Новости за 11.01.2018

A 41-year-old woman from Lakatamia died under unknown circumstances on Thursday. According to reports, while at home the woman lost consciousness. She was rushed to Nicosia general hospital, where doctors pronounced her dead on arrival. An autopsy on her body will take place on Friday.

Rescue workers on Thursday searched for eight people missing after mudslides that ripped through a coastal Southern California community, as the identities of some of the 17 who died in Tuesday’s disaster began trickling out. Some 700 rescue workers in helicopters and high-wheeled military vehicles picked through waist-deep mud in the hunt for the missing […]

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides on Thursday denied that his office unlawfully obtained financial information relating to Opap Cyprus Ltd, a subsidiary of the Greek gambling giant. A day earlier, Opap had called a news conference where they claimed the Audit Office had obtained financial data that was not publicly available, and that therefore the Audit Office […]

Greece said on Thursday it and Macedonia hoped for progress in talks with a UN mediator on Jan 17 towards settling a long-running dispute over the latter country’s name that has held up Skopje’s EU membership prospects. Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias met his counterpart from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (Fyrom), the country’s […]

In an interim ruling on Thursday the Nicosia criminal court said Greek businessman Michalis Zolotas would be tried along with the other defendants in the case involving the alleged bribery of the former head of the Central Bank. Zolotas’ lawyers had earlier filed a motion for their client to be tried separately from the rest […]

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi hailed French actress Catherine Deneuve on Thursday for defending men accused of sexual harassment in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal. “Catherine Deneuve spoke blessed words,” said the 81-year-old Berlusconi, who resigned in 2011 mired in scandal over his wild “Bunga Bunga” parties with young women and under […]

Presidential candidate Giorgos Lillikas sought on Thursday to dial down his allegations that someone tried to buy him off so that he’d pull out of the elections race, acknowledging that he has no hard evidence to back his claims. Bombarded with questions from the media about the alleged affair, asking him why he did not […]

Two Palestinian youths were shot dead by Israeli troops during clashes on Thursday in the Gaza Strip and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinian medical sources and witnesses said. Israeli-Palestinian tensions have risen following US President Donald Trump’s Dec 6 recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, a move that has sparked violent Palestinian protests along the […]

French police on Thursday sought two men after finding the getaway car used by a gang of axe-wielding thieves who snatched jewellery from a store in the upscale Paris Ritz hotel. Three hooded thieves carried out the robbery late on Wednesday at the ultra-chic hotel on the city centre’s Place Vendome, next to the Justice Ministry. But […]

The injunction against daily newspaper Politis preventing it from publishing leaked emails from suspended state attorney Eleni Loizidou’s email account serves no purpose other than to fuel negative international reactions on how the Cypriot justice system treats press freedom, the paper charged on Thursday. A day earlier, Nicosia district court granted Loizidou’s request for an […]

The National Theatre of Northern Greece will present the highly successful performance Gkiak for three performances in Nicosia tomorrow and Saturday. The play is set in the village of Locris in ancient Greece during a wedding. The guests are at the reception and, one by one, they unfold their stories about Gkiak. Gkiak, in the language […]

Tunisian protesters burned down a regional national security headquarters near the Algerian border, prompting authorities to send in troops after police retreated, witnesses said, as unrest over prices and taxes raged on nationwide. But the government, under pressure to cut a ballooning deficit and satisfy international lenders, will not revise austerity measures in the 2018 […]

Chairman of the State Health Services Organisation (Okyy), Sir David Nicholson, said on Thursday that there was a lot more to do when it comes to state hospital autonomy. Sir David, who chaired the first meeting of the newly-established Okyy, which is tasked with the management, control, supervision and development of public hospitals and primary […]

STATE doctors announced on Thursday that for the next three days there would be no afternoon on-call doctors at the Nicosia intensive care unit (ICU). The head of the ICU, Theodoros Kyprianou said that doctors in the unit are exhausted from working “to the limits of their human strength”. ICU doctors, he said, have been […]

State and private doctors on Thursday demanded an apology from Health Minister Giorgos Pamboridis over a twitter comment where he described physicians as ‘filth’. Pamboridis replied that he has nothing but respect for doctors who honour their oath. However, his aim was not to be liked but to serve Cypriot patients and see the implementation […]

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was “naturalised” as an Ecuadorean on Dec 12, at his request, Ecuador’s foreign minister said on Thursday, adding that she was seeking a “dignified” solution to his situation with Britain. Britain said earlier on Thursday it had refused a request by Ecuador for Assange to be given diplomatic status, a spokesman […]

Two of Britain’s most prominent Brexit campaigners endorsed a second referendum on leaving the European Union on Thursday as the best way to stop EU supporters from trying to water down, or even halt, the country’s departure from the bloc. Britons shocked the political establishment in June 2016 by voting 52 to 48 per cent […]

The cabinet has approved a bill aiming at introducing social enterprise in Cyprus, which has €3.1m in funding from the European Social Fund, Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides announced on Thursday. In a press conference, the minister said the idea of social enterprise is a new way of business aimed at offering goods and services to […]

Criticisms surrounding the liquidation process of now defunct Cyprus Airways are a staunch reminder of the mismanagement that ruled the company for years and eventually led to its demise, Finance Minister Harris Georgiades said on Thursday. He was commenting on accusations by former Cyprus Airways employees a day after the liquidation process came to an […]

The Larnaca district court on Thursday acquitted police officer Andreas Michaelides, 36, who was accused of being involved in the import and circulation of stolen cars from the UK. The judge, reading out his decision, said that some of the witnesses were unreliable and that the prosecution had based its case on circumstantial evidence. He thus […]

Turkey will not extradite any suspects to the United States if Washington does not hand over the cleric Ankara blames for orchestrating a failed 2016 military coup, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday. Ankara accuses US-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen of masterminding the putsch and has repeatedly asked Washington for his extradition. US officials have […]

England will play international friendlies against Nigeria and Costa Rica ahead of the World Cup finals in Russia, the Football Association (FA) announced. England are to host Nigeria at Wembley on June 2 and face Costa Rica at Elland Road five days later, before kicking off their World Cup Group G campaign against Tunisia on […]

By Stelios Orphanides A war of words has broken out between Finance Minister Harris Georgiades and Diko leader and presidential candidate Nicolas Papadopoulos after the latter proposed to delay debt repayments and so help social groups struck by the crisis. Georgiades, a member of ruling Disy, the party of incumbent president Nicos Anastasiades, alleged that […]

Champions Bayern Munich will kick off 2018 with an almost complete squad after top scorer Robert Lewandowski, Mats Hummels and Joshua Kimmich were declared fit before their Bundesliga campaign resumes against Bayer Leverkusen on Friday. The Bavarians, eyeing a record-extending sixth consecutive league title, are 11 points clear at the top, having won nine out […]

Britain, France and Germany made a joint plea to Donald Trump on Thursday to uphold a pact stopping Iran getting nuclear weapons, a day before the US president is expected to decide whether to re-impose sanctions in a move likely to sink the deal. In sharp contrast to Trump’s view that the 2015 pact was […]