Новости за 05.03.2024

The US government on Tuesday announced sanctions against two individuals and five entities associated with the Intellexa Consortium that develops spyware technology – including ex-Israeli intelligence officer Tal Dilian who in 2019 made the headlines in Cyprus in connection with the notorious ‘spy van’ affair. The US Department of the...

Israeli forces shot dead a 16 year-old Palestinian at a flashpoint road junction in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday after a stabbing attack in which a soldier was severely injured, the military and Palestinian authorities said. The incident in the northern West Bank town of Huwara was the latest...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday evening highlighted the importance his government is putting on the restarting Cyprus talks, despite the difficult stance of the Turkish side. Speaking during a televised speech on his first year as president, Christodoulides went over the initiatives his government has taken to “better the daily...

The supreme constitutional court has found no career advancement discrimination took place against female non-commissioned officers (NCOs) in the National Guard, according to a statement released Tuesday. In a statement, the attorney-general’s office described the recent judgment of the top court, delivered on February 20 this year. A group of...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday said it is not his fault if people “cannot see the realities of Cyprus”. Speaking during a trip to the German capital Berlin, he made reference to the country’s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s visit to Cyprus last month, saying “we leave his like alone...

Music venues around the island are bursting with live performances this week. With the arrival of spring and the return of the carnival, music will sound at every corner. Musicians are getting ready to present lively, nostalgic and dreamy sets in Nicosia, Limassol, Larnaca and Paphos before this week ends!...

Meta Platforms-owned (META.O) Facebook and Instagram were down for hundreds of thousands of users across the globe on Tuesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. The disruptions started around 10:00 am ET, with more than 300,000 reports of outages for Facebook and about 40,000 reports for Instagram, according to the...

Cyprus was on Tuesday named among the EU member states where concerns remain over government use of spyware against journalists by a Council of Europe report. The findings are part of the annual assessment of press freedom in Europe by the partner organisations of the Safety of Journalists Platform. The...

One of the government’s priorities is ensuring the sustainability of the agriculture sector, with fair and stable incomes for farmers, improvement of their quality of life, and food security, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Tuesday. She was speaking after the House agriculture committee, where she had outlined to MPs...

The green light was given on Tuesday for the construction of the Ayios Minas monastery in Pentalia, Paphos by the environment department. However, in it ruling the department said that certain conditions have been set. In a ruling issued in February, the department said if its instructions on how to...

Two Cypriot companies were included in the recently released list of the 1,000 fastest-growing European businesses by the Financial Times, compiled in collaboration with the German data analysis firm Statista. Topping the Cypriot entries at position 562 is Theon International, founded in 1997 and operating in the aerospace and defence...

The Cyprus Medical Association (Cyma) said on Tuesday it will begin investigating doctor Pavlos Antoniou for potential disciplinary offences, after he was jailed for indecently assaulting a patient. Head of the association’s ethics committee Michalis Anastasiades said they have already written to the attorney general to request the court’s decision....

The Swedish government on Tuesday refuted the Cypriot interior ministry’s claim it had offered “significant support” for the plan to declare parts of Syria safe. The interior ministry had claimed on Monday that Minister Constantinos Ioannou’s position “received significant support” among his EU counterparts, with “member states such as Greece,...

Russia and China are considering putting a nuclear power plant on the moon from 2033-35, Yuri Borisov, the head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday, something he said could one day allow lunar settlements to be built. Borisov, a former deputy defence minister, said that Russia and China had been jointly working on...

Donald Trump will aim to deliver a Super Tuesday knockout blow to his lone challenger for the Republican U.S. presidential nomination, Nikki Haley, as 15 states hold Republican contests on the biggest voting day of the primary season. The former president, who has dominated the Republican campaign from the start despite his litany of criminal charges,...

This winter was the hottest on record for Greece, according to data analysed by Greek scientists, threatening the viability of crops and raising fears of another summer of devastating wildfires. From December to February, the average peak temperature was 11.3 degrees Celsius (52.3 Farenheit), 1.8 degrees above the average top winter temperatures...

By Gloria Dickie and Lisi Niesner One by one, the crate doors swing open and five Arctic foxes bound off into the snowy landscape. But in the wilds of southern Norway, the newly freed foxes may struggle to find enough to eat, as the impacts of climate change make the...

Cyprus saw a decrease of 13.8 per cent in the number of registered unemployed individuals in February 2024, compared to the corresponding month of 2023, according to a report released by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat) on Tuesday. Specifically, the announcement highlighted that, compared to February 2023, there was a...

In a bid to support the noble cause championed by the Toxotis Foundation, the Cyprus-France Business Association is set to host a Charity Gala Dinner on April 5, 2024, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Limassol, starting at 19:00. The Toxotis Charitable Foundation, founded by parents of individuals with mental...

A proposal to establish a special category of “rural hotels” was discussed by the House commerce committee on Tuesday. The proposed law, tabled by Disy MPs Kyriakos Hadjiyiannis and Nikos Sykas, would amend current legislation on regulation, establishment and operation of hotels and tourist accommodation. “The categorisation of mountain resorts...

As the summer season approaches, Cyprus airports are bustling with over 3,000 workers daily, employed by the numerous companies operating within the airport facilities, according to an announcement released on Tuesday by Hermes Airports. Anticipating a significant increase, Cyprus’ airports are gearing up to accommodate over 5,000 employees, encompassing both...

Hamas negotiators stayed in Cairo for a third day of ceasefire talks on Tuesday after two days yielded no breakthrough, as a deadline approached to halt the fighting in time for Ramadan, free Israeli hostages and stave off famine in the Gaza Strip. The Cairo talks have been billed as a...

Footpaths at the southern end of Ledra Street and on the pavement of adjacent Fokionos street inside Nicosia’s old town are to be resurfaced this weekend. The Nicosia Municipality said resurfacing work would commence on Friday at 6am and continue until Monday at 10am. Vehicles will be able to enter...

Police are investigating after potential criminal offences were found at the Cyprus Shooting Sport Federation, it emerged on Tuesday. Two scathing reports were compiled by the sports and ethics protection committee, which were handed to Attorney General George Savvides. The legal service said on Tuesday that Savvides had recommended the...

Students from Kokkinochoria high school presented a theatrical performance at the House refugees committee on Tuesday based on testimonies collected from people who lived through the invasion in 1974. The performance titled Give Us Back Our Souls 1974-2024, also included singing, poems and tsiattista (traditional slam poetry). During the performance,...