Новости за 06.06.2018

Defending champion Rafael Nadal faced an anxious night after rain intervened with him trailing Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman in his French Open quarter-final on Wednesday. Eleventh seed Schwartzman snapped Nadal‘s run of winning 37 consecutive completed sets at Roland Garros when he took the opener 6-4 on Court Philippe Chatrier. Spaniard Nadal, bidding for an 11th title on the Parisian […]

Turkey will be carrying out a joint search and rescue exercise with the north near Famagusta between June 18 and 22. According to reports from the north on Wednesday, an announcement by the ‘security forces’ said the exercise, both on the ground  and in international waters, will include military forces from Turkey and the north. […]

Two drivers were injured on Wednesday night on the Ayia Napa – Larnaca highway in a crash that caused two lanes to close. The accident happened at around 8pm when a rental car at the Oroklini exit didn’t go towards the Rizoelia roundabout but instead went on the wrong lane on the Ayia Napa highway. […]

A fire raging in the Pretori village in Paphos had been put under partial control on Wednesday night as 11 trucks were at the scene fighting the flames. According to head of the firefighting service Marcos Trangolas, the fire was moving in the direction of Arsos village in Limassol. He said the fight was made […]

The University of Nicosia (UNIC) has announced that it has entered a multi-year agreement with Ripple to support its world-leading initiatives in the areas of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency, through support of academic research, technical development and student scholarships. This agreement is part of Ripple’s newly-announced multi-year, multi-million dollar University Blockchain Research Initiative, through which Ripple […]

Forty-six Ethiopians drowned early on Wednesday and 16 were missing after a smuggler’s boat carrying at least 100 migrants capsized as it approached Yemen, the U.N. migration agency said in a statement. The boat left the port of Bossasso in Somalia on Tuesday, with 83 men and 17 women on board who were hoping to […]

By Evie Andreou Climate change has led to a rise of the average temperature in Cyprus, drop in annual average rainfall, an increase of energy needs and decrease in farm produce, MPs heard on Wednesday. The House environment committee held a meeting dedicated to climate change on the occasion of World Environment Day, marked each year on […]

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday commuted the life sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, 63, who had served more than 20 years in prison on a first-time drug offence, and is prepared to use his constitutional clemency powers to give relief to dozens more offenders, a White House source said. Johnson’s cause had been taken […]

AcceptLGBT Cyprus’ Costas Gavrielides has been appointed as the president’s adviser for promoting multiculturalism, acceptance and respect for diversity, he announced on Wednesday. In a post on Facebook, Gavrielides shared the news announced during the pride parade over the weekend, specifying he would be doing the job without getting a salary. The aim of his […]

Time flies when you are having fun, and when you are having fun eating, it really seems like no time has passed at all. Maybe it is because the Fork Food Market has become such a big part of our lives, or perhaps because we lived without good street food for so long it is hard […]

EU Back to School is an inter-institutional initiative whereby European Union officials go back to their former secondary school in their hometown, and discuss their work and Experiences in the EU. Irene Kyriacou Haller visited her old school, Nicosia English School. She presented her work during a Year 3 assembly and then had an interview with […]

Cambridge Analytica‘s former chief denied deliberately misleading British lawmakers, even as he admitted that his firm did receive data from the researcher at the centre of a scandal over Facebook data, contradicting his previous testimony. Cambridge Analytica has said its work on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign did not use data at the centre of the Facebook scandal, where […]

By Andria Kades The minister of education was wrong not to order a disciplinary probe after a question on the physics school leaving exam was not phrased correctly, lawmakers heard on Wednesday. During a session at the House education committee, MPs demanded that a disciplinary investigation should go ahead so as to get to the […]

Both Bismarck du Plessis and Frans Steyn have withdrawn from South Africa’s squad for the three-test series against England after injuries suffered in the French Top 14 final at the weekend, SA Rugby said on Wednesday. “Both went for further investigations and specialist opinions and it was decided to rather withdraw them from the Springbok […]

By Andria Kades Lawmakers on Wednesday began discussing an EU harmonising bill which will require air carriers to obtain 20 categories of data from travellers in a bid to combat terrorism and organised crime. The bill falls under the EU PNR directive which stands for passenger name records. Discussed during the House legal committee, MPs […]

Guests and staff were evacuated from a luxury hotel in an upmarket area of central London as 120 firefighters tackled a large fire on the roof the the UK Press Association reported on Wednesday. London Fire Brigade said 20 engines and 120 firefighters and officers had been sent to the scene at the Mandarin Oriental […]

London fire brigade says 20 fire engines, 120 firefighters called to a visible fire on the roof of a hotel in William Street, Knightsbridge, London, cause of fire not known. Police said the hotel was being evacuated and it was not yet known whether there had been any injuries. According to the UK Press Association,  […]

World number one Simona Halep won a bruising quarter-final battle against Germany’s Angelique Kerber 6-7(2) 6-3 6-2 to book a place against Garbine Muguruza in the French Open semis. Halep started slowly, spraying shots wide as she lost the first four games of the match against the number 12 seed who hit her early groundstrokes […]

The foreign ministry on Tuesday issued instructions for Cypriots planning to travel to Russia for the World Cup, which starts on June 14 and runs to July 15. People travelling to Russia need a visa that can be obtained from the Russian embassy in Nicosia or any other diplomatic mission of the Russian Federation. Until […]

By George Psyllides A deal for the referral of cancer patients to a newly-created private facility was back on track on Wednesday after another private clinic withdrew an appeal it had submitted to the tender review board about a week ago. According to the chairman of the German Oncology Centre, Kikis Kazamias, the appeal filed […]

By George Psyllides A deal for the referral of cancer patients to a newly-created private facility was back on track on Wednesday after another private clinic withdrew an appeal it had submitted to the tender review board about a week ago. According to the chairman of the German Oncology Centre, Kikis Kazamias, the appeal filed […]

England defender Danny Rose has told his family not to attend the World Cup because he fears they may be racially abused in Russia. “I’ve told my family I don’t want them going out there because of racism and anything else that may ­happen,” the 27-year-old left back told London’s Evening Standard on Wednesday. “I […]

By Stelios Orphanides Hellenic Bank said that it completed the sale of a €144m non-performing loans portfolio to B2Kapital Cyprus Ltd, a unit of Norway’s B2Holding, at an unspecified consideration. The sale affects 1,809 “predominantly non-retail secured and unsecured” loans and 1,082 borrowers as per May 31, Hellenic said in a statement on the website […]

Titina Loizidou, a Greek Cypriot refugee who won a case against Turkey in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) regarding her property in the north has sent a letter to Strasbourg asking the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to adjourn consideration of closing here case as she has not been given back […]

By Stelios Orphanides The Nicosia District Court ruled in favour of unfreezing assets of up to US$820 (€702m) of System Capital Management (SCM), an energy, finance, mining and industrial group, linked to Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, an ally of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, the company said. With the ruling, court lifted a December temporary […]