Новости за 28.02.2024

A 34-year-old man convicted of smuggling 34 people into Cyprus was sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday. The man captained a nine-metre-long boat which was intercepted by police off the coast of Cape Greco with 47 people on board in July last year. He was convicted of a...

All 19 people accused of taking part in a mass brawl on northern Nicosia’s popular Zahra Street last week were released on bail on Wednesday. In court, police officer Emin Gunal explained that one of the suspects who has not yet been arrested had placed golf clubs in a vehicle,...

Limassol’s Tsirio stadium is to become “Cyprus’ second national athletics stadium”, stadium owner Olympia athletics club (GSO) chairman Kyriakos Tsolakis said on Wednesday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), Tsolakis said he had held a meeting with Olympic committee chairman Ioannis Ioannou regarding the stadium’s future, with repairs to...

A report into construction work on roads in the Akamas region is expected to be completed “within days”, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Wednesday. The report, which is being written by the ad hoc committee created to look into the works, will be submitted to cabinet “by mid-March at...

The courthouse in the village of Lefka is to recommence operations on Monday after being closed for over five years due to renovations. The building had been closed in 2018 due to safety fears, with court proceedings moving to nearby Morphou as a result. Lefka had been separated from Morphou as...

The government was given until the beginning of 2026 to open a juvenile detention centre by the House legal affairs committee on Wednesday. Committee chairman Nikos Tornaritis said the plans to create a new centre have “not been satisfied to date,” and that as a result, young offenders will continue to be...

U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell‘s said on Wednesday he would step down from his leadership role, leaving a power vacuum atop the party he has piloted for nearly 17 years, more than any other party leader in the chamber’s history. “I turned 82 last week. The end of my contributions are closer...

The dentistry faculty at Morphou’s Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU) had its licence to teach temporarily revoked on Wednesday. The north’s higher education accreditation authority (Yodak) announced the suspension until January 31 next year as investigations continue into a growing scandal regarding the alleged issue of fake diplomas. The latest...

Novak Djokovic said he was excited to be back in Indian Wells to compete at the BNP Paribas Open for the first time since 2019 after U.S. travel restrictions related to COVID-19 had kept him away. The world number one is seeking an unprecedented sixth title at the Masters 1000...

The House Institutions committee on Wednesday discussed the possibility of reining in the powers vested in the Attorney-general. The discussion came after the publication of the European Commission’s report on the rule of law in Cyprus in 2023, with MPs and the justice ministry now keen to review the Attorney-general’s role....

Israel‘s plan to add thousands more homes to settlements in the occupied West Bank announced last week was the final push the Biden administration needed to declare them “inconsistent” with international law, sources and U.S. officials familiar with the move told Reuters. Rather than the carefully choreographed policy rollout typical...

After extensive construction works that started in September 2023 for the earthquake safety of its building, the Goethe-Institut is finally back and fully operational again. To celebrate the completion of these important works, the Goethe-Institut is organising a series of events titled Wir sind wieder da! (We are back again!)...

Thousands of striking Greek workers and students marched through central Athens on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of the country’s deadliest train crash – and demand justice and bigger pay rises. The 24-hour strike halted rail services across the country and disrupted urban transport in the Greek capital. Ships were...

The death of Thanasis Nicolaou was a murder, and there is an ongoing conspiracy trying to cover this up by calling it a suicide, Limassol district court heard on Wednesday. During the highly charged inquiry over the national guardsman’s death in 2005, former investigator on the case Savvas Matsas did...

The British government sowed the seeds of discord between Greek and Turkish Cypriots while seeking to consolidate London’s power, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday. “The reversion to colonialism, enshrined in the Zurich London [agreements], has not been overcome in our time,” she added, speaking on the...

Police on Tuesday arrested a 31-year-old resident of Nicosia for an investigated case of car arson committed in the early hours of the same day. According to the latest report, the car belonging to a 40-year-old man, caught fire around 4.30am on Tuesday. Police and firefighters went to the scene...

Wednesday will be mostly clear with intermittent high clouds and fine dust. Temperatures will rise to 21C in the interior and the coasts, and 12C in the higher mountains. Winds will be north- to south-easterly,  moderate, up to 4 Beaufort. The sea will be slightly rough.  Overnight will be clear...

By Oren Anolik   Hamas’ ongoing aggression against Israel has reached a critical juncture following the vicious attack on October 7, 2023 and has deep-rooted implications, not just for the region, but for global stability as well. In the wake of the frenzy of murder, rape mutilation and burning of...

President Joe Biden easily won the Democratic presidential primary in Michigan, but a protest vote by Democrats angry over his support for Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza exceeded organizers’ expectations. Donald Trump won the state’s Republican presidential primary by a large margin, strengthening his grip on the party’s White...

OPAP Cyprus on Tuesday launched its 2024 social initiatives with a focus on health, a key priority for the organisation. Chief Commercial Officer Alexandros Davos announced the renewed adoption of two rooms at the Cyprus Anti-Cancer Society’s “Arodafnousa” Palliative Care Centre, a commitment OPAP has upheld since 2017. In addition...

Bank lending to companies and households in the eurozone stagnated last month, indicating the bloc’s long-awaited economic recovery has yet to gain traction, European Central Bank data showed on Tuesday. On a quest to stem inflation, the ECB has jacked up interest rates to record highs, bringing bank lending to...

British grocery prices rose this month at their lowest rate since March 2022, as supermarket promotions picked up after a post-Christmas slowdown, industry data showed on Tuesday. Market researcher Kantar said annual grocery price inflation was 5.3 per cent in the four weeks to Feb. 18, down 1.5 percentage points...

Japan’s core consumer inflation slowed for a third straight month in January but beat forecasts and held at the central bank’s 2 per cent target, keeping alive expectations it will end negative interest rates by April. The 2.0 per cent gain in the core consumer prices index (CPI) was slower...

The amount being paid to some public hospital doctors in overtime and allowances are beyond belief. The audit office’s annual report on Nicosia general hospital recorded a case of a doctor on an annual salary of €76,000 collecting overtime pay of €187,000, and of an assistant head of clinic on...

By Martin Clark   The incredibly diverse nature of the Cypriot countryside and villages is due to physical geography in the first instance, with the island’s position on the edge of the European, Asian and African tectonic plates. Cyprus has plants and birds from all three continents – it used...