Новости за 06.03.2018

Turkey’s provocations in Cyprus’ EEZ were at the forefront of Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides’ meeting with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Athens on Tuesday. During their meeting the two discussed the diplomatic steps Nicosia and Athens could take in response to the Turkish provocations in both the Cypriot EEZ and the Aegean. Following his […]

Confusion surrounds the enforcement of copyright laws, lawmakers said on Tuesday, urging the government to bring forward new legislation. In June last year Cyprus passed a law geared to harmonise with EU Directive 2014/26 (collective management of copyright and related rights and multi-territorial licensing of rights in musical works for online use in the internal […]

The beefing up of US naval forces in the eastern Mediterranean has been linked to ExxonMobil’s drilling for gas in Cyprus’ economic waters planned for later this year. On Tuesday, Russian news agency Sputnik said the presence in the eastern Med of surveyor ships contracted by ExxonMobil coincides with the arrival of the Iwo Jima […]

The beefing up of US naval forces in the eastern Mediterranean has been linked to ExxonMobil’s drilling for gas in Cyprus’ economic waters planned for later this year. On Tuesday, Russian news agency Sputnik said the presence in the eastern Med of surveyor ships contracted by ExxonMobil coincides with the arrival of the Iwo Jima […]

The European Union is cool to the idea of Britain’s “associate membership” in various agencies of the bloc as proposed by London to make Brexit less disruptive for British business, with officials saying the approach boils down to cherry picking. Britain started a process to leave the EU last year because it no longer wants […]

A new online Flight Search service was launched on Tuesday on Cyprus’ airport operator Hermes’ website. The service will display services to and from Larnaca and Paphos airports, Hermes said in a statement. Anyone interested in using the service can visit the website: www.hermesairports.com/en/larnakahome/destination-map-lca, where they can add the travel dates and any destination in […]

President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday received the credentials of five new ambassadors to the island; Peru, Armenia, Indonesia, Colombia and Togo, briefing them on the current situation with the Cyprus talks and Turkey’s provocations in the island’s exclusive economic zone. “Turkey’s most recent illegal actions in our maritime zones amount to escalated provocations and to […]

The Pharos Arts Foundation will present a piano recital by the first prize winner of the Cleveland International Piano Competition, Nikita Mndoyants on Friday in Nicosia. Mndoyants began to play the piano and compose music at a very young age – with his first public recital given at the age of eight and his first […]

Police on Tuesday honoured 42 people who stepped in over the past year to assist the emergency services including helping to save lives or by assisting in lost property being returned to its owners. At a ceremony in Nicosia adults and children were given commemorative plaques for their service to society in the presence of […]

Blood found in the cage of two Rottweilers is believed to be that of the 46-year-old woman mauled to death on February 22, the Paphos District Court heard on Tuesday. Police told the court that the blood had been identified through DNA testing by the Genetics Institute in Cyprus and that it belonged to Petruna […]

Britain warned Russia on Tuesday of a robust response if the Kremlin was behind a mysterious illness that has struck down a former double agent convicted of betraying dozens of spies to British intelligence. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson named Sergei Skripal, once a colonel in Russia’s GRU military intelligence service, and his daughter Yulia as the […]

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he saw “possible progress” regarding North Korea after South Korea said Pyongyang is willing to hold talks with the United States on denuclearisation and will suspend nuclear tests while discussions are under way. China also encouraged North and South Korea to continue their reconciliation efforts after a delegation from the South met with the […]

Ryanair announced 12 new routes from Paphos for winter 2018 on Tuesday, increasing its capacity by 74 per cent over last year. The new routes include Bournemouth and Liverpool and will contribute 940,000 passengers annually as Ryanair nearly doubles its operation in Paphos, Ryanair’s Chief Commercial Officer David O’Brien told a press conference. He told […]

The road tax for 155,000 vehicles has not yet been paid, and the deadline is on Sunday. According to the Cyprus News Agency, by Tuesday lunchtime the owners of close to 500,000 vehicles had paid their road tax with the state pocketing around €58.7m. The figures are down compared with the same period last year […]

Kurdish-allied Syrian Arab militias are redeploying 1,700 fighters from fronts against Islamic State to the Afrin region to help fend off a Turkish offensive, they said on Tuesday. “We have taken out around 1,700 fighters … to defend Afrin against terrorism,” said Abu Omar al-Edilbi, the spokesman for the militias, which have been fighting in eastern Syria as part […]

Repairs to the ground floor of the Nicosia District court building damaged by fire eight days ago were completed on Tuesday, and results of the scientific investigation into the cause of the fire were handed to police, the Cyprus News Agency reported. According to the agency, the detention facilities and part of the first floor […]

A Russian military transport plane crashed in Syria on Tuesday, killing all 32 people on board, Russian news agencies quoted the Russian Defence Ministry as saying, an incident that sharply raises the death toll from the Kremlin’s Syria operation. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is running for re-election later this month, ordered “a significant part” of Moscow’s military […]

Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou said Tuesday she had serious reservations over an opposition proposal to extend paternity leave to single fathers who live with the mother of their child. “I have serious reservations,” she told MPs during a discussion before the House labour committee. “If something happens to the man neither the woman nor the […]

A Greek court on Tuesday rejected a request by Ankara for the extradition of a man wanted over links to a banned militant group blamed for suicide bombings in Turkey, court officials said. Naci Ozpolat, 48, a Turkish national of Kurdish origin, is one of nine people detained by Greece‘s anti-terrorism service in November, weeks before […]

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said that the Premier League leaders must maintain a lengthy period of dominance in England and Europe in order to be compared with his former club Barcelona. City have won the League Cup in Guardiola’s second season in charge and are closing in on their first league title under the […]

Catalonia‘s parliament will convene next Monday to vote on the region’s new leader, assembly speaker Roger Torrent said on Tuesday, though it is unclear whether the candidate put forward by secessionist parties will be elected or not. Jordi Sanchez is currently in jail as he awaits trial on charges of rebellion and sedition over Catalonia‘s illegal […]

Limassol bus drivers said Tuesday that on March 20 they will be going ahead with a strike announced a month ago over pay disputes with the company, Emel. The drivers said they will be holding a 48-hour strike on March 20 and 21, urging all parties involved to work towards resolving the problem until then. […]

Energy, Commerce, Industry and Tourism Minister Yiorgos Lakkotrypis departs on Tuesday for Berlin, where he will lead the Cyprus delegation participating in the ITB International Tourism Exhibition 2018. Over the course of Wednesday and Thursday, Lakkotrypis will meet representatives of major airlines, as well as Germany’s main tour operators to discuss the increase in schedules […]

African immigrants marched through the streets of central Florence late on Monday chanting “no more racism” after an Italian man shot dead a Senegalese street vendor earlier in the day. Police said Roberto Pirrone had fired six pistol shots at close range, killing Idy Dienec as he sold leather bags, umbrellas and trinkets on a […]

Twenty-one migrants were missing and probably drowned after a rubber dinghy and a wooden boat set off from Libya for Italy and had to be rescued, the International Organisation for Migration said on Tuesday. The 21 people missing were all among the 51 on the wooden boat, and two dead infants had reportedly been discovered […]