Новости за 11.02.2018

By Bejay Browne A BRITISH mother living in Paphos, another victim of the Swiss francs mortgage mis-selling scandal, has issued a desperate plea for help after being swamped by a mountain of debt caused by a property purchase under the scheme. Laura (not her real name) contacted the Sunday Mail as she felt she has […]

A 52-year-old was slapped with a €2,000 fine on Sunday after he was caught hunting in game reserve area in Akourdalia in Paphos. He was caught by members of the Game and Fauna service.

Two men were remanded on Sunday in two separate cases of alleged possession of crystal methamphetamine. A 31-year-old man was remanded on Sunday for eight days after one kilo of crystal meth was found in his car on Saturday night. The crystal meth, which was in two plastic bags, was found in his car after a search by customs officers at […]

NEWCASTLE UNITED 1 MANCHESTER UNITED 0 Matt Ritchie lifted the gloom on Tyneside with the winner in Newcastle United’s crucial 1-0 victory over Manchester United in the Premier League on Sunday — their first three-point haul at home since October. Newcastle had fallen into the bottom three before kickoff after Huddersfield Town’s earlier win over […]

Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party elected new leaders on Sunday, at a congress that party officials said authorities had tried to stop by arresting hundreds of would-be attendees. The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) met to replace Selahattin Demirtas, its leader since June 2014 and the person who took it into parliament for the first time, as […]

By Daniel Ramos   A street vendor’s cooking gas container exploded on Saturday night amid a Carnival celebration in the Bolivian city of Oruro, killing eight and injuring 40 others, police said. The vendor, who was cooking deep fried llama rinds, had likely dripped hot oil onto the hose of the cooking gas container, prompting […]

Thousands on Sunday attended the two carnival parades, one in Limassol, the other in Aglandjia, in Nicosia. In Limassol, the King and Queen of the Limassol Carnival led the children’s parade on Sunday morning. Following the parade, a children’s party took place at the square of the old Limassol port, organised by the municipality and the Ports Authority. The […]

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday that regional cooperation agreements Cyprus signed could establish an informal forum which could evolve into an important lever for security and cooperation in the region. He was addressing the Maronite community following a church service in honour of Saint Maroun in Nicosia, in the presence of Lebanon’s Foreign Affairs […]

Cyprus was taking all necessary diplomatic steps to resolve peacefully the harassment of ENI’s drillship Saipem 12000 by Turkish warships and avoid an escalation, President Nicos Anastasiades  said on Sunday. “It is with sorrow that we are monitoring Turkey’s actions,” Anastasiades said. The government was keeping its calm to avoid any crisis, while it was taking […]

The two men who escaped from prison in the north last week were arrested in Larnaca on Saturday and are to be returned to the breakaway regime, it was reported on Sunday. According to media reports in the north, the two fugitives, a 40-year-old permanent resident in the north and a 17-year-old from Turkmenistan, were […]

U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster held talks on Sunday in Istanbul with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman, a presidential source said, amid persistent tensions between the NATO allies over Syria and other issues. Turkey is targeting the Syrian Kurdish militia YPG in a weeks-long air and ground operation in Syria’s Afrin region. Turkey considers […]

By Evie Andreou The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Unhcr) in Cyprus has launched a short film produced by seven young refugees residing in Cyprus who wanted to share their lives with the wider public. Abdul, Eskandar, Babucar, Fatima, Laeticia, Rosa and Yanick all refugees from the Middle East and Africa, are […]

A plane operated by Russia’s Saratov Airlines crashed near Moscow on Sunday, killing all 71 people on board, news agencies said. There were 65 passengers and six crew members onboard the plane which went missing from radars less than 10 minutes after taking off from Moscow’s Domodedovo airport, TASS reported. The plane – a short-haul […]

Classical pianists Tatiana Stupak and Natalia Lezedova will present the world premiere of 19 piano works by composer David Pentecost in Paphos on Tuesday. Most of the Limassol-based composer’s works are in the popular romantic classical style of the 19th century although he does write some in the styles of earlier composers such as Haydn […]

By Christine Kim   North Korea’s delegation sent to the Winter Olympics held “frank and candid” talks with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, the North Korean news agency said on Sunday, but it made no mention of the North’s invitation to Moon to Pyongyang for a summit. The delegation, the highest-ranking to visit the South […]

Britain will cut off aid funding from any organisation that does not comply with a new review into charities work overseas, aid minister Penny Mordaunt said on Sunday, describing reports of sexual exploitation in the sector as “utterly despicable”. Oxfam, one of Britain’s biggest charities, on Friday condemned the behaviour of some former staff in […]

By Agnieszka Rakoczy THE newly formed Turkish Cypriot four-party ‘governing’ coalition announced its programme on Friday. Experts say the reform block’s priorities — 22 in all — address many of the most chronic issues now facing the north of Cyprus and that the proposed remedies are realistic, feasible and formulated in such a way that it […]

Cyprus enjoys the full and unreserved support of all European bodies and political groups on the Cyprus problem, Cypriot MEP Lefteris Christoforou said. In an interview to the Cyprus News Agency published on Sunday, Christoforou said that  European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans, said during a meeting they recently had, that the EU cannot accept troops, […]

Dutch speed skater Sven Kramer raced into the record books on Sunday by winning his third consecutive Olympic gold medal in the men’s 5,000 metres. Kramer, the first man to win three golds in the same speed skating event at the Winter Games, set an Olympic record of six minutes 09.76 seconds, finishing ahead of […]

Simen Hegstad Krueger of Norway broke away on the penultimate lap to storm to victory in the men’s Olympic skiathlon on Sunday and lead a clean sweep of medals for Norway. Martin Johnsrud Sundby and Hans Christer Holund took the silver and bronze in the gruelling cross-country event, in which athletes have to race 15 km […]

By Stephen Kalin   Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton Hotel reopened on Sunday, more than three months after it was converted into a gilded prison for members of Saudi Arabia’s business and political elite detained in an anti-corruption purge. The gates of the luxury hotel, where U.S. President Donald Trump stayed during his state visit last year, had […]

By William James   British Prime Minister Theresa May will make two speeches on Brexit in the coming weeks to provide more details setting out the country’s path to leaving the European Union. Britain is hoping to seal a transition deal next month to smooth its exit from the EU, and reach agreement on a […]

Two men were killed in the early hours of Sunday in a motorcycle accident in Limassol. Marinos Constantinou, 20, and Nikolas Perikas, 24, both from Limassol, died after the motorcycle they were riding crashed. According to the police the accident occurred at around 1.40 am on Omonoia Avenue when the high powered motorcycle the two were on veered off […]

Two men from Limassol, Marinos Constantinou, 20, and Nikolas Perikas, 24, died early on Sunday after the motorcycle they were riding overturned on Omonoia Avenue . According to police the accident occurred at around 1.40 am on Omonoia Avenue when the high powered motorcycle the two men were riding veered off course, overturned, and crashed […]

Over the past several years, migrant support group Kisa and the Unhcr have put extensive pressure on the Cypriot authorities to raise the quality of life at the Kofinou reception centre for asylum seekers. Little seems to have improved however. Benjamin Rawlings left his comfort zone to check it out On the day I visited […]