Новости за 01.08.2017

Paphos will open a beer festival on Friday at the Mediaeval Castle where the beer will be flowing and the music will be loud until Sunday. The three-day event will offer a wide variety of beers from Cyprus and around the world. But it is not only about the love of beer, it is also […]

While ruling Disy and main opposition Akel on Tuesday seemed to agree that the only way to prevent unilateral Turkish actions was to return to the talks the hardline parties were concerned with finding other ways to stop such moves. The Citizens Alliance suggested the Greek Cypriot side should not go back to negotiations unless […]

The White House said on Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump had a role in producing a statement in which his son denied that a meeting he had with a Russian lawyer was related to the 2016 presidential campaign, comments later shown to be misleading. White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told a briefing that Trump […]

Lifeguards will work longer hours on two of the biggest and most popular Limassol beaches until September. The new hours for lifeguards at the two Ayios Tychonas beaches, Harmonia and Aphroditi, are from 6am to 8pm instead of 10am until 6pm, the secretary of the community council Antonis Antoniou announced on Tuesday. The new timetable […]

A second stand-up comedy night will be held in Paphos next month and will feature the winner of an open mike competition held in April that aimed at discovering new local talent. The first LOL Comedy Paphos event was a sell out and organiser Andi Hobbs said he unearthed some fantastic local talent. The winner […]

A giant panda in France’s Beauval zoo is expected to give birth to twins in the next few days under the watchful eye of two Chinese birthing specialists, the zoo said on Tuesday. “We’re expecting twins,” said Delphine Debord, the zoo’s communications director. “An ultrasound today confirmed it.” Huan Huan and her partner Yuan Zi […]

A crewless sailboat, which had been spotted some 90 miles south of Limassol two weeks ago but not found by a tug-boat dispatched to bring it to the Limassol port, was eventually towed ashore on Monday night, and police are investigating the circumstances under which it came to float in the region, the Cyprus Mail […]

Jordanian lawmakers have voted to abolish a law that lets rapists off the hook if they marry their victims, rights campaigners said on Tuesday. They hailed the move – which comes a week after Tunisia scrapped a similar law – as an important step towards ending impunity for sexual violence. Campaigners have said such laws, […]

Archaeologists in Antwerp have spent the last two weeks excavating parts of a six-metre-high fortified wall that was built around the Belgian city 500 years ago. The ruins were exposed during preparations for a massive infrastructure project on a major boulevard, including tunnels and a new tram line. “When we compare to other cities, it […]

Popular Greek singer Panos Mouzourakis will be on his way to entertain us on Saturday at Trinity Beach in Protaras in aid of the Cyprus Red Cross. The Greek actor and singer, who was born in Switzerland, is known for his unique way of talking, expressing himself and overall being out of the ordinary. He […]

Recordings of Princess Diana speaking candidly about her sex life with Prince Charles and her sorrow at the spectacular collapse of her marriage will be broadcast on British television on Sunday. Diana, first wife of the heir to the British throne, died aged 36 in Paris on Aug. 31, 1997, after the limousine carrying her […]

The body of a woman aged around 60 who was found floating unconscious off McKenzie beach in Larnaca on July 16 remains at the Larnaca general hospital morgue as she has yet to be identified, it was reported on Tuesday. The woman was found floating motionless in the sea off Piale Pasha area in Larnaca […]

The government on Tuesday said it was still awaiting a ‘complete’ official response from Washington regarding the presence of a US warship in Cyprus’ economic waters a day earlier. Government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides said that in the meantime Nicosia has been told by both the US State Department and the Pentagon that the US government […]

Nearly 500 suspects including army generals and pilots went on trial in Turkey on Tuesday, many of them accused of commanding last year’s failed coup attempt from an air base in the capital Ankara. Families of those killed or wounded protested outside the courthouse, with some throwing hangman’s nooses or stones toward the defendants as […]

Two concerts set to make the famous Petra tou Romiou (Aphrodite’s Rock) sparkle with glamour will be the icing on the cake of happenings planned for the European of Culture Pafos2017 in August. The concerts, which are under the combined name Moon and Stars, will bring together the famous Acordes Guitar Ensemble and Greek singer […]

As of Tuesday, working fathers of newborns will be able to file for 15 days of paid paternity leave. The bill on paternity leave was voted by parliament last month and is in effect as of August 1. Eligible to apply are fathers who have paid contributions to the social insurance fund. Fathers whose children […]

Tuesday’s National Council meeting was a “long and constructive debate” on the way forward following the failure of the talks in Crans-Montana, government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides said. “We have heard the statements from the heads or representatives of political parties,” he said. “The first thing I want to say is that this is no time […]

More than half of Australia’s university students were sexually harassed last year with women and LGBT students most affected, according to a survey by the Australian Human Rights Commission that is calling for action to crackdown on this abuse. The survey of more than 30,000 students from Australia’s 39 universities found 51 per cent of […]

A new era in English football begins on Friday with a crackdown on players who cheat referees by diving to win a penalty or get an opponent sent off. The second-tier Championship games between Sunderland and Derby County and between Nottingham Forest and Millwall will be the first in which players can be retrospectively punished […]

Doubts about the reliability of opinion polls arose after unexpected election results in Britain and the United States last year, but German pollsters say their methods and domestic circumstances mean Germany should be immune to election shock next month. German opinion surveys have been precise in the past because party allegiance is high, Germany uses […]

A British Cypriot man was handed a 4.5-year jail term by a London court on Monday over a conspiracy to sell horsemeat as beef in 2012. Andronicos Sideras, 55, was found guilty of conspiring with two others, Alex Beech and Ulrik Nielsen, to defraud for a sum total £177.869 between January 1 and November 30, […]

The only partial lunar eclipse in 2017 will take place on August 7 and it will be visible from Cyprus. The beginning of the eclipse will not be visible because the moon will be below the horizon but it will start to be visible at 8.25pm when the moon rises, will peak at 9.20pm and […]

Three people being taken to stand trial in a Moscow court were shot dead after they tried to grab side-arms from court security officers and escape, Russian law enforcement officials said on Tuesday. Five defendants were in a lift in the Moscow regional court building when they tried to seize the weapons from the officers […]

 A bomb blast occurred Tuesday morning at the entrance of a sports club in Limassol. No one was injured in the explosion. The high-power device was placed at the entrance to the sports club Anagennisi Germasogeia located on Kolonaki Street in Linopetra. The explosion, at 6:20am caused serious damage to the entrance and the inside […]

The Cyprus men’s national golf team has travelled to Sofia, Bulgaria, to participate in the European Team Shield Championship 2017, at Pravets Golf Club, between August 2-5. The national team members for the event are Alex Toouli, George Kalpakas Jr, Nikolas Pitiris and Christopher Kalpakas, accompanied by the Cyprus Golf Federation’s’s Secretary General, Nick Rossides. […]