Новости за 06.02.2019

Residents of the Kornos and Pyrga area outside Nicosia, including monks from Stavrovouni monastery, held a peaceful protest outside parliament on Wednesday against the installation of an asphalt recycling and producing unit. House environment committee chairman Adamos Adamou said the studies conducted appeared to ignore nearby residents. The unit in question, he said, would emit […]

European football boss Aleksander Ceferin is set to be re-elected unopposed at a UEFA Congress in Rome on Thursday, putting him in charge for four years which could see fundamental changes to club football on the continent. The Slovenian lawyer will face a delicate balancing act as he attempts to find a middle ground between […]

A government debt relief scheme for vulnerable homeowners will be officially launched in March, a senior finance ministry official said on Wednesday. At a first stage following the announcement, banks must confirm their participation, the head of the   financial stability directorate Andreas Charalambous said. The government was also setting up an online application platform, he […]

In its first year of operation, the American Breast Centre in Nicosia conducted 405 biopsies, which turned up 165 new cases of cancer, it said on Wednesday. Marking one year of operation, the medical facility, which is part of the American Medical Centre, said it had also carried out 57 mastectomies, Dr Charalambos Charalambous, the centre’s […]

MPs said Wednesday they aim to pass a law on stalking inside March, plugging a gap in the island’s legislation which failed to punish perpetrators. The House legal affairs committee heard previously that in Cyprus 11 per cent of the female population over 12, around 55,000 women, have been victims of stalking. The EU average […]

West Ham United are investigating allegations of racist abuse aimed towards Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah during Monday’s 1-1 Premier League draw at the London Stadium. A video emerged on social media in which audible racial slurs are directed at the 26-year-old Egypt international as he was taking a corner. The user who posted the video […]

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras voiced hope that a closed Orthodox Christian seminary he was visiting in Turkey on Wednesday would be reopened as part of efforts to boost ties long strained by disputes over territory, energy and Cyprus. Crowds welcomed Tsipras as he arrived on Heybeliada, an island south of Istanbul, to visit the […]

Pissouri residents have been without a sufficient water supply for the past 15 days, leaving homes and businesses without water for days at a time. Head of the Pissouri village council, Lazaros Lazarou, told the Cyprus Mail that recent heavy rainfall caused severe damage to the main pipe supplying water from Paphos, “which is not […]

Two more people have died from type A influenza, bringing the toll to seven. The latest victim was a 75-year-old woman who died at Limassol general hospital. She had been transferred there from Paphos a few days ago. The woman, who had underlying health problems, was admitted to the ICU but died on Wednesday. Earlier, […]

The main suspect in a double murder case had planned to kill the victims and not rob them, a police investigator told the Nicosia criminal court on Wednesday. CID sergeant Savvas Samoutis said Loizos Tzionis, 33, broke into the house in Nicosia to kill Giorgos Hadjigeorgiou, 60, and his wife Dina Sergiou, 59. The couple […]

  President Nicos Anastasiades has spoken with Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci by phone and they have agreed to meet on the second half of February, the government announced on Wednesday in a brief statement. No further details were given as to the date, location and time of the meeting. “The goal of course is […]

Greece’s deputy health minister has told the European Union’s top health official to butt out after getting a reprimand for smoking in public. Deputy minister Pavlos Polakis was caught on video footage this week holding a cigarette while dancing in a club. He had also been photographed smoking at a news conference in 2016. It […]

If you are in a jazz mood, mark your calendars for an event this Sunday that will see a jazz trio take to the floor at Limassol’s Mason Bar, a venue that is not short of live entertainment, with most weeks seeing it host at least three events. This Sunday’s entertainment is Jazz the 3 […]

An arrest warrant has been issued against a 20-year-old who allegedly voted for himself and his twin brother in last year’s presidential elections. According to the police, the 20-year-old had gone to a voting centre in Yeroskipou where he submitted his vote, before asking police if he could also vote for his brother, which he […]

Two last-16 Cyprus Cup games scheduled for Wednesday have been postponed due to waterlogged pitches. The second leg matches between Doxa and Apoel (first leg score 1-2) and Ethnikos Achnas v Karmiotissa (first leg score 1-2) will now take place at a later date. The winner of the Doxa v Apoel game will face AEK […]

As was widely expected, the supreme court on Wednesday ruled as unconstitutional, two laws passed by parliament in June last year extending the right to paternity allowance to unmarried men and those not in a civil partnership. The proposals, submitted by main opposition Akel, extended the eligibility criteria to include fathers who live with the […]

A Russian court on Wednesday found a Danish adherent of the Jehovah’s Witnesses guilty of organising a banned extremist group and jailed him for six years in a case critics condemn as crushing religious freedom. Armed police detained Dennis Christensen, a 46-year-old builder, in May 2017 at a prayer meeting in Oryol, some 320 km […]

Fishing and the movement of boats have been prohibited in the Natura 2000 protected area of the Peyia sea caves, the agriculture ministry announced on Wednesday. The decree issued by the ministry has been in effect since February 1, according to which a ‘core protection zone’ (marked in red on map) has been established, where […]

An all-out war has broken out between two of the biggest football clubs in Cyprus, Apollon and Anorthosis, after the Limassol club alleged Anorthosis’ goalkeeper was ineligible to take part in a recent match between the two sides. Nigerian national Francis Uzoho was acquired by the Famagusta side last Thursday, the transfer deadline day, and […]

Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova told a Czech court how she grabbed the blade of an attacker’s knife and forced it away from her neck, leaving blood everywhere, during an attack at her home in December 2016. Kvitova suffered severe wounds to her playing left hand as she struggled with the knife-wielding intruder. She returned […]

  Almost 11,000 Cypriot men do not serve in the National Guard reserves either because they fail to declare their repatriation, are still listed as being students abroad despite being over 30, or they know someone in high places, the audit office revealed in a special report issued on Wednesday. According to the report by […]

The European Union will make no new offer on Brexit and those who promoted Britain’s exit without any understanding of how to deliver it deserve a special place in hell, Council President Donald Tusk said on Wednesday. The United Kingdom is on course to leave the European Union on March 29 without a deal unless […]

Well known performer Ute Lemper is coming to Cyprus for third time on Sunday building on the success of her performances at the Kypria International Festival 2008 and as part of events within Pafos2017. At Rialto Theatre, Lemper will present her new show titled Rendezvous with Marlene, which is based on a phone call and […]

Pink and red paint was thrown on the statue of Georgios Grivas in Limassol on Tuesday. Residents of the Ayios Nicolaos area in Limassol, where the fenced-off memorial stands, alerted the authorities. Grivas was the military commander of the Eoka insurgency against British colonial rule from 1955 to 1959 and its later variant Eoka B […]

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola believes critics have been too quick to write off his side’s chances of defending the Premier League crown, and he expects more twists and turns in the title race. Back-to-back draws for Liverpool have handed City an opportunity to move to the top of the league table for the first […]