Новости за 02.01.2024

Deputy Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri had long expected the Israeli drone strike that security sources said killed him in Beirut on Tuesday, three months after his group’s surprise cross-border assault that triggered a devastating war in Gaza. “I am waiting for martyrdom and think that I lived too long,” he...

Italian prosecutors on Tuesday placed a lawmaker from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s party under investigation after a bystander was injured by a shot fired from his gun at a New Year’s celebration. Emanuele Pozzolo, who is a member of Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party, said the small revolver from which...

The Cypriot appeals court has upheld the eight-year sentence of a 36-year-old man who raped a 20-year-old British waitress in Ayia Napa in 2019, it emerged on Tuesday. A criminal court had found that he had raped the waitress, who had arrived in Cyprus a month before, after he had...

Eighteen public works projects valued at €112 million will get underway across the island this year, according to data from the Department of Public Works. These include the second phase of the Nicosia ring road, Famagusta Avenue in Nicosia, and an enclosure around the energy complex in Vassilikos. The second...

As the first week of the new year arrives, so do the live music events. A couple of music performances are happening this week to entertain music lovers and extend the holiday season a little longer. Saturday night in old town Nicosia will be all about flamenco and rumba rhythms...

Stiffer fines and punishments are necessary for people using poisonous agricultural products, as in the past three decades almost three dozen Griffon Vultures, a protected species, have been killed by these materials. Experts said on Tuesday, in 27 years a total of 56 of the birds have been killed by...

Parents have come forward to make statements against a babysitter who is currently being investigated for abusing infants, police said on Tuesday, with one allegation against her being that she threatened families into silence. So far, the parents of four babies reported they had hired the babysitter to look after...

The military plans to beef up its air defence systems within the year, the defence minister said on Tuesday. Michalis Giorgallas was speaking to the state broadcaster about the National Guard’s armaments programme for 2024. He said that “within the year” the defence ministry will announce decisions regarding the acquisition...

Three men appeared in court in the north on Tuesday after being arrested on New Year’s Eve night for shooting into the sky with rifles. The trio were arrested at 11:55pm on New Year’s Eve in Kioneli after police saw them firing their rifles into the sky. Police said they...

A Turkish Cypriot lawyer was arrested in Italy, it emerged on Tuesday, with reports linking the arrest to the sale of Greek Cypriot-owned property in the north. The lawyer, named as Akan Kursat, is the husband of the north’s ‘deputy parliament speaker’ Fazilet Ozdenefe. It is believed that he has...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar made clear he would not return to the negotiating table without equal sovereignty and international status for Turkish Cypriots. In his New Year’s message, distributed on Tuesday, Tatar underlined that it was not yet possible to reach an agreement on the Cyprus problem due to...

Conservation works will be carried out on the medieval chapel at Apostolos Andreas in Karpasia, along with further works on the exterior of the building, the Greek Cypriot co-chairman of the bicommunal committee on cultural heritage Soteris Ktoris said on Tuesday. “Conservation work will be carried out at the medieval...

The heat in China was relenting in 2023 with temperature records broken from Beijing to Shanghai, echoing the global heatwave phenomena that also engulfed most of the world and raised more concerns about global climate change. China’s searing heat led to 127 national weather stations breaking records for daily high...

Nicosia was on Tuesday waiting for the UN to formally announce the appointment of a new envoy to Cyprus. Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis told the Cyprus News Agency that the appointment is “imminent” with news expected soon or even within the day. Both sides on the island have approved the...

Vessels made of fibreglass were burning at a storage unit in Ayios Dhometios, Nicosia, the fire service announced on Tuesday, saying four vehicles had been deployed to deal with the blaze. The fire service said that the blaze broke out at 1:22pm, and that the storage area had been abandoned....

New HIV-1 strains have been discovered on the island, researchers at the University of Cyprus (UCy) announced on Tuesday. In an article published in the biomedical journal Viruses on December 21, biological sciences researcher Çiçek Topcu and his team reported the discovery of the four new recombinant strains of HIV-1....

A delegation of Turkish Cypriots travelled to the Turkish city of Adiyaman on Tuesday for the beginning of the trial of those held responsible for the collapse of the Isias hotel, in which 35 Turkish Cypriots, including 24 children, were killed. The trial of the 11 accused is set to...

Cyprus’ electronics and appliance market is expected to experience additional growth in 2024, according to John Vasilakos, Vice President and CEO of Kotsovolos – Dixons South East Europe. Speaking to local news outlet InBusiness, Vasilakos also expressed optimism about the Cypriot economy,  stating that “growth will persist with decreasing unemployment...

Workers earning the minimum wage in the north are earning less than the equivalent salary in Turkey for the first time, it appeared on Tuesday. Upon returning to work after the New Year’s break, minimum wage workers in Turkey will now be paid a net salary of 17,002TL (€519.50) per...

Hotels in the Famagusta district are expected to see occupancy rates ranging between 20 and 30 per cent during January and February, according to Panayiotis Constantinou, president of the Famagusta Hoteliers Association (Pasyxe). Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) on Tuesday, Constantinou explained that while there was some tourism...

The final total of traffic deaths in Cyprus in 2023 reached 34, marking a continuing downward trend in deaths on the road, police spokesman Christos Andreou said on Tuesday. Numbers have fallen every year since 2020, when 48 road traffic deaths were recorded. In 2021, the figure was 45, while...

The police’s investigation into the death of a five-month-old baby in Larnaca is ongoing, with police suspecting that it was caused by “shaken baby syndrome”. The baby was found unconscious at a nursery on December 27, and died at Nicosia’s Makarios hospital two days later. Police spokesman Christos Andreou told...

The father of one of the Cypriot children killed during February’s earthquakes was detained on arrival in Turkey on Tuesday after a case was filed against him for post he had made on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. Enver Karakaya, whose daughter Selin was killed when...

Wayne Rooney has been dismissed as the manager of Birmingham City after less than three months in the role, the second-tier Championship club said on Wednesday, after a winless run left them hovering above the relegation zone. Rooney was appointed Birmingham manager in October when the club were sixth in the table,...

Rafa Nadal marked his singles comeback after being out injured for nearly a year with a convincing 7-5 6-1 victory over Austrian former world number three Dominic Thiem in the Brisbane International first round on Tuesday. The 22-times Grand Slam champion had arthroscopic surgery last June after injuring his left hip flexor...