Новости за 23.02.2024

The Biden administration on Friday said Israel’s expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank are inconsistent with international law, signaling a return to long-standing U.S. policy on the issue, which had been reversed by the previous administration of Donald Trump. Speaking at a news conference during a trip to...

CyBC will be paying out over a million euros to journalist Evdokia Loizou, who contracted viral encephalitis from her working conditions, the court ruled on Friday. According to the Nicosia District Court, damages at €925,00 must be paid out along with VAT, interest, and legal fees to Loizou. To prove...

The British woman who reported being gang raped while on holiday in Ayia Napa took the stand at Famagusta criminal court this week. The hearing took place behind closed doors between Tuesday and Friday, where the woman gave her testimony before the court. She reported five Israeli men between the...

Crime per capita in Cyprus has risen for the second consecutive year, according to the police’s annual statistics report. The report shows that the “crime index”, the ratio of the number of verified cases of serious offences reported to the police per 100,000 inhabitants, was calculated to be 584 in...

LGBT right’s group, Rainbow Families Cy, on Friday called on authorities to take issues of hate speech seriously, instead of allowing extremist rhetoric to grow, following homophobic rhetoric of a schoolbook. “We finally ask for the support of the state, unless that is their goal, to put us and our...

Sun, beach and plenty of fun! It may be a little while away yet pretty soon, the coastline of Cyprus will fill with events and travellers. Gearing up for another memorable summer season is the Paralimni Municipality, which in collaboration with Paralimni Youth is organising a handful of exciting events...

Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O) reported a bigger-than-expected quarterly loss on Friday, as the media conglomerate battled a weak advertising market and the fallout of the twin Hollywood strikes on content generation. Shares of the company, forged by the union of WarnerMedia and Discovery, tumbled nearly 10 per cent before the...

The construction of the new central prison building by 2026 will significantly alleviate the issue of overcrowding in prisons, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said on Friday. He was speaking after meeting with Edek leader Marinos Sizopoulos at the party’s headquarters to discuss football fan violence, fighting crime, decongesting prisons and...

The Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) on Friday announced that it has become a member of the EuroCTP consortium, a collaborative initiative involving several European exchanges. EuroCTP, established in August 2023, aims to offer a Consolidated Tape, providing unified electronic financial market information within the European Union. The consortium, with representatives...

A British-born woman who went to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State lost her latest appeal on Friday over the removal of her British citizenship. The British government took away Shamima Begum‘s citizenship on national security grounds in 2019, shortly after she was found in a detention camp in Syria. Begum, now...

The Nicosia Municipality has spent €11 million on social integration programmes in the last 12 years, Mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis said on Friday. Speaking at a ceremony presenting the results to date of three of those projects, he said his municipality has implemented a total of 19 such programmes since he...

Turkish energy company Aksa made $1 billion (€924 million) in profit in Cyprus since 2000, Cyprus Turkish Chamber of Mechanical Engineers chairman Ayer Yarkiner claimed on Friday. Yarkiner at a joint press conference on the matter of the Turkish Cypriots’ electricity struggles with the north’s electricity authority (Kib-Tek)’s workers’ union...

With leaders Liverpool otherwise engaged this weekend Manchester City and Arsenal have the chance to close the gap in what is brewing to be the closest Premier League title race for years. Juegen Klopp’s side hit back to beat Luton Town on Wednesday and stretch their lead to four points as they...

An increase of 472 per cent in cases against the state for asylum applications was recorded from 2020 to 2023, the legal service announced on Friday. However, there was a nine per cent decrease according to the legal service announcement for 2022. Commenting on 2023, the legal service stated that...

The Head of Deloitte Academy, Christina Themistocleous, embarked on a journey to Nairobi, Kenya, driven by the aspiration to offer voluntary assistance to students and aid them in realising their ambitions and reaching their full potential. According to an announcement by the company released on Friday, during her time in...

Turkish Cypriot authorities will carry out a full “academic audit” regarding the scandal of fake diplomas which has erupted in the north in recent days. Speaking at a press conference on Friday, chairman of the north’s higher education standards authority (Yodak) Turgay Avci said Yodak will carry out the academic...

A total of 33 irregular migrants were spotted by the police on Thursday evening in the area of Cape Greco, located in the Famagusta district. Specifically, at 9.30pm, the coastal police received information regarding a vessel carrying 33 people, among which were four minors and a woman. Despite not having...

As Cyprus prepares to take up the Presidency of the Council of the EU in January 2026, the EY Academy of Learning and Development organised a recent seminar on the expected impact of sustainability and green taxes on businesses worldwide. The event aimed to educate businesses about the implications of...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday promised to hold non-binding referenda in the near future. Speaking at an organised question and answer session with high school children, he said the government “sincerely believes in participatory democracy, that you must have a say and a role.” He said the non-binding referenda would...

Where do you live? I live in Nicosia with my husband and my youngest twin children What did you have for breakfast? Only a cup of coffee Describe your perfect day My perfect day is to wake up with an inspiration for my next glass sculpture or glass artwork and...

I’ve been waiting for this for a while! Full Contact has finally hit the screens, marking Netflix’s first docuseries dedicated to the Six Nations. Split into eight episodes of about 45 minutes each, the series is the brainchild of the same mastermind behind the global success of Drive to Survive,...

Nicosia municipality on Friday announced it will be giving out 1,000 free BLE tag (Bluetooth Low Energy) devices to disabled users of its parking app, to help limit illegal parking. In a statement, the municipality said that as of September 2023, as part of the Smart Nicosia project, it has...

Premier League leaders Liverpool have drawn Czech side Sparta Prague in the last 16 of the Europa League, while Bundesliga frontrunners Bayer Leverkusen will play Azerbaijan’s Qarabag. Europa Conference League holders West Ham United will face German side Freiburg and last season’s runners-up Roma play Roberto De Zerbi’s Brighton &...

A 44-year-old man was remanded in custody for six days on Friday, a day after he was arrested in relation to a string of church robberies in Paphos. The man is the father of the 16-year-old boy who was arrested on Tuesday as part of the same investigation. The boy...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has presented a “day after” plan for Gaza, his first official proposal for when the war in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory ends. According to the document, presented to members of Israel‘s security cabinet on Thursday and seen by Reuters on Friday, Israel would maintain security control over all...