Новости за 04.06.2018

Torrential rains and enormous hailstones that created a winter wonderland at the start of summer by blanketing the mountains in white caused mixed feelings on Monday, as some gushed over the rarity of the phenomenon while others mourned their destroyed crops. The hailstorm lasted for about an hour in the early afternoon and left almost […]

Four proposals for horizontal voting have been submitted to the House interior committee for discussion, the head of the committee, Eleni Mavrou said on Monday. Ruling Disy filed a proposal for horizontal voting in local government elections, the Citizens’ Alliance for parliamentary elections, and the Greens, one on parliamentary and one on euro-elections. Horizontal, or […]

One of the main suspects in the robbery of a Co-operative Bank outlet in Limassol last March, Charalambos Kaloyerides, 33, was remanded on Monday for eight days, while police are still searching for the whereabouts of a second suspect. Kaloyerides, who had been wanted by police in connection with the robbery at the Ayios Athanasios Co-Op […]

Even though we came second in the Eurovision Song Contest this month, the debate as to whether the 2019 song contest will be held on our shores is still going strong. While Eurovision fans fight it out, we can still dance and sing along to Fuego – as it is on the radio every second […]

Formula One is excited by the possibility of a race in Vietnam as part of an expansion in Asia but Europe remains the bedrock of the sport, chief executive Chase Carey said on Monday. Formula One has been discussing with the Vietnamese authorities about staging a street race in Hanoi, possibly as early as 2020, […]

Finance minister Harris Georgiades on Monday defended the government’s decision to gradually restore civil servants’ salaries to 2011 levels – when the first cuts were imposed – insisting that the public payroll would not spin out of control again. Speaking to the public broadcaster CyBC, Georgiades was on a damage-control mission after employers’ organisations in […]

The health minister on Monday launched a disciplinary probe against a doctor, as the ministry denied a report by the state broadcaster claiming a possible cover-up of a case that originally broke in 2015. State broadcaster CyBC reported on Sunday that an administrative probe in 2016 had found possible offences, prompting the ministry to order […]

Maximilian Marteter probably wondered what all the fuss was about when, two games into his first match against the best claycourt player ever on Monday, he led French Open champion Rafael Nadal 2-0 on the Spaniard’s favourite patch of red dirt. The German youngster quickly discovered just what it feels like to be on the receiving end of […]

The telecommunications race in Cyprus is “heating up”, as the needs of the Cypriots are constantly increased both in terms of speed and reliability. In this race, the customers demand more from the telecoms companies – they want more speed, wider coverage, and better prices. Mobile internet becomes more of a necessity in daily basis, […]

Around 93 per cent of fires are due to human action, fire service chief Marcos Trangolas said on Monday at the launch of a volunteer fire patrol programme. The programme, Hephaestus 2018, which is running for the second consecutive year, involves joint actions for the prevention and tackling of fires in rural and other high-risk […]

The United States urged China to make a full public account of a crackdown on student-led pro-democracy protests in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 as tens of thousands in Hong Kong held a candlelight vigil for the victims. The Chinese government sent tanks to quell the June 4, 1989 protests, and has never released a […]

A group of hundreds of dancers failed to break a world record in front of the castle in Kato Paphos on Sunday, but have vowed to try again in October. It was hoped that 1,200 people would turn up, and at least 1,000 people were needed, to dance the Hasapiko for five minutes straight to […]

The Video Assistant Referee system is set to be used at the World Cup finals in Russia. It is the first time the VAR will be available to help guide match officials at the tournament on potential game-changing decisions, such as incidents in the build-up to goals or penalties, as well as straight red cards […]

In life there are two kinds of people; those who live life through the stories of others and those who take it by the horns and savour every minute. These two kinds of people are very much at the two ends of the spectrum in the classic novel Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis. The […]

A Cypriot book has won a prestigious Chinese award, it was announced on Monday. The Russian edition of the 336-page coffee table book Cyprus – A Culinary Journey won the best translation category at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2018 in Yantai, China. The had previously won the best cookbook in the world award at […]

A motorcycle suicide bomber killed 14 people near a gathering of Muslim clerics in the Afghan capital on Monday after they had issued a fatwa against suicide bombings, officials said, in the latest in a series of attacks to hit Kabul. The bomb exploded at the entrance to a giant tent, near residential buildings in the west […]

Two women from Venezuela were jailed for five years each in Larnaca on Monday after they admitted to trafficking close to one kilogramme of cocaine inside their bodies earlier this year. The women, aged 28 and 31, were stopped at Larnaca airport on the evening of January 20 after their arrival from Athens. They had […]

While still more than a week away, the World Cup has already had a major impact on retailers in the self-described “Country of Soccer,” as football-mad Brazilians feverishly scoop up new televisions. Brazilian TV production – much of it by international companies like Panasonic Corp and LG Corp in a tax-free zone in Amazonas state […]

The price of electricity has increased by almost 10 per cent since the beginning of the year, while the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) says it is trying to expand its renewable energy projects so as to reduce demand for fossil fuels. Figures released on Monday showed that a household consuming 600kWh would have paid […]

A 48-year-old woman who was found floating unconscious in the sea off Nissi Beach on Sunday died from drowning, a post mortem revealed on Monday. The woman, who was identified as Russian tourist Marina Suzdalcheva, was pulled out of the sea by life guards on Sunday afternoon and transferred by ambulance to the accident and […]

The House human rights committee on Monday said it would ask the interior ministry to remove the names of parents from a child’s ID card as it discriminates against those with no named father figure. Speaking after the commission meeting, its chairwoman Stella Kyriakidou said the issue goes back to 2011 when the education ministry […]

An anti-immigration opposition party won Slovenia‘s parliamentary election on Sunday, taking 25 per cent of the vote, according to preliminary results. However, the centre-right Slovenia Democratic Party (SDS) of former prime minister Janez Jansa may struggle to pull together a government as its hardline stance on immigration has left it short of potential coalition partners. Jansa acknowledged any […]

State institutes for further education are preparing to teach Chinese after the summer, director of the institutes Loizos Anastasiades said on Monday. “This is part of an agreement made during the education minister’s visit to China in May 2017,” he said. “We are now preparing for the classes together with the University of Cyprus.” The […]

A kiss by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on a Filipino woman’s lips while on an official visit in South Korea sparked anger and jokes on Monday, as feminists denounced what they called his “perverted way” of taunting his female critics. Many Filipinos, however, thought it was a harmless kiss intended to be fun. The 73-year-old […]

By Stelios Orphanides The former director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Pascal Lamy said that while the decision of US President Donald Trump to slap a 25 per cent tariff on steel and aluminium imports is one of his “weird initiatives,” it also constitutes a chance to redesign global trade rules. At the same […]