Новости за 13.11.2017

  Finance Minister Harris Georgiades urged MPs on Monday to approve a €25m budget for the National Solidarity Fund as a first step towards gradually helping depositors and investors who lost money in the 2013 banking crisis. Speaking to the House finance committee, Georgiades said that the €25m, which will have to come from this […]

Dozens of relatives from three continents lay a brass plaque in the pavement in Frankfurt on Monday, in memory of a Jewish schoolgirl who perished in the Holocaust and whose fate was revealed this year when her pendant was discovered beneath floorboards at the Sobibor death camp. Karolina Cohn may have known the Holocaust diarist Anne Frank: […]

  Τwo marine vessels purchased for the Paphos airport fire station have been sitting idle for the past two years as no one has overseen their delivery or has the expertise to use them, a report on the fire services published by the auditor general on Monday revealed. Outlining a host of issues, the report […]

  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan took swipes at US and Russian interventions in Syria on Monday and said if countries truly believed a military solution was impossible, they should withdraw their troops. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump said in a joint statement on Saturday they would continue to fight against […]

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan expressed concern about US and Russian bases in Syria on Monday and said if countries truly believed a military solution was impossible they should withdraw their troops. On Saturday, Putin and US President Donald Trump said in a joint statement they would continue to fight Islamic State in Syria, but agreed […]

Grigor Dimitrov made a winning start to his maiden ATP Finals when he outlasted Austrian Dominic Thiem 6-3 5-7 7-5 in a gripping afternoon duel at the O2 Arena on Monday. The opening match in the Pete Sampras Group produced a feast of stylish backhands from both players but it was Dimitrov, the first Bulgarian […]

Prison guards wasted fuel by using service vehicles as stationary guard posts for their air-conditioning when they were supposed to be patrolling a prison wing, the auditor-general said in a report published on Monday. The report, published as part of an audit of the prison department, said discrepancies were detected between the fuel consumption and […]

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Monday that the findings of the probe into the blunder that led to last week’s cancellation of exams for candidates for state teaching posts will show whether it was a mistake or intentional. The exams were cancelled after the material for the exams in five subjects was released online before […]

President Nicos Anastasiades has pledged to personally intervene after sheep and goat breeders on Monday asked for the process of registering halloumi cheese as a protected designation of origin (PDO) to be expedited. Agriculture Minister Nicos Kouyialis, who was present at a meeting at the presidential palace on Monday, said the president will get in […]

Police said Monday there were seeking four individuals in connection with attempted murder after a stabbing incident in Limassol earlier this month. The force said it had testimony tying four individuals to the November 2 incident but it only had the identities of two at the moment. The two men are Maninder Singh, 20, and […]

A solo exhibition entitled Free Spirit will showcase artist Mary Papademas as of Thursday at the Collection Gallery in Nicosia. The exhibition of paintings and sculptures will consist of four sections – Transparency, Butterflies, Music, and Free Spirit – that are linked by the same need to overcome space and time, the concept of gravity, […]

France will have more firepower than England had in their goalless draw with Germany last week, Germany coach Joachim Loew said ahead of Tuesday’s international friendly against their neighbours. The world champions are without a home win against the French in 30 years and Loew, whose experimental team drew 0-0 at Wembley against England in […]

From the moment Saad al-Hariri’s plane touched down in Saudi Arabia on Friday Nov 3, he was in for a surprise. There was no line-up of Saudi princes or ministry officials, as would typically greet a prime minister on an official visit to King Salman, senior sources close to Hariri and top Lebanese political and security officials said. His phone […]

A falling tree brought down an electricity pole and damaged two cars and the pergola of a house in Strovolos, Nicosia on Monday. According to fire service spokesman Andreas Kettis the tree, probably because of strong winds, fell on the wooden pergola of a residence in Michalakis Kousoulides street, a road parallel to Athalassa Avenue, […]

Cooperation with the archbishop has been excellent over the past five years, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Monday, as he took part in a luncheon to celebrate Archbishop Chrysostomos’ name day. Arriving at the archbishopric, Anastasiades wished all the best to the church primate and tiptoed around a question on whether he hoped Chrysostomos would […]

By Stelios Orphanides Cypriot policy makers should pay attention to the pay gap between the public and private sector, a labour market distortion and the risk for public finances which Cyprus’s economic adjustment programme has hardly addressed, economists said. While on average, workers in the public sector earn significantly more than those in the private […]

Cyprus was one of 23 EU member states which signed the EU defence pact Pesco on Monday in Brussels. “For the first time, a shield has been created which protects the Republic of Cyprus as a European border from any outside interventions,” said President Nicos Anastasiades, welcoming the development. “It is not an aggressive but […]

Ruling Disy MP Efthimios Diplaros has been forced to issue an apology and admit he was lying after he was sued by the daughters of former president Demetris Christofias for claiming they had taken money out of the country before the seizure of deposits in March 2013. The claim was made during a political chat […]

Catalonia’s deposed president said he might consider a solution to Spain’s political crisis that did not involve the region’s secession, appearing to soften the staunchly pro-independence stance that cost him his leadership last month. In an interview with Belgian daily Le Soir, Carles Puigdemont was asked if a non-secessionist option was on the table to […]

Australia’s Tim Cahill says he is fit to start against Honduras in Wednesday’s decisive World Cup playoff tie in Sydney after being rested in the scoreless first leg due to an ankle injury. Cahill, who scored a double against Syria last month to put Australia into the intercontinental playoff, was an unused substitute on Friday […]

Watching Brazilian striker Ronaldo score a Champions League hat-trick for Real Madrid against Manchester United 14 years ago provided a lasting inspiration for Marcus Rashford, the England forward said on Monday. Speaking before England host Brazil in a friendly at Wembley on Tuesday, Rashford said he was a five-year-old spectator at Old Trafford when Real […]

There is an increased chance of diabetes during pregnancy, and its regulation requires good nutrition and exercise, the Association of Dieticians and Nutritionists of Cyprus warned on Monday. The association announced the guidelines on diabetes on the occasion of World Diabetes Day which is commemorated every year on November 14. This year the theme is […]

Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Monday he was pleased by Saad al-Hariri’s comment that he would return to Lebanon soon to discuss his resignation as prime minister, presidential palace sources said. In separate remarks relayed by visitors to him, Aoun gave a positive assessment of comments Hariri made in an interview on Sunday, his […]

Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Monday he was pleased by Saad al-Hariri’s comment that he would return to Lebanon soon to discuss his resignation as prime minister, presidential palace sources said. In separate remarks relayed by visitors to him, Aoun gave a positive assessment of comments Hariri made in an interview on Sunday, his […]

  A woman on the Tersefanou school board who encouraged an underage girl to flirt with her husband who was consequently found guilty of sexual abuse was not his accomplice, the legal service said on Monday. The announcement followed media reports that the woman has continued to work on the school board maintaining contact with […]