Новости за 27.08.2019

The north has seen a surge in cases of violence against women, particularly cases involving serious bodily harm, Turkish Cypriot media reported on Tuesday. In the last nine months, 697 women reported being the victims of violence, of which 258 suffered serious bodily harm, Turkish Cypriot daily Yeni Duzen reported,...

A woman attempted to smuggle 32g of cocaine to a 36-year-old man being held in custody during his court appearance in Paphos on Tuesday, police said. According to authorities, the woman, unknown to authorities, went to the court and ordered a frappe for the man, who is being held in...

The anti-money laundering authority, Mokas, was on Tuesday asked to investigate the claims of the OCCRP against the Nicos Chr. Anastasiades law firm, by the firm itself. The report by the Organised Crime and Corruption Project (OCCRP), released on August 14, implied a link between the president and his law...

Opposition parties said they would try to pass a law which would force Prime Minister Boris Johnson to seek a delay to Britain’s departure from the European Union and prevent a potentially chaotic no-deal exit at the end of October. The United Kingdom is heading towards a constitutional crisis at...

Construction works at schools for the year 2019-2020 will cost approximately €37 million, the education ministry announced on Tuesday for works set to improve safety and the environment at schools. Specifically, the ministry said the 82 projects would cost a total of €36,945,901. Some of the construction works were conducted...

A large fire that broke out in Corfu on Tuesday afternoon was extinguished later in the day, the fire service said in statements to the Athens-Macedonia news agency. The fire managed to reach the gardens of some homes in Neochori and Palaiochori on the island, the fire service said, adding...

Cyprus’ farming organisations on Tuesday demanded the ministries of trade and agriculture take measures to stop the import of a white cheese similar to halloumi. A letter on behalf of the island’s farmers was sent to the Minister of Commerce Yiorgos Lakkotrypis and the Minister of Agriculture Kostas Kadis, the...

A project to revamp Kyriakou Matsi Avenue in Nicosia is set to begin, the municipality announced on Tuesday. The road begins from the roundabout of the presidential palace and heads south into the city. The municipality said that the project seeks to better traffic conditions on the road, and to...

U.S. President Donald Trump weighed into Italy’s political crisis on Tuesday, saying he hoped Giuseppe Conte would be reinstated as prime minister, as the climate improved in party talks to form a new government. The role of Conte has been a sticking point in the negotiations between the 5-Star Movement,...

The Greek Cypriot side’s aim is to agree on terms of reference that would pave the way for the resumption of talks from where they left of in Switzerland in the summer of 2017, Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides said on Tuesday, as the two sides prepared to hold separate meetings...

A fire broke in the Verginas Secondary school in Larnaca burned students’ medical records on Monday night. The fire Department received a call at 22:10 and extinguished the fire by 22:23. It was set among students’ medical records and caused minor damages in the room that was used as a...

A recent cabinet decision for the promotion of the Arabic language and culture in Cyprus will serve to transform the island into a bridge of communication between Europe and the Middle East, House president Demetris Syllouris said on Tuesday. Economic benefits are an important aspect of this initiative, Syllouris added,...

Thousands have fled a fresh flare-up of violence in Cameroon’s separatist English-speaking regions in the past few days, a local security source and a government source said on Tuesday. The army said separatists had attacked a police unit on Sunday in the northwestern town of Ndop, but did not mention...

A €1.3m information point in Platania was inaugurated on Tuesday as part of the iLIFE-Troodos project set to promote national assets and ecosystems. Speaking from Platania, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said the project began in October 2017 and is set to be completed by September 2020. It falls under the...

A series of measures to tackle unsafe roads are in the pipeline, the transport ministry said on Tuesday, expressing its concern at the recent surge in fatal traffic accidents. A road safety council meeting on August 8 already agreed to push for the installation of traffic cameras and for the...

Paphos Municipality is seeking information on homeless people as their number increases. The help of local residents is being sought so the municipality can locate homeless people sleeping in abandoned buildings and other places in the area. The number of homeless people is increasing, and the municipality needs to take...

Developments in the Cyprus problem, foreign policy, Energy, the Islamification of the Turkish occupied areas of Cyprus, missing persons, investment, and research and innovation issues are on the agenda of the 20th World Conference of Overseas Cypriots that starts on Tuesday. The conference will be opened by President Nicos Anastasiades...

Wales midfielder Aaron Ramsey has withdrawn from the national squad for the upcoming European Championship qualifier against Azerbaijan and an international friendly with Belarus next month, the Welsh national team said on Tuesday. Ramsey, who sealed a free transfer from Premier League side Arsenal to Serie A club Juventus in...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday to “calm down” after Nasrallah said his movement was preparing a response to the crash of two Israeli drones in a Beirut suburb. In a speech on Sunday, Nasrallah accused Israel of carrying out an attack with an exploding...

Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides is expected to formally establish diplomatic relations between Cyprus and North Macedonia by the end of the week during the informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Finland. The meeting is set to take place on Thursday and Friday in Helsinki, where Christodoulides is slated to...

Munich Airport was forced to cancel around 130 flights on Tuesday after police halted check-in and evacuated the building to search for a passenger who mistakenly went through an emergency exit. Police said they had to order all people out of the airport, including passengers who had already passed through security,...

It’s almost September; the summer – if not its weather – is officially over, and there are no more flowers in our hair. We’ve partied in parks, made music in the mountains, chugged cocktails on the coast and generally lived a life of shameless, sandaled self-indulgence for the past three...

Yassine Touzani, age 32 from Morocco who was reported missing on Monday night after having been last seen on August 16 was found healthy on Tuesday. He was last seen leaving his Nicosia home.

Europe’s top human rights court rebuked Russia on Tuesday for multiple violations of the basic rights of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who died in a Moscow prison in 2009 after complaining of mistreatment. Magnitsky, whose death became a cause celebre, received inadequate medical care in custody which led to his death,...

Natural gas for power generation should be expected on the island late in 2021, the head of the natural gas public company (Defa) said on Tuesday. Symeon Kassianides briefed President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday on the successful completion of the tender procedure for the construction of the infrastructure necessary to...