Новости за 22.06.2017

Alexis Sanchez became Chile’s all-time leading scorer when he grabbed an early goal in their 1-1 draw against Germany at the Confederations Cup on Thursday. Lars Stindl equalised for the world champions just before halftime although the game petered out in the second half as the high-octane Chileans appeared to run out of gas. The […]

Agriculture minister Nicos Kouyialis on Thursday issued a decree prohibiting the importation of and trade in a wide range of wild animals and birds, a move directed at the Melios Zoo and Pet Shop to stop the business from selling animals. The decree places a number of species of wild animals and birds on the […]

Authorities in the north have arrested two men as part of a police operation to track down persons with ties to Fetullah Gulen, a US-based Turkish cleric believed to be behind last year’s attempted coup in the neighbouring country. The detained men were named as Osman Adsiz and Selcuk Genc. Turkish Cypriot media reported that […]

European Union leaders launched their the most ambitious defence plan for decades on Thursday, agreeing a multi-billion-euro weapons fund, shared financing for battlegroups and allowing a coalition of the willing to conduct more missions abroad. It comes as tensions with Moscow and an inward turn in Washington have pushed Europe’s governments to confront years of […]

Police on Thursday arrested three persons in connection with the arrival in Cyprus of two contract assassins from Serbia last year. The three persons are a 30-year-old Turkish Cypriot, a 35-year-old Greek Cypriot, and a 47-year-old Serb national who is currently a convict at the central prisons, serving out a sentence for a drugs-related offence. […]

The University of Cyprus (UCy) has been ranked among the top 200 universities in Europe, according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2016-17. For the second year running, UCy was ranked in positions 180-190, the only university in Cyprus to achieve this accolade. There are some 6,000 universities and higher institutes of education […]

Australia fought back to draw 1-1 with Cameroon in the Confederations Cup on Thursday, a result that further dents both countries’ hopes of progressing in the eight-team tournament in Russia. Andre Franck Zambo Anguissa put Cameroon ahead with the last touch of the first half, but a Mark Milligan penalty on the hour mark ensured a […]

A 42-year-old man who was charged with attempted murder on Wednesday after trying to run over a female police officer with his car in Limassol, was remanded on Thursday for five days. The man was initially charged with reckless behaviour, public insults and threats and negligent driving, but police decided to add the attempted murder […]

A Paphos family assaulted in their home on June 8 have again become victims of crime after vandals smashed in their car window on Thursday morning. The perpetrators, who broke the window at around 4am, didn’t take anything from the vehicle before they fled. Two weeks ago, three members of the same family were assaulted […]

The 20th Cyprus Contemporary Dance Festival continues on Saturday with the Austrian participation at the Rialto theatre in Limassol. The Liquid Loft dance group of the famous choreographer Chris Haring will present an ode to weirdness and messiness, set to the controlled chaos of grimaces and erupting dance. The dance group, which performed on our […]

Thousands of friends and family members gathered in suburban Cincinnati on Thursday to say goodbye to an American student who died days after returning to the United States in a coma following 17 months in captivity in North Korea. Otto Warmbier, 22, was arrested in the reclusive communist country while visiting as a tourist. He […]

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he did not make and does not possess any tapes of his conversations with James Comey, after suggesting last month that he might have recordings that could damage the former FBI director. “With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, I […]

The draft common document that will steer negotiations on security and guarantees at the June 28 Conference on Cyprus in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, sparked more controversy on Thursday, after Greek Cypriot chief negotiator Andreas Mavroyiannis briefed Edek leader Marinos Sizopoulos and Solidarity’s Eleni Theocharous on its contents. UN Special Advisor Espen Barth Eide delivered the document […]

New cases of cervical cancer in Cyprus could be cut by increased use of vaccinations against the human papillomavirus (HPV) and Pap smears, speakers told a seminar in Nicosia. Around 40 new cases of cervical cancer – which is one of the most common types of cancer in women – are recorded each year in […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May said at the start of a European Union summit on Thursday that she would reassure fellow leaders that her government will protect the rights of their citizens living in Britain after its departure from the bloc. But other leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, made clear […]

Larnaca District Court on Thursday acquitted the operator of a 200-tonne tower crane that fell on to Phinikoudes promenade in October 2012 – killing a 65-year-old woman, injuring three others and damaging five cars – after the prosecution failed to prove the case. The crane operator, Christos Peristianis, had been charged with causing death through […]

A seven-year push by US Republicans to dismantle Obamacare and kill the taxes it imposed on the wealthy reached a critical phase on Thursday when Senate Republican leaders unveiled a draft bill they aim to put to a vote, possibly as early as next week. With Democrats deeply opposed to Republican attempts to overhaul former […]

On Saturday, Cat P.A.W.S, in collaboration with the Crafting for Animals Workshop and all cat lovers will come together in Nicosia to hold a kitten adoption day. Cat P.A.W.S association promotes programmes of cheap sterilisation in order to reduce overpopulation of stray cats while Crafting for Animals is a workshop which raises awareness and funds […]

While media in Cyprus are generally independent from political control, they frequently reflect their owner’s political agendas and are vulnerable to influences by commercial interests, a recent study said. According to the Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) 2016, freedom of expression and media pluralism in Cyprus are generally positive, but gaps and problematic aspects do exist. […]

The expropriation of Adolf Hitler’s birthplace by Austria’s government is unconstitutional and is not the only way to stop it being an attraction for neo-Nazis, a lawyer for its former owner told a court on Thursday. Gerlinde Pommer-Angloher filed a legal challenge to the constitutional court in January, seeking annulment of a law which allowed […]

The Theatrical Workshop of the University of Cyprus will stage a play based on the Chronicle of Cyprus by local mediaeval historian Leontios Machairas on Saturday in the village of Marathasa. The theatrical adaptation of the most important text of our mediaeval history offers audience members the chance to listen to the Cypriot dialect as […]

A car bomb exploded outside a bank in Lashkar Gah, capital of the southern Afghan province of Helmand on Thursday, killing and wounding dozens of civilians and members of the security forces waiting to collect their pay, officials said. Omar Zwak, spokesman for the provincial governor, said at least 20 people had been killed and […]

Cyprus’ top police officer on Thursday acknowledged the existence of corruption in the force, but said rooting it out would need a holistic approach and not just its own actions. Chief of Police Zacharias Chrysostomou told an international conference in Nicosia that organised crime and corruption are inseparable, and said when there is corruption in […]

The Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) confirmed on Thursday that there had been a spike in false foods poisoning claims by UK tourists but said it was not so severe as to prompt consideration of the same action as Spain, which was said to be mulling the scrapping of all-inclusive hotel deals for British tourists “We […]

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp left the son of South African rugby legend Joost van der Westhuizen “speechless” after responding to a heart-felt letter written by the boy following his father’s death from Motor Neurone Disease (MND) in February. Klopp sent 13-year-old Jordan van der Westhuizen, like his father an ardent Liverpool fan, a team jersey […]