Новости за 19.04.2024

The closing ceremony of the 22nd Cyprus Film Days International Festival caps a week filled with cinema, creative exchanges and strong emotions. The ceremony will take place on Saturday at Rialto Theatre in Limassol. This edition wraps up with the screening at 8pm of the new film by acclaimed Cypriot...

The European Union should “stop being a slave to the Greek Cypriot side”, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said on Thursday evening. Tatar was reacting to the outcome of this week’s extraordinary European Council summit in Brussels, which reaffirmed the EU’s support for a bicommunal bizonal federal solution to the...

Airlines quickly changed flight paths over Iran, diverted to alternate airports or returned planes to their departure points on Friday in response to airspace and airport closures after an Israeli attack on Iran, flight tracking data showed. Iran closed its airports in Tehran, Shiraz and Isfahan after the attack and...

Five people, aged between 19 and 28, were charged in writing of working illegally in Paphos, the town’s police assistant operations director Michalis Nikolaou said on Friday. In addition, the man who allegedly employed them, a 36-year-old, was also charged in writing. Nikolaou said the charges were written after the...

Police in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi shot down a suicide bomber and a militant on Friday as they attacked a vehicle carrying five Japanese nationals, all of whom survived, a police spokesperson said. Islamist militants seeking to overthrow the government and set up their own strict brand of Islamic...

Police on Friday announced the arrest of a 31-year-old man in connection with an explosion which occurred in the Pernera area of Paralimni in March. The man was arrested on Thursday evening. The explosion occurred outside a nightclub in the early hours of March 22, after a “low-powered explosive” had...

Increased levels of dust are expected to remain in the atmosphere through Friday, while temperatures are to remain warm. The mercury will rise to 26 degrees Celsius inland, 23 degrees Celsius on the southwest, west, and north coasts, 24 degrees Celsius on the southeast and east coasts and 19 degrees...

Israel has attacked Iran, three people familiar with the matter said, as Iranian state media reported early on Friday that its forces had destroyed drones, days after Iran launched a retaliatory drone strike on Israel. One source told Reuters the U.S. was not involved but was notified by Israel before...

A new sector-wide body could help ensure that Britain’s financial regulators fully comply with their new remit of aiding international competitiveness when writing rules, an industry lobby group said on Thursday. Tougher competition in financial services – including from the European Union following Brexit, and from New York attracting UK...

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance said on Thursday it had secured a licence from Dubai’s regulator VARA that will allow the platform to target retail clients in addition to qualified and institutional ones. Under the Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) licence, unit Binance FZE will also be able to extend its current...

Cyprus is “remaining consistent in its long-standing positions” on the matter of Kosovo, foreign ministry spokesman Theodoros Gotsis said on Thursday. He was speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) in the aftermath of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (Pace)’s recommendation that Kosovo’s application to join the...

The delays of the state services in dealing with citizens’ applications are a running joke. Neither computerisation in the 1990s nor digitalisation of the last seven, eight years have made much difference. There are almost 20,000 applications pending at the town planning authorities, some 100,000 cases are open at the...