Новости за 30.10.2017

A British resident of Avgorou, Famagusta, aged 77 died on Monday evening after the moped he was driving was hit by a car. According to police, the moped was hit by a car driven by a 47-year-old man on Karyon street in Avgorou, at around 6.45pm. The driver, who was trying to make a right […]

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Monday that there are “significant” indications that Turkey might be willing, in principle, to discuss the external aspects of the Cyprus problem before the resumption of a new round of peace talks for a Cyprus settlement. Speaking after a meeting at the presidential palace on the missing persons, Anastasiades said […]

By Stelios Orphanides and Evie Andreou With elections approaching, lawmakers, in a rare show of solidarity, appeared on Monday to be leaning towards the idea of setting up a fund to compensate depositors and investors who lost money in the 2013 banking crisis, and agreed to discuss it behind closed doors at the House finance […]

Georgian artist Natia Chkheidze will showcase her paintings at Apothikes in Larnaca as of Friday. The painter finished her studies at the Tbilisi Academy of Arts in 2004 and continued her studies in the faculty of Architecture and Interior Design. Her professional career began in December 216 when she had her first solo exhibition at […]

Professional fishermen closed Larnaca port for two hours on Monday morning, protesting against the government’s decision to issue a permit for bottom trawling. Around 400 professional fishermen, 50 of them from Paphos, gathered from 9am outside the port in Larnaca, arguing that bottom trawlers and their gear clear the seabed and cause great damage to […]

By Angelos Anastasiou Finance Minister Harris Georgiades has failed to safeguard the interests of the Republic of Cyprus in connection with the interstate agreement between Cyprus and Greece over betting giant Opap, Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides said in a letter to President Nicos Anastasiades, released on Monday. In the letter, dated October 25, Michaelides told the […]

The House interior committee decided on Monday to reduce Nicosia and Paphos sewerage fees for 2017 by 30 per cent and 15 per cent respectively after households received higher bills this year based on updated property values. According to the head of the committee, Eleni Mavrou, the reduction, which was a suggestion by ruling Disy, […]

The exhibition Reformation 500 at the Kasteliotissa Medieval Hall in Nicosia on Tuesday will display various copies of the Bible and Bible manuscripts on loan from the Bible society in celebration of 500 years of Reformation history. Reformation, or Protestant Reformation, is said to have started in 1517 with the publication of the Ninety-Five Theses […]

A new clause regarding procedures on police line-ups has been studied and a draft has been sent to the legal service, police spokesman Andreas Angelides announced on Monday. Police said they were reviewing procedures after MPs expressed outrage over an underage victim of sexual abuse being made to physically go through a police line-up of […]

Atletico Madrid, within inches of Champions League glory twice in the last four years, are in danger of an embarrassing early exit from the competition unless they can rediscover their scoring touch. Diego Simeone’s side have only netted five times in their last seven games in all competitions, of which they have only won one, […]

Disy chairman Averof Neofytou said that his party is planning to submit a proposal to set up a fund to compensate depositors and investors who lost money in the 2013 banking crisis. Neofytou, who was commenting on state radio CyBC on Monday, hours before a scheduled meeting of the finance committee of the parliament, said […]

Spain’s direct rule over Catalonia took hold smoothly on Monday as employees ignored calls for civil disobedience to turn up for work, and secessionist parties agreed to stand in new elections, implying acceptance that the regional government was dissolved. Ousted Catalan President Carles Puigdemont travelled to Belgium with several other members of his sacked administration, a senior […]

President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday angrily dismissed any connection with a planned construction of a luxury resort in Pera Pedi in Troodos, part of which will sit on land he reported in his capital statement last May as having inherited from his mother. According to local daily Haravgi, the development, for which Parnitha Developments Ltd […]

Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane could return from a hamstring injury in Wednesday’s Champions League match against holders Real Madrid at Wembley, the Premier League club’s manager Mauricio Pochettino has said. England international Kane, Tottenham’s leading goalscorer with 13 goals in 12 appearances across all competitions, missed last Wednesday’s League Cup defeat by West Ham […]

The government sold at an auction on Monday a total of €100m in 13-weeks treasury bills at an average yield of minus 0.07 per cent, the Public Debt Management Office (PDMO) said. Total subscriptions reached €267m, the PDMO said in an emailed statement. On October 2, the PDMO sold the same amount of this type […]

Paul Manafort, a former campaign manager for US President Donald Trump, and an associate were indicted by a federal grand jury on 12 counts including conspiracy against the United States and money laundering, the federal special counsel’s office said on Monday. The charges were the first arising from the investigation by Justice Department special counsel […]

Paul Manafort, a former campaign manager for US President Donald Trump, surrendered to federal authorities on Monday in the first charges stemming from a special counsel investigation of possible Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election, according to media reports. Manafort arrived at the Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington field office, television video showed. He […]

The festive note was penned by the late Beatles legend – who was shot dead in Manhattan, New York, in December 1980, aged 40 – in 1968 for his wife Yoko Ono’s ex, music producer Tony Cox, and the former couple’s daughter, Kyoko Cox. The card, which is being sold on MomentsInTime.com, is believed to be referring to Yoko […]

Kevin Spacey apologised on Sunday to fellow actor Anthony Rapp for a 1986 incident in which Rapp said Spacey made a sexual advance to him when Rapp was only 14. Spacey said in a post on Twitter he was horrified to hear Rapp’s story of the encounter, which he said he did not remember. He wrote […]

Iran is fulfilling its commitments under the nuclear deal with world powers and UN inspectors are facing no problems in their verification efforts, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director-general said on Monday. US President Donald Trump said earlier this month that he would not continue to certify the multinational 2015 agreement, reached under his predecessor […]

Prime Minister Theresa May has ordered an investigation into a report that one of her ministers asked a female secretary to buy sex toys for him, as she tries to tackle a culture of sexual harassment in politics. Mark Garnier, a junior international trade minister, asked secretary Caroline Edmondson to buy two sex toys and […]

THEO PANAYIDES meets a politician who is full of self-belief and quiet persistence who has contributed much to cancer care on the island, not least because she has battled it three times herself Does experience make the person, or the person make the experience? Is it true to say that Stella Kyriakidou has been dealt […]

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has asked club fans to support striker Romelu Lukaku, saying the Belgium international has been subjected to unfair criticism. After scoring seven goals in as many league games, Lukaku has not scored in the following three matches and his fading goalscoring exploits along with his underwhelming record in big games […]

Real Madrid’s first ever trip to Wembley to face Tottenham Hotspur in the Champions League on Wednesday will come as a welcome distraction to the European and Liga holders in the midst of their worst domestic run of results in five years. Sunday’s shock 2-1 defeat to Liga newcomers Girona saw them fall eight points […]

Speaker of the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) Yuli-Yoel Edelstein arrives in Cyprus on Wednesday for a one-day official visit, at the invitation of House president Demetris Syllouris. Edelstein will remain in Cyprus to take part in the 2nd Tripartite Meeting of the Presidents of Parliament of Cyprus, Greece, and Israel on Thursday. According to a PIO […]