Новости за 14.06.2018

A 61-YEAR-OLD man drowned on Thursday while swimming in the sea in the Ayios Tychonas area, Limassol district. The man’s body was spotted around 5pm. Police said he was a Slovakian national.

Sources close to the Russian military said on Thursday that Russian naval forces in the Black Sea had been put on heightened alert to discourage Ukraine from trying to disrupt the soccer World Cup as the tournament got under way. However, the Defence Ministry itself dismissed the reports, saying in a statement: “The forces of […]

Police on Thursday arrested a 40-year-old man after finding explosive devices in his Nicosia home, they said. Iosif Iosif, alias ‘Sifis’, was expected to appear in a court on Friday where police will request that he be remanded in custody. Executing a search warrant, police found in Iosif’s house a standard detonator, a factory-assembled electric […]

Police on Thursday arrested a 40-year-old man after finding explosive devices in his Nicosia home, they said. Iosif Iosif, alias ‘Sifis’, was expected to appear in a court on Friday where police will request that he be remanded in custody. Executing a search warrant, police found in Iosif’s house a standard detonator, a factory-assembled electric […]

Cyprus and France this week signed a bilateral military cooperation programme during a visit to Paris by defence minister Savvas Angelides. According to a press release, Angelides completed his visit to the French capital where he held a series of meetings with his French counterpart Florence Palry, Chairman of the Defence Committee Jean-Jacques Bridey and […]

A teenager died on Thursday after his scooter collided with a car on the Kantou-Episkopi road, Limassol. The victim was 17 years old. He was rushed to hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival. The young man was not wearing a helmet at the time, police said. Media reports said that police arriving on […]

By Elias Hazou In the ongoing criminal trial known as ‘Trashgate’, the defence on Thursday sought to cast doubts on the police investigation which led to the indictment of several individuals and companies accused of corruption. At Nicosia criminal court, a lawyer representing Helector Cyprus – a defendant in the case and the company at […]

House President Demetris Syllouris poses with ‘Nicky’, a robot developed by the University of Nicosia, on the sidelines of a conference in Nicosia on the digital economy and the digital society. Moments earlier, Syllouris and the robot had a brief conversation, where ‘Nicky’ asked him to pass a bill to regulate robots.

By Elias Hazou All those responsible for hollowing out the pension fund of the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (Cyta) should be held accountable, auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides said on Thursday. “Our agency recommends that everyone who, through their actions or omissions damaged the fund, and by extension Cyta itself, should be held accountable,” Michaelides stated. “Seeking out […]

Jean-Claude Juncker has been called many things during his premiership of Luxembourg and presidency of the European Commission, but probably never what he says U.S. President Donald Trump called him at the weekend: “a brutal killer”. Juncker, who attended a meeting of leaders of the Group of Seven major powers in Canada last week, spoke […]

Russia launched the World Cup party in spectacular style when they thrashed a feeble Saudi Arabia 5-0 in the tournament’s opening match on Thursday to give the host nation the lift they desperately needed after a nine-month winless run. Substitute Denis Cheryshev scored two brilliant goals after Yury Gazinsky had headed the WorldCup’s first after 12 minutes. Artem Dzyuba […]

European Union countries on Thursday unanimously backed a plan to impose import duties on 2.8 billion euros ($3.3 billion) worth of U.S. products after Washington hit EU steel and aluminium with tariffs at the start of June, EU sources said. The measures still need to be adopted by the European Commission, whose next scheduled meeting […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel struggled on Thursday to find a compromise on migrant policy with her rebelling Bavarian allies, hoping to avert a crisis in her coalition just three months after it took power. Merkel‘s authority and the future of her alliance are at stake with Bavarian conservatives and Social Democrats (SPD) at a time when divisions […]

By George Psyllides President Nicos Anastasiades will seek the attorney-general’s advice on how to proceed with a bill passed by parliament giving a seat to the Solidarity Movement, which lost it in April after the supreme court annulled the process used to fill it after the 2016 elections, the government spokesman said on Thursday. Prodromos […]

The High Commission of India in Cyprus will once again celebrate the art of yoga with a free yoga session at the Tassos Papadopoulos Eleftheria Athletic Centre in Nicosia. The event, which invites yoga practitioners and enthusiasts to take part, will run on Sunday to celebrate the International Day of Yoga. The High Commission is organising […]

Five of the main political groups in the European Parliament urged the European Commission on Thursday to open infringement proceedings against Poland and to take it to the European Court of Justice to stop planned judicial reforms. The call by the leaders of the centre-right European People’s Party, the centrist Liberals, the Socialists and Democrats, the Greens […]

Cyprus must pay €17,800 in damages awarded by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) for various cases brought against it during the first four months of 2018. Last year the Court awarded no damages against the Republic, while in 2016 successful compensation claims reached €61,737. During the first four months of 2018, nine judgments […]

More state officials will be allowed a chauffeur for out-of-hours work as per a Cabinet decision, government spokesman Prodromos Prodromou said on Thursday. The decision taken two weeks ago allows all ombudspersons, ministry permanent secretaries, the cabinet’s secretary and director of the president’s office to use their messenger as a driver outside office hours for […]

Four people smugglers were jailed for 25 years on Thursday for the deaths of 71 men, women and children whose decomposing bodies were found crammed inside a truck dumped on an Austrian motorway three years ago. Trial judge Janos Jadi said the gang were guilty of “extreme cruelty” by refusing to stop the refrigeration truck […]

A comatose teenager died in hospital on Thursday, a day before he turned 18, after he suffered a heart attack, brought about by drugs. Three men from Syria were remanded in custody earlier this week in connection with the case including a 28-year-old man believed to have supplied the teenager with MDMA at a café […]

The number of vacancies in the economy rose an annual 11 per cent in the first quarter, to 3,761, and by 497 compared to the fourth quarter of 2017, the statistical service said. The ratio of vacancies to jobs in the first quarter rose to 1.2 per cent from 1 per cent in the fourth quarter and […]

Russia welcomed the world to the World Cup on Thursday as cheerful fans streamed into Moscow and 10 other cities and President Vladimir Putin’s government derided Western efforts to isolate him. While Western countries chose not to send senior representatives to the opening ceremony, there are no sporting boycotts like the one that marred the […]

Four years ago, the Germany team resided in a purpose-built five-star hotel on a tiny, picturesque island off the Brazilian mainland, with the spectacular lush jungle and sea views inspiring them to the World Cup title. This time round, the defending champions have replaced their tropical paradise with a red-brick hotel block in the village […]

Cyprus will not be dragged into the climate of tension created by Turkey, government spokesman Prodromos Prodromou said on Thursday, responding to Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu who said Ankara was preparing to drill for hydrocarbons around the island after procuring its own drillship. Prodromou said the Cypriot government was closely monitoring the Turkish elections […]

Greece’s supreme court on Thursday rejected an appeal against a court decision not to extradite whistleblower Maria Efimova to Malta, Greece’s news site tvxs.gr reported. Efimova, a former employee at Malta’s Pilatus Bank, was a source for Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who lost her life in a car-bomb in October. The slain journalist had […]