Новости за 25.09.2018

A former director of the Central Cooperative Bank, the predecessor of the failed state-owned Cyprus Cooperative Bank, said the Co-op’s situation with delinquent loans was no worse than other banks, the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) reported on Tuesday. Erotokritos Chlorakiotis, the former superintendent of an agency tasked with the development of the cooperative sector who […]

A 56-year-old man was transferred to Nicosia general hospital on Tuesday after he was seriously injured in a work accident, police said. According to authorities, the man is the owner of a construction company, and he fell from a height of three metres while at work. He was taken to the accident and emergency department […]

To celebrate World Tourism Day the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) is calling on the public to get together to form a giant heart, sending a message of love and hospitality to the whole world. World Tourism Day celebrations will take place in Limassol from 4pm until 6pm on Thursday in the presence of Olympic sailing […]

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides asked the Cyprus Stock Exchange to seek legal advice over a possible case of conflict of interest concerning its vice-chairman Savvas Haperis, who is also an employee of Hellenic Bank, which is a publicly listed company. The issue arose after Haperis, formerly an employee of the now-defunct Cyprus Cooperative Bank (CCB), was […]

A boat with 18 migrants was towed to shore in the Ayia Thekla area of Sotira on Tuesday afternoon, police said. Eleven men, four women and three children were brought to shore by the port authority police. According to authorities, the migrants were all given medical checks and then the majority were transferred to the […]

US President Donald Trump blasted Iran on Tuesday as a “corrupt dictatorship” that is plundering its people to pay for aggression abroad, using his speech to the United Nations General Assembly to threaten more sanctions against Tehran. “Iran’s leaders sow chaos, death and destruction,” Trump told the annual gathering. “They do not respect their neighbours […]

Lesbian couples and single women who want to bear children should have access to medically assisted reproductive treatments such as in-vitro fertilisation, France’s highest bioethics body said on Tuesday. The topic has stirred political debate in France, which legalised gay marriage in 2013 in the face of often virulent opposition from the more conservative parts […]

A young woman who had reported her stepfather for sexual assault against her when she was a minor has sent a letter to the education ministry asking for explanations as to how the man, a secondary school teacher, is still teaching when a court case has been pending against him since 2016, reports said on […]

The 14th annual Pink Silhouettes march organised by Europa Donna Cyprus as part of the World Breast Cancer Awareness Month will take place on October 6 under the slogan Together We Shine. “At this year’s Pink Silhouettes march we will continue to push for spreading a culture of specialisation for the whole spectrum of breast […]

Major supermarkets, food manufacturers and restaurants on Tuesday backed a drive to halve Britain’s food waste by 2030 and save the nation at least 10 billion pounds ($13 billion) a year. Tesco, Nestle and Coca-Cola were among at least 70 leading companies to sign up to a government-backed plan to cut the amount of food […]

The head of the Catholic Church in Germany apologised on Tuesday “for all the failure and pain”, after a report found thousands of children had been sexually abused by its clergy, and said the “guilty must be punished”. Researchers from three German universities examined 38,156 personnel files spanning a 70-year period ending in 2014, and […]

The five Egyptian fishermen arrested by Turkish Cypriot authorities last week off the coast of Kormakitis were on Tuesday re-remanded in custody for a further three days. The Kyrenia district ‘court’ in the north agreed that the further detainment of the five men was necessary for investigations to proceed smoothly. The fishermen are expected to […]

Artist Liz Kuntz will hold her first solo exhibition, of pastel drawings, under the name The Dance of the Free Spirit on October 12 at the Cyprus Chamber of Fine Arts. Drawing came to Kuntz’s attention early in life. From the time she could hold a pencil she discovered a passion for drawing and has […]

Expectations for a new dynamic on the Cyprus problem seemed low on Tuesday after a series of meetings on the side-lines of the UN General Assembly. According to CyBC, the parties involved in talks on the Cyprus problem are not expecting anything new in Cyprus talks over the coming months, and are awaiting the UN […]

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci on Tuesday welcomed the meeting arranged between the foreign ministers of Cyprus’ three guarantor powers, but stressed that ultimately it must be the Cypriot people themselves who will implement and live with a solution. Speaking before departing for New York, Akinci said his contacts in the Big Apple would commence […]

World Anti-Doping Agency president Craig Reedie has said he is deeply offended by charges that WADA put money above clean sport when it reinstated Russia’s anti-doping agency, a move which he said was aimed only at achieving Russian compliance. WADA incurred the wrath of athletes and other anti-doping bodies when it lifted the ban on […]

Fifty thousand Syrians have returned home from Lebanon so far in 2018 and the number could reach 200,000 in a year’s time if it continues at this rate, a top Lebanese official said on Tuesday. Major General Abbas Ibrahim, head of Lebanon’s General Security directorate, told Reuters his security agency had organised the return of […]

The wife of the child molester freed earlier this month requested on Tuesday, via her lawyer, to not be prosecuted for her involvement in the case of sexual abuse of a minor, claiming that she was also a victim of her husband. The victim’s lawyer Simou Angelides sent a letter to President Nicos Anastasiades on […]

AstraZeneca’s immunotherapy drug Imfinzi cut the risk of death in patients with mid-stage lung cancer by nearly a third in a closely watched clinical study, reinforcing the case for using the drug in earlier disease. The encouraging overall survival data boost prospects for a medicine that was approved this week in Europe and has already […]

The Ministry of Transport said on Tuesday new legislation regulating the use of bicycles is on track to go into force at the end of October and all is being done to facilitate its implementation. The ministry issued a statement in response to a newspaper report in Phileleftheros under the headline ‘Bicycle law has been […]

English football club Manchester United forecast record revenue for 2018-19, despite having dropped off the early pace in the new Premier League season. United, whose squad includes World Cup winner Paul Pogba, David de Gea and Alexis Sanchez, said revenue is expected to be between 615 million pounds and 630 million pounds in the year […]

The Neapolis University Paphos, aiming at enhancing the quality of admitted students, announces 10 scholarships for the BSc in Civil Engineering programme, which cover 25 -50 per cent of the annual tuition according to the qualifications of the candidates. Scholarships will be continued for all years of study in the programme as long as a […]

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven lost a no-confidence vote in parliament on Tuesday, with the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats threatening to block any new government unless they are given a say in policy. The rise of the far right across Europe has forced many traditional parties into an uncomfortable choice of sharing power with populist forces […]

The Faneromeni Festival 2018 may have come to an end but that doesn’t mean the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation is slowing down, on the contrary it is getting ready to provide lots to do and see in the winter months. The foundation’s new programme will start with a musical theatre performance under the name […]

Greece moved another 400 people from its biggest migrant camp on Tuesday as the International Rescue Committee (IRC) charity warned of a mental health emergency there with 30 percent of people having attempted suicide. The government, under pressure from aid groups and local authorities, has said it will transfer 2,000 people from Moria camp on […]