Новости за 15.11.2017

Cyprus is ready to offer any humanitarian help to Greece following the deadly floods which hit the country, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday. In a Twitter post, Anastasiades said he spoke with Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to whom he expressed his condolences for the dead – which have so far been put at […]

Over 75 private vets across Cyprus are taking part in the government’s stray cat and dog neutering programme, the Animal Party said on Wednesday. In a statement hailing the programme which Cabinet approved in August this year, with a €75,000 budget, the party said already municipalities, local authorities and NGOs were on board and participating […]

Municipalities will be able to apply for a loan up to €200m from the European Investment Bank (EIB), which will be paid off by the state, following a Cabinet decision, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday. Speaking during the 34th Union of Municipalities general assembly, Anastasiades said consultations had been concluded with the EIB in […]

Italy coach Gian Piero Ventura was sacked on Wednesday as he paid the almost inevitable price for their failure to qualify for the World Cup for the first time in 60 years. The Italian federation (FIGC) initially issued a statement saying that Ventura was “no longer” the coach without clarifying whether he had been sacked […]

Veteran coach Gian Piero Ventura is no longer in charge of Italy’s national team, the Italian football federation (FIGC) said on Wednesday, two days after the side failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup. It was not clear from the FIGC’s statement if Ventura had been sacked or had resigned, but the president of […]

Fake designer goods worth around €25,000 were seized by the customs office on Wednesday after a raid on five stores and one warehouse in Paphos. A total of 4,151 items were confiscated including clothes, handbags, purses, hats, belts, headphones and sunglasses. In a statement, the customs office said they were continuing investigations.  

With the new year just around the corner it might be time to start thinking about what we didn’t make time for in 2017 and what we want to make sure we have time for in 2018. When it comes to New Year’s resolutions for a large number of us, connecting more with ourselves and having […]

A golden laurel leaf cut from the crown of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte will be auctioned near Paris on Sunday. The small 10-gram decoration – worth less than $500 if melted down for its metal – is expected to reach around 300 times that, auctioneer Jean-Pierre Osenat said. Its value “certainly isn’t based on the […]

A 36-year-old man from Limassol was arrested on Wednesday after he stole handbags from women in a hairdressing salon. CCTV footage from the premises on Griva Digenis street, showed a man wearing jeans and a short sleeve T-shirt walk into the hairdresser on Tuesday and run away a minute later headed west clutching the handbags. […]

State owned telecommunications authority (Cyta) was fined on Wednesday €10,000 for violating personal data, after an employee gave confidential data of over 200 customers to a retired police officer. The fine was handed down by the commissioner for personal data protection, Irini Loizidou. The case concerns a 43-year-old Cyta employee who used to work at […]

The House legal committee on Wednesday discussed a bill which will allow prisoners to seek parole earlier than they currently do, in a bid to improve inmates’ behaviour while in jail. The proposal, submitted by committee chairman George Georgiou will allow prisoners to seek parole six months before half their sentence has been served. As […]

Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov outclassed Belgium’s David Goffin 6-0 6-2 to race into the semi-finals of the ATP Finals on Wednesday. The world number six looked supreme as he made it two wins from two matches on his tournament debut. At one stage, a whitewash looked a distinct possibility as he led 6-0 3-0 and 0-30 […]

Foreign minister Boris Johnson said Britain would appeal to Iran on humanitarian grounds to free a jailed aid worker but expressed reservations that granting her diplomatic protection would help secure her release, her husband said on Wednesday. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was sentenced to five years in prison after […]

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp went to hospital after feeling unwell and missed Wednesday’s training session, the Premier League club said. “Jurgen Klopp has attended a hospital appointment today as a precautionary measure, after feeling ill,” the club said in a statement. “He is being assessed by doctors and will be absent from training on Wednesday […]

Diego Maradona criticised the faltering Argentina team on Wednesday and appealed for another chance at managing the national side. A day after they lost 4-2 to Nigeria in a friendly in Russia, Maradona, who last managed Argentina at the 2010 World Cup, hit out the current set up in a short Instagram message. “I am […]

The energy ministry is trying to save money on the backs of the seriously disabled with proposed changes to discounts on electricity bills, the national paraplegics association (Opak) charged on Wednesday. According to Opak, though people with serious disabilities such as people in wheelchairs, paraplegics and quadriplegics, are entitled to a discount, the ministry is […]

Switzerland will stop seizing income from some would-be asylum seekers to help pay for their upkeep, the government said on Wednesday, scrapping a rule that has drawn scrutiny by human rights groups. The government now imposes a special fee confiscating 10 per cent of income earned for up to a decade by foreigners provisionally admitted […]

  Government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides insisted on Wednesday that there could be no new solution framework for a settlement to the Cyprus problem. He was responding to statements by Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci calling for a fresh approach in settlement talks to avoid reaching Crans-Montana-type deadlocks. Christodoulides reiterated the government’s position that there could […]

The island’s competition watchdog (CPC) announced Wednesday it has fined fuel companies close to €21m for colluding with their petrol stations in setting the price of petrol and diesel. The CPC said it has fined Petrolina Holdings, Lukoil, ExxonMobil, and Greek Petroleum €20.7m after it found they had been engaging in price fixing, each company […]

Governments should put a price on carbon emissions to help combat global warming and stop making bad bets on fossil fuels, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday at talks on a climate pact weakened by a US pullout. Guterres told almost 200 nations in Bonn, where they are working on details of the 2015 […]

Cabinet on Wednesday approved a state prosecutor tasked to investigate disciplinary offences over the exam debacle last week which saw material for five exams for government teacher appointments posted online shortly before the examination. Education Minister Costas Kadis, had said an internal probe found the blunder was due to impulsive actions by one official and […]

Home prices rose for the sixth consecutive quarter in April to June after reaching their lowest point in the fourth quarter of 2015 accompanied by a recovery of commercial real estate prices pushing rents upwards, the Cyprus branch of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) said. Flat and house prices rose in the second […]

Cyprus has submitted a letter to the United Nations protesting against the continuing infringements of international air traffic regulations and violations of the Republic’s airspace and territorial waters by Turkey. In the letter, dated 31 October but circulated on Tuesday, the island’s permanent representative to the UN, Kornelios Korneliou, attached two documents detailing the infringements […]

An emerald and diamond necklace set with the largest flawless white diamond ever to come to auction has sold for a world record 33.5 million Swiss francs ($34 million), the star lot at a Geneva sale, Christie’s said. The necklace, known as the Art of de GRISOGONO, Creation 1, has a rectangular diamond weighing 163.41 […]

The round-the-clock camera surveillance of lawyer Panayiotis Neocleous, who is being held at the Eoka rehabilitation centre in Limassol after being jailed for bribing the former deputy attorney-general, is in violation of his human rights and privacy, Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou Lottides has said. Neocleous, who was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison last March over the […]