Новости за 07.01.2018

At least 18 people were killed and tens more injured, including civilians, in an explosion in Syria’s northwestern city of Idlib, a war monitor reported on Sunday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the explosion targeted the headquarters of a minor rebel faction in Idlib. It was not immediately clear what the nature of […]

The Cyprus Symphony Orchestr (CySO) is set to provide yet another smashing year of chamber music concerts. The first of the season will be the concert under the name Mozart Double and More in Nicosia on Saturday and in Paphos on Sunday. The CySO artistic director Jens Georg Bachman, the leader of the orchestra Wolfgang […]

NOTTINGHAM FOREST 4 ARSENAL 2 The Gunners, fielding a much-changed side from the one that drew with Chelsea in midweek and with manager Arsene Wenger watching from the stands because of a touchline ban, trailed 2-1 at halftime as Eric Lichaj scored twice. Penalties by Ben Brereton and Kieran Dowell sealed victories for Forest who […]

By Bejay Browne A Paphos centre set up and run by volunteers is making a huge difference to the lives of refugee families in Cyprus, by teaching them language skills and providing assistance wherever possible. The Learning Refuge in central Paphos was initiated by Caritas and aims to improve the lives of refugees. Head of […]

Germany’s opposition parties on Sunday called for the abolition of a new law that aims to rid social media of hate speech, saying it was wrong for private companies to be making decisions about whether posts are unlawful. The legislation, which came into force on Jan. 1, can impose fines of up to 50 million […]

A UFO was spotted over the Kasivera area in the north on Thursday night, according to Turkish Cypriot Kibris newspaper. The paper published photos of the purple flying object along the coastal area which were reportedly taken by astronomer who uploaded it to his website. UFO sightings have been reported in the north on occasion […]

Start spreading the news, tribute act to Frank Sinatra Stephen Triffitt will be giving it all for two nights this week at the Colosseum restaurant in Paphos. Trifffitt, performing in Cyprus for the first time, is considered the world’s number one Frank Sinatra tribute act. His is a true story of how dreaming – and […]

Former World Trade Organization director general Peter Sutherland, who was also a long-serving chairman of oil giant BP and the overseas arm of Goldman Sachs, died on Sunday aged 71. The Jesuit-educated barrister, who also served as Ireland’s youngest attorney general and then youngest European Union commissioner during the 1980s, had been ill for some […]

By Annette Chrysostomou I recently went to take photographs of obstacles on pavements with tactile paving, a system of textured sections of pavements with slight bumps or ridges to guide pedestrians who are visually impaired. They are not ubiquitous, as in Cyprus they are a recent phenomenon. Seeing one area with these tiles was what […]

More than 300 people stormed the heavily fortified border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave Melilla in what authorities on Sunday called a mass “violent crossing”. Some 209 migrants succeeded in reaching Spain in Saturday’s incident. Spain’s two North African enclaves, Ceuta and Melilla, are a common target for entry into the European Union by […]

Iran has banned the teaching of English in primary schools, a senior education official said, after Islamic leaders warned that early learning of the language opened the way to a Western “cultural invasion”. “Teaching English in government and non-government primary schools in the official curriculum is against laws and regulations,” Mehdi Navid-Adham, head of the […]

Iran has banned the teaching of English in primary schools, a senior education official said, after the country’s Supreme Leader said early learning of the language opened the way to a Western “cultural invasion”. “Teaching English in government and non-government primary schools in the official curriculum is against laws and regulations,” Mehdi Navid-Adham, head of […]

With full employment, which he estimates will be achieved in the next two years, the government will discuss with employers’ organisations the possibility of setting a minimum wage for all professions, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday. The president, who is running for re-election this month, was speaking at a conference of ruling Disy’s young […]

Techno followers, stop here for a second, this will interest you. This Saturday the creators of Ahrpe Records will show us how they managed to make a name for themselves on the crowded techno scene with only six releases. The capital will welcome French producer and DJ Amandra and Ovend, who are two of the […]

Pope Francis baptised 34 infants during a long ceremony in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday and told their mothers to feel free to breastfeed them there if they were hungry. During the ceremony that lasted more than two hours, Francis baptised 18 girls and 16 boys, including two pairs of twins. “If they start performing […]

One man died after an explosion outside an underground station in Stockholm on Sunday, police said, adding they did not believe the incident was terrorism-related. The man sustained fatal injuries after he picked up an object, a police spokesman said. Daily newspaper Aftonbladet said it was thought to have been a hand grenade. Police declined […]

A tanker carrying Iranian oil and run by the country’s top oil shipping operator was ablaze and spewing cargo into the East China Sea on Sunday after colliding with a Chinese bulk ship, leaving its 32 crew members missing, the Chinese government said. Thick clouds of dark smoke could be seen billowing out of the […]

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said on Sunday he had preserved his neutrality as promised two and a half years ago when it came to the elections being held in the north on Sunday. Akinci was speaking to the press as he walked from his home together with his wife Meral, to the primary school […]

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said on Sunday he had preserved his neutrality as promised two and a half years ago when it came to the elections being held in the north on Sunday. Akinci was speaking to the press as he walked from his home together with his wife Meral, to the primary school […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday she would announce changes to her ministerial team soon, with media reports saying her foreign, finance, interior and Brexit ministers would keep their jobs in a reshuffle starting on Monday. After running a poorly-received campaign at a national election last year that badly damaged her authority, May […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday she would be making changes to her team of ministers soon following the forced resignation of her deputy Damian Green in December, but declined to give further details. “Obviously, Damian Green’s departure before Christmas means that some changes do have to be made, and I will be […]

The official ballot papers for the January 28 presidential election were being printed off on Sunday. Earlier in the week, the chief returning officer put down a challege to the draft ballot paper following two objections raised last week over the slogan of one of the candidates. Independent candidate Haris Aristidou had complained that his […]

Any attempt on the part of Turkey to foment a fait accompli in Cyprus’ maritime area would be irrational and Ankara would not take such a risk, according to Dimitris Vitsas, Greece’s Alternate Minister of National Defence. In an interview with the Cyprus News Agency, Vitsas also said he does not expect Ankara “to risk […]

Gallery Gloria in Nicosia is welcoming in a creative and very artistic start to 2018 with a group painting exhibition on Wednesday at 7pm. The artistic team behind the exhibition is led by artist and teacher Vassilis Mitas, who runs his own art school. The other artists involved are Andreas Panagiotou, Stavros Voniatis, Katerina Vassiliou, […]

Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday she was optimistic her conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) could agree to join forces as they embarked on five days of talks about reviving the ‘grand coalition’ that has governed Germany since 2013. Persuading the SPD to team up with her is Merkel’s best bet of forming a […]