Новости за 02.02.2018

A mosque in northwest Germany may no longer broadcast its Friday midday call to prayer by loudspeaker for now after a local court upheld a challenge by a couple who live nearly 1km away. The Gelsenkirchen administrative court found that the town of Oer-Erkenschwick had not assessed the local Muslim community’s request properly in 2013, […]

Anything to do with William Shakespeare is bound to make for excellent entertainment at the theatre. This is why Theatro Ena in Nicosia has chosen to start its theatrical year with the play The Troupe of William Shakespeare presents… as of Wednesday. The play, whose original title is Un Drama Nuevo and was written by Catalan […]

Teenager Erika Mihaylova Naydenova, aged 14, from Bulgaria has been reported missing from her Nicosia home since February 1, police said on Friday. The young girl is described as 1.60m tall, of average physique, with long black hair, brown eyes and a nose piercing. Anyone with any information is advised to call Nicosia police HQ […]

Teenager Erika Mihaylova Naydenova, aged 14, from Bulgaria has been reported missing from her Nicosia home since February 1, police said on Friday. The young girl is described as 1.60m tall, of average physique, with long black hair, brown eyes and a nose piercing. Anyone with any information is advised to call Nicosia police HQ […]

Cryptocurrencies plunged on Friday, with bitcoin at one point sliding below $8,000 and headed for its biggest weekly loss since December 2013, as worries about a regulatory clampdown globally sent investors scrambling to sell. The currencies have come off their lows but analysts said the sell-off was probably not over. This week’s slump brought the […]

Over three thousand new cases of cancer are being recorded each year and the Bank of Cyprus Oncology Centre will try to help every cancer patient, the centre’s chief Androulla Vasiliou said at a press conference on Friday to mark World Cancer Day. She said that the oncology centre has had 20 years tackling cancer […]

The enraged father of three daughters sexually abused by Larry Nassar lunged at the former USA Gymnastics national team doctor during a sentencing hearing in a Michigan courtroom on Friday. Court guards pinned him to the ground before he could attack Nassar. The chaotic scene began after sisters Lauren and Madison Margraves had finished reading their victim statements […]

Germany has granted asylum to four Turkish soldiers, including one Ankara accuses of playing a leading role in the attempted military coup of July 2016, in a new setback for relations between the two countries, weekly magazine Der Spiegel reported. By granting them asylum, German authorities make it impossible for them to be extradited to […]

Police on Friday arrested a teacher after a complaint that she assaulted a 10-year-old student during school hours in Limassol. The complaint was made by the child’s mother after she realized her son had bruises on his arm and back. She reported that the teacher grabbed her child by the clothes violently for no apparent […]

More than two tons of beef imported from the UK has been recalled in Cyprus after it was banned by the European Union’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed, but some of it has already been consumed, the veterinary services said on Friday. The services announced that in addition to two tons of beef […]

Ubisoft’s seminal free-roaming rampage simulator comes back for another swing. The action of Far Cry 5 is set in the heart of Montana. It’s the first time a Far Cry game has been set in the USA. Far Cry 5 – new features One of the definitely new features of the new Far Cry 5 […]

Police will be stepping up security measures on Sunday during voting in the second round of the presidential elections and the declaration ceremony later in the evening. Spokesman Andreas Angelides said over 2,000 police officers will be on duty on Sunday to ensure that the election process goes smoothly. Meetings were held on Wednesday and Thursday […]

Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane has defended the club’s decision not to sign anyone in January, saying he has “blind trust” in his squad as they attempt to claw back a 19-point deficit to Barcelona at the top of La Liga. The Spanish and European champions were linked by Spanish media with a move for […]

Head of the Cypriot delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) MP Stella Kyriakidou has been appointed representative of PACE in the European Commission for Democracy through Law, known as the Venice Commission. According to a press release, this is the second time a member of the Cypriot delegation is appointed […]

The editor-in-chief of German red-top tabloid Bild, Europe’s best-selling newspaper, quit on Friday after losing a power struggle with the head of its digital edition. Tanit Koch, 40, resigned after two years at the helm of publisher Axel Springer’s flagship print title. In a message to staff, she said her working relationship with digital chief […]

The European Investment Bank is to give €35 million to the Cyprus Organisation for Storage and Management of Oil Stocks (COSMOS) to build a 210,000 tonne privately owned storage facility. The project will focus on enhancing energy efficiency and improve Cyprus`s energy security by increasing the amount of reserve oil stocks held in the country. […]

The trouble with transfer deadlines is that while dreams can come true amidst the rush of deals, players can also have their hopes dashed and clubs can be left with the awkward task of patching up damaged relationships. That is exactly the situation that Leicester City and their manager Claude Puel find themselves in after […]

With the run-off in the 2018 Presidential elections due on Sunday, we discuss the issues – and the fall-out after the first round. 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 […]

President DonaldTrump and his Republican allies on Friday escalated a campaign against US law enforcement agencies over their probe into Russia by making public a classified memo that the FBI had sought to keep under wraps. The document, drawn up by congressional Republicans, alleges bias against Trump at the FBI and Justice Department in the investigations into […]

US President Donald Trump on Friday accused the FBI and the Justice Department’s top officials of politicising its investigations as the White House prepared to approve the release of a controversial secret Republican memo alleging FBI bias against him in its Russia probe. “The top Leadership and Investigators of the FBI and the Justice Department […]

The head of the Church of Cyprus on Friday voiced his support for incumbent Nicos Anastasiades in Sunday’s presidential election, appearing certain that Stavros Malas had no chance of winning. Archbishop Chrysostomos met with Anastasiades at the presidential palace. Upon his arrival, he was asked about Malas’ comment that if elected, he wouldn’t be consulting […]

Energy Minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis said on Friday the results of an ongoing exploratory natural gas drill off the island’s coast were encouraging but more time was needed because of the morphology of the seabed. “I won’t get into the details. They (results) are very encouraging, a reserve has been located but he morphology of the […]

The new ‘prime minister’ in the north Tufan Erhurman, presented on Friday the new ‘cabinet’, including negotiator for the Turkish Cypriot community, Ozdil Nami, who was appointed as ‘minister’ of economy and energy. Erhurman, was handed the task of forming a ‘government’ by Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci after his party, the Republican Turkish Party […]

Classical music can be played on almost any instrument but there is one instrument that gives a performance of classical music a more sacred feel, the pipe organ. In the hands of organ player Paul Timmins, the organ at the Ayia Kyriaki church (The Anglican Church of Paphos) in Paphos, works by Bach, Couperin, Handel, […]

A convicted prisoner who served a two-year sentence at the British bases prison in Dhekelia for a drugs-related case was handed over to the Cypriot police pending another trial after it was discovered he had possibly continued his illegal activities while in jail. The bases said this week they handed over a Greek Cypriot man […]