Новости за 21.08.2018

The consumer protection service has imposed a €50,000 administrative fine on New Nissan Cyprus Ltd for unfair commercial practices. According to a statement, the fine was issued after an investigation revealed false advertisement of Nissan’s Qashqai. It was advertised as a vehicle with parking sensors on the front and rear, which it did not have, […]

British director Danny Boyle has exited the latest upcoming James Bond movie due to “creative differences,” the producers of the multi-million film franchise said on Tuesday. “Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli and Daniel Craig today announced that due to creative differences Danny Boyle has decided to no longer direct Bond 25,” said a statement on […]

Turkish Cypriot students graduating from schools in the government-controlled areas will now be able to study at universities in Turkey, it was reported on Tuesday. According to media reports in the north, ‘education minister’ Cemal Ozyigit announced that the problem of not accepting students who attended schools in the government-controlled areas at universities in Turkey […]

The United States on Tuesday announced sanctions on two Russian shipping companies and six vessels it said were involved in the transfer of refined petroleum products to North Korean vessels in violation of United Nations restrictions. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov called the sanctions as well as other U.S. steps over alleged hacking, groundless, […]

Government spokesman Prodromos Prodromou said on Tuesday that Cyprus is on its way to regaining investment grade status. Speaking after a cabinet meeting at the presidential residence in Troodos, Prodromou said that the ministers and President Nicos Anastasiades reviewed the first six months of Anastasiades’ second term. The cabinet, Prodromou added, was also briefed by […]

Italian actress Asia Argento, an outspoken advocate in the movement against sexual harassment, denied on Tuesday ever having had sexual relations with Jimmy Bennett, an actor who the New York Times reported had accused her of sexual assault. The New York Times reported on Sunday that Bennett had accused Argento of sexually assaulting him in […]

British tourist Alan Duk Tien, 28, died from drowning, a post-mortem examination showed on Tuesday after he was pronounced dead on Sunday. The post-mortem was carried out by state pathologist Eleni Antoniou at approximately 10am. The man was on a boat with two friends in the Konnos Bay area of Cape Greco on Sunday when […]

Britain pressed the European Union on Tuesday to increase sanctions against Russia, saying it should stand “shoulder to shoulder” with the United States, which hit Moscow with new economic restrictions this month. Britain’s foreign minister, Jeremy Hunt, said that Russian President Vladimir Putin has made the world “a more dangerous place”, and that after a […]

Cyprus will resume cooperating with Russia in its probe against Hermitage Capital founder Bill Browder and his associate Ivan Cherkasov after a court dismissed their application, the Ministry of Justice said on Tuesday. “I have been informed that the cooperation will proceed normally,” a justice ministry spokesperson told the Cyprus Mail. On August 3 the […]

A tycoon killed with his family in a seaplane crash in Australia on New Year’s Eve has left a £41m fortune to the crisis-hit charity Oxfam, a British newspaper reported on Tuesday. The bequest comes at a time when Oxfam is trying to find £16m in savings as it grapples with the fallout from a […]

The liquidation of Olympic Insurance, which resulted from its failure to satisfy capital requirements, has raised questions over who is ultimately responsible to compensate victims of traffic accidents caused by drivers insured by the insolvent company, its liquidator said on Tuesday. The company, placed in liquidation last week, had its licence stripped over concerns about […]

The liquidation of Olympic Insurance, which resulted from its failure to satisfy capital requirements, has raised questions over who is ultimately responsible to compensate victims of traffic accidents caused by drivers insured by the insolvent company, its liquidator said on Tuesday. The company, placed in liquidation last week, had its licence stripped over concerns about […]

Pope Francis will meet victims of clergy sexual abuse during his trip to Ireland this weekend, the Vatican said on Tuesday, as scandals in several countries mire the Catholic Church in its worst credibility crisis in more than 15 years. Last week a grand jury in the US state of Pennsylvania released the findings of […]

Two women, aged 33 and 40, were arrested at Larnaca airport on Tuesday morning trying to enter the country with fake passports. Authorities said that three women were stopped at about 3am at passport control. They were in transit in Cyprus, and were travelling to another destination in Europe. Two of the passports presented did […]

The Cultural Centre Technopolis 20 has a mission: to accommodate all kinds of art, theatre, dance, music, visual arts, cinema and literature. The aim of Technopolis 20 is to promote the classical but also contemporary art, support Cypriot artists and to develop a creative and artistic culture. With this in mind, the centre has organised […]

The EU is supporting Cyprus in a number of ways to tackle the impact of climate change, EU Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy Miguel Arias Cañete has said. He was responding to a question submitted to the European Commission by Cypriot MEP Costas Mavrides on whether the EC was aware of the magnitude of […]

Jurors began their fourth day of deliberations on Tuesday morning in the fraud trial of Paul Manafort, who ran the presidential campaign of Donald Trump at pivotal moments of the 2016 election. On Monday, the 12 jurors ended their day in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, at 6:15 p.m. EDT (2015 GMT), working at least […]

Main opposition Akel on Tuesday requested an extraordinary meeting of the House education committee to discuss the crisis caused by the row between the government and teaching unions over measures aiming at streamlining state schools. With the dialogue between teaching unions and Education Minister Costas Hambiaouris set to resume on Wednesday, Akel MP Giorgos Georgiou […]

A former British police chief constable accused of lying over his role in the 1989 Hillsborough football stadium crush that killed 96 fans will no longer face charges after a review of evidence, prosecutors said on Tuesday. Norman Bettison had been charged with four offences of misconduct in public office related to statements he made […]

Tobacco and cigarettes were seized from two people in the Nicosia district on Tuesday, the customs department announced. On Tuesday morning, customs officers found 7.5kg of Old Holborn tobacco and 2,300 cigarettes in the home and vehicle of a Nicosia resident. As the items were not labelled in Greek and Turkish as is required by […]

Austria’s foreign minister was at the centre of a storm of criticism on Tuesday after making a deep curtsey to Russian leader Vladimir Putin at her wedding, with critics blaming her for a naive gesture that would hurt her country’s reputation. The Kremlin leader, while not known to be a particularly close friend of the […]

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras hailed the end of a “modern-day Odyssey” on Tuesday after Greece emerged from nine years of bailouts, saying it should never forget the harsh lessons learned under tight financial supervision by its creditors. “This is a day of liberation,” Tsipras declared, standing on a hilltop overlooking a bay on the Ionian […]

A woman was handed a seemingly light sentence for killing her neighbour’s dog because of her own difficult circumstances, it emerged on Tuesday. On August 10 the woman was jailed for just two months with a three-year suspension for killing the dog in front of its owner in February last year. The judge took into […]

Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt eased into his first training session with Australia’s Central Coast Mariners on Tuesday and said he was ready to prove the doubters wrong by winning a professional football contract. Monitored by a big media pack, Bolt, who turned 32 on Tuesday, emerged at Central Coast stadium with his prospective team […]

More than two million Muslim pilgrims hurled pebbles at a giant wall in a symbolic stoning of the devil on Tuesday, the start of the riskiest part of the annual haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia where hundreds died in a crush three years ago. Clad in white robes signifying a state of purity, men and […]