Новости за 30.06.2017

THE Crans-Montana negotiations appeared to turn slightly more positive on Friday under the auspices of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres who said though there was some progress on the internal chapters, major stumbling blocks remained on security and guarantees. Guterres, who attended the main conference session, had lunch with the leaders and held meetings on the side with […]

A 42-year-old sailor aboard a commercial ship off the coast of Limassol was picked up by a port police boat on Friday afternoon after showing signs of having suffered a heart attack. In a statement, the joint rescue coordination centre (JRCC) said it was informed of a man aboard the Antigua-Barbuda flagged ship ‘Lucy Borchard’, […]

PREPARATIONS are underway in Paphos ahead of the cultural capital summer extravaganza that will take place in the coastal town on Saturday evening. Thousands are expected to attend the ‘Eternal Voyages’ event in the second collaboration between Pafos2017 and renowned British outdoor events company Walk the Plank, which also staged the opening ceremony. “This weekend, […]

THE House voted 37 to four for a controversial government bill on the protection of wild birds and game during its plenum on Friday. The government says the new laws will tackle poaching and protect the songbirds that are hunted and eaten as a delicacy, but critics say they effectively decriminalise hunting with limesticks – […]

DUE to the extended heatwave, and given that the the risk of bushfires starting and burning out of control is at ‘red alert’, the Forestry Department urges the public for co-operation and to avoid any and all activities that might cause a fire. In a statement, the department announced that it is taking all necessary […]

Within the framework of the Larnaca Festival, which will start tomorrow and last until the end of the month, the guitarist association of Cyprus will present the biggest guitar event to have ever happened on the island under the name 100 Guitars. The event will take place on Wednesday at the Pattichion Municipal Amphitheatre. Conducted […]

A Russian tourist was attacked and injured at a hotel on the Larnaca to Dhekelia road on Thursday evening. Police were notified at 7pm and when they arrived at the scene they found that a 47-year-old man had been pushed and had fallen during a fight with a 50-year-old man, also a tourist. When he […]

THE government is prioritising the promotion of traditional produce, dishes and wines, Agriculture minister Nicos Kouyialis said at a tourism conference on Friday. “With the shift to quality we can, as Cyprus, place our products on the gastronomic map of Europe,” Kouyialis said. The ministry is aiming to spend almost €1.5m from 2014-2020 on an […]

AN 89-year-old woman is in intensive care after being hit by a car in Nata, Paphos, on Thursday evening. The pedestrian was hit by a car driven by a 40-year-old man who was trying to reverse into a parking space at 7.30pm. She was transferred to Paphos general hospital where she was diagnosed with a […]

CHRYSTALLENI Tryfonos, a student at the Agios Neophytos lyceum in Paphos, scored top marks of 20 out of 20 in the Pancyprian exams, while across the island 40 percent of those who sat for the exams hoping to win a place at university or college were successful, Minister of Education Costas Kadis said on Friday. […]

Employers’ organisations on Friday criticised the bank workers’ union for staging a 24-hour strike at Hellenic over the terms of employment of some 130 people who must be transferred to a new company tasked with handling the lender’s bad loans. At the same time, Etyk issued a jubilant statement on Friday lauding the “success” of […]

The reconvening of this conference offers an historic opportunity to reach a comprehensive settlement to the conflict that has divided Cyprus for too many decades. The road back to Switzerland has not been easy but the path to lasting peace never is. To get to this point, the leaders have overcome significant challenges and making […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping, visiting Hong Kong for the 20th anniversary of its return to Chinese rule, said on Friday the city’s “one country, two systems” formula faces “new challenges” as pro-democracy campaigners ramped up their protests. Xi’s visit comes amid heightened tension between China and the former British colony, where many are concerned at increasing interference […]

Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides has called on the governor of the prison where high-profile inmate Panayiotis Neocleous was being held to immediately review the offender’s transfer to a rehabilitation centre in Limassol for dental treatment. The decision to have Neocleous, a lawyer at one of the biggest firms on the island, transferred to the Eoka rehabilitation […]

Arsenal CEO Ivan Gazidis has told supporters that the club is hunting for top players to boost the squad and defended the decision to hand long-serving manager Arsene Wenger a new contract after a season marred by protests. A vociferous section of fans turned on the manager as results faltered when Arsenal exited the Champions […]

A war monitor said Islamic State regained control over most of the industrial district in Syria’s Raqqa on Friday, but the alliance fighting it denied that while acknowledging there was a jihadist counter attack in the east of the city. The assault marked Islamic State’s first sustained effort to fight back against the slow advance into Raqqa by the […]

The construction of an oncology centre in Limassol will be delayed due to complicated negotiations between the Bank of Cyprus and the health ministry. Plans were expected to be finalised by June this year. “The Bank of Cyprus is just trying to find the best way to provide services that don’t already exist for the […]

One of the most important events of the European Capital of Culture Pafos2017 coming up is the play The Trojan Women by Euripides. The performance, next Friday and Saturday at Paphos Ancient Odeon, will be an international production with actresses and actors from divided cities in Cyprus, Bosnia and Palestine. Directed by world-renowned Theodoros Terzopoulos, […]

French politician Simone Veil, who survived the Holocaust and led campaigns for the legalisation of abortion in France in the 1970s, died at her home in Paris on Friday, her family said. She was 89 years old. A Jewish survivor of the Nazi death camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen with the prisoner number 78651 tattooed on her […]

Ukraine’s state security service (SBU) seized equipment it said belonged to Russian agents in May and June to launch cyber attacks against Ukraine and other countries, the SBU said in a statement on Friday. “Law enforcement officers seized server equipment that was involved in the cyber attack system by Russian secret services,” the SBU said, […]

China urged the United States to revoke immediately its “wrong decision” to sell Taiwan $1.42bn worth of arms, saying it contradicted a “consensus” President Xi Jinping reached with his counterpart, Donald Trump, in talks in April in Florida. The sales would send a very wrong message to “Taiwan independence” forces, China‘s embassy in Washington said in a […]

Andy Murray will begin the defence of his Wimbledon title against a qualifier after the draw was made for the third grand slam of the year at the All England Club on Friday. The Scot, who is bidding to win Wimbledon for a third time, was drawn in the same half as two-time champion Rafael […]

Parliament on Friday voted to reinstate a Solidarity Party MP who had lost his seat following a supreme court decision. Twenty-six MPs voted in favour of the bill and 13, all present Disy MPs, voted against. With the approval, Giorgos Papadopoulos returns to parliament. The issue emerged after Solidarity Party leader Eleni Theocharous, who was […]

Ron Dennis, the chairman of McLaren’s Formula One team and separate sports car maker, will step down from his role at the brand and sell his shares, ending a 37-year relationship which soured in recent months alongside race-track failings. McLaren, valued at 2.4 billion pounds, have not won a Grand Prix since 2012 and are […]

Iraqi government forces attacked Islamic State’s remaining redoubt in Mosul‘s Old City on Friday, a day after formally declaring the end of the insurgents’ self-declared caliphate and the capture of the historic mosque which symbolised their power. Dozens of civilians fled in the direction of the Iraqi forces, mostly women and children, some wounded by insurgents […]