Новости за 01.03.2024

Lewis Hamilton led team mate George Russell in a surprise Mercedes one-two at the top of the Thursday practice timesheets for Formula One‘s season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen only sixth. Seven-times world champion Hamilton lapped the 5.4km floodlit Sakhir desert track in a best time of one minute 30.374 seconds with...

Going local Spicy Lamb Chops with Greek_Style Mint Sauce This recipe is from my daughter Antigoni, and it’s a real family favourite. We all become cavemen when eating these chops – we literally lick the last of the tangy mint sauce off the bones. For the chops 10 tsp salt...

A total of 43 kilogrammes of drugs were found in two unclaimed suitcases which arrived at Larnaca airport on an international flight, police said on Friday. They explained that the suitcases arrived at the airport on Monday and had not been claimed by any arriving passengers. It is therefore standard...

In the year 2023, Pepe (PEPE) became extremely popular in the web3 community. The inspiration for the PEPE meme coin came from the meme “Pepe the Frog,” which was created by artist Matt Furie. In April 2023, PEPE experienced a major increase in value, hitting a massive $1.5 billion in...

In upcoming concerts by the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra in Nicosia and Paphos, the works of three acclaimed composers from Cyprus will be showcased. Cyprophonia 3 is the next concert series of the orchestra, with an exciting and versatile programme presented under the baton of the renowned conductor Thomas Herzog. First...

In today’s episode, an investigator will face criminal charges for deliberately failing to properly investigate the road death of Andreas Loizou in 2012. Meanwhile, the Attorney-general ordered the trial of Turkish Cypriot lawyer Akan Kursat be suspended since the key witness in the case is dead. Elsewhere, parliament gave the...

The price of a loaf of bread in the north has been put back up to its historical high of 15TL (€0.44), the north’s Bakers’ association chairman Omer Cirali said on Friday. The price rise will come into force on Saturday and could potentially put bakers at odds with the...

The Kissonerga coastal path has been completed and cost a mere fraction of the budget, the village’s council said on Friday. Mukhtar Giorgos Stylianou explained that while the village had been handed a €3 million budget to construct the path, he had only spent €200,000 for its completion – seven...

Two men, both aged 22, were arrested in Limassol on Thursday evening after being found in possession of around seven kilograms of cannabis. Police had seen one of the two men leaving an apartment building in the city before tracking him driving away, and then pulling his car over. They...

Veteran left-wing political maverick George Galloway won a vote to become the new lawmaker for the English town of Rochdale on Friday, vowing to be a thorn in the side for the opposition Labour Party before a national election it is tipped to win. After running a pro-Palestinian campaign, Galloway...

Friday’s weather will be mostly clear, with cloud cover increasing as the day goes on. Temperatures are set to rise to 22 degrees Celsius inland and on the coasts, and 15 degrees Celsius in the mountains. Strong winds measuring up to five on the Beaufort scale may will also be...

Cyprus’ tourism revenue amounted to €74.3 million in December 2023, compared to €57.6m in the corresponding month of the previous year, marking an increase of 29 per cent, according to a report released on Thursday by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat). According to the report, which is based on the...

The following table shows crude output by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in millions of barrels per day (bpd) in February and January, according to a Reuters survey published on Thursday. OPEC and allies, together known as OPEC+, announced a new round of voluntary cuts on Nov....

Inflation fell in six economically important German states in February, preliminary data showed on Thursday, suggesting that German inflation is continuing on its downward trajectory. The inflation rate in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, fell to 2.6 per cent in February from 3.0 per cent in January. Saxony and...

Serdar Denktash, son of late Turkish Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktash, said on Thursday the north should hold parallel ‘EU elections’ this June. Speaking to the north’s public broadcaster BRT, he said the aim of this would be to demand the two European parliament seats set aside in principle for the...

Concerns expressed by the government about the proposal of the European Commission for a bicommunal solar park in the buffer zone are perfectly justified. These were voiced after the EU Director General of Structural Reform Support, Mario Nava, said on Tuesday that the result of the initial study for the...

Nicaragua’s government committed human rights violations that amount to “crimes against humanity,” a United Nations-appointed team of human rights experts said in a report on Thursday. The report called for President Daniel Ortega and his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo, to be “held accountable by the international community” for widespread abuses....

After much haggling, the House plenum on Thursday passed a law regulating the employment of advisors or associates to the president, ministers and deputy ministers. The legislation provides for members of the government to strike up private-law contracts with individuals who act as advisors/associates to them. Essentially an advisor and...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday his government would find a way to end exemptions for ultra-Orthodox Jews from Israeli military service in the face of political pressures that threaten his narrow coalition’s future. “We will determine goals for conscripting ultra-Orthodox people to the IDF and national civil service,”...

Parliament on Thursday gave the nod to the establishment of a deputy ministry for migration and asylum, hailed by the interior minister as a “milestone” for the country. Creating the new ministry is seen as an important move given the uptick in arrivals of asylum seekers over the past few...

A public inquiry into a British police officer whose rape and murder of a woman horrified the nation concluded on Thursday that without a sweeping overhaul of failed vetting procedures, there was nothing to stop another similar case arising. Wayne Couzens, 51, whose job was to guard diplomatic premises in...

MPs slammed on Thursday the last-minute decision by the interior ministry to submit bills on local government reform. Chairman of the House interior committee, Akel MP Aristos Damianou, said it showed a “complete lack of respect” that the bills were submitted just three months before the slated implementation of local...