Новости за 24.07.2018

Forty-year-old, Ioakeim Loizou died at Nicosia General on Tuesday, due to injuries sustained during a motorcycle accident on July 7 police said. The man was in the critical care unit of the hospital. The accident occurred at around 8.10pm on the Gourri to Kalo Horio road in the Nicosia district, police said, when the 40-year-old […]

A 64-member team from Cyprus’ fire, civil defence, and ambulance services was sent to Greece on Tuesday to aid in battling wildfires that killed at least 74 people, including families with children found clasped in a last embrace as they tried to flee the flames. “Greece is going through an unspeakable tragedy,” Greece’s Prime Minister […]

The Laiki trial took another twist on Tuesday after the Nicosia criminal court – which was expected to announce its verdict on the day – decided to re-open the case. In a statement, presiding judge Elena Efraim said that, while reviewing the litigants’ closing arguments, a matter came to the attention of the court that […]

France’s World Cup star Kylian Mbappe joined regulars Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi on the shortlist for The Best FIFA Men’s player award, world soccer’s governing body announced on Tuesday. Ronaldo, who has won the award for the last two years, helped Real Madrid claim a third consecutive Champions League crown before securing a close […]

The Larnaca festival continues this week with a performance by Greek composer, music producer, lyricist, writer and director Stamatis Kraounakis together with the band Spira Spira. The Pattichio Municipal Amphitheatre will be filled with powerful voices and music for a single performance on Friday. The performance, which has already received great reviews from the public and […]

The European Commission offered on Tuesday to shoulder the cost of taking in migrants from boats in the Mediterranean, seeking to entice more governments to shoulder the burden after Italy’s new government closed the country’s ports to rescue vessels. Under the proposal, the Union’s common budget would pay out €6,000  for each migrant taken in, […]

Approximately 13,000 delinquent borrowers will be eligible for the government scheme Estia, which is to kick in on January 1 next year. Estia is designed to help debt defaulters repay part of their bank loans. The controversial scheme is effectively a 50 per cent haircut on the loans of debt defaulters. Those eligible will only […]

President Nicos Anastasiades has referred to the Supreme Court a law granting pensions to widowers after parliament tinkered with the original government bill by expanding the scope of beneficiaries. Earlier this month, parliament passed a law granting men a widowers’ pension irrespective of when their spouse died. The law was based on a bill tabled […]

Turkey has told American officials it opposes US sanctions on Iran and is not obliged to implement them, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday. President Donald Trump has pulled the United States out of a 2015 nuclear pact with Iran and ordered US sanctions on Tehran, while a senior State Department official said Washington […]

The health ministry said on Tuesday that staffing issues at the accident and emergency departments (A&E) of state hospitals are improving, even though only seven nurses have expressed interest in filling 40 temporary job posts advertised. Permanent nursing staff, however, said the low level of applications will not solve staffing problems in the A&Es and […]

New laws on plastic bags have cut usage by as much as 85 per cent, the Cyprus employers and industrialists federation (OEB) said on Thursday. Regulations that took effect on July 1 imposed a charge of 6 cents per bag. “The first evidence from the Cypriot supermarket chains is highly encouraging,” said the OEB. Supermarkets […]

Alex Dzaghigian, a 16-year-old student at the English School in Nicosia, has completed a 300-metre-square canvas that could break the Guinness World Record for the largest drawing in the world. The record is currently held by Indian Ashok Nagpure with a 280.17-metre-square drawing completed on December 25, 2013. Guinness World Record will verify Alex’s work […]

Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou and police chief, Zacharias Chrysostomou, inaugurated on Tuesday the new offices of the Nicosia police crime investigation unit (CID). The new office space has all the conditions to allow CID officers perform their duties effectively, Nicolaou said. “We put particular emphasis on preventing and combating serious and organised crime, both by […]

NGOs, organisations, trade unions and municipalities in Cyprus rallied on Tuesday to aid Greece, where at least 60 people have died in devastating wildfires. Cyprus was also likely to join in the three-days of mourning set by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras by flying Greek flags at half-mast, according by the Employers and Industrialists Federation […]

The 20th Pahos Aphrodite Festival is presenting Gioachino Rossini’s popular opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville).on Αugust 31, and September 1 and 2 at the Medieval Castle. There will be simultaneous translation in Greek, English and Russian via subtitles. Rossini’s masterpiece is a production by the Italian organisation C.I.A.L.M. – Teatro Lirico […]

The 9th World Conference of Young Overseas Cypriots (Nepomak) and the Meeting of the Central Councils of the World Federation of Overseas Cypriots (Pomak) and the International Coordinating Committee “Justice for Cyprus” (Pseka) will be hosted in Nicosia from July 25 to 27. President Nicos Anastasiades will open the conferences and Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou […]

The Cyprus Broadcasting Authority on Tuesday called on the media to show some respect and sensitivity in their coverage of the wildfires in Greece that have killed 60 people so far. It said regulations provide that the dead be respected and not have their image broadcast or published. Also, it said, the transmission of any […]

Armenia’s Diaspora Minister Mkhitar Hayrapetyan arrived in Cyprus on Tuesday for a three-day official visit to meet the local Armenian community and attend the conference for overseas Cypriots that starts on Wednesday. Invited by Presidential Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs and Overseas Cypriots Fotis Fotiou, the Armenian minister will join Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Terence Quick […]

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday the treatment of Mesut Ozil after the football star quit Germany’s national team was racist and unacceptable. He said he spoke to Ozil on Monday night and described his attitude as meriting the highest level of admiration, adding Ozil’s critics “could not stomach” the photograph of the soccer […]

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal filed by the attorney-general and Astrasol over the company’s responsibility for creating a cancer cluster in the Latsia area. The legal wrangling dates back years after 21 employees of the now defunct shoe factory Astrasol filed a class-action lawsuit against owners Sotiris, Maroula and Fivos Liasis, Astrasol […]

Israel said it shot down a Syrian warplane that crossed into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday, but Damascus said the jet was fired on as it took part in operations against rebels on Syrian territory. The incident added new fuel to weeks of tensions over the Golan, a strategic plateau between the two old […]

Authorities have charged a 32-year-old man with starting a fire in the village of Kato Moni in Morfou on Monday through reckless use of an electric cutting tool. The police said that investigations and a witness place the man at a fenced building site in the area, where he was cutting iron using the electric […]

Russian tycoon Alisher Usmanov is exploring a sale of his 30 per cent stake in English football club Arsenal, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the billionaire’s thinking. Usmanov had previously made a $1.3 billion offer to buy out the club’s majority owner Stan Kroenke, but Kroenke’s KSE (Kroenke Sports & […]

U.S. President Donald Trump came into office disparaging the United Nations and appointed politician Nikki Haley as the ambassador to carry out his disruptive agenda, but she has also shown Trump how the world body serves his purposes, specifically on North Korea. The U.N. Security Council’s unanimous adoption of tougher sanctions three times last year […]

Limassol municipality announced on Tuesday that it has set up an emergency service tasked with, among other things, removing fallen branches and debris from streets and sidewalks, collecting dead or stray animals, and removing banners and posters from lamp posts and traffic lights. The service consists of a two-member crew from the municipality’s staff who […]