Новости за 05.04.2018

Result from the Cyprus football championship playoffs on Thursday night: Ermis 3 Olympiakos 2

POLICE have released the photo of a man wanted for questioning in connection with Wednesday evening’s violence at the Anorthosis-Apoel football game. Authorities are calling on anyone with information on the man’s whereabouts to contact Larnaca CID at 24-804060/24-804072, their nearest police station, or call the Citizens Hotline at 1460. Police had also been seeking […]

The supreme court this week ruled in favour of a 46-year-old man, awarding him in total some €640,000 in compensation on the grounds of medical negligence on the part of the state health services. The man had sued the state, but the Nicosia district court had ruled against him. He then appealed the decision with […]

By Elias Hazou The government said on Thursday it will be issuing demarches “in every direction” against the planned construction of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant in southern Turkey. Government spokesman Prodromos Prodromou said the operation of the power station posed a health risk to the region, but especially to Cyprus due to its proximity […]

This week is not really a party week, and the musical events on the horizon have more of a hymn-like feel about them. So we’ll fast-forward a bit and take you to a jazz performance paying tribute to the fabulous ladies of jazz by the Steppin’ Out Trio on April 26, so you can put […]

Cyprus has received praise from the Group of States Against Corruption (Greco) for having taken a series of measures aimed at combating corruption in public life and boosting transparency in government. According to a statement released by the government Press and Information Office, during a recent meeting held for the third evaluation round on Cyprus, […]

The US trade deficit increased to a near 9-1/2-year high in February, with both imports and exports rising to record highs in a sign of strong domestic and global demand.   News on Thursday of the worsening trade deficit came as the United States and China were embroiled in tit-for-tat tariffs which escalated trade war […]

By Evie Andreou The government has taken steps that are expected to lead to the swift closure of the landfill site at Kotsiatis, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Thursday, after local residents sent the government an ultimatum, saying they would close roads to the area within two weeks if they did not get a […]

By Evie Andreou The Peria Chorio and Nisou community council threatened to block all streets leading to the nearby Kotsiatis landfill in two weeks’ time unless the government presents a convincing timeframe for the definite closing down of the facility. The community council said in an announcement that they would no longer tolerate postponements to […]

A company responsible for the leakage of hundreds of litres of petroleum into the Limassol port on March 26 was fined €8,000, the marine and fishery ministry reported on Thursday. The department announced they reached the decision to impose the fine and also charge the polluter for the cost of the clean-up after investigating the […]

Around 800 families have received help through the ‘Adopt a family for Easter’ initiative, the Pancyprian Volunteerism Coordinative Council (PVCC) said on Thursday. This is the fourth year the campaign is running, the PVCC said, which aims for “no family and no child to be left without what’s necessary to feel the joy of the resurrection […]

Police have arrested two men in the Nicosia region as part of a campaign to clamp down on public disturbance such as Easter bonfires and the use of firecrackers. According to a police announcement, officers, after a tip off, visited a village in the area at around 11.30pm on Wednesday where they found a group […]

The head of Britain’s military research centre said on Tuesday it was unable yet to say whether the military-grade nerve agent that poisoned a Russian double-agent last month had been produced in Russia. “We were able to identify it as Novichok, to identify that it was military-grade nerve agent,” Gary Aitkenhead, chief executive of the […]

There is something special about Liverpool’s Anfield on European nights as it transforms into a swirling cauldron of noise capable of inspiring its hosts and intimidating their foes as Manchester City discovered on Wednesday. Big games create big atmospheres, but the noise level inside the stadium for Liverpool’s 3-0 victory in the Champions League quarter-final, […]

The health ministry on Thursday informed the public that a batch of glass beer bottles with the trademark ‘Stella Artois’ may contain particles of glass after the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed issued a warning. The company has already started to voluntarily withdraw the product from the market and has also issued a […]

Australia’s formidable track cyclists captured a world record and three gold medals at the Commonwealth Games on Thursday, dominating the opening night at a roaring Anna Meares Velodrome. Riding a wave of frenetic home support, Leigh Howard, Sam Welsford, Kelland O’Brien and Alex Porter set a new benchmark in the men’s 4km team pursuit as […]

Forty more prisoners, 23 Cypriots and 17 foreign nationals, were released from jail on Thursday after receiving a presidential pardon ahead of Easter. The 40 convicts were going to be released by the end of June. By April 8, the prisoners, along with seven released on Wednesday, would have served half their sentence. Ten other […]

Four people were killed and three others were wounded on Thursday in a shooting at the Osmangazi University in Turkey’s northwestern province of Eskisehir, the school’s rector and local media said. The gunman, a researcher at the university, shot dead the assistant dean, faculty secretary, lecturer, and a staff member from the education faculty of […]

It appears that deposit outflows from co-op banks have stopped following the government’s action to deposit €2.5bn in the form of bonds, Finance Minister Harris Georgiades said on Thursday. Speaking after a meeting with the Green party, Georgiades said certain things and decisions were a result of Cyprus operating in a European environment. “European supervisory […]

It appears that deposit outflows from co-op banks have stopped following the government’s action to deposit €2.5bn in the form of bonds, Finance Minister Harris Georgiades said on Thursday. Speaking after a meeting with the Green party, Georgiades said certain things and decisions were a result of Cyprus operating in a European environment. “European supervisory […]

For kids, it wouldn’t be Easter without an egg hunt, and what better place to hunt for hundreds of Easter eggs than within a maze. The maze of which we speak is the one at the Cyherbia Botanical Park in Avgorou, where the annual Easter Egg Hunt will take place on Monday and Tuesday from 10am […]

The 72-year-old actress will put a number of diverse objects, including clothing, engraved baby cups, a paycheque her late mother Judy Garland received from MGM Studios when she was just 13, and a watercolour portrait of her at the age of three, up for sale through auction house Profiles in History next month. Speaking about […]

  By Michael Holden and Andrey Ostroukh Yulia Skripal made her first public comments on Thursday since being poisoned in Britain last month with her ex-Russian agent father, saying she was getting stronger by the day but shedding no new light on the incident. Yulia and Sergei Skripal, 66, were found slumped unconscious on a public bench in […]

Yulia Skripal, who was poisoned in Britain along with her father Sergei, has phoned her cousin in Russia and said they are both recovering and that she expects to leave hospital soon, Russian state TV and the Interfax news agency reported on Thursday. State TV announced on Wednesday evening that the conversation had taken place, […]

Britain needs to show proof that Russia was behind last month’s poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter in England, the German government’s coordinator for Russia said on Thursday. Gernot Erler said pressure was rising on Prime Minister Theresa May’s government after Britain’s military research centre, at Porton Down, said on Tuesday […]