Новости за 13.08.2018

  By Daren Butler and Nevzat Devranoglu Turkey’s lira pulled back from a record low of 7.24 to the dollar on Monday after the central bank pledged to provide liquidity, but it remained under selling pressure and its meltdown continued to rattle global markets. The currency has lost more than 40 per cent against the […]

Low-cost airline Level launched its new Larnaca-Vienna route with its first flight on August 11, it was announced on Monday. This airline, operational since June 2017, will offer Larnaca-Vienna flights three to five times a week on an Airbus A321 aircraft. Outbound flights will initially be available five days a week, from Tuesdays to Saturdays. […]

Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides on Monday announced the allocation of €5m for 115 small projects in 94 mainly highland communities. The projects, expected to be executed by the end of the year, aim at rejuvenating rural areas and helping communities become hubs of tourist, agricultural and environmental development, Petrides said in a news conference. The […]

Willian insists there is “no chance” he would still be at Chelsea if Antonio Conte had remained in charge. The Brazil international was linked with a move away from Stamford Bridge for much of the summer with the likes of Manchester United and Barcelona reportedly interested. It has been widely reported that Willian was one […]

The 2018 Anthony Howard Award for Young Journalists has been awarded to Cyprus-born reporter Eleni Courea. Courea, 23, won the prize for her proposal to investigate the emerging fault lines in the Labour left between Momentum and the trade unions, maintaining that the outcome of this struggle will define the future direction of the party. […]

The government on Monday renewed its call for dialogue with all education stakeholders in a bid to break the impasse threatening to keep schools closed after the summer holidays. “The doors to dialogue remain open and I hope we will soon meet with the teachers’ unions again,” Education Minister Costas Hambiaouris said after a meeting with President […]

Iran‘s Supreme Leader on Monday rejected US President Donald Trump’s offer of unconditional talks to improve bilateral ties and he also accused the Iranian government of economic mismanagement in the face of reimposed US sanctions. Washington reimposed the sanctions last week after pulling out of a 2015 international deal aimed at curbing Iran‘s nuclear programme in return […]

  Greek Cypriots “cannot live in the illusion” that the status quo will bring peace and stability, chief negotiator Andreas Mavroyiannis has said, warning that if the current talks’ effort fails, “we will find ourselves empty-handed in front of a steamroller”. “That is why we need to manage the signs of an extremely worrying situation […]

Brussels is planning to crack down on EU countries including Cyprus that award citizenships to rich third-country nationals amid growing concerns over dirty money from Russia, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The FT quoted EU Commissioner for Justice, Vera Jurova, as saying that such schemes in eight member states will come under tougher scrutiny from Brussels as […]

Brussels is planning to crack down on EU countries including Cyprus that award citizenships to rich third-country nationals amid growing concerns over dirty money from Russia, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The FT quoted EU Commissioner for Justice, Vera Jurova, as saying that such schemes in eight member states will come under tougher scrutiny from Brussels as […]

Arsenal manager Unai Emery said his team would need more time to adapt to his tactical approach but maintained there were some positive signs in the 2-0 season-opening loss to champions Manchester City. The north London club were outplayed in Emery’s first Premier League game in charge, with goals from City forwards Raheem Sterling and […]

Bayer shares plunged more than 10 per cent on Monday after a California jury ordered the German company’s newly acquired Monsanto subsidiary to pay $289m for not warning of cancer risks posed by its main weed killer. The case against Monsanto, bought by Bayer this year for $63bn, is the first of more than 5,000 similar lawsuits over […]

A fire that broke out inside the Kalo Chorio firing range in Larnaca on Monday morning burned five hectares of wild shrub. The fire broke out at around 10.30am and was brought under control at around 1.30pm, Four engines and a forest department water-dropping airplane were used in the effort. A second fire in Makounta, in Paphos, was put under […]

A fire that broke out at a firing range in Kalo Chorio, Larnaca, at around 10.30am Monday morning was still raging on Monday afternoon. “Until now the fire has burnt one hectare of dry grass and wild vegetation,” said fire brigade spokesman Andreas Kettis. Four trucks, as well as an aircraft of the forestry department […]

Thousands of mourners gathered on Monday to bury dozens of children killed in a Saudi-led coalition air strike on a bus in northern Yemen. At least 40 children were killed in Thursday’s raid which hit the bus as it drove through a market of Dahyan, a town in Saada, the armed Houthi group which controls the […]

Authorities warned on Monday that there were 55 non-food related products on the European market that could endanger health and safety, especially children’s. The statement was issued by the Competition and Consumer Protection Service (CCPSN) of the ministry of commerce – the competent authority for the operation and administration of the EU Rapid Alert System […]

The Turkish Cypriot ‘parliament’ will meet on Tuesday in an extraordinary session to discuss the economic crisis in the north brought about by the meltdown of the Turkish lira in the wake of worsening US-Turkey relations. The ‘cabinet’ in the north held another such meeting on Monday to discuss the crisis and to come up […]

The ‘cabinet’ in the north was meeting in an extraordinary session on Monday, for the fourth time this month, to discuss the crisis over the Turkish lira. The crisis engulfing Turkish markets over its diplomatic rift with the United States has sent shockwaves through global financial markets since last week and little improvement was seen […]

Indonesia‘s holiday island of Lombok suffered damage running into more than 5 trillion rupiah ($342 million) from last week’s huge earthquake, authorities said on Monday, as the death toll climbed to more than 430. More than 350,000 people fled their homes after the 6.9-magnitude quake to shelter in government-provided tents or makeshift structures in open […]

Blood banks have extended their working hours on August 13 and 14 to accommodate for donations needed over the holidays. “We call on blood donors who have not recently offered blood and those who wish to become donors to do so, especially during the week of August 13 to 19, where there is problem with […]

The demands of being a lifeguard – swinging from inaction to life-and-death crises – are not for all. THEO PANAYIDES meets the president of the Limassol association, and finds a man always on the lookout There’s an issue with the shades – or not an issue, but perhaps a question. Why won’t Avgoustinos Papadopoulos take […]

Right at the end of The Meg – a film about a giant sea monster – survivors are on deck exchanging the usual end-of-movie platitudes and the camera pans away, down into the murky ocean depths. It looks like the cue for a second monster to appear, whooshing up from below, the better to set […]

  British government lawyers have written to UK veterans who served in Cyprus during the Eoka struggle against colonial rule in the 1950s asking them for recollections of their service on the island and whether they had observed any wrongdoing by army personnel. A report in the Daily Express said the move was part of […]

Two men were remanded for four days by Paphos district court on Monday for being involved in a knife fight. Police said that a 25-year-old man and a 27-year-old man were involved in a fight which ended in a stabbing near the village square in Chlorakas. Both men were injured in the fight which police […]

A 38-year-old woman was remanded for four days on Monday after being accused of forgery, providing fake documents and criminal impersonation. Police said that the woman entered a bank on Poseidonos avenue in Kato Paphos where she presented a fake identity card and asked the clerk to open an account where she could deposit her […]