Новости за 11.10.2017

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ report on Cyprus does not accurately reflect the facts of what happened in Crans-Montana and has therefore fallen short of Turkey’s expectations, the Turkish foreign ministry said on Wednesday. In a statement, the ministry blamed the Greek Cypriot’s side intransigence for the collapse of the talks in July because it “never […]

Real Madrid goalkeeper Keylor Navas could miss next week’s Champions League match against Tottenham Hotspur after suffering a leg injury, Spanish media reported on Wednesday. The Spanish club said in a statement that Navas had been diagnosed with a “swollen adductor muscle in his right groin”. Spanish media reported that the Costa Rican was not […]

  The Norwegian man who abducted his four-year-old daughter Marie-Eleni, was released from police custody in Norway after surrendering himself earlier this week, it emerged on Wednesday. According to the mother’s lawyer Laris Vrahimis, 48-year-old Torkel Grimsrud was released on Tuesday. Police attorney Anette Steen has been reported as saying police are continuing investigations but […]

A German journalist went on trial for terrorism charges in Turkey on Wednesday, saying she was innocent and demanding her immediate release, in a case that has damaged already sour relations with Berlin. Mesale Tolu was detained in April, accused of being a member of a terrorist organisation and publishing terrorist propaganda. Her husband was […]

Over 2,000 undeclared cigarettes were found on Wednesday at the Kofinou reception center that were purchased from the north, the customs office said in an announcement. As part of an operation, five premises were searched, three of which were found to contain undeclared duty free tobacco products. Nine hundred euros in fines were imposed on […]

  Cyprus will take decisions over the monetisation of its natural gas reserves by the end of 2018 following explorations by Exxon Mobil and Qatar Petroleum consortium in Block 10, Energy Miniter Yiorgos Lakkotrypis said on Wednesday. Speaking during a panel discussion at the Maritime Conference taking place in Limassol, Lakkotrypis said there will be […]

A 69-year-old tourist drowned off the Paphos municipal beach on Wednesday, despite attempts to revive her. According to police, at 5:45pm, a tourist flagged down two traffic police officers who were patrolling the area, telling them a woman was in danger of drowning. The officers swam in to rescue her and bring her to shore […]

Former Portugal international Luis Figo has been appointed as a football advisor by UEFA, European football’d governing body said on Wednesday. Figo joins fellow former professionals Nadine Kessler and Dejan Stankovic who were appointed advisors earlier this year and will work with UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin and the Football Division. The team will deal with […]

Three years ago Brazil were hammered 7-1 by Germany in the semi-finals of their home World Cup but after their latest win coach Tite said they were back to playing like Brazil again and almost ready for a crack at claiming a record sixth World Cup. “I would like to give more players a chance […]

The organisers of the European Capital of Culture Pafos2017 will help make the world an even smaller place as of Sunday when it will present the photography exhibition Homo Urbanus Europeanus by French photographer Jean-Marc Caracci. Caracci, who has been a photographer since the age of 15, has travelled to 37 European capitals and, through […]

Cobalt Air flights from Paphos to Moscow this month went on sale on Wednesday, the airline announced. Set to begin on October 29, the flights will take place every Thursday and Sunday, departing from Paphos at 9:10am and arriving at Sheremetyevo airport at 2:25pm. Departure from Sheremetyevo airport is scheduled for 3:25pm to arrive to […]

US President Donald Trump has “lit the wick of war” with North Korea, Russia’s Tass news agency quoted North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho as saying on Wednesday. “With his bellicose and insane statement at the United Nations, Trump, you can say, has lit the wick of a war against us,” Tass quoted Ri […]

Illegal immigrants who survived a fire that killed about 80 people in a social housing block in London will be given a clear path to obtaining permanent residency in Britain, the government said on Wednesday. The 24-storey Grenfell Tower, which was home to many immigrants and people from ethnic minorities, was gutted on June 14 […]

The possibility of a World Cup without Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi turned out to be a false alarm, yet next year’s tournament will still have a major absentee after the United States’ extraordinary failure to qualify. Panama, meanwhile, showed it is perfectly possible for small nations to qualify without expanding the finals to 48 […]

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan received a rapturous welcome on Wednesday during a visit to the Serbian town of Novi Pazar, capital of the Muslim majority Sandzak region that has seen mass emigration to Turkey since the violent breakup of Yugoslavia. Erdogan, on a two-day visit to Serbia, hopes to boost Turkey’s economic and cultural influence […]

Three men blew themselves up near the police headquarters in central Damascus on Wednesday, the second such attack to hit the Syrian capital this month, state media said. The blasts killed two people and injured six others, it said, citing the Interior Ministry. Two suicide bombers tried to storm the police command centre and clashed […]

  There was outrage on Wednesday over parliament’s failure to amend abortion legislation after police in Nicosia detained a woman who had an abortion and the doctor at a private clinic who carried out the procedure. The two appeared before a court on Tuesday which remanded them in custody for five days. She had been […]

  Akel-backed presidential candidate Stavros Malas on Wednesday accused President Nicos Anastasiades of failing to seize the opportunity for a solution in Crans-Montana, where crucial Cyprus talks collapsed in July. In an address to his campaign staff attended by media, Malas, asked what he would have done at the dinner in Crans-Montana, said: “I would […]

The association of former Laiki’s depositors (Sykala) will announce which candidate they intend to support in the presidential elections on November 18, after requesting a meeting with all runners up, they said on Wednesday. In a press conference they branded President Nicos Anastasiades and his government as unreliable, dishonest and lacking the political will to […]

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen has said it is possible to improve the lives of French citizens without leaving the single European currency, in a marked shift from the anti-EU stance she pushed during her failed presidential bid. Le Pen’s National Front party has been in turmoil since her heavy defeat to Emmanuel Macron in […]

  Humanitarian Affairs Commissioner Photis Photiou met with the head of Unficyp’s civilian affairs department on Wednesday, the second time this month that only medicines were delivered to Greek Cypriots and Maronites living in the north after the Turkish Cypriot side slapped a tariff on food aid. Photiou asked the UN official during their meeting […]

The need to update legislation regulating the use of drones was discussed by the House legal committee on Wednesday. In statements after the end of the session, Disy MP Andreas Kyprianou said that no one should violate anyone’s private life using modern technologies and raised the issue of national security at a time when a […]

Aristo Developers, standing firmly in the forefront as the preferred choice of foreign buyers looking to invest in the real estate sector in Cyprus, has expanded its participation in international property exhibitions throughout September 2017.   Notably, the company has boasted dynamic participation in more than 10 exhibitions held in Vietnam, Indonesia, Russia, Kuwait, Dubai, […]

Wednesday’s session of the House environment committee, scheduled for 11am, was postponed after chairman Adamos Adamou found only three of ten members had shown up. Adamou said he invited House Speaker Demetris Syllouris to the room where the session was supposed to take place, so that he could witness the image of a near-empty meeting […]

The New Yorker reported that 13 women have claimed that movie producer Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed or assaulted them, including three who told the magazine they had been raped. Weinstein’s spokeswoman Sallie Hofmeister was quoted in the article saying, “Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr. Weinstein.” Weinstein and the women for […]