Новости за 06.06.2017

Arrests are imminent as police investigations into bribery claims at the Nicosia Sewage Board (SAL) are coming to a close, it was reported on Tuesday. According to state broadcaster CyBC, police findings implicate contractors, a former high-ranking official of SAL, and four former municipal councillors of Nicosia district municipalities over widespread bribery at SAL. The […]

Germany’s foreign minister said on Tuesday he would try to avoid damaging already strained relations with NATO partner Turkey during a withdrawal of German troops, as he did not want a mounting dispute to push Ankara into closer ties with Moscow. Sigmar Gabriel said his officials would do their best not to escalate the situation […]

French favourite Kristina Mladenovic skidded out of a storm-struck French Open on Tuesday, losing 6-4 6-4 to Timea Bacsinszky in a rain-interrupted quarter-final. Thirteenth seed Mladenovic had been hoping to become the first French champion since Mary Pierce in 2000, but never really clicked on Court Philippe-Chatrier. An opening set where both players struggled to […]

Hosts England became the first team to qualify for the Champions Trophy semi-finals after hammering New Zealand by 87 runs to stay top of Group A at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff on Tuesday. Joe Root’s side mastered tricky conditions to reinforce their credentials as tournament favourites with an excellent team performance in which everyone contributed. […]

MPs asked the interior ministry’s permanent secretary, Nicos Nikolaou, on Tuesday to act as an intermediary between state services to help speed up issuing final approval certificates to petrol stations so that the Customs Department can allow them to acquire liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). Nikolaou, who attended the House energy committee, reassured MPs that his […]

Workers at the Episkopi desalination plant in Limassol said on Tuesday they will continue indefinitely the strike they launched a week ago, until their employer honours what had been agreed last year. The strike began on May 30 after negotiations between the workers’ unions – PEO and SEK – and the company operating the desalination […]

Amal Clooney gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, on Tuesday, her husband George Clooney’s publicist said, the first children for the international human rights lawyer and her movie star spouse. Amal Clooney and the Oscar-winning star of films like “Ocean’s Eleven” and “Three Kings” married in Italy in 2014, making them one […]

The two men’s quarter-final matches due to be played at the French Open on Tuesday have been postponed until Wednesday after rain disrupted play at Roland Garros, organisers said. Nine-time champion Rafa Nadal was due to play fellow Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta and defending champion Novak Djokovic was set to take on Austrian Dominic Thiem. […]

The Trump administration gave formal notice on Tuesday that it is reviewing its participation in the UN Human Rights Council and called for reforming the body to eliminate what it called its “chronic anti-Israel bias”. “The United States is looking carefully at this Council and our participation in it. We see some areas for significant […]

French police shot and wounded a man who attacked officers with a hammer outside the Notre Dame cathedral on Tuesday and the Paris prosecutor’s office swiftly launched a counter-terrorism investigation. Armed police cordoned off the site and the cathedral in central Paris that is visited by millions of tourists every year was locked down during […]

  A Turkish ship was seized by Turkish Cypriot authorities for entering its “territorial waters” and its 13 crew members were detained, Kibris reported on Tuesday. The incident occurred on Sunday evening by the Rizokarpaso River and on Monday the suspects were brought before a “court” which remanded them for two days after it was […]

The need to urgently address problems at three refugee settlements in the Latsia area was discussed at the House refugee committee on Tuesday. The 36 apartment blocks under discussion which were built in two phases in 1977 and 1988 need either to be demolished or repaired. Three blocks which were beyond repair have already been […]

A number of film screenings this month in Paphos will bring audiences close to reality and to a director’s insight into his own films. Starting off the month is the screening of the documentary When Elephants Fight in the garden of the Technopolis 20 Cultural centre in Paphos on Wednesday. The screening, organised by Cardet […]

  By George Psyllides and Stelios Orphanides The decision of four Arab nations to cut ties with Qatar citing its alleged links to terrorism is not directly affecting the operations of Cypriot companies in the Gulf state yet, but this could change, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday. But business sources are not ruling out […]

By George Psyllides and Stelios Orphanides The decision of four Arab nations to cut off ties to Qatar citing its alleged links to terrorism is not directly affecting the operations of Cypriot companies in the Gulf state at the moment, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. Still, business sources are not ruling out a further […]

US President Donald Trump has opted not to set up a “war room” in the White House to serve as a rapid-response team to answer accusations involving an investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia, a White House official said on Tuesday. Any such rapid-response team, the official said, is instead likely to be a […]

Finance Minister Harris Georgiades said on Tuesday there was no point in the state borrowing money to return some €7.5bn taken from the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) by various administrations in the past. The massive debt to the SIF is the result of years of governments borrowing from the fund to plug holes in public […]

Former Akel MP, government minister and two-term Limassol mayor Andreas Christou said on Tuesday that he had been asked by the party’s leadership to consider running for president, but had refused. In a statement, Christou, who lost December’s municipal elections for a third term as Limassol mayor to Nicos Nicolaides by a mere nine votes, […]

The Cyprus harmonised consumer price index rose 0.9 per cent in May, compared to the respective month of 2016, and 0.1 compared to the month before, the statistical service said. In January to May, the harmonised consumer price index rose an annual 1.3 per cent compared to the respective period of 2016, Cystat said. Energy […]

  The University of Cyprus has increased its world ranking by 44 places in the last six months and by 178 places in the last 18 months, according to Webometrics rankings. It is now in 652nd position, up from 696 half a year ago. An announcement by the university on Tuesday said it is now […]

By George Psyllides One of the defendants in a multiple gangland killing in Ayia Napa last summer told the court on Tuesday he had had nothing to do with the incident and had no differences with the prime target of the hit, businessman Phanos Kalopsidiotis. Ayia Napa resident Panayiotis Pentafkas opted to make a statement […]

Police are looking for up to ten people who reportedly attacked and injured a Nicosia resident early Tuesday morning. A few minutes after midnight police were alerted that an injured man had been seen on a Nicosia street. Officers found a 27-year-old man with injuries to his face in a car near a supermarket. The […]

  Three kilos of halloumi and 30 kilos of fish were seized and destroyed by customs officials on Monday during a check on vehicles coming through the Ayios Dhometios checkpoint from northern Cyprus. According to a Customs Department announcement on Tuesday, at around 9pm on Monday, officials found three kilos of halloumi in a Greek […]

The government on Tuesday dismissed the criticism of President Nicos Anastasiades for agreeing to reconvene the international conference on Cyprus in Geneva later this month as predictable campaign rhetoric ahead of next year’s presidential elections. Speaking on state radio, government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides defended Anastasiades’ handling, arguing that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ statement announcing the […]

British police named the third of the jihadis who killed seven people in a knife and van attack in London as Youssef Zaghba, 22, believed to be an Italian national of Moroccan descent. The fallout from the attack eclipsed all other subjects in the political campaign ahead of Thursday’s general election, with both the ruling […]