Новости за 03.02.2018

Artist Marlen Karletidou will present her new collection of drawings and paintings under the name Between Illusion and Reality as of Friday at the Diatopos Centre of Contemporary Art in Nicosia. In this collection, Karletidou steps back from the mixture of materials and techniques used in her previous works to present a simpler collection of […]

A Russian Su-25 warplane was brought down in Syria’s Idlib province on Saturday, and the pilot was killed during “a fight” after ejecting by parachute, the TASS news agency quoted Russia’s Defence Ministry as saying. Syrian rebels said previously on Saturday they had brought down the Russian plane. Russia’s Defence Ministry said that the aircraft […]

Authorities on Saturday urged members of the public to exercise their right to vote and not abstain. Chief Returning Officer Kypros Kyprianou said on Saturday everything is all set for Sunday’s presidential runoff and urged members of the public to vote. Kyprianou said that the top priority of all competent services is to make sure […]

Manchester United’s Alexis Sanchez scored his first goal for the club and Romelo Lukaku was also on target as they closed the gap at the top of the Premier League to 13 points with a 2-0 win over Huddersfield Town on Saturday. After Burnley had held league leaders Manchester City to a 1-1 draw at Turf Moor in […]

LEIGH Halfpenny scored two tries as Wales opened their Six Nations campaign with a dominant 34-7 victory against much-fancied Scotland in Cardiff on Saturday. In an entertaining start to the tournament, Wales banished memories of their defeat to Scotland in last year’s fixture with a commanding victory courtesy of tries from Gareth Davies and Steff Evans and Halfpenny’s double. […]

Seven men and a woman aged between 30 and 47 were remanded on Saturday for six days in connection with a string of burglaries since 2011 in all districts. The group, believed to be members of a burglary ring, were arrested on Friday in Limassol after stolen goods were located in two apartments in the […]

TURKISH guards at the border with Syria are indiscriminately shooting at and summarily returning asylum seekers attempting to cross into Turkey, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday. The spokesman for Turkey’s president said it was highly unlikely that Turkish soldiers would shoot at Syrian war refugees but the government would look into the report. Turkey […]

Diko has summoned 22 of its members on Monday to a disciplinary hearing for not backing party leader Nicolas Papadopoulos during the first round of the presidential elections, it was reported on Saturday. According to daily Politis, Diko had bailiffs deliver the summons to the 22 rebels, among them the former leader of the party, […]

Data Protection Commissioner Irini Loizidou-Nicolaidou said on Saturday her office has reported several cases to the police concerning text messages sent from an election camp to voters of a party not participating in the runoff and of theft of voters’ lists. Loizidou told state broadcaster CyBC that her office has received scores of reports from […]

A man opened fire on passersby in the central Italian city of Macerata on Saturday, injuring several African migrants, police said, in an attack that appeared to be racially motivated. The shootings happened just days after the dismembered body of an 18-year-old Italian woman was discovered hidden in two suitcases near Macerata. A 29-year-old Nigerian […]

With Green Monday only a few Mondays away – three to be exact – the kids are probably already asking for their kites to prepare for the day when we all head to the fields and beaches to fly our kites and celebrate the start of Lent. Instead of getting a store-bought kite, you might […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) battled on Saturday to find solutions to disputes on healthcare and labour rules as they discuss forming a government more than four months after an election. The two parties aim to seal a deal on renewing the “grand coalition” that has governed Europe’s largest economy […]

A 27-year-old man was transferred to Larnaca general hospital on Saturday morning after being hit and robbed by three men outside a nightclub. Police said officers, following a call, found the 27-year-old with injuries to various parts of his body on Larnaca’s Makarios Avenue at around 6.15am. The man reported that he met three men […]

Cyprus filed another report at the UN protesting Turkish infringements of international air traffic regulations, violations of the national airspace and the illegal use of ports in the north by Turkish warships during last November 2017, it was reported on Saturday. In a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the […]

A 44-year-old man was arrested on Saturday in Nicosia after being reported for threatening another person with a loaded airgun during a scuffle. According to the police, a man reported on Friday night that the 44-year-old had threatened him with an airgun during a scuffle between them. Following the 44-year-old’s arrest, police also took the […]

Where do you live? I currently share an apartment with my sister’s boyfriend in Stockholm. Best childhood memory? We were in Protaras when I was maybe 5 years old when my dad told me and my siblings that the moon would turn orange if we threw peas at it! So we did, and later that […]

The Nicosia Criminal Court on Friday found a 35-year-old man guilty of the repeated sexual abuse, for around a year-and-a-half, of the now 11-year-old daughter of his partner. The court found the defendant guilty of 39 charges concerning the rape, sexual abuse and indecent assault of the girl between August 2013 and January 2015. The […]

By Athanasios Athanasiou “Cyprus offers the interesting example of an economy saved with the help of economic adjustment and responsible reforms,” the Martens Centre, the European People’s Party (EPP) in house think tank has said. In a recent report, the Martens Centre explains the circumstances that led to today’s success story on the island, highlighting […]

Nothing says jazz like the sweet sound of the saxophone, and nothing says good jazz like a saxophone in the hands of a man who has dedicated his life to the instrument, backed by an expert trio. Virtuoso saxophonist Gilad Atzmon and Koullouras Trio are coming together for three concerts in Limassol, Paphos and Nicosia […]

Male rats exposed to very high levels of the kind of radiation emitted by cellphones developed tumors in the tissues around their hearts, according to a draft report by U.S. government researchers on the potential health risks of the devices. Female rats and mice exposed in the same way did not develop tumors, according to […]

The two most prolific marksmen in the Premier League this season will meet on Sunday as Liverpool host Tottenham Hotspur (6.30pm) in a game that could prove decisive in the increasingly tight battle to finish in the top four. With only five points separating Manchester United in second and Mauricio Pochettino’s Spurs in fifth, the […]

By Michelle Nichols North Korea violated United Nations sanctions to earn nearly $200 million in 2017 from banned commodity exports, according to a confidential report by independent U.N. monitors, which also accused Pyongyang of supplying weapons to Syria and Myanmar. The report to a U.N. Security Council sanctions committee, seen by Reuters on Friday, said […]

A rare baby monk seal spotted alone in Paphos harbour last week was recently seen swimming alongside its mother, the fisheries department said in a statement. “The adventure of the baby Mediterranean monk seal ended well,” the statement said. The lone seal – estimated to be around eight weeks old – had prompted concerns as […]

Four cars in the same Larnaca neighbourhood were set alight and completely destroyed in the early hours of Thursday. Two of the cars, parked in a field, were used by a forestry department employee – one belonged to him and the other to the department – and the other two belonged to the employee’s sister […]

Just over 24-hours before the runoff election for the coveted presidential seat, barbs between the two camps were being traded in earnest whilst the two candidates, in their final attempt to convince the public, urged people to vote for the best shot at a good future. President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday, the stakes were never clearer […]