Новости за 19.01.2018

The man found dead earlier this week in a Limassol hotel currently undergoing renovation is 48-year-old Israeli citizen Khatib Anwar. Police on Friday said his identity was confirmed through fingerprint checks and by a friend of Anwar’s, also from Israel who identified him. He is believed to have been homeless. Anwar was discovered by a […]

Order of play on the main showcourts on the sixth day of the Australian Open on Saturday (play begins at 0000 GMT, prefix number denotes seeding, third round matches unless mentioned): ROD LAVER ARENA 1-Simona Halep (Romania) v Lauren Davis (U.S.) Chung Hyeon (South Korea) v 4-Alexander Zverev (Germany) 18-Ashleigh Barty (Australia) v Naomi Osaka […]

Local authority reform is a great opportunity to modernize Cyprus and a step the government is not afraid to take, Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Friday. During a presentation held at Skarinou community council of a techno-economical study commissioned by the ministry on the much-discussed reform, Petrides said both the ministry and union of […]

Paphos is keeping up with the fast pace it had as the cultural capital with musical events there dominating the island at the moment. Making sure we don’t forget the glory of Pafos2017 just yet will be the concert From Bach to Prokofiev on January 26 at the Ethnarch Makarios III Lyceum at 8.30pm. The […]

Some internet users in Cyprus were faced with slower internet on Friday after two underground cables were cut a day earlier. Providers were quick to move towards fixing the problem when the Alexander and Hawk cable systems were cut. “This is a severe problem and affects the connection between Cyprus and abroad,” Cablenet said in […]

Some internet users in Cyprus were faced with slower internet on Friday after two underground cables were cut a day earlier. Providers were quick to move towards fixing the problem when the Alexander and Hawk cable systems were cut. “This is a severe problem and affects the connection between Cyprus and abroad,” Cablenet said in a […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin stripped off to his bathing trunks and immersed himself in the freezing waters of a lake late on Thursday, observing an Orthodox Christian ritual to mark the feast of Epiphany. Russian state television showed Putin marching onto the ice of frozen Lake Seliger, about 400km north of Moscow, dressed in a sheepskin coat and felt […]

French riot police clashed on Friday with striking prison guards who accuse the government of doing little to counter spiralling violence and Islamist activism inside the country’s overcrowded jails. The scuffles outside Fleury Merogis prison, one of Europe’s largest with 3,800 inmates, coincided with news from a jail in Corsica that two security guards were […]

Cyprus has still a lot way to go on environmental protection, especially with regard to its EU goals, Environment Commissioner Ioanna Panayiotou said on Friday. The commissioner delivered to President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday a report on the activities of her office between April 2015 and November 2017. Panayiotou said that Cyprus needs to focus […]

By Stelios Orphanides Cyprus has no request for legal assistance in the case of Maria Efimova, the slain Maltese journalist’s source, who has also expressed fear for her life, a ministry of justice and public order source said. “We have nothing to do with the case of the journalist in which she is implicated as […]

The ministry of agriculture will accept final recommendations for the sustainable development of the Akamas national forest park from interested parties until February 2, Agriculture Minister Nicos Kouyialis said on Friday. He was speaking in Droushia after a public consultation attended by 250 people organised by the ministry and the forestry department on the development […]

Results from the Australian Open Men’s Singles matches on Friday: 3rd Round 1-Rafael Nadal (ESP) beat 28-Damir Dzumhur (BIH) 6-1 6-3 6-1 24-Diego Schwartzman (ARG) beat Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR) 6-7(1) 6-2 6-3 6-3 10-Pablo Carreno Busta beat 23-Gilles Muller (LUX) 7-6(4) 4-6 7-5 7-5 (ESP) 6-Marin Cilic (CRO) beat Ryan Harrison (USA) 7-6(4) 6-3 7-6(4) […]

The state-owned Cyprus Telecommunication Authority (Cyta) said that Greece’s Vodafon-Panafon Hellenic Communications S.A. emerged as the preferred bidder to acquire its loss-making unit CytaHellas. Greece’s PricewaterhouseCooper Business Solutions acted financial advisors while Greece’s Bernitsas Law Firm and the Nicosia-based Georgiades and Pelides Law Firm acted as Cyta’s legal advisors in the said transactions, the Cypriot […]

A Palestinian family in the Gaza Strip said on Friday it had killed a relative they said had helped Israel track down and kill three senior Hamas militants, including one of the man’s own kinsmen. In a statement, the family of Ahmed Barhoum said it had shot him in the city of Rafah after they […]

Turkish artillery fired into Syria’s Afrin region on Friday in what Ankara said was the start of a military campaign against the Kurdish-controlled area. The cross-border bombardment took place after days of threats from Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to crush the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia in Afrin in response to what Turkey sees as growing […]

The reason effective animal protection and welfare has not been possible so far is not because competent state services are not under one roof but due to disarray within existing services, the Cyprus Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (CSPCA) said on Friday. The group was not impressed by the cabinet decision earlier […]

The ‘Dumb and Dumber’ actor has claimed to have undergone an “awakening” that has left him with an “awareness of a lack of self”. Jim, 56, explained that after playing entertainer Andy Kaufman in the 1999 film ‘Man on the Moon’, he became lost in the character – and when filming was over, Jim felt […]

The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in international and local news – in audio form. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this week: The Interior Minister outlines plans to regulate, encourage and fund social entrepreneurship; The relationship between olive trees and funghi; […]

The community leaders of four Limassol communities – Episkopi, Erimi, Kolossi and Kantou- threatened to stop paying electricity bills, citing frequent power cuts in their areas. The four leaders are to meet next week with Electricity Authority (EAC) chairman, Andreas Marangos, to discuss the problem. According to Episkopi community leader Lefkios Prodromou, frequent power cuts are […]

French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko’s Australian Open hopes ended on Friday as the seventh seed was beaten 6-3 1-6 6-3 by Anett Kontaveit in a battle of the Baltic. Latvian Ostapenko produced her usual brand of gung-ho tennis but Estonian Kontaveit weathered the storm to take her place in the fourth round in Melbourne for […]

The sacked former leader of Catalonia said on Friday he was perfectly eligible to be re-elected as regional president and there was no reason why he couldn’t rule the Spanish region remotely from self-imposed exile in Brussels. Supporters of Carles Puigdemont, who faces arrest for charges including sedition and rebellion if he returns to Spain, […]

The independent authority that investigates complaints against police is to appoint an investigator into the detention on Wednesday by two undercover officers of the wife of a Brazilian footballer who plays for Doxa in Nicosia as she was walking to school to pick up her child. According to the head of the independent authority, Andreas Paschalides, […]

Nick Kyrgios toppled his childhood idol Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in a tense clash to reach the fourth round of the Australian Open on Friday and raise home fans’ hopes of a first men’s champion in 42 years. Away from the raucous atmosphere of his favoured Hisense Arena, the tempestuous Australian showed impressive composure in the tiebreaks […]

Top seed Rafael Nadal stormed into the fourth round of the Australian Open with a bludgeoning 6-1 6-3 6-1 defeat of Bosnia’s Damir Dzumhur on Friday. Melbourne’s heatwave had relented by the time the Nadal walked on Margaret Court Arena, but the Spaniard was on fire as he battered the 28th seed into submission. The […]

Oscar Wilde fans will be thrilled to find out the Pantheon in Nicosia will screen a performance of A Woman of No Importance from the Vaudeville Theatre in London. Olivier award-winner Eve Best and BAFTA-nominated actress Anne Reid star in this new, classically-staged production of Wilde’s comedy, directed by former Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe, Dominic […]