Новости за 03.01.2024

Police on Wednesday confirmed reports on the arrest in Rome of a Turkish Cypriot lawyer linked to illegal sales of Greek Cypriot properties in the north. Police spokesman Christos Andreou confirmed the news of the incident which broke on Tuesday, telling state broadcaster CyBC that police in Cyprus had received...

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I’m usually a sucker for lunch by the sea or somewhere with a view. I feel content and it enhances my dining experience. However, for an ad hoc lunch after roaming the streets for a bit of festive shopping, the priority was finding somewhere to refuel ourselves! After reaching the...

The Larnaca Municipality is considering opening a new indoor municipal theatre in the area near the town’s oil refineries, Mayor Andreas Vyras said on Wednesday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), Vyras said “there is a proposal for the construction of a new indoor municipal theatre which will be...

The fire services on Wednesday took stock of the damages caused by a fire in an abandoned warehouse in Ayios Dhometios the day before. According to a statement from the fire department, the blaze to which services responded around 1pm caused extensive damages to a large number of old boats....

The trial of 11 suspects held responsible for deaths of 24 Turkish Cypriot children when a hotel they were staying in collapsed began on Wednesday. The Isias hotel in the Turkish city of Adiyaman collapsed on February 6 last year during the earthquakes which hit the region. The children, along...

Global stock markets were lacklustre on Wednesday, while the dollar stayed strong, as market optimism about early US interest rate cuts ebbed and the latest escalation of hostilities in the Middle East weighed on sentiment. MSCI’s broad index of world equities (.MIWO00000PUS) was 0.1 per cent lower, following a 0.8...

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The dollar eased slightly on Wednesday though it stayed near a two-week high, underpinned by a confluence of factors including elevated US Treasury yields and a cautious turn in risk sentiment that weighed on Wall Street. Trading was thinned in Asia with Japan out on a holiday, with the greenback...

In a Turkish Cypriot public figure, THEO PANAYIDES meets a doleful doer who treated politics much like a business. While dismissing the chances of Cypriots living together again, he is more interested in motorbikes and guitars than the life of a politician, from which it is impossible to escape As...

UN Special Representative on Cyprus Colin Stewart will be meeting with both President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar ahead of departing for New York to inform the Security Council ahead of the peacekeeping force (Unficyp) mandate renewal. According to reports on Wednesday, the UN said that Stewart...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed Major General Erdenebat Batsuuri of Mongolia as force commander of the United National Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp). According to an announcement on Tuesday evening, Batsuuri succeeds Major General Ingrid Gjerde of Norway. The UN published a short CV of Major General Batsuuri according...

Oil prices were little changed in Asian trade on Wednesday after sharp moves earlier in the week, as markets weighed concerns about the US economy against potential supply disruptions from ongoing tensions in the Red Sea. Brent crude fell 1 cent, or 0.01 per cent, to $75.88 a barrel by...

On Sunday, the last of 12,000 United Nations peacekeeping troops left Mali, ordered out by the military regime that seized power after two successive coups in 2020 and 2021. They leave behind them 310 Blue Helmets killed over ten years, and a country in chaos. Also on Sunday, the last...

The local comedy scene has picked up in the last year and although the majority of the shows are in Greek, a few pop up occasionally in English and sometimes, Russian. This January, English speakers of the island will get to meet a travelling comedian from abroad as he presents...

In today’s episode, the first shipment of humanitarian aid from Cyprus and the United Kingdom for the people of Gaza arrived at Egypt’s Port Said. Meanwhile, the driver of a pick-up truck which crashed into another vehicle, killing its four occupants, was remanded in custody for six days. Elsewhere, the...

A meeting has been called at the health ministry over the rapid rise of Covid-19 infections on Wednesday. Meanwhile, health services announced the public is encouraged to get vaccinated with the latest updated coronavirus jab, available without appointment at all health facilities, as well as pharmacies. Health services organisation (Okypy)...

Police arrested three people in Nicosia and Limassol in the wake of the latest football matches, and a teenager was injured, it emerged on Wednesday. According to the police, the first arrest was made on Tuesday after the end of the match in Limassol, between Apollo and Apoel, as fans...

Junior doctors in England will begin a six-day walkout on Wednesday, the longest strike in the state-run National Health Service’s (NHS) 75-year history which is set to hit patient care during its seasonal winter peak in demand. Like in other key sectors over the past year, junior doctors represented by...

Two fires broke out in the early hours of Wednesday morning, in Nicosia and Paphos, completely destroying premises and property. In Nicosia, a supermarket on Famagusta Avenue in Aglantzia was completely destroyed by a fire that broke around 2.30am. According to the police, the fire was extinguished by the fire...

Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (Cyta) trade unions are holding a two-hour work stoppage on Wednesday morning in protest over staffing issues. The Cyta employees are in disagreement with proposed changes to the authority which will affect the permanent status of employees and employee pay scales. In their statement the union workers...

Wednesday will start off mostly cloudy in the west of the island with isolated rains expected, later spreading southeast. Temperatures will rise to 22C inland, on the south-east and east coasts, 21C on the west and south-west coasts, 23C on the north coast, and 13C in the higher mountains. Winds...

Police are investigating whether a crash between an airliner and a smaller plane at a Tokyo airport may involve professional negligence, media reported on Wednesday, as transport authorities began inspecting the charred wreckage for clues. All 379 people miraculously escaped the Japan Airlines (JAL) 9201.T Airbus A350 which erupted into...

Israel killed Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri in a drone strike in Lebanon’s capital Beirut on Tuesday, Lebanese and Palestinian security sources said, raising the potential risk of war in Gaza spreading well beyond the Palestinian enclave. Arouri, 57, was the first senior Hamas political leader to be assassinated since...

Cypriot banks saw a rise in deposits and loans during November 2023, according to the Monetary and Financial Statistics report, valid as of December 2023, released by the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) this week. According to the report, total deposits in November 2023 showed a net increase of €91.7...