Новости за 03.03.2016

It is important to reach a comprehensive solution of the Cyprus problem, European Council`s President Donald Tusk has said, noting that it would be beneficial to the strategic relationship between Turkey and the EU. Tusk made this statement during a press conference in Ankara with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, with whom he discussed the […]

By Byron Kaye A piece of debris found off the south-east African coast that could be from a missing Malaysia Airlines flight is being sent to Australia for testing, officials said on Thursday, two years after the plane carrying 239 people disappeared. A white, metre-long chunk of metal was found off the coast of Mozambique […]

By Paulo Prada Research by scientists in Brazil indicates that a mosquito more common than the one primarily known to transmit Zika infections may possibly be able to carry the virus, a development that could further complicate efforts to limit its spread. The mosquito species Aedes aegypti has been identified as the primary transmitter of […]

By Silvio Cascione Brazil’s economy contracted sharply in 2015 as businesses slashed investment plans and laid off more than 1.5 million workers, official data showed on Thursday, setting the stage for what could be the country’s deepest recession on record. Gross domestic product (GDP) shrank 3.8 per cent last year, capped by another steep contraction […]

THE House plenum on Thursday passed the four remaining bills regulating the failure of banks and investment firms. The legislation – which is not retroactive – harmonises with the European Union’s Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD). The bills exempt provident funds from bank bail-ins. This applies to insured deposits – up to €100,000 – […]

Authorities were on Thursday searching for a 70-year-old man who went missing from the area around Souni village in the Limassol district. The man, a British national and permanent resident of Cyprus, was last seen shortly before noon near Souni. Search parties were mounted comprising personnel from the police, the fire department, civil aviation and […]

THE House of representatives on Thursday hosted the first trilateral meeting of Parliamentary Committees on Foreign Affairs of Cyprus – Greece – Israel, which discussed substantive and practical aspects of cooperation between the three countries. The meeting took place on the initiative of the President of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign and European Affairs, Averof Neophytou. […]

The flute, the piano and the cello make for a beautiful trio. When the setting is calm, the season is spring and the three instruments are in the hands of seasoned professionals, the trio can work musical wonders. Such wonders will be performed on Saturday at Technopolis 20 Cultural centre in Paphos when Savvas Christodoulou […]

Parliament on Thursday kicked off discussion of bills aimed at reforming local authorities, an effort that started years ago but never seen through. House Interior Committee chairman, AKEL MP, Yinnos Lamaris said there were different approaches on the matter. “The form of changes concerns clustering of services, creating district councils that will take over a […]

South Africa’s Constitutional Court on Thursday rejected Olympian Oscar Pistorius’ right to appeal against his conviction for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The Supreme Court of Appeal changed the 29-year-old’s conviction to murder in December after the state prosecutors appealed the athlete’s prior conviction of culpable homicide in the Pretoria High Court. South African […]

Omonia beat AEL 4-2 in the final game of the regular season in the Cyprus football championship in Nicosia on Thursday afternoon, denying the Limassol side the final spot in the playoffs. AEL got off to a great start, taking the lead through Arkadiusz Piech on the half-hour mark but Andraz Kirm equalised for Omonia […]

Cyprus was celebrating ‘Stinky Thursday’ today with songs, meat on the spit and plenty of drinking while schoolchildren played games.  Tsiknopempti or Stinky Thursday, which marks the beginning of the Carnival festivities, is also the beginning of the gradual weaning off meat and dairy in preparation for the 50-day lent period that leads to Easter […]

Finance minister Harris Georgiades said that the government will remain committed to structural reforms and fiscal consolidation even after Cyprus completes its adjustment programme, agreed three years ago, later this month. “This is the policy which has been delivering results and we know that there is more which needs to be done,” Georgriades told reporters […]

Footage of a March 1 gun store robbery in south-west Houston has been released, showing the moment at least 10 suspects raided the store and escaped with at least 50 weapons.

By Philip Pullella and Jane Wardell Cardinal George Pell, under fire for his handling of sexual abuse of children by priests in Australia, on Thursday acknowledged “the evil that was done” and vowed to work with survivors to enact better protection measures. Pell, who gave four days of evidence via video link to an Australian […]

Three years after Yiannis Karousos was elected mayor, the municipality of Ayia Napa has a surplus of more than €2 million, he announced on Thursday. “After my election to the office and with the cooperation of all citizens and organisations we have achieved a great deal,” the mayor said. “We have tidied up the municipality […]

A bomb caused extensive damage to a house in Limassol early Thursday. The improvised high-powered explosive device detonated at 5.30am in a house in Ayios Ioannis belonging to a 50-year-old woman. Nobody was hurt, but the device which was placed on the front veranda of the house caused extensive damage to the house. According to […]

By Lefteris Karagiannopoulos EU Council President Donald Tusk told illegal economic migrants on Thursday not to risk their lives or money to make a perilous trip to Europe “for nothing” but said unilateral actions by European Union states to deal with the crisis must stop. Tusk was on a trip through Balkan states to try […]

MARCOS Baghdatis has broken Bjorn Borg’s record of consecutive victories in the Davis Cup following the Cypriot’s 6-2, 6-0 win over Andorra’s Jean-Baptiste Poux-Gautier on Thursday. The win was Baghdatis’ 34th in a row in the competition, surpassing legendary Swede Borg, who managed 33 straight victories between 1973 and 1980. Cyprus won the European Group […]

The Nicosia Criminal Court said on Thursday there is a ‘prima facie’ case against former deputy attorney-general Rikkos Erotocritou, lawyers Andreas Kyprizoglou and Panayiotis Neocleous, and the Andreas Neocleous law firm, in connection with corruption charges. The four are accused of bribing a public official, corruption, abuse of power, conspiracy to obstruct justice, and conspiracy […]

(Adds more minister comment in second and seventh paragraph) Transport minister Marios Demetriades said on Thursday that the government expected €2bn to flow into the state coffers over the next 25 years from the commercialisation of operations at the port of Limassol. The current value of revenues “will exceed €1bn. You (can therefore) realise the […]

By Maria Tsvetkova and Andrew Osborn A woman who brandished the severed head of a four-year-old girl in her care outside a Moscow metro station has said she beheaded the child to avenge Muslims killed in the Kremlin’s campaign of air strikes in Syria. In video posted online on Thursday and circulated by several prominent […]

By Angeliki Koutantou Greece cannot accept demands from the International Monetary Fund – one of its international creditors – to cut its pensions yet again in order to achieve a primary surplus target in two years, the finance minister said on Thursday. Athens has proposed an overhaul of its pension system to make the system […]

The Hellenic Football Federation (EPO) on Thursday condemned crowd violence which caused the first leg of the Greek Cup semi-final between PAOK Salonika and Olympiakos Piraeus to be abandoned after a pitch invasion. The violence, which erupted after a penalty was denied to PAOK in Wednesday evening’s game, also prompted Greece’s deputy minister for sport […]

By Steve Holland Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney plans to deliver a rebuke of 2016 party front-runner Donald Trump on Thursday in a high-profile display of establishment Republican unease with the incendiary New York billionaire. Billed as a major speech by the 2012 nominee, Romney’s appearance in Utah comes on the day that Trump […]