu said. It […]

India’s top court on Friday upheld death sentences against four men who fatally gang raped a woman on board a bus in 2012, a crime that sparked widespread protests and drew international attention to violence against women. Applause broke out in court among relatives of the victim – whose identity is protected by law – […]

World number two Novak Djokovic has parted company with his coaching team in a bid to halt a run of poor results which culminated in a quarter-final exit at the Monte Carlo Masters last month. A winner of 12 Grand Slam titles, the Serb has suffered a noticeable dip in form since winning his maiden […]

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker took a swipe at Britain on Friday, saying he preferred to give a speech in French because English was becoming less significant. “Slowly but surely English is losing importance in Europe,” Juncker told a conference in the Italian city of Florence, drawing laughter and applause from his audience of EU […]

    Nothing will change in the effort to tackle corruption in the police force unless a package of government bills creating an internal affairs investigation department with sweeping powers is approved by parliament, Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou said on Friday. Commenting on the findings of a probe on police corruption made public on Thursday […]

  Citizens’ Alliance leader and presidential hopeful Yiorgos Lillikas said on Friday that members who failed to respect the party decision to support his candidacy would find themselves out in the cold. Lillikas said that the official announcement of his candidacy for the presidential elections in 2018 would be made soon, once it was ratified […]

North Korea on Friday accused the US Central Intelligence Agency and South Korea’s intelligence service of a plot to attack its “supreme leadership” with a bio-chemical weapon and said such a “pipe-dream” could never succeed. Tension on the Korean peninsula has been high for weeks, driven by concern that North Korea might conduct its sixth […]