Новости за 06.10.2017

Beneath Caesar Mavratsas’ rumpled tweed jacket beat a big, brave and generous heart. These qualities, together with his keen intellect and good sense of humour, made him hugely popular with students and colleagues at the University of Cyprus where he served in the department of social and political sciences for the last 23 years. The […]

Wales secured a vital 1-0 victory in Georgia to keep their hopes of automatic World Cup qualification alive on Friday as Tom Lawrence sealed the points with his first goal for his country. Lawrence lashed home right-footed from just outside the area in the 49th minute to earn Wales only their fourth victory in nine qualifying games and put […]

By John Irish When Israel’s envoy told Unesco delegates last July that fixing the plumbing in his toilet was more important than their latest ruling, it highlighted how fractious geopolitics are paralysing the workings of the agency. Whoever wins the race to replace Irina Bokova as head of the UN’s cultural and education body next […]

An Egyptian millionaire investor on Friday described in court how he was beaten and dragged out of a nightclub in Ayia Napa in 2016 just hours before laying the foundation stone of the popular holiday resort’s marina, a project he is funding. Naguib Sawiris described to the court in detail how he and his entourage […]

BRAZIL’S national Olympic committee (COB) and its head Carlos Nuzman were provisionally suspended by the International Olympic Committee on Friday, a day after the 75-year-old was arrested in Rio de Janeiro in connection with a corruption investigation. However, the IOC said in a statement Brazilian athletes would not be affected and Team Brazil would be able to take part […]

If you haven’t signed up for the Run as One race organised by Alphamega supermarkets then you still have 16 days to do so. The event will include a corporate race, a half-marathon, a five-km and one-km individual run, all part of the Alphamega corporate social responsibility programme entitled Child, Nutrition and Health. Commenting on […]

JUPP Heynckes is coming out of retirement to take over as coach of Bayern Munich until the end of the season, the Bundesliga club said on Friday, having sacked Carlo Ancelotti last week. Heynckes, 72, led Bayern to the domestic league and Cup double and the Champions League title in 2013 before making way for […]

Russia said on Friday a decision by a Greek court to clear the way for a suspected Russian money launderer to be extradited to the United States was a violation of international law. Russia has also lodged an extradition request and its Foreign Ministry said on Friday that submission should take priority because the suspect, […]

Police arrested a 16-year-old boy on Friday for snatching handbags from two women on different occasions in Limassol. According to the head of the Limassol CID, Ioannis Soteriades, the 16-year-old was arrested on Friday morning after reportedly snatching a bag from a woman on her way to a bank in Kato Polemidia. The woman told […]

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Cyprus’s economy performed “an impressive turnaround” but remains vulnerable to shocks because of high debt levels and to a probable boom-bust resulting from the government’s passport schemes. “Emergency bank liquidity has been fully repaid and bank deposits are rising,” the IMF staff said in a statement on its website […]

The United Nations braced on Friday for a possible “further exodus” of Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar into Bangladesh six weeks after the world’s fastest-developing refugee emergency began, UN humanitarian aid chief said. Some 515,000 Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh from Myanmar‘s western state of Rakhine in an unrelenting movement of people that began after Myanmar security forces responded to […]

Cypriot banks were the least profitable in the European Union in the second quarter of the year and had the second highest non-performing loans ratio, the European Banking Authority (EBA) said. The return on equity for Cypriot banks, which have increased their provisions a few times in recent years, stood at minus 25 per cent […]

Archbishop Chrysostomos on Friday admitted to having threatened antiquities department acting head Marina Solomidou-Ieronymidou after she refused to revoke the designation of a plot of church-owned land in Yeroskipou, which he plans to lease out to an investor to build a luxury resort, as an archaeological site. Speaking to state TV on Friday, Chrysostomos recounted […]

Disy head Averof Neophytou tabled on Friday a bill providing for the write off of overdue tax not exceeding €100. Neophytou, who tabled the bill at the House plenum session, said that around 36,000 persons owe, on overage, €60, and that the administrative costs for collecting these small amounts make the recovery procedure unprofitable. The […]

Jalal Talabani, whose presidency of post-Saddam Iraq symbolised the resurgence of the country’s long-oppressed Kurdish people, was brought home on Friday to be buried. Iraqi and Kurdish TV showed the Iraqi Airways plane, transporting Talabani‘s coffin from Germany where he died on Tuesday at age 83, landing in Sulaimaniya, his home city in northern Iraq. The plane […]

A 45-year-old woman was murdered in her Famagusta home on Thursday night, with the main suspect her 43-year-old former boyfriend who was found outside the house after sustaining two self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head, Turkish Cypriot press reported on Friday. The woman, Halime Cetin, was killed with three rounds from a shotgun while in […]

Children trust without question, dream because they know no fear, and are at peace with the world. These three elements, therefore, are perfect to be used as a title for a poetry collection for children, which will be launched in Paphos on Tuesday. Truth, Dreams and Peace, written by Demetra Socratous and illustrated by Charalampos […]

Tighter checks for passengers will be implemented from October 9, airport operator Hermes said on Friday. In a written statement, the company said that due to European regulation 458/2017 a new procedure will be introduced. “This directive has already been applied in many countries of the European Union since last April. It should be noted, […]

Authorities said on Friday they are investigating a case concerning the arrival at the Limassol post office of a parcel from the US which contained 40 grammes of liquid tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive constituent of cannabis. The customs department said that its detection dog, Buddy, located the parcel in August at the Limassol post office’s […]

Denmark looks set to become the next European country to restrict the burqa and the niqab, worn by some Muslim women, after most parties in the Danish parliament backed some sort of ban on facial coverings. Full and partial face veils such as burqas and niqabs divide opinion across Europe, setting advocates of religious freedom against […]

This coming Wednesday the third installment of the ninth International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival will see ensemble C Barre, soprano Sarah Maria Sun and conductor Sebastian Boin join forces for the concert Western Composers Reflecting Eastern Music in Nicosia. C Barre is an instrumental ensemble founded and directed by Sebastian Boin, and is the result […]

The 36-year-old actor stars alongside his idol in the sequel to Harrison’s 1982 sci-fi movie ‘Blade Runner’, and Ryan has admitted to relishing his experience of working with the Hollywood veteran. Of starring alongside Harrison, Ryan said: “He exceeded my expectations. “Show me someone who is not a fan and I will show you a liar, but […]

The Yeroskipou municipality is going to spend €600,000 on constructing three kiosks and landscaping along its coast. The upgrade will include improved parking and lighting. The three kiosks will be ready by May 2018, Yeroskipou mayor Michalis Pavlides said. The rest of the works are scheduled to begin before the end of this year. According […]

The 37-year-old actress earned rave reviews from fans and critics when she filled in for Jimmy Kimmel on his late-night series earlier this year and while she relished the experience, Kristen suggested it may be too soon for her to make a full-time switch into the world of TV presenting. During a Reddit Q&A, Kristen explained: “I’ve thought about […]

Hundreds of elderly Greeks protested against deep cuts to their pensions outside the country’s top administrative court on Friday, as reforms passed to comply with international bailout demands leave them with ever less cash to live on. Greece has been reeling from the impact of repeated rounds of austerity over the last seven years, as […]