Новости за 11.06.2019

Cyprus were beaten 1-0 in Russia in their Euro 2020 qualifier on Tuesday night. Aleksei Ionov scored the only goal of the game, meaning Cyprus suffered their second straight defeat following a 3-1 loss to Scotland on Saturday. Elsewhere in Tuesday’s qualifiers, Romelu Lukaku scored with two close-range finishes as...

A 73-year-old man was reported missing from his Nicosia home on Tuesday evening, police said. The man, Michalakis Panayiotou, is from Farmakas and is described as 1.70 metres tall and having white hair. When he left his home on Tuesday morning, Panayiotou was wearing blue shorts and a blue shirt....

Hope remains alive for the Cyprus peace talks despite the disappointment of the failure in Crans-Montana in 2017, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative in Cyprus Elizabeth Spehar said on Tuesday. Spehar was addressing an International Conference on the “30 years of dialogue between Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot political parties...

U.S. President Donald Trump cozied up anew to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday, praising a “beautiful” letter he received from Kim and appearing to take a public stance against the CIA spying on him. Trump told reporters at the White House, “I think that something will happen...

Ruling Disy and opposition Akel traded barbs for a second day on Tuesday over the proposed bill to lift the decades-old US arms embargo on Cyprus, the latter suggesting it was in reality a smokescreen to target Russian influence in the region. The Eastern Mediterranean Security and Energy Partnership Act...

Deputy Tourism Minister Savvas Perdios said on Tuesday his ministry has submitted a proposal for the cabinet for approval after the House interior committee discussed noise pollution. In a letter to the committee, Perdios said the deputy ministry made the proposal and that they also believe  Tourist Police should be...

The European Union moved closer on Tuesday to taking disciplinary action over Italy’s growing debt, as authorities in Rome made tentative steps to avert a procedure that could saddle the country with large fines and alienate investors. Envoys of EU governments agreed that action was warranted, a confidential document seen...

Over half the judges sitting on the full bench of the supreme court be excluded from hearing the state’s appeal against an earlier court ruling concerning public sector wages, as they are said to have either a conflict of interest or a direct stake in the matter. The recusal of...

Mortality on urban roads in Cyprus is close to three times the EU average with around 60 deaths per million inhabitants, the fourth worst record in the bloc, with progress on reducing fatalities having stagnated, a damning report published on Tuesday revealed. More than 50 per cent of all road...

A third summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is possible but the ball is in Pyongyang’s court, White House national security adviser John Bolton said on Tuesday. While North Korea had kept pledges not to conduct nuclear or intercontinental range ballistic missile tests, Bolton...

Shoring up gaps in investigating cases of missing persons and restoring the public’s trust in the force are among the top priorities for new police chief Kypros Michaelides, he said on Tuesday in his first official news conference since taking over. His predecessor Zacharias Chyrsostomou was fired by the president...

To mark World Refugee Day, held each year on June 20, the UNHCR Office in Cyprus has teamed up with diverse partners to create a series of events in Nicosia and Larnaca this month. Starting today and running until June 24, diversity and multiculturalism will be celebrated and put in...

The Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC) announced on Tuesday it was carrying out an on-site check at the offices of the Medical Association (CyMA) over decisions and actions it took urging members not to join Gesy. The CPC said in a written statement the search started on Tuesday....

As a DISY supporter (the better of a bad bunch in my opinion) I am not convinced the leadership will listen, take stock and win back supporters as the party is fracturing between the moderates and the nationalists. The President, Prodromou and Stavrou each have a lot to answer for...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday stood by his comments that part of the migrant deal with Mexico announced over the weekend had yet to be made public, even after Mexican officials unveiled new details of the agreement. “Biggest part of deal with Mexico has not yet been revealed!” Trump...

The government on Tuesday restated its readiness to tackle what is expected to be a fearsome fire season, as fields filled with dry vegetation continue to pose a substantial problem for which a further €3.5m will be distributed to local authorities to clear fields belonging to negligent private owners. Law...

British intelligence agency MI5 was criticised by a privacy watchdog on Tuesday for “illegally mishandling” surveillance data and storing information about innocent people for years. Liberty said the Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office (IPCO) had delivered a highly critical assessment of the domestic spy agency in London’s High Court over storage...

A Polish court has ordered church authorities to hand over to prosecutors classified files regarding a paedophilia case, in a rare example of a clash between the state and the powerful Catholic Church in deeply devout Poland. The order came two days before the Vatican’s leading sexual abuse investigator, Archbishop...

Loan takers who will benefit from the government Estia scheme to help repay their housing loans will be under strict scrutiny and face repossession in case they don’t stick to their part of the deal, it was revealed on Tuesday. According to the Cyprus News Agency, which obtained a draft...

The facts will come out in court. If they are found to be negligent/incompetent they should be found guilty and punished. Furthermore, the police chief offered a public apology which implies incompetence therefore some kind of guilt. It seems that procedures for missing persons were not executed correctly. Some would...

Private clinical laboratories that have joined Gesy said on Tuesday they face many problems after the system was introduced mainly due to technical issues and procedures that in some cases takes four times longer to complete. Head of the Clinical Laboratories Association Charilaos Charilaou told the Cyprus News Agency the...

Botswana decriminalised homosexuality on Tuesday, with the High Court overturning a colonial-era law that punished gay sex by up to seven years in prison. Same-sex relationships are illegal in more than 70 countries worldwide; almost half of them in Africa, where homosexuality is broadly taboo and persecution is rife. “Discrimination...

An international group of students has demonstrated their public speaking skills in Limassol, following a three-month course with a public speaking masterclass of Finland. For the first time in their lives the children presented, debated and competed in front of a live audience. Children of 13, 15 and even nine...

Hello post-haircut holidays! The kids are restless, but the money’s tight, so clearly an all-inclusive week in Santorini isn’t an option. But then neither is a staycation (basically the daily grind but with added beach trips!). Fret not: there’s a frugal yet fun solution to the holiday/finance conundrum… Glamping. Don’t...

New witnesses for the prosecution were brought in to testify on Tuesday at the trial of a Georgian national accused of running over and killing Briton Robert James Birch in Paphos, and injuring a compatriot on the Peyia-Ayios Georghios road in Paphos in the early hours of June 24, 2018....