Новости за 23.01.2018

The Yeroskipou municipality held 860 civil marriage ceremonies in 2017, head of the municipality’s civil ceremony office Marina Poylviou said on Tuesday. The number was only ten more than had been carried out the previous year. The majority of couples, Polyviou said, were from the United Kingdom, Russia, Israel and Lebanon, as well as other […]

Two men from Limassol, aged 48 and 52, were released from police custody on Tuesday afternoon after being arrested in connection with the illegal television streaming network DreamBox, police said. The two men were released as police await the results of their investigations, authorities added. Police are investigating electronic evidence, which was obtained from the […]

After missing the critical holiday shopping season, Apple Inc has jumped into the voice speaker wars with the HomePod smart speaker, a device that will use its Siri voice assistant and compete against offerings from Amazon.com Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google. Apple said on Tuesday it will start taking online orders for its HomePod smart […]

The Unite Cyprus Now peace platform will hold an event on Saturday at the Ledra Street/Lokmaci Buffer Zone against extremism and division, they announced on Tuesday. The bicommunal group said in an announcement they condemn the organised mob attack against Turkish Cypriot daily Afrika and the Turkish Cypriot ‘parliament’, where the newly elected ‘deputies’ were […]

Municipalities are set to lower their billing costs by 65 per cent while the government will save €5 million with the introduction of e-Invoicing by the end of the year, Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Tuesday. He presented the start of the ‘Cy e-Invoicing for local authorities’ project, which began at the beginning January […]

Leonid Nesterov has made a name for himself on the local music scene as a pianist with lots of pizzazz and as a vital part of the Leonid Nesterov Trio, and now he will introduce us to the sound and music of Nani Eva. Nesterov will present the singer, composer and poet Eva on Saturday […]

A 15-year-old boy opened fire with a handgun inside his high school in rural western Kentucky on Tuesday, killing two fellow students and wounding a dozen other youths before he was arrested, the state’s governor and police said. The shooting began shortly before 8 a.m. CST (1400 GMT) at Marshall County High School in Benton, […]

One person was killed and several others were wounded in a shooting on Tuesday at a high school in western Kentucky, where the lone suspect was arrested shortly after the violence erupted, state police said. The shooting occurred around 8 a.m. CST (1400 GMT) at Marshall County High School in Benton, Kentucky, a town about […]

Vodafone said on Tuesday it had agreed to buy Athens-based CyTA Telecommunications Hellas SA for €118 million to expand its fixed line network in Greece. The purchase will add around 40,000 mobile customers and about 300,000 fixed broadband customers, or roughly 8 per cent market share, to Vodafone-Panafon Hellenic Telecommunications Co’s network, the British telecoms […]

Greece will not extradite eight Turkish soldiers who fled there after a failed 2016 coup attempt against President Tayyip Erodogan but an offer to try them in Athens is still open, the justice minister said on Tuesday. Turkey says the soldiers are traitors and coup plotters and the issue has further strained relations between the two […]

Around 18 per cent of vehicle owners have renewed their road tax for 2018 within the first 14 days of the renewal period, it was announced on Tuesday. Director of the Department of Road Transport Sotiris Kolettas said that since January 8, when the period of renewal began, until last Sunday, 116,000 people had paid […]

Monday evening’s televised debate among the five main contenders for the presidency offered no new reveals or high drama as the candidates played it safe, sticking to the script and to their respective narratives. An online straw poll hosted on the website of daily Politis showed Akel-backed Stavros Malas was the most persuasive (42 per […]

Cobalt Air on Tuesday announced a new daily service beginning March 27 linking London Heathrow directly with Larnaca, starting from less than €55 one-way. Cobalt said it was now the only airline offering connections to Cyprus from London’s three main airports: Heathrow, Gatwick and London Stansted. “I am delighted to add London Heathrow to our […]

Buoyed by politicians’ promises, bank workers union Etyk are planning a march for February 1 – between the first and second rounds of the election – in a bid to milk as many concessions as possible from the government and incumbent President Nicos Anastasiades. At the demonstration – likely to be held outside the presidential […]

US Vice President Mike Pence said on Tuesday the timing of a long-awaited US Middle East peace initiative depended on the return of Palestinians to negotiations. President Donald Trump’s advisers have been working on the outlines of a plan for some time. But Palestinians ruled out Washington as a peace broker after the US president’s […]

South Korea and China protested on Tuesday against US President Donald Trump slapping steep import tariffs on washing machines and solar panels in a move that stirred fears in Asia of more protectionist measures coming out of Washington. For all his rhetoric to win votes, Trump’s actions on trade during his first year had been […]

Fox Searchlight’s fantasy drama The Shape of Water, about a woman who falls in love with a strange river creature, led the Oscar nominations on Tuesday with 13 nods, including the top prize for best picture. It will contend with gay romance Call Me By Your Name, British World War Two dramas Darkest Hour and Dunkirk, racial […]

Four months in prison without suspension was on Tuesday handed by the Supreme Court to Panayiotis Panayiotou, a former hotel employee who had been found guilty of the abuse of Billy the dog that died after being beaten and thrown into a cardboard crusher in 2014. The head of the Animal Party, Kyriacos Kyriacou said […]

Order of play on the main showcourt on the 10th day of the Australian Open on Wednesday (play begins at 0000 GMT, prefix number denotes seeding, quarter-final matches unless mentioned): ROD LAVER ARENA 21-Angelique Kerber (Germany) v 17-Madison Keys (U.S.) Not before 0200 GMT Tennys Sandgren (U.S.) v Chung Hyeon (South Korea) Not before 0400 […]

No thorough discussion has taken place on the bill on plastic bags, which provides for a charge of 5 cents beginning in July because the government tabled it at the 11th hour and the House rushed to pass it, Cyprus Greens MP Charalambos Theopemptou said on Tuesday. In an interview with the Cyprus News Agency […]

Spanish authorities are monitoring borders to make sure that fugitive Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont does not sneak back into Spain to take up the presidency of the regional parliament again, a senior minister said on Tuesday. Puigdemont has said he can rule from self-imposed exile in Belgium, where he fled to in October to avoid arrest […]

Rafa Nadal’s Australian Open quarter-final curse struck again on Tuesday, an injury forcing the top seed to retire in the fifth set against Croatia’s Marin Cilic. A wincing Nadal struggled with a muscle strain in his upper right thigh from late in the fourth set before abandoning the match at 3-6 6-3 6-7(5) 6-2 2-0, […]

Marin Cilic advanced to the semi-finals of the Australian Open on Tuesday after top seed Rafa Nadal retired hurt when trailing 3-6 6-3 6-7(5) 6-2 2-0 in their match at Rod Laver Arena. Nadal took a medical time-out late in the fourth set for treatment on an apparent hip injury and was clearly struggling as he battled on […]

Following violent protests against Afrika on Monday, the daily in its headline, alleged the demonstrators “came to kill” heeding “orders from a high place”, while most party leaders complained of a lack of security. “On the orders of Tayyip Erdogan, yesterday, a Sivas Madimak exercise took place against our newspaper Afrika,” the daily said. “They […]

A tale of forbidden love will put working people under the magnifying glass as of Friday, when the play Sleep, Stella will be staged at Thoc Warehouse in Nicosia for three performances. Sleep, Stella is the first work written and directed for the stage by filmmaker Yannis Economidis, and it is a production of the […]