Новости за 11.02.2016

By David Lawder Christine Lagarde was virtually assured a second term leading the International Monetary Fund on Thursday when nominations for the job closed with no challengers. The IMF said Lagarde, the first woman to lead the IMF, was the only person nominated for the position. It added that the board will now hold meetings […]

By Warren Strobel and John Irish Major powers began a new round of Syria talks on Thursday focusing on calls for a ceasefire and access for aid, but the mood was dour with Moscow showing no sign of calling off its bombing in support of a massive new government advance. With the Syrian opposition saying […]

By Jimmy Urquhart The four holdouts in an armed protest at a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon surrendered on Thursday, with the last occupier repeatedly threatening suicide during an intense phone call with mediators before he finally walked out, ending the 41-day standoff with the FBI. David Fry, 27, had stayed behind for more than […]

The House on Thursday passed two of six bills regulating the failure of banks and investment firms. The batch of bills comprises legislation to harmonise with the European Union’s Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD). The island should have harmonised its legislation with the European directive by mid-2015. The delay had already resulted in the […]

The country’s political elite rubbed shoulders, traded jokes and kept themselves busy snapping selfies as they awaited President Nicos Anastasiades’ entry into the parliament building on Thursday evening. Attending the President’s briefing on the Cyprus talks were MPs, ministers, government officials and mayors. The briefing took shorter than anticipated, and its content – an account […]

Authorities are set to deport the three Norwegian nationals suspected of coming to Cyprus with the intent to kidnap a four-year-old girl from her mother. The three, aged 29, 40 and 60, have not been charged, as police investigators were unable to gather sufficient evidence to bring a case against them. However they are to […]

Limassol district court on Thursday handed down a severe sentence to a 26-year-old man, having found him guilty of a robbery dating back to November 2014. The man was sentenced to 10 years in jail. The crime was committed on November 19, 2014. The victim, a 68-year-old woman, later told police that perpetrators unknown to […]

A settlement of the Cyprus problem could boost the island`s commercial fleet to new levels, as 2,500 ships currently under management by Cyprus-based companies could be registered in the Cypriot registry, Cyprus Shipping Chamber Director General Thomas Kazakos said in an interview with CNA. The Cypriot registry currently ranks 10th in the world and 3rd […]

Hotel workers who were due to stage a series of 24-hour warning strikes at selected hotels from Friday postponed the measures on Thursday night after the intervention of Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou. According to an official announcement, the minister has invited the heads of employers and trade unions at a meeting in her office on […]

All Cypriots are duty-bound to work towards a solution of the Cyprus problem if they wish to ensure a safe and secure future, President Nicos Anastasiades told parliament on Thursday. “Whatever our ideological differences or disagreements, what surely unites us is a common vision for freedom and for the reunification of our country,” the President […]

They say that opposites attract, which, in the art world, often results in a collective effort that becomes even more artistic because of the diversity. Tomorrow two artists, Valerie Brennan and Chiaki Kamilkawa, will come together at the Apocalypse Gallery in Nicosia to illustrate how works which may seem at two opposite sides of the […]

By Will Dunham and Scott Malone Scientists have for the first time detected gravitational waves, ripples in space and time hypothesized by Albert Einstein a century ago, in a landmark discovery announced on Thursday that opens a new window for studying the cosmos. The researchers said they detected gravitational waves coming from two distant black […]

Larnaca port workers and others held a protest on Thursday against the municipality’s decision not to allow the temporary operation of a company that provides logistics for hydrocarbon exploration. The workers marched to the town hall where they delivered a petition and then travelled to Nicosia where they continued their protest outside the transport ministry. The […]

Cyprus was on Thursday expecting to receive the first group of refugees, six people, as part of its obligations to accept a total of 509 under the EU distribution and relocation programme for immigrants arriving in Italy and Greece. Representatives of the ministries of interior and foreign affairs, the asylum service, civil defence and the […]

  Fifty one ponytails were donated and 38 heads shaved at a charity event organised by the English School on Thursday. Students, parents and graduates of the English School were invited to donate hair and register as bone marrow donors at the premises. Organised by the school’s ‘We care we help’ club, the event was […]

A battle between rival drug gangs at a prison killed 52 people in the north-eastern Mexican city of Monterrey, authorities said on Thursday, days ahead of a planned visit by Pope Francis to another jail in Mexicos far north. The incident was one of the worst in a series of deadly riots in recent years […]

Cyprus’ share of renewable energy sources (RES) almost trebled from just 3.1 per cent in 2004 to 9 per cent in 2014, but the country continues to have one of the smallest shares of RES in the European Union, according to a Eurostat report. Smaller percentages for 2014 were reported only for six countries, with […]

By Stelios Orphanides The state-owned Cooperative Central Bank, Cyprus’s second largest lender, wants to get rated by a rating company for the first time in its more than 100-year history and is already in talks with Moody’s Investors Service ahead of its stock exchange listing, scheduled for 2018, a source said. Former chief executive officer […]

By Angelos Anastasiou Despite pledges by President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci last June, the unification of mobile telephony grids in the government-controlled and the Turkish-occupied areas in the north has faltered because of political complications. In a news conference on Tuesday, Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry head Phidias Pilides said […]

English Premier League football club Manchester United showed its commercial strength when it raised its core earnings expectations for the year as it posted a 26.6 per cent rise in quarterly revenue. The upgrade comes despite another mixed season on the field when United have failed to qualify for the knockout stages of the lucrative […]

By Robin Emmott and Phil Stewart NATO will send military vessels to the Aegean Sea to help Turkey and Greece crack down on criminal networks smuggling migrants and refugees into Europe, allied defence ministers said on Thursday. The move, discussed by NATO ministers for the first time at a meeting in Brussels, is aimed at […]

By Elke Ahlswede A 94-year-old former guard at Auschwitz lowered his eyes as he arrived at a German court on Thursday to be tried as an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people in what is likely to be one of the last few Nazi war crimes trials. Reinhold Hanning was 20 years […]

By Ju-min Park North Korea said it was kicking out all South Koreans from the jointly run Kaesong industrial zone on Thursday, calling the South’s move to suspend operations, in retaliation for Sunday’s rocket launch by the North, a ‘declaration of war’. The North declared the industrial park, run by the rivals as a symbol […]

Art Café 1900 is well-known to those who have either lived or visited the Larnaca area over the last twenty odd years. As one of the town’s most popular bars due to its vast selection of imported beers and wonderful atmosphere, it’s reputation has perhaps overshadowed the fact that it is also home to a […]

Love really is all around. Yes, it is in our fingers and in our toes, but most of all it is found wherever people get together to enjoy a common interest and to support a good cause. This Valentine’s Day there will be candles, there will be heart-shaped chocolates and there will be a chance […]