Новости за 13.10.2017

US President Donald Trump struck a blow against the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement on Friday in defiance of other world powers, choosing not to certify that Tehran is complying with the deal and warning he might ultimately terminate it. Trump announced the major shift in US policy in a speech in which he detailed a […]

Two brothers, both National Guards non-commissioned officers, aged 44 and 40, were referred on Friday for trial to the Criminal Court for their alleged involvement in a ring hired to place explosive devices to destroy property in Limassol. The trial is set to begin on December 18. The 44-year-old was remanded in custody for eight […]

The House plenum rejected on Friday, with 25 votes against and 23 for, the regulations providing for personalised car licence plates. The bill, discussed by the House transport committee, was to allow car owners to acquire personalised licence plates through auction. The owner of such a plate was to be allowed to use it on […]

The Pharos Arts Foundation will present the solo exhibition Globalised by Vahagn Hamalbashyan as on Wednesday in Nicosia. Hamalbashyan is inspired by things that weigh on his mind, whether it’s his diabetic grandmother or international affairs. He considers himself as much a citizen of the world as of Armenia, and that his art gives him […]

EU governments wrangled on Friday over a goodwill gesture to Theresa May that some hope might break deadlock in Brexit talks but others fear may let Britain dodge demands for tens of billions of euros. The British prime minister indicated she too might make a move at next week’s Brussels summit. A spokeswoman said “there […]

The doctor who was arrested earlier in the week for performing an abortion was released on Thursday, while authorities said they are waiting for the opinion of the attorney-general on whether to file the case in court. The doctor and the woman who had the abortion were arrested on Monday after her partner, who didn’t […]

Four out of five players playing in the Cyprus football league this year were foreigners, a 15-per-cent spike on the previous year’s numbers, the association of Cypriot footballers (Pasp) said on Friday, citing data released by the Football Observatory of the International Centre of Sports Studies (CIES). According to Pasp, the figures show that the […]

Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said on Friday he does not know when Gareth Bale will return from his latest calf problem as he faced repeated questions about the Wales international’s future at the European champions. Bale sustained the injury towards the end Real’s 3-1 win at Borussia Dortmund on Sept. 26 in which he […]

An 86-year-old man – Socratis Parmaxis – died on Friday afternoon after being hit by a car driven by another octogenarian in Limassol. According to the Limassol police, Parmaxis was hit by a car driven by an 83-year-old man at around 2pm while crossing Nikos Pattichis avenue. Parmaxis died soon after the accident, Limassol traffic […]

The two largest parties in the north – the ruling National Unity Party (UDP) and the main opposition Republican Turkish Party (CTP) – have reached consensus on the proposed date for early elections, it emerged on Friday. Although no parliamentary decision has formally been made yet, UDP leader Huseyin Ozgurgun consented to a proposal by […]

Border controls inside what should normally be Europe’s cherished zone of free travel are here to stay for now, EU ministers said on Friday, citing continued terrorist threats and the need to control migration. Germany, France, Austria, Sweden, Denmark and Norway told their Schengen zone peers they will extend until mid-May internal frontier checks first […]

It was a difficult international break for Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe after three players returned to the club with injuries ahead of Saturday’s Premier League trip to Wembley to take on Tottenham Hotspur. Australian defender Brad Smith is sidelined with a hip problem and will miss the match, while both midfielder Ryan Fraser and forward […]

Presidential candidate Giorgos Lillikas was fined €500 by personal data protection commissioner Irene Loizidou-Nikoloaidou for making unsolicited phone calls and sending an SMS with political content, it was announced on Friday. The fine was imposed after a man reported he received a phone call from a telephone operator in Larnaca inviting him to meet Lillikas […]

Europe launched the sixth of its Sentinel Earth observation satellites on Friday as part of the multi-billion-euro Copernicus programme to monitor volcanic ash and ultraviolet radiation. The Sentinel-5P satellite, part of a system of satellites that is to monitor Earth, blasted off on board a Rockot launcher from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Russia’s north-western Arkhangelsk […]

The state-owned Cyprus Cooperative Bank said Takis Taoushanis stepped down as board chairman and that it had appointed George Hadjinicola as his successor. The unanimous decision to appoint Hadjinicola was taken at an extraordinary general meeting, the second largest Cypriot lender said in a statement on its website on Friday. The new chairman was appointed […]

The House plenum on Friday approved a motion by the Green party for a resolution stipulating that any solution to the Cyprus problem should not include foreign guarantees, troops or intervention rights in any form. The resolution also demands total withdrawal of Turkish troops from the island with a view to full demilitarisation. Of 45 […]

The number of government-employed workers rose in September rose 5.3 per cent to 50,451 compared to the respective month of 2016, the statistical service said. The increase was mainly on an increase in new hires of professional soldiers at the army whose number more than doubled to 4,711 last month compared to a year before, […]

A police officer working at the Ledra Palace checkpoint is facing a criminal prosecution for allegedly beating a Turkish man who was crossing to government controlled areas from the north, it emerged on Friday. According to daily Phileleftheros, the incident took place on August 31. The 58-year-old man from Turkey, currently living in Famagusta with […]

Four-year-old Marie-Eleni Grimsrud, who was kidnapped by her Norwegian father last April outside her kindergarten in Nicosia, returned to Cyprus on Friday with her dedicated Facebook page ‘Help us bring her home’ updated with what should be the final chapter of the affair. “Marie is now in her room, in the arms of grandma and […]

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola was named Premier League manager of the month for September on Friday after guiding the club to four wins from four games. City, who top the table on 19 points and are ahead of local rivals Manchester United on goal difference after seven games, began the month with a 5-0 […]

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker was only joking when he said the English language was on the way out in Europe due to Brexit, he said on Friday. “Slowly but surely English is losing importance in Europe,” Juncker told a conference in Florence in May, speaking in English before then switching to French and drawing […]

Russian ambassador to Nicosia Stanislav Osadchiy said that Cyprus’s relations to Russia, one of its major commercial partners, suffered after Hermitage Capital founder Bill Browder resorted to Cypriot Justice, the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) reported on Friday. “Browder applied to your court and we believe that days before President (Nicos) Anastasiades’s visit (to Russia) this […]

The Opus 39 gallery in Nicosia will showcase the latest painting exhibition by Thalia Pontiki under the name Cosmos from Monday. Founder of an art school in Nicosia under her own name, Pontiki has had the chance to support and inspire her students to “reach their maximum potential enabling them to see the true and […]

Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont came under pressure from one of his key allies on Friday to declare full independence and ignore a threat of direct rule from the Spanish government. Puigdemont made a symbolic declaration of independence on Tuesday night, only to suspend it seconds later and called for negotiations with Madrid. Spain’s Prime Minister […]

Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos on Friday insisted on his allegation that a football club paid off the other with €65,000 to throw the Cyprus football cup final a few years ago, and said many others are aware of the incident. Phedonos first made the claim last Saturday night while appearing as a guest on a […]