Новости за 02.12.2017

Next week the European Capital of Culture Pafos2017 will present a three-day screening of award-winning films by Cypriot directors at the Markideio Theatre. The event will begin on Wednesday with a screening of Boy on the Bridge by director Petros Charalambous at 7pm, followed by The Joy and Sorrow of the Body directed by Andreas […]

Two goals from Eden Hazard and one by Alvaro Morata earned Chelsea a workmanlike 3-1 Premier League victory over Newcastle United on Saturday. Dwight Gayle gave Rafa Benitez’s Newcastle side a surprise lead, rattling his shot home in the 12th minute after Chelsea keeper Thibaut Courtois had dived at the feet of the advancing Jacob […]

The leaked emails of state attorney Eleni Loizidou, de facto second in command at the state Legal Service, have put Cyprus in the difficult position of having to defend itself against the appearance of doing Moscow’s bidding, President Nicos Anastasiades has said. In an interview to TV station Alpha, Anastasiades said the affair could cause […]

Courts in the United States cannot put Turkey on trial, the country’s President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday, in reference to the case of a Turkish bank executive who has been charged with evading U.S. sanctions on Iran. Already strained ties between NATO allies Ankara and Washington have deteriorated in recent weeks as Turkish-Iranian gold […]

Zimbabwe’s new president Emmerson Mnangagwa dropped his education minister, a day after reappointing him to a cabinet which gave top posts to senior military officials in what was widely seen as a reward for the army’s role in the removal of his predecessor, Robert Mugabe. Mnangagwa made other changes to the cabinet that his chief […]

French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday called on Iraq to dismantle all militias, including the government sanctioned Iran-backed Popular Mobilisation Forces. “It is essential that there is a gradual demilitarisation, in particular of the Popular Mobilisation that established itself in the last few years in Iraq, and that all militias be gradually dismantled,” he told […]

Pope Francis ended a diplomatically tricky trip to Asia on Saturday, seeking the forgiveness of Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh after his controversial decision to not directly refer to their plight when he visited their homeland, Myanmar. On the last day of his three-day visit to Bangladesh, which came after meetings in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, the […]

Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Saturday he was ready for a “new page” in relations with the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen if it stopped attacks on his country. The call came as his supporters battled Houthi fighters for a fourth day in the capital Sanaa as the two sides traded blame […]

Visual artist Pashias will draw inspiration from the George and Nefeli Gibra Pierides archaeological collection to present an exhibition and performance next week at the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation in Nicosia. Both the exhibition and the live performance, under the name Temple-boy, will bring the human body forward as a basic material for creation. […]

An first-half try to Boyd Cordner and desperate defence helped Australia win their 11th rugby league World Cup title with a 6-0 victory over England in a bruising final at Lang Park in Brisbane on Saturday. Both sides smashed each other into exhaustion with punishing defence and a fast-paced game with Australia centre Josh Dugan […]

Israeli missiles struck a military position near Damascus and Syria’s air defence system responded on Saturday, destroying two of them, Syrian state television said. “The Israeli enemy launched…several surface-to-surface missiles towards a military position,” it said, adding there had been “material losses at the site. An Israeli military spokeswoman had declined to comment on earlier […]

Where do you live? I live on the side of a mountain in Polemi, Paphos with my two huskies, Dolce and Lulu. Best childhood memory? Moving to Australia at age 9, and experiencing an entirely different lifestyle. We lived in a migrant hostel for 11 months, 23 days and 8 hours, not that I was […]

A 38-year-old man from Limassol was arrested at Larnaca airport on Friday night for the illegal possession of almost €100,000 in cash, a police report said. According to the report, the Greek Cypriot man arrived at Larnaca airport at around 8pm on Friday to catch a flight to Amsterdam. During customs inspection, officers discovered the […]

A 51-year-old Larnaca woman was arrested for possession of cannabis on Friday afternoon, a police report said. According to the report, around 5:40pm Friday, the drug squad cut off a vehicle driven by the 51-year-old for a check. She was found in possession of a plastic bag containing 29 grams of cannabis and a pair […]

A fire in a lorry caused the closure of the Limassol-to-Nicosia motorway near Kofinou on Saturday morning for about half an hour, a police report said. According to the report, the fire broke out shortly after 8am and was promptly responded to by police and the fire service. Until the fire was safely put out, […]

By Sujata Rao and Ebru Tunca Turkey’s deteriorating finances are hurting the country’s banks whose reliance on dollar funding makes them vulnerable to the worst-case scenario: a sudden halt or reversal of foreign investment flows. International investors are growing nervous about Turkey for a variety of reasons. But US legal action against a number of […]

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Committee (Cysec) has fined ten former Bank of Cyprus directors, executives and the lender itself for failing to adequately report provisions for loan impairments in 2011. The financial market’s watchdog decision, announced on Friday, “is based on the findings of Cysec’s long-term investigation into the company’s activities preceding the financial […]

The U.S. Senate approved a sweeping tax overhaul on Saturday, moving Republicans and President Donald Trump a major step closer to their goal of slashing taxes for businesses and the rich while offering everyday Americans a mixed bag of changes. In what would be the largest U.S. tax overhaul since the 1980s, Republicans want to […]

The U.S. Senate approved a sweeping tax overhaul on Saturday, moving Republicans and President Donald Trump a major step closer to their goal of slashing taxes for businesses and the rich while offering everyday Americans a mixed bag of changes. In what would be the largest U.S. tax overhaul since the 1980s, Republicans want to […]

Three exhibitions are set to open next week that flirt with our imagination and inspire us to see the world through different eyes. The first exhibition of the week is the solo exhibition Skin or Gold by Con-stantinos Ptochopoulos at Opus 39 Gallery in Nicosia starting on Monday. Within this exhibition, Ptochopoulos narrates stories of […]

Jose Mourinho is a big fan of Mesut Ozil but the Manchester United manager will undoubtedly be hoping Arsenal’s on-form German has one of his off days at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday (7.30pm). The trip to what has become a fortress for Arsenal pits Mourinho against old adversary Arsene Wenger with anything less than […]

The second half of the regular season in the Cyprus football championship starts this weekend with a number of exciting games, even though the most important one – between leaders AEK and Omonia – for some inexplicable reason will take place on Monday evening. Second-placed Anorthosis have drawn three of their last five games but […]

State health services announced on Friday the launch next week of an information campaign against oral cancer as prevention they and early detection can reduce new cases or improve survival rates by 80per cent. According to the latest data from the World Health Organisation, the health ministry said, more than 73,000 new cases of oral, […]

The government is preparing a bill to regulate media operations and tackle the spread of fake news, said government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides earlier this week. “The bill aims at shaping the framework concerning other relevant issues such as journalistic ethics, freedom of the press, news agencies and correspondents of foreign media,” he said, explaining that […]

The government is preparing a bill to regulate media operations and tackle the spread of fake news, said government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides earlier this week. “The bill aims at shaping the framework concerning other relevant issues such as journalistic ethics, freedom of the press, news agencies and correspondents of foreign media,” he said, explaining that […]