Новости за 08.02.2018

Two British Islamic State militants known for their role in the torture and killings of Western hostages were captured by Syrian Kurdish fighters, two U.S. officials said on Thursday. The men were part of a group of four militants known as the “Beatles” for their English accents and were the last ones to remain at […]

Ankara will strip the word “Turkish” from the name of its main medical association after the organisation publicly opposed the military campaign in Syria, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday. It is the latest in a growing feud between Erdogan and the 83,000-member Turkish Medical Association and emblematic of the president’s broader push against traditionally […]

ITALIAN energy giant ENI said on Thursday that it made a discovery of lean gas off the coast of Cyprus after drilling an exploratory well at Calypso, the exploration target in offshore block 6 of the island’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ). An analysis of data following a collection of fluids and rock samples revealed that […]

A delegation from Paphos municipality will leave for Israel on Sunday to participate in a new technologies expo and the town’s mayor will also attend a high-level meeting. Mayor Phedonas Phedonos, has been invited to attend the meeting of the 32nd International Conference of Mayors with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, a municipality […]

Woolworth Properties Plc has agreed to sell three properties worth €44 million to Bank of Cyprus, the company said on Thursday in a filing with the Cyprus Stock Exchange. The deal concerns the Shacolas Tower on Ledra Street, the Superhome Center (DIY) department store in Strovolos, and Debenhams Apollon in Limassol. The properties are to […]

The Pentagon on Thursday said it was not certain that the Washington-area would host a parade requested by President Donald Trump to honour the US military. “We don’t know that. There are options and we will explore those and the president will ultimately decide,” said Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White, adding that the US Army was […]

The Nicosia criminal court on Thursday sentenced a 34-year-old man to 20 years in prison having found him guilty on charges of rape and indecent assault. The man was handed 20 years for rape and another three years for indecent assault, with the two sentences to run concurrently. In a separate case, the court handed […]

The owners of Gandhi, a three-year-old cat that returned home in Pervolia in Larnaca this week covered in blood and with his body peppered with air gun pellets, on Thursday made a desperate plea for hunting to stop in residential areas. The couple moved some two months ago to a sparsely inhabited area in Pervolia, […]

The culling process continues at Diko of people who either supported other candidacies or undermined, according to the party, the chairman’s candidacy in the presidential elections. Reports said the party’s secretariat discussed the issue of six more members who were among those supporting the candidacies of incumbent Nicos Anastasiades and Akel-backed Stavros Malas. The secretariat […]

The plays of William Shakespeare often play with the notion of love. Some of them tell the story of star-crossed lovers, others of lovers who fall into a fantasy world, and there are also those which speak of lovers who are in love with love itself. This last category tells us that music is the […]

EU lawmakers backed a motion on Thursday calling for an assessment of whether Europe should stop moving clocks forward and back between summer and winter time, following a call from Finland. EU law since the 1990s has coordinated the shift to summer time, laying down that citizens in all 28 EU countries move their clocks […]

In total nine out of 15, or 60 per cent, of narcotests administered so far have been positive, deputy director of the traffic police Haris Evripidou said on Thursday. The narcotest was introduced late last month. The tests, which were carried out mainly in Nicosia, Limassol and Paphos were preliminary and have all been sent […]

News that billionaire financier George Soros is a backer of a campaign group seeking to keep Britain in the EU added fire to Britain’s Brexit debate on Thursday, with supporters of quitting the bloc accusing opponents of plotting a “coup”. The Best of Britain campaign group confirmed it had received £400,000 from Soros. Soros, best […]

Salah Abdeslam, the prime surviving suspect of the 2015 Paris attacks, should be acquitted of attempted murder during a shootout with police in Brussels in 2016 because of procedural errors, his lawyer said on Thursday. Prosecutors in Belgium have charged Abdeslam, 28, with attempted murder over the Brussels shootout, days before his arrest, and called […]

A 40-year-old man who escaped from prison in the north is believed to have fled to the government-controlled areas authorities of the breakaway regime said on Thursday. According to media reports in the north, interior ‘minister’, Aysegul Baybars, said that evidence point out that the 40-year-old prison breaker escaped to the government-controlled areas. The 40-year-old, […]

President Nicos Anastasiades will be seeing his ministers individually in the coming days before deciding on the composition of his cabinet as he heads into his new term, though Finance Minister Harris Georgiades’ refusal to continue in his post is proving to be a headache. Ministers departing the cabinet meeting on Thursday dodged questions regarding […]

Police found a total of 17 men, most likely illegal immigrants late Wednesday and early Thursday in the Nicosia area. Around 9.30pm on Wednesday, Peristerona police were informed that three men, 19, 17 and 16, were found in the area. Nicosia aliens and immigration unit are investigating their status in the Republic. At 4.20am, another […]

There is climate change, there is poverty and the world is becoming a place that some of us no longer want to bring children into. The question of parental responsibility, and so much more, is at the centre of the play Lungs by Duncan Macmillian, which will be performed as of Saturday in Nicosia. The Maria […]

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger weighed into the debate about simulation in the Premier League by suggesting that English players may have become “the masters of diving” ahead of the north London derby against Tottenham Hotspur at Wembley. Wenger was speaking as the fallout continued from last weekend’s 2-2 draw between Liverpool and Spurs when Tottenham’s […]

Thousands of Palestinian travellers gathered at Gaza’s border crossing with Egypt on Thursday hoping for a brief chance to leave after Cairo temporarily opened a frontier it largely keeps closed as it battles an Islamist insurgency on the other side. Israel also maintains tight restrictions on its border with the Gaza Strip, meaning the 2 […]

France plans to increase defence spending by more than a third between 2017 and 2025 with the aim of meeting a Nato target of spending 2 per cent of gross domestic product on the sector. Presenting the multi-year military spending plan on Thursday, the Armed Forces Ministry said its budget would increase by 1.8 per cent […]

A 47-year-old man was shot dead in a Limassol tavern at lunchtime on Thursday. At around 2pm, three persons walked into the tavern in Yermasogia, in the heart of Limassol’s tourist area and shot him three times. According to Limassol CID chief Ioannis Sotiriades, the man was sitting on the outside section of the tavern […]

A 47-year-old man was shot dead in a Limassol tavern at lunchtime on Thursday, police said. At around 2pm, three persons walked into the tavern in Yermasoyia and shot him three times before escaping on foot. The victim was taken to Limassol general hospital where doctors confirmed his death. Police are currently at the scene. […]

The dust affecting Cyprus will persist until Monday, officials said, as they urged vulnerable groups to take all necessary precautions. Met service official Michalis Mouskos said there will also be a rise in dust particles in the atmosphere on Saturday evening and Sunday morning but the phenomenon is expected to dissipate with the start of […]

North Korea has no intention of meeting US officials during the Winter Olympics that start in South Korea on Friday, state media said, dampening hopes the Games will help resolve a tense standoff over the North‘s nuclear weapons programme. However, the North‘s high-ranking delegation, including the younger sister of its leader Kim Jong Un, will meet South Korean President Moon Jae-in and […]