Новости за 04.01.2018

The US Justice Department on Thursday rescinded an Obama administration policy that had eased enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states that legalised the drug, instead giving federal prosecutors wide latitude on pursuing criminal charges. The action by Attorney General Jeff Sessions could have damaging consequences on the burgeoning marijuana industry in the six states including California and Colorado […]

Two Cypriot nationals charged with multiple counts of money laundering in Fiji will be appearing in court there on Friday. Brothers Loizos Petridis and Kleanthis Petridis, were allegedly involved in multiple suspicious ATM transactions last month and are currently being held in police custody. They face a total of 293 counts of money laundering. The […]

A powerful blizzard battered the Northeast on Thursday, knocking out power for tens of thousands of people and snarling travel amid a long cold snap that has gripped much of the United States for more than a week and killed more than a dozen people. Thousands of flights were cancelled, snow ploughs and salt trucks […]

Greece’s deputy defence minister Dimitris Vitsas will be in Cyprus next week to accept the remains of five Greek sailors killed in the battle of Tillyria in August 1964. The remains of the sailors are to be repatriated to Greece. A memorial service will be held on Tuesday at the cemetery of Saints Constantine and […]

Data Protection Commissioner Irini Loizidou-Nicolaidou said on Thursday she was investigating a case of the publishing online of a person’s pay slip without their consent. In a statement, Nicolaidou urged the public to stop re-uploading the information, initially posted on Facebook some two months ago. The pay slip of the person in question was published […]

Data Protection Commissioner Irini Loizidou-Nicolaidou has given sports authorities the green light to temporarily gather and log the personal data of football fans, but on condition that the information is deleted within 96 hours. In a statement on Thursday, Loizidou said she was allowing the measure for the time being, until such time as the […]

The first Wednesday Lecture of the year at the AG Leventis Gallery in Nicosia will be dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite on January 10. The lecture, which will be given by archaeologist and ancient historian Dr Jacqueline Karageorghis, will also include a screening of the documentary film The Great Goddess. The film is directed and […]

Last year was the second hottest worldwide on record, just behind a sweltering 2016, with signs of climate change ranging from wildfires to a thaw of Arctic ice, a European Union monitoring centre said on Thursday. The Copernicus Climate Change Service, the first major international weather agency to report on conditions in 2017, said temperatures […]

Former President George Vassiliou is right to question why he was never asked to return the €48,000 he owes to the state from 17 years ago, Foreign Minister Ioannis Kassoulides said on Thursday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, Kassoulides said the matter had to be treated with respect as it concerns a former president, […]

More than 550,000 people are eligible to vote in this month’s presidential elections the chief returning officer said on Thursday. According to an official announcement, in total, 550,593 people are eligible to vote, of which 279,378 are women and 271,215 men. The majority of voters – 99,779 – are between the ages of 30 and […]

Turkey‘s broadcasting watchdog has fined a TV station nearly one million lira ($266,000) over footage of young girls dancing in shorts in a talent competition after viewers complained of “child abuse”, a board member said on Thursday. Citing moral dangers for the children, it penalised TV8 channel for footage in the “Yetenek Sizsiniz” (“You Got […]

Iran’s army chief declared on Thursday that police had already quelled anti-government unrest that has killed 21 people but that his troops were ready to intervene if needed, as Tehran staged more pro-government rallies. The protests, which seem spontaneous and without a unifying leader, erupted a week ago in Iran’s second city of Mashhad over […]

The government on Thursday dismissed reports that the trilateral summit between Cyprus, Greece and Israel scheduled for next week was cancelled due to Tel Aviv’s discontent over Nicosia and Athens’ refusal to back at the UN vote last month the recognition by the US of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The trilateral summit, slated to take […]

The government on Thursday dismissed reports that the trilateral summit between Cyprus, Greece and Israel scheduled for next week was cancelled due to Tel Aviv’s discontent over Nicosia and Athens’ refusal to back at the UN vote last month the recognition by the US of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The trilateral summit, slated to take […]

Greece wants to settle a decades-old row this year over the name of the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, its foreign minister said on Thursday – a move that could unblock the Balkan state’s ambition of joining the European Union. Athens has blocked the ex-Yugoslav republic’s attempts to join Nato and objects to its EU […]

Personal data protection commissioner Irini Loizidou-Nicolaidou said that banks need to adhere to the provisions of the data protection law when they sell financial facilities to third parties, the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) reported on Thursday. Loizidou-Nicolaidou’s intervention was prompted by Hellenic Bank’s announcement two days ago that it has agreed to sell €145 million […]

Ten overweight hedgehogs have had to go on strict diets and exercise regimes after they ate so much on the streets of Israel they struggled to curl up into a ball to fend off predators. Animal lovers found them waddling around and brought them into the hospital Ramat Gan zoo. Staff there said the hedgehogs […]

Athens is exploring whether eight Turkish soldiers who fled to the country after a failed coup attempt against Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan can be tried in Greece, Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis said on Thursday. Kontonis said Turkey would first need to make an official request for such a trial, which has not looked likely so […]

Athens is exploring whether eight Turkish soldiers who fled to the country after a failed coup attempt against Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan can be tried in Greece, Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis said on Thursday. Kontonis said Turkey would first need to make an official request for such a trial, which has not looked likely so […]

Police on Thursday arrested two persons in connection with an attempted bank robbery in Paphos earlier in the day. At the time of their arrest, the two individuals were inside a vehicle without licence plates. They were found to be in possession of narcotics. The vehicle in which the two persons were found was located […]

Police on Thursday were on the hunt for two people who tried to rob a Bank of Cyprus branch in Paphos. According to the police, around 1.30 pm the two perpetrators, who had their faces covered, tried to breach the bank’s rear security door using iron crowbars. Their attempts set off the bank’s alarm, after […]

Police on Thursday were on the hunt for two people who tried to rob a Bank of Cyprus branch in Paphos. According to Paphos deputy police chief Nicos Tsiapis the culprits, who had their faces covered, tried smashing a side entrance made of glass at the bank’s branch located on Eleftheriou Venizelou Avenue at approximately […]

Two masked persons in Paphos attempted to rob a Bank of Cyprus branch at midday on Thursday. The incident took place at 1:45pm, police said when the culprits tried to get into the bank by breaking the back door using a bat and sledgehammer. Their attempts failed and the two managed to get away from […]

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May apologised on Thursday to tens of thousands of patients whose operations were cancelled to free up staff and beds to deal with emergency patients. Earlier this week, officials at the National Health Service (NHS) in England recommended that hospitals cancel all non-urgent appointments and operations until next month. Officials say […]

The lack of water is going to affect all of us this summer, and people need to be extremely careful with water use to avoid cuts in the summer, the water development department (WDD) announced on Thursday. WDD official Fedros Roussis said that despite some rain only 150,000 cubic metres of water reached reservoirs in […]