Новости за 10.03.2018

The Collection Gallery in Nicosia will bring a variety of artwork together created by 100 artists in the symbolic exhibition Salon D’Automne Cyprus 2018 – In Art No Borders. The exhibition, curated by internationally acclaimed artist Michele Ansermet Papadopoulos, will open on Wednesday at 7.30pm and remain open until April 25. It is part of […]

British police have identified more than 200 witnesses and are looking at more than 240 pieces of evidence in their investigation into a nerve agent attack on a Russian ex-spy and his daughter, interior minister Amber Rudd said on Saturday. Rudd told reporters after chairing a meeting of the government’s Cobra security committee that more […]

West Ham United could face serious repercussions after several pitch invasions during the second half of a crushing 3-0 home Premier League defeat by Burnley. West Ham, dangerously close to the relegation zone, dominated the first half but everything turned sour at the London Stadium after the break. Ashley Barnes fired Burnley ahead in the […]

The conditions under which a Cyprus reunification process could resume, remain uncertain, according to analyst for the US Congress Vincent Morelli, a Section Research Manager in the US Congress Research Service, reached the conclusion in a complementary report titled “Cyprus: Reunification Proving Elusive.” The new report which complements a previous one issued on January 2, […]

To save the world’s oceans from rampant over-fishing, pollution and degradation, countries should hammer out a deal like the Paris Agreement on climate change that sets stringent targets for protection, said the head of global conservation group WWF. Such an accord would help the world’s poorest who depend on the seas for jobs and food, […]

Internationally renowned French archaeologist Jacqueline Karageorghis – Girard has died, it was announced on Saturday. She was 85. Karageorghis moved to Cyprus in the 1950s after completing her studies at the University of Lyon. She married to the former director of the department of antiquities, Vassos Karageorghis in 1953 and together they had two children, […]

Accelerating the reduction of non-performing loans continues to be a key objective, a senior Central Bank official said Saturday, noting however that a new legal framework that could have helped is largely unenforceable. Acting Senior Director, Supervision Division, Yiangos Demetriou, said NPLs at the end of last year were around €20bn, down €4bn from the […]

A trade war between Europe and the United States can still be averted, German Economy Minister Brigitte Zypries said on Saturday, adding she hoped that talks in Brussels this weekend could help to prevent an escalation. US President Donald Trump set import tariffs on Thursday of 25 per cent on steel and 10 per cent […]

The film The Iron Lady gave us a closer look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, with Meryl Streep taking home the Academy Award for best actress in 2012. Now Theatro Ena in Nicosia and Limassol will present a theatrical performance based on the life of Britain’s Prime Minister that shows just how lonely it […]

The Syrian army intensified its onslaught in eastern Ghouta on Saturday with advances that a war monitor and state media said had splintered the enclave, though a rebel official denied this. Syrian state television broadcast from inside the town of Mesraba, a town lying along the road connecting the northern and southern halves of the […]

Turkey has issued a new navigational warning bounding the island’s east, south, and western coasts from Monday to Sunday and again from March 22 until the 29th. According to the warning, which also skirts an offshore block earmarked for natural gas exploration by the republic, a Turkish warship will be towing an underwater device during […]

Turkey has issued a new navigational warning bounding the island’s east, south, and western coasts from Monday to Sunday and again from March 22 until the 29th. According to the warning, which also skirts an offshore block earmarked for natural gas exploration by the republic, a Turkish warship will be towing an underwater device during […]

Where do you live? Ayia Napa Best childhood memory? Playing in the mud with my sister, riding on the same bike together down hills in Ayia Napa. Hanging with my older bother and his friends, skateboarding and with my youngest brother baking cakes and leaving the mess for our Mother to clean up. Most frequented […]

Police arrested two men in Limassol in connection with possession of burglary tools at night, a cleaver, stolen property, and traffic offences, it was reported on Saturday. The pair, aged 28 and 35, were arrested at around 9pm after they tried to escape a police patrol in their car. Officers saw that the suspects’ vehicle […]

President Nicos Anastasiades pledged on Friday night to continue working the lifting of the embargo on Cypriot-flagged ships imposed in 1987. Anastasiades was addressing the annual official dinner hosted by the Cyprus Shipping Chamber in Nicosia. He said “a viable and functional solution to the Cyprus problem would inevitably lead to the lifting of the Turkish restrictive […]

The environment department has rejected a plan for the development of a large forest area in the Limassol village of Pera Pedi on the Troodos range, reports said on Saturday. Media reports said the department has put a halt on the development, which involved an expanse totalling almost 200,000 square metres, of which construction would […]

The UK Labour Party has condemned Turkey’s actions in the area of the exclusive economic zone of Cyprus as “wholly unacceptable”. In a statement released on Friday evening to the National Federation of Cypriots in the UK and its President Christos Karaolis, the major opposition party says: “The actions of Turkey in the Cyprus exclusive economic zone […]

On Wednesday in Paphos two flutes will accompany a piano to present music based on works by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Claude Debussy, Philippe Gaubert, Francois Borne and Franz Doppler. The flutes will be in the hands of Virginie Bove and Savvas Christodouou while the piano will be played by Gergana Georgieva. Together the three musicians […]

There is never any shortage of spice to the North West derby between Manchester United and Liverpool but if any were needed the battle for second place in the Premier League surely provides it. With neighbours Manchester City 16 points clear at the top and needing just four more wins to be sure of the […]

Two crucial games in the relegation group will take place on Saturday in the Cyprus football championship as Doxa Katokopias take on Nea Salamina in Nicosia, while in Larnaca, Alki entertain Olympiakos in a game that may go a long way in deciding the final team to go down. Olympiakos trail their hosts by six […]

Three women and a gunman who held them hostage at a California home for U.S. war veterans were found dead inside the room where he was holed up on Friday, bringing a tragic end to an all-day standoff with police at the facility, authorities said. A state senator whose district includes the area, Bill Dodd, […]

Former Diko leader Marios Garoyian said on Friday he was continuing consultations with people who felt that the empty spot in the moderate political centre needed to be filled and he did not rule out the possibility of creating a new party if and when conditions allowed. Speaking on state broadcaster Cybc, Garoyian, who was […]

THE WAR of words and grandstanding over hydrocarbons has become the only political show in town in the last few weeks. Politicians and media on both sides of the dividing line as well as in Turkey and, to a much lesser extent, in Greece have been publicly squabbling ever since Turkey stopped the ENI drillship […]

Four people were arrested after they climbed on to a first-floor balcony of the Iranian embassy in London on Friday and waved flags in an apparent protest against the government in Tehran. The four were arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage and being unlawfully on diplomatic premises, a spokeswoman for London’s Metropolitan Police said. […]

Britain and Saudi Arabia took a step closer to a multi-billion- pound arms deal on Friday, touching on the most inflammatory element of their relationship at the end of an official visit to London that has mixed warm diplomacy with angry street protests. The two countries also said they had made trade deals worth more […]