Новости за 19.03.2018

Limassol bus drivers announced on Monday they were going on a 48-hour strike on Tuesday after their employer failed to restore their slashed benefits. The decision to go ahead with the strike announced a month ago was taken on Monday after negotiations between Limassol bus company, Emel, and the workers, mediated by the labour ministry, […]

  By Robin Emmott Britain’s foreign minister won further support from the European Union and Nato on Monday over a nerve agent attack on a former Russian double agent as he denounced Moscow’s denials of involvement as “increasingly absurd”. Johnson discussed the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia at a session of EU foreign […]

A joint search and rescue exercise took place on Monday between the Republic of Cyprus and the United Kingdom in the maritime area south of Cyprus. According to the ministry of defence, the Republic’s helicopters, patrol vessel ‘Tsomakis’ and nurses from the health ministry took part along with HMS Echo of the UK Royal Navy. […]

Lawmakers plan to draft a bill aiming to eliminate a distortion where certain buyers of real estate must pay property transfer fees while others do not. When a person buys a new property and pays VAT on it, he or she is not subject to transfer fees, whereas transfer fees do apply when the transaction […]

Local glassmaker Yorgos Papadopoulos, who lives in London half the time and spends the other half on our island, is preparing to showcase his latest creations in the exhibition 35oN/33oE Georef, which will open at the Almyra Hotel in Paphos on Saturday. After working from his studio in London for two decades, last year Papadopoulos […]

Police have launched a probe into one of their officers who was suspended after a woman reported he had stripped off his clothes and performed indecent acts outside her house, it was reported on Monday. According to Sigmalive, the incident occurred last week. The officer was reportedly remanded for four days and was suspended. A […]

The post mortem on the new-born baby that was found dead in a Nicosia home on Saturday is expected to shed light on the circumstances around its death, police said on Monday. The baby was found in a plastic bag on Saturday in the Nicosia home of a 26-year-old woman. According to the police, the […]

Turkey will ask the European Union about the remainder of a 3 billion euros fund intended for Syrian refugees during talks in Bulgaria next week, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday. Turkey has accepted 3.5 million refugees from Syria, and the EU is already spending 3 billion euros to help them as part of a 2016 […]

Loucis Loucaides, a former judge of the European Court of Human Rights and a former deputy attorney-general, has lost an appeal he filed with the supreme court by which he was contesting a speeding fine. Loucaides was caught speeding on November 22, 2016 on Grivas Digenis Avenue in Nicosia. He clocked 83km/h, when the speed […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin struck a softer tone towards the West on Monday after winning his biggest ever election victory, saying he had no desire for an arms race and would do everything he could to resolve differences with other countries. Putin’s victory, which comes at a time when his relations with the West are […]

Workers at a waste management plant in Larnaca staged a strike on Monday over delays in renewing their collective agreement. The 80 workers at the Koshi plant decided to strike between 6.30am and 10pm on Monday after the company said it would not be signing the renewal of the agreement that ended in December last […]

Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen said Andres Iniesta still has plenty more to offer after the midfielder was given a rousing reception in Sunday’s 2-0 La Liga win over Athletic Bilbao, days after admitting he is considering his future. Iniesta, 33, has spent his entire career at Barca but said last week he has received […]

World Rugby has contacted Rugby Europe after Spain complained bitterly about the refereeing during their defeat by Belgium on Sunday which meant they missed a chance to qualify for the 2019 World Cup. Spanish players were left fuming over the performance of Romanian official Vlad Iordachescu after an 18-10 defeat in Brussels gave Romania second […]

The bill on the decriminalising abortion will be tabled to the House plenum for a vote next week, MPs said on Monday. The around three-year long discussion of the bill by the House human rights committee was completed on Monday and MPs will vote on March 30. Disy MP and head of the committee, Stella […]

The US Supreme Court on Monday took up a new dispute over the detention of immigrants in a case involving whether people who were convicted of criminal offenses and were subject to deportation can go free in certain instances after serving their prison terms. The justices will hear an appeal by President Donald Trump’s administration […]

Cypriots start gambling on average at the age of 12.5 while six per cent of the population are pathological gamblers, a study presented by the national betting authority on Monday revealed. According to the results, 75 per cent of the population over the age of 15 gambles or dabbles with it at some point in […]

Manchester United cannot consider their current season to be a successful one even if they win the FA Cup, midfielder Nemanja Matic has said. United’s 2-0 win over Brighton and Hove Albion in the FA Cup quarter-finals on Saturday kept alive their only realistic chance of winning a trophy this season after their exit from […]

Over €25 million in additional cash from the EU cohesion fund will be given to Cyprus towards finishing the works on a key motorway linking Limassol port to Paphos on the western coast of the island, the European Commission announced on Monday. “This EU-funded project will ensure smoother transport of passengers and goods from and to […]

President Bashar al-Assad flaunted government advances inSyria‘s seven-year war by filming himself driving to meet frontline soldiers near Damascus, making a video of the journey from the city centre into areas recently recaptured. “The road is open… everything is running now in the city and in Syria,” he said in the video, describing a road that […]

Tottenham Hotspur must build a winning culture in major competitions like the Premier League and Champions League to develop as a club rather than focusing on domestic cup competitions, manager Mauricio Pochettino has said. The north London side booked an FA Cup semi-final spot by beating Swansea City 3-0 in the quarter-finals on Saturday. “I […]

THE gloves are off in Peyia following an ‘all Peyia meeting’ held in the municipality on Sunday organised by officials angered by the public’s opposition to development of the sea caves coastline. A proposed ‘white zone’ suggested by Green party MP George Perdikis incensed local authorities and Paphos MPs of four of the main political […]

The five-piece band Black Anis from Nicosia is getting ready to launch its debut album Resonance 21:16 on Thursday at Savino Live in Larnaca. The band – Adriana Di Antonio on lead vocals, Orestis Savva on lead guitar and backing vocals, Kyriakos Christodoulides on rhythm guitar, Xanthos Pattichis on bass and Frixos Protopapas on drums […]

More than 200,000 people who fled a Turkey-led offensive on the Kurdish town of Afrin are without shelter or access to food and water in nearby areas, a Syrian Kurdish official from Afrin told Reuters on Monday. “The people with cars are sleeping in the cars, the people without are sleeping under the trees with their […]

Kurds celebrating the New Year holiday of Newroz in the north clashed with police who ended up arresting eight people, reports said on Monday. The event took place in Trikomo in the presence of a strong police force which carried out checks on people taking part. A ban on songs considered as propaganda and the […]

THEO PANAYIDES meets a globalised technocrat who has managed to stay calm despite taking on a number of roles around the world in the aftermath of atrocities   Margareta Wahlström shouldn’t be confused with Margot Wallström, even though both are high-powered Swedish women of a similar age. Ms Wallström is the Swedish foreign minister; Ms […]