Новости за 16.02.2018

By George Psyllides and Peter Michaels Attorney-general Costas Clerides on Friday rubbished claims by some media that the police probe into the leaked emails of senior state attorney Eleni Loizidou was a witch hunt against them. The statement came a day after reports that journalists other than those of Politis, which first published the content […]

House President Demetris Syllouris on Friday morning honoured Costas Tanos, the bus driver who found €10,000 in his vehicle blonging to an elderly man and promptly returned the money. Presenting the driver with a plaque, Syllouris said Tanos’ action sent a positive message in a society where people have financial problems. “I thought I did […]

A Russian Internet agency and more than a dozen Russians interfered in the U.S. election campaign from 2014 through 2016 in a multi-pronged effort with the aim of supporting then-businessman Donald Trump and disparaging his rival Hillary Clinton, the U.S. Special Counsel said in an indictment on Friday. Some of the defendants, posing as U.S. […]

A federal grand jury indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities accused of interfering with U.S. elections and political processes, U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office said on Friday. In a court document, the U.S. government said Russian entities began interfering in U.S. political processes, including the 2016 presidential election, as early as 2014. […]

Kids don’t come with a manual and nowadays it takes a lot to raise them. Giving parents and guardians a helping hand with everything that comes along with children, the Baby, Toddler and Christening exhibition will be held next weekend in Nicosia. If you are planning a christening, this is surely the place to be. It […]

A Brexit deal should strike a balance to ensure Britain clearly diverges from the European Union’s single market but keeps close economic ties with the bloc, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said after meeting British Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday. Merkel struck an upbeat tone after the talks, which she described as “a very constructive, […]

A yellow weather alert will be in effect as of Saturday morning until the afternoon, the met office said on Friday, forecasting wide-spread rain as parts of the island were also choked by atmospheric dust at the start of the Green Monday holiday weekend. Met official Michalis Mouskos warned there would be scattered flooding in […]

PAPHOS carnival parade slated to take place in the town on Saturday afternoon has been postponed until Sunday, according to the mayor. Phedonas Phedonos announced on social media that the popular parade will be held at 3pm on Sunday, due to the bad weather conditions. A municipality spokesman confirmed to the Cyprus Mail that the […]

An influential member of Angela Merkel’s conservatives on Friday urged the German chancellor to form a minority government instead of a planned alliance with the Social Democrats (SPD), saying the SPD would not be a reliable partner. Merkel last week finalised a four-year government programme after making painful concessions to the SPD to secure a […]

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has dismissed media speculation of a rift with Paul Pogba as a “big lie” and said that the midfielder was well aware of the need to improve after below-par displays in the last few weeks. The France international, 24, was substituted in the 2-0 Premier League defeat at Tottenham Hotspur and started […]

A man was sentenced to nine years in prison on Friday after he was convicted by the Paphos court of trying to kill his 15-year-old stepson last year. On July 6, a 19-year-old woman reported to police that at 11.40pm, her stepfather, 40, attacked her teenage brother and tried to strangle him with a rope […]

The question of the resumption of negotiations on the solution of the Cyprus issue is among the issues that the European Union discusses on a regular and permanent basis with its Turkish counterparts, EU High Representative Federica Mogherini said on Friday. Responding to a question about the release of journalist Deniz Yucel  by the Turkish […]

Farmers called on Friday for a stop to the transport of potatoes from the north as tonnes of their own produce was being left unsold. In a letter to Agriculture Minister, Nicos Kouyialis, the farmers’ associations Eka, Pek, Panagrotikos, Nea Agrotiki Kinisi and Evroagrotikos, protested the transport of around 2,500 tonnes of potatoes from the […]

The game and fauna service said on Friday they had recently found a young Bonelli’s eagle dead, believed from poisoning, along with a number of birds of the corvids species in a field in Menogeia in the Larnaca district. A number of rodents were also found dead close by. “At first sight the cause of death […]

A Turkish court on Friday sentenced six journalists, including two prominent brothers, to life in jail for aiding plotters of a 2016 failed coup, state media said, a sharp turnaround after the country’s highest court ordered one of the men released. Mehmet Altan, an economics professor and journalist, and his brother Ahmet, also a journalist, […]

Cyprus is looking to introduce legislation mandating roadworthiness tests for motorcycles over 125cc starting in 2021 as part of harmonising with a European Union directive, it emerged on Friday. The bill which transposes EU directive 2014/45 into national law was discussed by the House transport committee on Friday in its first session after Christmas and […]

President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday welcomed to Cyprus the Fifa World Cup trophy that arrived on the island as part of the fourth Fifa World Cup Trophy Tour by Coca-Cola. During the arrival ceremony at the VIP lounge of the old Larnaca airport, Anastasiades had the opportunity to hold the golden trophy, before it was […]

Billionaire investor and activist George Soros has met a European Central Bank director to argue for closer eurozone integration, prompting criticism from some EU lawmakers who fear he is exerting undue influence on a sensitive political issue. The Hungarian-born financier is a veteran advocate of European unity whose championing of liberal causes over decades has earned him […]

All moon gazers will be itching to see the Black Moon this month, so make a plan to go to the Kition Planetarium and Observatory in Larnaca. February is a special month because of the carnival, Valentine’s Day and also because there will be no full moon at all this month – that means no […]

The breastfeeding association has filed a complaint against a labour ministry employee for inappropriate behaviour after she allegedly refused to serve a mother who had gone to register at the unemployment office after she tried to breastfeed her 17-month-old daughter in her presence. According to a letter sent by the head of the breastfeeding association […]

Valentine’s day may be over, the carnival period maybe drawing to an end and after Monday it will be business as usual, but we can always get away from our dreaded monotony by venturing out to the theatre. The theatrical week will start on Wednesday with a performance of two dramas in Limassol – Gas […]

The United States and Turkey agreed on Friday to try to rescue a strategic relationship that Washington acknowledged had reached a crisis point, with Turkeyproposing a joint deployment in Syria if a US-backed Kurdish militia leaves a border area. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met President Tayyip Erdogan during a two-day visit that followed weeks of escalating […]

German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yucel, who was detained in Turkey a year ago, has been indicted for alleged security offences but a court has decided to release him pending trial, state-run Turkish news agency Anadolu said on Friday. Die Welt, the German newspaper for which he works, had reported earlier in the day that Yucel had been freed, […]

The 34-year-old actress admitted there is a sense of “responsibility” that comes with being part of a “marginalised group” but she wants to be free to make her own decisions without having to worry about wider implications. Tessa told The Guardian newspaper: “That’s an unfortunate thing, being inside of a marginalised group: you either become […]

Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right bloc has a clear lead ahead of Italy‘s parliamentary election on March 4 but is unlikely to win an absolute majority, a batch of final opinion polls showed on Friday, pointing to possible political deadlock. Under Italian election rules, polls cannot be published in the final two weeks of campaigning. Some 50 surveys […]