Новости за 22.08.2017

CYPRUS will be involved with a Nasa mission aimed to derail asteroids heading to Earth and nudge them off course, head of Cyprus’ Space Exploration Organisation (CSEO), George Danos said on Tuesday. Speaking during the 19th international conference of overseas Cypriots, he said “I am very pleased to say that CSEO has been invited to […]

Cyprus is the safest country in the world for young people out of 184 countries across the globe, according to the latest data published by the World Health Organisation (WHO) it emerged on Tuesday. Analysing the data, British newspaper The Guardian found that Cyprus topped the charts compared to countries from other continents with a […]

Gaps in the legislation on water sports but also violations of the code have been observed, according to merchant shipping department official Kyriacos Kofteros. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, Kofteros said the current legislation on the operation of water sports must be upgraded to include provisions on staff qualifications, vessel inspections, and stricter penalties […]

Overseas Cypriots were briefed on Tuesday by members of the government over the state of affairs on the island ranging from the Cyprus problem, hydrocarbons, the economy and the island’s involvement in space exploration. In the 19th annual conference taking place at the Filoxenia conference centre in Nicosia, members of Pomak (world federation of overseas […]

A consumer group charged on Tuesday there was collusion in setting the price of motor gas, demanding to know how it had been set. The union of consumers and quality of life suggested that the price of LPG in Cyprus was some 40 per cent higher than the EU average and almost double the lowest […]

A 42-year old man was remanded for seven days by Limassol district court on Tuesday for using a credit card belonging to a 66-year-old woman from whom he had stolen it. Police said he had been arrested a day earlier in connection to ongoing investigations where he allegedly used the woman’s credit card between July […]

The ‘prime minister’ in the north has asked Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci to remove the head of the religious affairs Mufti Talip Atalay, without however, giving a reason. In a letter to Akinci, Hüseyin Özgürgün proposed the removal of the mufti but did not provide justification for his action. The mufti in the north […]

The Bank of Cyprus’s decision to increase its provisions for loan impairments on Monday was expected, said an economist, who did not rule out similar steps by other lenders that could also need more equity. “The European Central Bank was pushing for a capital increase not only at Bank of Cyprus but throughout the system,” […]

The Fiscal Council said the government decision to increase the compensation to provident funds that lost money in the 2013 banking crisis may be a precedent that could encourage other groups to make similar demands and increase the systemic risk. The council, tasked with monitoring the drafting and implementation of the government budget to avert […]

A photograph of a police car being pulled out of the sea at Limassol port was doing the rounds on social media on Tuesday. Apparently, an officer had parked the vehicle on Sunday at around 1pm near the water. Under circumstances yet to be confirmed, the vehicle slid down towards the sea. No one was […]

A teenage Moroccan asylum seeker admitted on Tuesday killing two people and wounding eight in a knife attack in the Finnish city of Turku, his lawyer said. In a closed-door court hearing, 18-year-old Abderrahman Mechkah confessed to carrying out Friday’s attack but did not admit to having terrorist motive, lawyer Kaarle Gummerus said. “(My client) […]

The Second Cyprus International Investors’ Summit, to be held in Limassol from September 11 to 13, will showcase flagship projects in the property, real estate and leisure sectors.

Britain urged the EU on Tuesday to stick to the existing system for resolving cross-border civil disputes after Brexit, expanding on a list of proposals for future ties to try to nudge talks forward with the bloc. In the third of five papers to be published this week, the government outlined how it wanted to […]

Kimi Raikkonen will be racing for Ferrari again next season after the Italian Formula One team announced on Tuesday a contract extension with the Finn for 2018. The popular 2007 world champion, who will be 38 in October, would have been out of contract at the end of this year with plenty of rivals eyeing […]

By Simon Evans Eight goals scored, none conceded and six points in the bag – it has been the perfect start to the season for Manchester United and they have rightly earned plenty of praise. But before they are anointed champions-elect in August, it is surely worth asking whether or not the big question marks about Jose Mourinho’s […]

North Korea and the United States clashed at a UN forum on Tuesday over their military intentions towards one another, with Pyongyang’s envoy declaring it would “never” put its nuclear deterrent on the negotiating table. Japan, well within reach of North Korea’s missiles, said the world must maintain pressure on the reclusive country to rein […]

Political opponents of Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday urged him to end a culture of impunity and quell a surge in drug-related killings, amid widespread anger at police over the death of a teenager. Allegations of police abuse and a cover-up in last week’s death of Kian Loyd delos Santos has caused rare outrage […]

Sixty-six new HIV infections were recorded in Cyprus between January and October last year, showing an upward trend in the last two years. Health authorities are seeing an upward trend in infections with 80 reported in 2015 versus 41 in 2010. According to data published by the Cyprus News Agency, the highest incidence – 8:1 — was […]

THEO PANAYIDES meets a Nicosia gynaecologist who sees medicine as a Greek tragedy and philosophy as the basis of life Doctors speak a language of their own, says Dr Sotos Demetriou – and proves it by speaking of super cubic catheters and tocolytic therapy, Bishop scores, ESR and vaginal swabs. Sotos is a gynaecologist and […]

By Preston Wilder How did this get so ugly? The trailer made it look quite jolly – and the bar, after all, is pretty low: get two specialists in combustible exasperation, Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds (hitman and bodyguard, respectively), cook up some manufactured plot where they have to get from A to B […]

Germany’s foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel said Berlin and the rest of Europe should back the “democratically minded” majority of Turks who did not support President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a dramatic hardening of Germany’s position towards Ankara. His remarks, at a campaign event for his Social Democratic Party (SPD), come amid sharply deteriorating relations between […]

Police have issued a missing person bulletin for Anna Maria Nicolaou, 15, who went missing from her home in Nicosia on Monday afternoon. The teenager, who is described as 1,72 metres tall and has brown eyes and hair, has been missing since 2pm on Monday. Anybody with information about her whereabouts should contact police at […]

The foreign ministry has no information about Cypriot nationals being among the injured from the earthquake in Naples, it was announced on Tuesday. In a written statement, the ministry said it was monitoring the situation closely and was in touch with the island’s embassy in Role as well as with Italian authorities. “So far there […]

Four men accused of being members of an Islamist cell behind a van attack that killed 13 people in Barcelona last week appeared in court on Tuesday, a day after the alleged driver was shot dead by police. The four, the only ones still alive among the 12 men thought to constitute the group, were brought from Barcelona to […]

A thief or thieves stole a safe containing money from a residence in Peyia on Monday afternoon, police said. A British visitor told police that between 7.30pm and 10.20pm the house he is staying in was broken into and thieves took a safe containing €1,200 and GBP115. Police officers who visited the scene discovered that […]