Новости за 25.07.2017

World War II veteran Charalambos Orphanides died on Tuesday at the age of 100. Orphanides, was born in 1917 in Ardana, in the Famagusta district and served in the Cyprus regiment of the British army in World War II as a mule driver in a pack transport company and saw service in France, Ethiopia and […]

About 78 new incidents of cancer relating to the head and the neck are recorded every year in Cyprus, with an average of 30 new cases per annum having to do with the larynx, Health Ministry permanent secretary Christina Yiannaki said on Tuesday. Addressing a news conference on the occasion of the World Head and […]

Swiss police arrested a 50-year-old man a day after he stormed into an insurance office wielding a chainsaw and wounded two staff members, bringing an end to a two-day manhunt that had also involved German police. Zurich cantonal place said in a statement that they had arrested the suspect in Thalwil, a town about 60 […]

The government on Tuesday deflected criticism that President Nicos Anastasiades’ promise of paying off municipalities’ state-guaranteed debts with tax payers’ money amounts to an electioneering gimmick. In a statement, Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides argued that the gradual repayment by the government of municipality loans guaranteed by the state, as announced by Anastasiades last Friday during […]

US Senate Republicans narrowly agreed on Tuesday to open debate on a bill to repeal Obamacare, but the party’s seven-year effort to roll back Democratic President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law still faces significant hurdles. The Senate deadlocked 50-50 on whether to move forward with the healthcare debate, forcing Vice President Mike Pence to cast […]

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and chief negotiator on European Union accession Omer Celik accused Cyprus of unilaterally blocking the opening of new chapters and of adopting an unproductive stance at the Conference on Cyprus in Switzerland, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Tuesday. Celik and Cavusoglu, in Brussels for high-level talks with EU Foreign […]

Silicon Valley baron Elon Musk insulted rival billionaire Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday, escalating a tech wizard war of words over whether robots will become smart enough to kill their human creators. “His understanding of the subject is limited,” Musk said in a tweet about the Facebook Inc founder whose algorithms and other technology revolutionized social […]

A British tourist was fined €2,850 by the Famagusta District Court for impersonation and forgery, police announced on Tuesday. According to a police report, traffic police caught the 27-year-old tourist driving a rental motorcycle while intoxicated. The man gave a name and a UK driver’s licence number and signed the breathalyser printout. When he failed […]

The government on Tuesday sought to assuage the concerns of the nine communities of Vasilikos, near Limassol, regarding the planned storage of used car tyres in the area. The reassurances were given during a meeting held at the Presidential Palace, chaired by President Nicos Anastasiades and attended by a number of ministers and the concerned […]

The Limassol port’s anchorage is the main source of pollution along the city’s coast, professor Costas Costa, head of the Technical University team that conducted a study on the issue, said on Tuesday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, Costa said Limassol mayor Nicos Nicolaides asked to be briefed on the study’s findings, and was […]

Main opposition Akel and the government exchanged barbs on Tuesday over the failure of the Swiss talks and the pledge by the latter to release the minutes of the fated final dinner in Crans-Montana on July 6. Akel leader Andros Kyprianou warned the government it was heading for a “megaton conflict” with UN Secretary-General Antonio […]

As no-one can fail to have realised, it is summer and that means it is the season of festivals. From music, dance, theatre and even poetry, the festivals planned will surely satisfy every taste. Starting off today, the Nicosia Festival will get us to explore the capital with various cultural events organised by the Nicosia […]

Bank workers union Etyk said on Tuesday it was suspending a strike at Hellenic Bank’s delinquent loan manager following the intervention of Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou. The two sides are scheduled to meet at the labour ministry on Wednesday. It follows a meeting between Etyk and Emilianidou on Monday. “Through yesterday’s lengthy meeting a prospect […]

Police with search hounds hunted on Tuesday for a chainsaw-wielding loner who mostly lived in the woods, a day after he stormed into an insurance office in the Swiss town of Schaffhausen and wounded two staff members. Police have identified the suspect as 50-year-old Franz Wrousis, a drifter with a criminal record, and warned residents […]

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday blasted the investigation into alleged Russian meddling in last year’s US election and raised questions, without offering evidence, about Ukrainian support for his Democratic presidential rival, Hillary Clinton. In a pair of early morning tweets, Trump also said US Attorney-general Jeff Sessions had “taken a very weak position” toward […]

A 61-year-old woman was arrested on Monday for arson and attempt to commit arson, policed announced on Tuesday. According to the police, the woman was detained at around noon by bystanders who saw her trying to set fire to cardboard boxes located outside a Nicosia shop. At the same time as this incident took place, […]

Making the planet a healthier place – and, by extension, more secure and economically vibrant – requires the attention not only of world leaders and organisations but the dedication of a whole community of health care professionals on the ground tackling the issues day in and day out. What comes to mind when someone says, […]

Greece returned to the European bond market after a three-year absence on Tuesday and is set to sell a €3bn five-year issue at 4.625 per cent, laying the foundations for future trades as it weans itself off external aid. The sovereign, rated Caa2/B-/CCC/CCCH, attracted over €6.5bn of orders for the deal, which was launched together […]

A 56-year-old man was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Tuesday after being found guilty of the import and possession of more than 16 kilogrammes of cannabis. The man was arrested in May right after he arrived in Cyprus through Paphos airport when 16.46kg of cannabis was located in his luggage. He was found […]

The parents of terminally ill baby Charlie Gard on Tuesday accused the London hospital treating him of placing obstacles in the way of their son dying at home, but the hospital said it would like to fulfil their wish “if practical”. The plight of 11-month-old Charlie, who suffers from an extremely rare genetic condition causing progressive brain damage and […]

Real Madrid Reportedly Reach Principle Agreement of €180m for Monaco’s Kylian Mbappe

Powerful Australian minister Matthew Canavan on Tuesday became the third politician forced to step aside over a question of dual citizenship, saying he was unaware his mother had taken out Italian citizenship for him when he was 25. Australian politicians are not eligible to be elected to parliament if they hold dual or plural citizenship. “I […]

European Union authorities have increased pressure on Facebook, Twitter and Google to amend their user terms to bring them in line with EU law after proposals submitted by the tech giants were considered insufficient. The European Commission and consumer protection authorities in the bloc wrote to the three companies in June, asking them to improve […]

The Cyprus Telecommunication Authority (Cyta) is the only company on the island, and possibly the first in the word to be awarded the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) for customer contact centres, it announced on Tuesday. In a statement, Cyta said that it was among the first organisations in the world to receive the ISO18295-1:2017, […]

Akel leader Andros Kyprianou said on Tuesday that those who criticise possible presidential candidate Stavros Malas merely by the fact that he was not the party’s first choice, should start worrying because they will find nothing else to criticise about him. Malas on Tuesday had his first meeting with Akel’s general secretariat as part of […]