Новости за 31.12.2018

President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday laid out an ambitious to-do checklist for his administration for 2019, promising reform in government while assuring both communities of his commitment to working toward a fair and viable settlement on the Cyprus problem. In a televised address, the president began with a review of what he described as the […]

Emmanuel Macron’s former security adviser said on Monday he regularly spoke to the French president, contradicting the presidency that has tried to distance itself from him since he was sacked for violent conduct that fuelled a political scandal. Alexandre Benalla, originally Macron’s bodyguard before taking the adviser’s role, told the investigative journalism website Mediapart that […]

As many as 40 people could still be trapped in the rubble of a Russian apartment block that partially collapsed in an explosion on Monday, killing at least four people, news agencies reported. The blast, thought to have been caused by a gas leak, damaged 48 apartments in a nine-storey building in Magnitogorsk, an industrial […]

President Nicos Anastasiades was not formally or adequately briefed about the situation festering inside the co-operative banking sector before it spiralled out of control, he has said. In an interview with daily Phileleftheros, the second part of which was published on Monday, the president appeared to leave the Central Bank chief high and dry. He […]

The Turkish Cypriots are the only community working towards a solution to the Cyprus problem, the Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said in his New Year address on Monday. “The Turkish Cypriot community is the only one which is eagerly developing proposals and which worries about the passage of time” in the Cyprus problem, Akinci […]

Serena Williams made a winning return to competitive action at the Hopman Cup on Monday but could not prevent the United States from losing 2-1 to Greece in their opening round-robin match. Williams, playing her first competitive match since losing the U.S. Open final to Naomi Osaka, powered past Maria Sakkari 7-6(3) 6-2 to level the […]

The average age of marriage in Cyprus is 30 years old, while one in three marriages ends in divorce, the national agency for demographic and family policy says in a recent study. According to the agency’s statistics, a Cypriot male enters his first marriage at the average age of 31.2 years, while the average age […]

The Paphos general hospital announced on Monday that residents suffering from heart attacks will have to be taken to private hospitals in Limassol because its angiography machine has malfunctioned. This measure will be in place on Monday and Tuesday. Patients will be immediately transferred by ambulance to one of the two private hospitals accompanied by […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated in his New Year message on Monday, his country’s determination to protect its rights in Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean. According to media reports in the north, Erdogan said that Turkey has demonstrated its determination to protect its rights in Cyprus, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean both in […]

Ghosting, optics and thought leader are among the terms put on the banned list by a US university in its yearly attempt to improve the English language. Michigan’s Lake Superior State University is featuring those phrases in its latest List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness. The 2018 […]

President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday expressed his regret over the death of researcher and author Aristeidis Koudounaris, who passed away last Saturday at the age of 82. Koudounaris was the author of the “Biographical Dictionary of Cypriots 1800-1920”, the seventh edition of which was recently published by the University of Nicosia. The project said Anastasiades was […]

A Palestinian court sentenced an American-Palestinian on Monday to life imprisonment for violating a ban on selling land to Israelis, judiciary officials said. The US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, called in November for dual national Issam Akel to be released, saying his suspected crime was “selling land to a Jew” and his incarceration violated […]

Workers preparing souvla on barbecue spits at a construction site on Makarios avenue in Nicosia on Monday, a traditional way of celebrating the end of the year. Thousands of workers all over Cyprus set up barbecues outside offices, shops and other workplaces during the last working day of each year. This has become a traditional […]

The Limassol district court issued a three-day remand on Monday for a 23-year-old suspected of stealing £115 from a Paphos residence, from which he also attempted to steal a vehicle which he then abandoned. According to the police, at around 1pm on Sunday, a Paphos resident filed a complaint with the police, claiming that as […]

US President Donald Trump might visit Britain in May 2019 after the country’s departure in March from the European Union, the US ambassador to Britain, Woody Johnson, said on Monday. Asked whether a state visit promised by Prime Minister Theresa May last year could be rescheduled to coincide with a commemoration of the end of […]

Mikaela Shiffrin said that surpassing Marlies Schild on Saturday to become the women’s all-time World Cup leader in slalom was bittersweet since she always felt her childhood idol deserved to hold the record. The 23-year-old American, who surpassed Schild with her 36th World Cup slalom win in Semmering, said she had an emotional dream about breaking the […]

A 27-year-old delivery man was attacked in Limassol on Sunday night by three men who stole the pizza he was delivering as well as a sum of €300. According to the police, the robbery took place at 7.30pm on Sunday in the Neapolis area in Limassol. The delivery worker was attacked by the three men […]

Three wins in three games for Manchester United under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, 12 goals scored and an Old Trafford crowd that, like the players themselves, are enjoying football again. No one at United wants to talk about previous boss Jose Mourinho as they want his name consigned to the history books, but then again Paul […]

A 66-year-old woman who plunged 30 metres off a cliff in the Kykkos area on Sunday while taking photos, died a few hours later at the Nicosia general hospital, police said on Monday. The woman, according to police, was having her photos taken by others, when, under conditions that are still being investigated, she lost […]

The national health scheme (Gesy) will go ahead as planned with the first phase introduced on July 1, 2019, President Nicos Anastasiades said. In an interview with Phileleftheros published on Monday, Anastasiades said no complaint would cancel or postpone its introduction. Five groups of specialist doctors have already said they will opt out of Gesy. […]

A drunk driver caused an accident on Sunday afternoon, injuring a woman and her three-year-old son. According to police, at about 4.30 on Sunday a 33-year-old resident of Aradippou was driving on Andrea Souroukli street in Livadia when he moved into the opposite lane and crashed into a car driven by a woman from Pyla, […]

Paphos police arrested two people on Sunday night for trying to leave the country on forged documents. According to police, a 60-year-old Syrian went to the airport where he presented a Syrian passport with a residence permit in his name in order to leave on a plane for Dusseldorf. During passport control it became clear […]

A 28-year-old man was stopped driving on the Limassol Nicosia highway driving twice the speed limit. According to police, he was stopped near Latsia after driving at 214km/hr instead of the allowed 100. He was stopped during a routine police operation. When officers tested his blood he was also shown to be over the alcohol […]

MOSCOW, Dec 31 (Reuters) – Rescue services in the Russian city of Magnitogorsk scrambled to find survivors after a suspected gas blast in the early hours of Monday caused the partial collapse of a high rise apartment building, killing at least two people, news agencies reported. Media outlets in the city, located 1,700 km (1,050 […]

A 62-year-old man arrested on Sunday for shooting dead a dog he said had killed his rabbits has been charged and released. A 53-year-old from Paphos reported that he had seen one of his dogs injured near the house of the older man, while the second was found dead in his yard. The 62-year-old said […]