Новости за 05.11.2018

A court in the north on Monday renewed for another eight days the remand of Fatih Cikrikci, who is believed to have brutally stabbed to death his ex-girlfriend, Gulbahar Ulutan, 13 times on October 31. Authorities also arrested another two men, aged 35 and 39, who are believed to have helped Cikrikci escape after murdering […]

  As a drillship continued on its journey to Cyprus on Monday, Turkey was again warning its neighbours that it will defend its interests in hydrocarbons resources in the eastern Mediterranean. Late in the afternoon the Stena IceMax drillship, leased by ExxonMobil, was clearing the southern coast of Spain. Its destination is Limassol, where it […]

If British Prime Minister Theresa May is able to strike a Brexit deal with the European Union in the coming days or weeks, she will face a crucial vote in parliament when she asks lawmakers to approve it. How will the vote in parliament work? WHAT DOES MAY HAVE TO DO? If a deal is […]

The Larnaca-Famagusta assize court sentenced a 27-year-old Indian man to two years in prison on Monday for possessing and attempting to smuggle 2,390 opioid pills. According to the court ruling thee drug squad had received information on June 5 that the 27-year-old along with one other person would be arriving from India and attempt to […]

State prosecutors informed a Nicosia court on Monday that they will be refiling charges in the first criminal case brought against a co-operative bank. Acting on instructions from the attorney-general, prosecutors told the Nicosia criminal court they were withdrawing the prosecution and filing an amended charge sheet, after investigators uncovered additional evidence. The new charge […]

Police are searching for two men who are suspected of having tricked a 36-year-old into exchanging €8,800 for $600, the police announced on Monday. The 36-year-old, a Nicosia resident, reported to the police on Monday that on November 1, two unknown persons told him they would like to exchange $11,000 into euros. According to the […]

Authorities on Monday said that they believe the massive fire in Lofou in the Limassol district that took 15 hours to extinguish on Sunday was arson and that they have a suspect. It burned around 1.5 square kilometres of pine trees and wild vegetation. The fire was one of four firemen and firefighting aircraft had […]

President Nikos Anastasiades said on Monday he was confident that parliamentary parties would accept the proposal to form a deputy ministry for digital strategy, research and innovation. “The cooperation of all parliamentary parties is crucial to the effective implementation of a digital strategy,” said the president in his speech to the Digital Cyprus Conference. The […]

It’s good to be boring in these uncertain times, Switzerland’s president said on Monday, in a light-hearted swipe at US President Donald Trump and Britain’s Brexit referendum. Alain Berset, speaking at a lunch hosted by the Swiss Foreign Correspondents’ Association, said the Swiss political system was hard for foreigners to get to grips with. “A […]

First Lady Andri Anastasiades has called on the public help find a compatible bone marrow donor for little Styliana Michael from Agros in a Facebook message. The call for help which was started on social media by the girl’s brother soon went viral and thousands of people responded by sending messages to each other. Anybody […]

Air traffic controllers said on Monday they could no longer be responsible for safely managing the growing number of incoming and outcoming flights because of staff shortages. “We are struggling daily not to have an aircraft crash in the flight information region of Nicosia due to tragic staff shortages,” their unions announced. “We have reached […]

The Spice Girls on Monday confirmed that four of the group – Emma Bunton, Geri Horner, Mel C and Mel B – will be reuniting for six concerts in the UK next summer in a spoof news bulletin they shared on Twitter. The clip saw the quartet squabble over Geri’s decision not to wear a […]

The Spice Girls on Monday confirmed that four of the group – Emma Bunton, Geri Horner, Mel C and Mel B – will be reuniting for six concerts in the UK next summer in a spoof news bulletin they shared on Twitter. The clip saw the quartet squabble over Geri’s decision not to wear a […]

Barcelona are what Inter Milan hope to become in the future, the Italian club’s coach Luciano Spalletti said on Monday, heaping praise on Tuesday’s Champions League opponents. Spalletti is in the second season of a rebuilding job at Inter, a club that seems to have been in perpetual transition since winning a Champions League, Serie […]

Authorities on Monday said they had launched an investigation into allegations that a Russian woman was detained and mistreated when she arrived at Larnaca airport after saying she was intending to holiday in the north. Her treatment has prompted a slap on the wrist for Cypriot authorities by the Russian foreign ministry over the violation […]

Over 100,000 students are attending universities in northern Cyprus this academic year, Turkish Cypriot ‘education minister’ Cemal Ozyigit said on Monday. A total of 102,944 students are enrolled this academic year, an increase of 1,933 students compared to the 2017-2018 academic year, Ozyigit said. From the total 102,944 university students, Ozyigit added,12,506 are Turkish Cypriots, […]

  Cyprus has made arrangements to receive timely warning in cases of tsunamis, authorities said on Monday. Even though they are not as common in the Mediterranean as in other parts of the world, they are still a possibility, they said. In its message to raise awareness on World Tsunami Awareness Day, marked on November […]

German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer faced calls on Monday to dismiss the outgoing head of domestic intelligence from a new advisory role, after the spy condemned what he called “naive and leftist” government policies and said he might enter politics. The remarks, made at a closed meeting of European intelligence chiefs and published by the […]

The Pakistani lawyer who helped free a Christian woman who had been sentenced to death in Pakistan for blasphemy has fled to the Netherlands, a Dutch Christian rights group said on Monday. Asia Bibi’s lawyer, Saiful Mulook, left Pakistan on Saturday, due to fear that he could be attacked after Bibi’s conviction was overturned on […]

Interview with Toumazos Tsielepis, former member of the Greek Cypriot negotiating team Toumazos Tsielepis was born, in 1956, in the occupied village of Prastio (in the Famagusta district).  He studied law at the University of Kiev and specialised in Public International Law.  He is a leading member of Akel and he is in charge of […]

The New Music Festival will charm audiences this week with five days of concerts organized by the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Centre of Cypriot Composers and the Cyprus Music Information Centre. The 7th New Music Festival will present contemporary works by Cypriot and other composers, most in their first world premiere. These works […]

The Volunteerism Coordinating Council (PVCC) on Monday launched its fifth annual ‘Adopt a Family for Christmas’ campaign, inviting individuals, companies, schools and organisations to sponsor a household with goods for the Christmas table. During last year’s campaign, more than 1,000 families were adopted by individuals, families, groups, companies and organisations, the PVCC said. “This Christmas, […]

France’s far-right Rassemblement National (RN) party has moved ahead of President Emmanuel Macron’s Republique En Marche (LREM) party for the first time in a poll of voting intentions for the May 2019 European Parliament elections. An Ifop poll published on Sunday showed Macron’s centrist movement with 19 percent of voting intentions compared to 20 percent […]

The chance that flights will be grounded between the UK and the European Union in the event of a no-deal Brexit is “close to zero”, said tourism minister Yiorgos Lakkotrypis. The economy of Cyprus is heavily dependent on tourism, and over a third of its annual four million visitors come from the UK. Asked about […]

If you’ve never been to the Mind, Body & Spirit event, you’re probably thinking it’s all crystal massage and naked yoga, with a side of oil pulling angels. And granted, there’s quite a bit of New Age interest attracted to any festival of this type. But for the most part, the Mind, Body and Spirit […]