Новости за 17.07.2017

Three Russian nationals were rescued from a boat that was filling up with water near the Vasilikos area on Monday night, the defence ministry said in a statement. The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre received a Mayday distress signal at 7pm from a yacht called ‘Ayia Fotini’ four nautical miles from the shore near the Vasilikos […]

The US Transportation Security Administration said on Monday it has lifted a ban on passengers on Saudi Arabian Airlines carrying large electronics like laptops onboard US-bound flights, the last carrier under the restrictions. In March, US officials imposed restrictions on passengers carrying laptops and other large electronic gear in cabins on nine airlines, most of […]

A 38-year-old fisherman has been missing since Sunday afternoon when he and his partner took a boat out in Ayios Georgios in Peyia and the engine died. The couple, from Romania, were reported missing on Monday, after the man’s employer became increasingly concerned when he didn’t hear from him. Police found the man’s car parked […]

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres came to the defence of his Special Adviser Espen Barth Eide on Monday, after President Nicos Anastasiades criticised him in an interview for lack of preparation in Crans-Montana. Anastasiades said that although Eide was acting in good faith, the special envoy was “living in an illusion that almost everything was solved” […]

French Minister for Armed Forces Florence Parly was in Cyprus on Monday and was briefed by her Cypriot counterpart Christoforos Fokaides on France’s oil giant Total and its drilling in Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ). At the same time, after a six-hour marathon session of Turkey’s Security Council, chaired by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, a […]

By  Emmelia Georgiou After last year’s first successful race, Alphamega’s Run as One returns this year, bigger and better. This year there will be a half marathon race on October 22 beginning and ending at Alphamega supermarket in Engomi, Nicosia. The event will also include a five-km road race, a five-km corporate race and a […]

The verdict for two defendants suspected of being involved last summer’s quadruple killing in Ayia Napa is set to be announced in September. If found guilty on September 8, Panayiotis Pentafkas and Serbian national Dejan Loy will serve a life sentence. The two face charges in relation with the murders of businessman Phanos Kalopsidiotis and […]

A 70-year-old man was found guilty by the Nicosia criminal court on Monday for sexually abusing his nine-year-old granddaughter. He was found guilty of 40 counts relating to indecent assault and sexual abuse of a minor between June 2014 and August 2015. The court heard that his granddaughter was nine when the abuse began and […]

A debate was raging across social media on Monday after a former TV presenter in Cyprus, Melanie Steliou, posted photographs of herself breastfeeding her child that were taken down by Facebook after someone reported them. Steliou had initially shared the photographs on Sunday and was subjected to a barrel of bullying, she said in a […]

A group of civil defence volunteers has accused high-ranking officers in the force of malfeasance and demanded to see the interior minister to inform him, it emerged on Monday. In a letter to the minister dated Monday, the group speaks of “abuse of power and blatant violation of the principles of good governance” over a […]

Keeping Valtteri Bottas at Mercedes next season looks an obvious decision but the Formula One champions need to consider their long term options, team boss Toto Wolff said after the Finn shone in Sunday’s British Grand Prix. “It is almost a no-brainer,” he told reporters at Silverstone. “I would just like to set the puzzle […]

The republic’s natural gas exploration was going as planned, the government said on Monday, with results expected in the autumn. “What I can tell you with certainty is that everything is going as planned,” government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides told state radio. Energy giant Total is drilling in block 11 of the island’s exclusive economic zone […]

Paphos will be twinned with Alexandria in the coming months following a series of successful meetings held in Egypt over the past few days, according to Paphos municipality. A spokesman for Paphos municipality said a series of initiatives to boost relations between the two cities will culminate in their twinning of the two cities by […]

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will be in Cyprus on Tuesday for meetings with Turkish Cypriot parties, daily Milliyet reported. The paper said Cavusoglu will be meeting Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci, to determine the next step to take after the collapse of the negotiations. Citing diplomatic sources, the report said Ankara gave importance to […]

The Supreme Court approved on Monday the establishment of a judicial training school in Cyprus that will focus on judicial reforms. According to the plans, the school is expected to start organizing its first educational programs in early 2018. Until then, the necessary legal framework will be put in place. Meanwhile, a delegation from the […]

By  Emmelia Georgiou After a long break from the music scene, Trio Tekke are back with a series of performances, one of which will be at Technopolis 20’s garden in Paphos on Friday. The performances will promote the release of the band’s new album entitled Zivo, a collaboration with the English-Italian Drummer Dave De Rose. […]

BIKERS from around Cyprus will gather in Paphos on Tuesday morning to surprise a terminally ill cancer patient and help to fulfil his top wish on his bucket list; to ride on a Harley Davidson motorbike. Bikers and supporters are being invited to gather outside a coffee shop in Peyia in Paphos to join Billy […]

The state-owned Cooperative Central Bank said that it entered an agreement with Spain’s Altamira Asset Management SS to set up a joint unit to which the lender will outsource the management of its delinquent portfolio. The decision to set up a new unit, 51-per-cent owned by the Spanish financial corporation and 49-per-cent by the Co-op, […]

Turkish Cypriot authorities have said that residents of a village in the north that had to be abandoned after it was included in a military zone won’t be going back before a settlement of the Cyprus problem, various media reported on Monday. It was reported in March that the Turkish military had begun clearing the […]

The United Arab Emirates was not responsible for an alleged hack of Qatari websites which helped spark a month-long diplomatic rift with Doha, the UAE’s minister of state for foreign affairs said on Monday. Anwar Gargash denied as false a story in the Washington Post that cited US officials saying the UAE had orchestrated the hack […]

The Kremlin said on Monday it hoped the Trump administration would find the political wisdom to solve a diplomatic dispute with Moscow over the seizure of Russian diplomatic property in the United States. Barack Obama, then US president, ordered the seizure of two Russian diplomatic compounds and the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats in December […]

The Turkish government sent a request to parliament on Monday to extend the period of emergency rule imposed after last July’s failed coup attempt, a statement from Prime Minister Binali Yildirim’s office said. It said the cabinet requested that parliament extend emergency rule by three months from Wednesday.

Wimbledon women’s champion Garbine Muguruza says she will savour her victory in order to prevent a similar slump in form to the one she suffered after winning the French Open in 2016. The Spaniard earned her first grand slam at Roland Garros, beating Serena Williams in the final, but then meekly capitulated at Wimbledon to Jana Cepelova […]

After six seasons and sixty episodes of warring families, countless deaths (1,243) and mounting menace, winter has finally come to Westeros in HBO’s hit fantasy series “Game of Thrones”, bringing with it an army of the undead and some long pent-up revenge. The new season, which begis this week, sees the show’s lead characters with […]

Explosives planted by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants ripped through a Turkish military vehicle travelling through southeast Turkey on Monday, wounding 17 soldiers, the military said. The vehicle was passing through the Yuksekova district of Hakkari province, which borders Iran and Iraq, when the blast occurred, the army said, adding the wounded were immediately taken […]