Новости за 20.05.2017

Norway is repairing the entrance of a ‘doomsday’ seed vault on an Arctic island after an unexpected thaw of permafrost let water into a building meant as a deep freeze to safeguard the world’s food supplies. The water, limited to the 15 metre entrance hall in the melt late last year, had no impact on […]

Races to promote an ecological conscience towards the protection of Cyprus’ forests will take place in the Troodos mountains on June 11, organiser Dro.Me.A Racing has announced. “Dro.Me.A Racing is about to set pulses racing and get adrenaline levels soaring in a unique and thrilling experience in the great outdoors, with the breath-taking Troodos mountains […]

The rector of the University of Cyprus Constantinos Christophides said on Saturday he would propose the appointment of Diko MP Zacharias Koulias as an anatomy professor at the University of Cyprus’ Medical School, following the latter’s criticism of the school’s programmes and practices. Christophides dismissed the claims MPs made on Friday concerning the medical school […]

Music and dance performances in Paphos next week will celebrate the musical traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean and its neighbouring countries, as well as their impact on contemporary music. The concerts, which are part of the European Capital of Culture Pafos 2017 events, will be performed in the spirit of connecting people from across cultures […]

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party elected a new co-leader on Saturday to replace Figen Yuksekdag, who has been in jail on terrorism charges since November and was stripped of her parliamentary status three months ago. At a Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) congress held amid tight security, Serpil Kemalbay was chosen as joint leader, alongside Selahattin Demirtas, who […]

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Social Democrat (SPD) rival said on Saturday he would model his campaign for the Sept 24 federal election on that of Emmanuel Macron, an outsider who was voted in as French President two weeks ago. Martin Schulz, trying to regain momentum after a shock election loss in Germany’s most populous state of […]

An event is being organised on Monday in buffer zone at the end of Ledra Street, Nicosia in support of the settlement talks where everyone is welcome to raise their voice for a united Cyprus. According to the organisers of the event, George Nicolaou and Charlie Shekeris, the aim is to “protest and plea alike […]

Pippa Middleton, younger sister of Kate, Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge, was married in a small English country church on Saturday surrounded by royals and celebrities but those hoping for a dash of Hollywood were left in the cold. The event had been at risk of being overshadowed by the most high-profile appearance yet of Prince […]

Police are hot on the trail of the father believed to have abducted his four-year-old daughter some 23 days ago, the lawyer of the missing child’s mother Larry Vrahimis said on Saturday. Speaking to state broadcaster CyBC radio, Vrahimis said that following new information police are close to locating Torkel Grimsrud, 49, and his daughter […]

President Nicos Anastasiades has explained his proposal aiming at returning to Geneva for peace talks that would create the preconditions for a political settlement to the EU High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini. Anastasiades met Mogherin on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum being held in […]

Arsenal’s second-largest investor, Alisher Usmanov, made a $1.3bn offer to buy out the football club’s majority owner Stan Kroenke, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters, confirming earlier reports. Usmanov, a Russian billionaire who owns 30 per cent of the English Premier League club, made the offer in a letter to Kroenke, the club’s American […]

Where do you live? In Kamares, Paphos with Margaret, my wife Best childhood memory? Holidays with my parents Most frequented restaurant and absolute favourite dish? Several really: Muse or Sunset Breeze or The Deck, all in Paphos. Tempura prawns at the Sunset Breeze, cranberry beefburger at The Muse, chicken burger at The Deck What did […]

Dancehouse Nicosia will be very busy next week with a presentation on Wednesday showcasing a series of site-specific performances, ending the week with a dance show that uses the body as a moveable canvas. The dance house will be presenting photos and videos taken during the Sites Embodied Cyprus Festival that took place between April […]

Dogged by controversy at home, Donald Trump opened his first presidential foreign trip in Saudi Arabia on Saturday and won a warm reception as he looked to shift attention from a political firestorm over his firing of former FBI Director James Comey. Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz greeted him on a red carpet as he […]

President Nicos Anastasiades met on Saturday King Abdullah II of Jordan in Amman where the two men agreed on a trilateral meeting with Greece in Nicosia in the autumn. The president, who arrived in Jordan on Saturday to attend the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa to be held in Amman […]

A diverse group of individuals will perform a blend of unique stories based on real-life events, as a means to talk about identity on Wednesday in Nicosia. The performance, under the name Here I Am, will feature a number of young refugees, migrants and locals who participated in the workshops of the NiCeR Project implemented […]

Two suicide car bombs exploded at a checkpoint in southern Baghdad on Friday, killing 10 people, Iraqi police and medical sources said. They said three policemen were among those killed in the blast at the Abu Dsheer checkpoint and a further 21 people were wounded.

An earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale struck in the Famagusta district some 20km southwest off the Paralimni coast at approximately 8.40am on Saturday. The earthquake was registered at about 8km depth. According to the Cyprus Seismological Centre, the epicentre of the earthquake was 20km southwest of Paralimni near the area of Ayia Thekla. […]

The final round of the Cyprus football championship takes place this weekend but there will be little to play for as the title and the final team to be relegated were all decided last weekend. The only thing that is up for grabs is which team will finish in second place and which in third. […]

The U.S. military on Friday scrambled two Air Force fighter jets to escort an American Airlines flight into Honolulu International Airport after a disturbance involving a Turkish passenger aboard the plane was reported, officials said. The nature of the fracas was not immediately disclosed by the FBI, the military or American Airlines, but local news […]

President Hassan Rouhani has an unbeatable lead in Iran’s presidential election, an Iranian official source told Reuters on Saturday, citing an early unofficial tally, and is set to defeat his hardline rival Ebrahim Raisi and win a second term. In a briefing for reporters, interior ministry official Ali Asghar Ahmadi outlined a similar proportion of […]

AFTER a lengthy discussion the House on Friday approved the 2017 budget for the University of Cyprus with 44 votes in favour and two abstentions by Elam. The medical school was at the centre of the heated debate. Diko MP Zacharias Koulias said as chairman of the audit committee he received a number of complaints […]

THE Administrative Court upheld on Friday a 2012 decision of the Data Protection Commissioner to impose an administrative sanction on Apollonion private hospital in Nicosia calling it to disable the fingerprint scanning system used for the employees’ check in and to destroy all the relevant data it has kept so far. The decision is seen […]

“A COMPREHENSIVE strategy for the young that was designed by the young themselves, was approved by the Council of Ministers today,” reported the Cyprus News Agency on Thursday. After the cabinet meeting, education minister Costas Kadis said that this was an important day, because after many months of work Cyprus had for the first time […]

NEW measures, including cameras, radio systems and aircraft rentals will be implemented soon that will help improve the effectiveness of fire-fighting in addition to those systems already in place, it was announced on Friday. One of the new measures is the purchase of two cameras which will be used to constantly monitor  rural areas and […]