Новости за 04.12.2017

Liverpool will welcome Merseyside rivals Everton in the FA Cup third round while holders Arsenal face a trip to second-tier Nottingham Forest following Monday’s draw. Premier League leaders Manchester City are at home to Burnley, 12-times winners Manchester United host second-tier Derby County while Chelsea are away at Norwich City. Brighton & Hove Albion were […]

Residents of the Amathus area staged a protest outside parliament on Monday demanding compensation for their land which has been expropriated as it lies within an archaeological site. The protest was held while inside the House interior affairs committee was discussing the issue. Speaking to reporters later, the head of the property owners group Takis […]

By Bejay Browne Nominees from all over the island, for the tenth annual Hearts of Gold awards have been announced. Tens of nominations of deserving children and adults were made by members of the public, and a panel of 14 judges, all philanthropists, are now voting in each of the four categories, awarding a winner […]

A 39-year-old was jailed for a month in Nicosia on Monday after he was caught speeding earlier this year. He was found guilty of speeding and reckless and dangerous driving. The man was caught doing 207 kilometres per hour on the Nicosia to Troodos motorway where the speed limit is 100 kilometres per hour.

A drop in temperatures and snow are on the cards for the next couple of days, as a cold front moves in the met office said. Isolated showers are expected on Tuesday, mainly on the west and north coast, as northwest winds gradually pick up force through the day. Temperatures are expected to reach 19 […]

AEK hammered Omonia 5-0 on Monday night to go top of the table, as the second half of the regular season kicked-off in the Cyprus football championship. The Larnaca club re-established their two point lead in the standings after second-placed Anorthosis beat Nea Salamina 1-0 on Sunday. The Famagusta club left it late as Joao […]

By Angelos Anastasiou CYPRUS is seeing “unfathomable” levels of corruption and graft, despite the blows it has been dealt recently, both Attorney-general Costas Clerides and Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides said at an event on combating corruption on Monday. The event, organised by the justice ministry and the University of Nicosia, featured speeches by Justice Minister Ionas […]

Defence Minister Christoforos Fokaides met on Monday with German State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Defence Marcus Grubel at the Andreas Papandreou military airbase in Paphos. Speaking after the meeting, Fokaides said that Cyprus has recently upgraded its bilateral relations with Germany and had signed an agreement for the exchange of services, while various cooperation programmes […]

Eurozone finance ministers on Monday chose as their next chairman Portugal’s Mario Centeno, once dubbed the “Ronaldo of EU finance ministers” by Germany’s Wolfgang Schaeuble in a nod to his soccer superstar compatriot. Centeno, 50, will succeed Dutchman Jeroen Dijsselbloem on Jan. 13, chairing monthly meetings of the Eurogroup, which comprises the 19 finance ministers […]

Facebook Inc on Monday rolled out Messenger Kids, an app that lets the world’s biggest social media company expand into a so-far untapped market of kids under 13 while also giving parents complete control over what their children see. Facebook normally requires users to be at least 13 years old. The new app gives it […]

Paphos bus drivers will start an indefinite strike on Tuesday in protest over delays in receiving their salaries, a frequent occurrence since the economic crash, which led to cuts in government subsidies to overpaid transport companies. The decision was made on Monday after negotiations between the company, Osypa, and the transport ministry fell through. The […]

  In 2016, households in the European Union (EU) spent 1.6 per cent of their total consumption expenditure on alcoholic beverages. In Cyprus it was 2 per cent, up 0.4 per cent on the bloc’s average in ten years, and the biggest rise in the EU along with the Czech Republic. This represents a total expenditure of […]

The Cyprus Symphony Orchestra will perform a series of concerts under the name Jazz and Dance Meet Mozart in Limassol, Nicosia and Larnaca over the week. Under the baton of Jens Georg Bachmann, the orchestra will start off with the boisterous Hoe Down from American composer Aaron Copland’s ballet Rodeo (1942). Up next the orchestra […]

Concerted efforts are underway in Paphos to offer support to the LGBT community and include monthly Rainbow meetings, which are proving successful. Free, rapid HIV testing will is being offered in Paphos as part of a Cyprus wide initiative to mark World Aids Day. Co-ordinated by Paphos resident, equal rights activist, South African Cypriot, Zac […]

The leader of Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) said on Monday he would launch talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives on forming a government next week if members of his centre-left party gave him the green light at a congress this weekend. The remarks by Martin Schulz raise hopes that the two parties that suffered losses […]

The state-owned Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) is requesting an additional €45 million for this year, mostly to cover the higher-than-expected cost of fuel purchases and carbon credits. At the House finance committee on Monday, discussing the power company’s supplementary budget, MPs were told the extra funds are needed because the EAC had previously made […]

By Angelos Anastasiou Russia has made a written request to the authorities of Cyprus to investigate the illegal theft of emails sent and received by senior state counsel Eleni Loizidou, attorney-general Costas Clerides said on Monday. According to the Cyprus News Agency, Clerides confirmed that “in a written request dated December 1, 2017, the office […]

Corsican nationalists on Monday demanded the French government enter into negotiations over greater autonomy for the Mediterranean island after they won almost half the votes in a local election. The nationalists – split between those who seek greater autonomy and those who see full independence from France as the end-game – emerged as Corsica’s main […]

Cyprus, Israel, Greece and Italy are expected on Tuesday to sign a memorandum of understanding for laying an underwater gas pipeline from the Eastern Mediterranean region to Italy which will allow the transportation of Israeli and Cypriot gas reserves to mainland Europe. The quadrilateral meeting in Nicosia where the world’s longest underwater pipeline will be […]

Tottenham Hotspur’s New Year’s Eve fixture against London rivals West Ham United has been moved to Jan. 4 due to safety concerns, the Premier League said on Monday. The league made the decision after the Safety Advisory Group at Wembley Stadium could only recommend a maximum crowd of 43,000 for the initial date, which was […]

Chelsea manager Antonio Conte has warned that playmaker Eden Hazard is yet to hit his peak at the Premier League club and backed the Belgian to become one of the best players in the world. Hazard has been instrumental in Chelsea’s success since joining the club in 2012, scoring twice in Chelsea’s 3-1 league win […]

The number of property transactions rose an annual 39 per cent in November to 906, the highest figure this year, the Department of Lands and Surveys said. The increase last month was mainly on an annual 98 per cent increase in the number of properties changing owners in Nicosia to 170, the department said in […]

A 19-year-old man who stabbed his father last Wednesday and was arrested on Sunday will be prosecuted it was decided on Monday. According to preliminary investigations, the 19-year-old son quarreled with his father, 48, who has mobility issues and uses a wheelchair, at the family’s home in Emba, Paphos. During the fight the young man […]

The Nicosia District Court gave Hermitage Capital co-founder Bill Browder and his associate Ivan Cherkasov a deadline until December 22 to file a request for permission to submit a supplementary affidavit, lawyers said. Browder and Cherkasov resorted to a Cypriot court requesting that authorities ditch cooperation with Russia in a probe initiated by Russian authorities […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May failed to strike a Brexit divorce deal with EU negotiators in Brussels on Monday despite earlier reports of a breakthrough agreement that would have kept British-ruled Northern Ireland aligned with EU regulations. Both sides said they should unlock talks on future trade relations in the coming days. “We will reconvene before the […]