Новости за 30.03.2016

The U.S. military said on Wednesday that it would deploy rotations of U.S.-based armored brigade combat teams to Europe, part of a wider effort to counter what the United States sees as Russian aggression on the continent. The teams will be on nine-month rotations starting in February 2017, and will conduct military exercises across Estonia, […]

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Wednesday that women who end pregnancies should face some sort of punishment if the United States bans abortion, but appeared to walk back on his comments after their release by MSNBC to say the abortion issue should be handled by the states. In a clip of an interview […]

Dozens of migrants were feared missing after their boat sank off Libya on Wednesday, a spokesman for the country’s naval forces said, amid signs of a sharp increase in the number of people attempting the dangerous crossing from North Africa to Europe. Earlier Italian officials said their coast guard and navy vessels had rescued 1,361 […]

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced on Wednesday the appointment of Elizabeth Spehar of Canada as his new Special Representative and head of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP). Spehar will also perform the function of Deputy to the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Cyprus. She will succeed Lisa Buttenheim of the United States, who will […]

A California judge on Wednesday delayed a deposition of comedian Bill Cosby that had been scheduled for next week in a sex abuse lawsuit to avoid any interference with a criminal case against Cosby in Pennsylvania. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Craig Kaplan also put on hold any further deposition of Judy Huth, the […]

Opening batsman Jason Roy struck a career-best 78 as former champions England stormed into the World Twenty20 final with a seven-wicket romp against New Zealand on Wednesday. Electing to field, England staged a strong comeback in the second half of New Zealand’s innings to restrict their opponents to a modest 153 for eight at the […]

Spring is here and so is the Mind, Body and Spirit Festival, which has become the event to look forward to in Limassol for those who want to enhance their way of living. This year the event will run on April 2 and 3 at the St Raphael Resort Hotel from 10.30am until 8pm. Cyprus’ […]

The cabinet on Wednesday reviewed and approved a government bill banning companies that have bribed officials from bidding for new contracts. It’s understood the legislation is to be forwarded to parliament on Thursday. The bill stipulates that a central body will have the final say on blacklisting companies. But it does not clarify who will […]

Gary Neville was sacked as Valencia manager on Wednesday as the club brought an end to his fraught four-month spell in charge after the former England and Manchester United defender had delivered only three league wins. The club, who sit 14th in La Liga on 34 points, will replace Neville with his assistant coach Pako […]

By Jack Stubbs and Lisa Barrington President Bashar al-Assad said it would not be difficult to agree a new Syrian government including opposition figures, but his opponents responded on Wednesday that no administration would be legitimate while he remained in office. Assad, bolstered by military victory in the desert city of Palmyra, was quoted by […]

By Tulay Karadeniz and Dasha Afanasieva Five days before Turkey is due to start taking back illegal migrants from Greece under a landmark deal with the European Union, uncertainty remains over how many will come, how they will be processed, and where they will be housed. Turkey agreed with the EU this month to take […]

Greece moved a step closer to a ban by soccer’s governing bodies FIFA and UEFA on Wednesday as talks between the two organisations and the government over state involvement in the sport ended with no agreement. A delegation from world football’s governing body FIFA and their European counterpart, along with the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO) […]

Formula One’s much-derided new qualifying format faces more criticism in Bahrain this weekend after a disappointing debut in Australia, Mercedes motorsport director Toto Wolff said on Tuesday. The Austrian warned also that the sport was ‘under scrutiny’ and needed to think carefully to extricate itself from a self-imposed problem. “This weekend we will see the […]

Greek construction mogul Leonidas Bobolas, wanted by police here in connection with an ongoing corruption investigation into waste management contracts, was on Wednesday arrested and then released in Athens. Bobolas, for whom a European arrest warrant had been issued, turned up at an Athens police station and was arrested. On Wednesday he appeared before a […]

The Church of Cyprus announced on Wednesday it will hold a ceremony on Thursday for the repatriation of two 17th century icons that were stolen from the 14th century church of Ayios Iacovos in the occupied Trikomo after the 1974 invasion. According to a statement of the Archbishopric, the ceremony will take place at the […]

British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Wednesday that Russia represented a threat to all countries because of its disregard for international norms and he offered his support to Georgia, which fought a 2008 war with Moscow. Hammond, who has a track record of robustly criticising Russia’s actions, was in Georgia to meet Prime Minister […]

Authorities are waiting for the results of the toxicology tests on the charred body of a 65-year old woman found on Tuesday on the roof of a block of flats in Aglandjia, to shed light on the cause of death. The Greek Cypriot woman’s body was found by her brother, who notified police shortly after […]

By Stelios Orphanides Workers at state-owned power producer Electricity Authority of Cyprus will be asked to scrap plans for an indefinite strike starting on April 6, a union leader said after a meeting with President Nicos Anastasiades. “We shall all work to make this separation work,” Andreas Panorkos, who heads the EPOPAI union, was quoted […]

A day after the Egyptair hijack that took everyone by surprise, Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou and Police chief Zacharias Chrysostomou on Wednesday pointed fingers at media outlets for apparently hacking radio frequencies the crisis management team and pilot were using as a means to communicate. While 81 people including passengers and crew were on board […]

Parliament has tasked Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides with scrutinising the financial documents of the now defunct national carrier Cyprus Airways, it was announced on Wednesday. Michaelides, upon the request of the House ad hoc committee that was appointed to look into the collapse of CY, is expected to receive from the company’s liquidator all relevant documents […]

Europe’s top human rights court ruled on Wednesday that British prosecutors were right not to charge police officers involved in the shooting 11 years ago of a Brazilian electrician they thought was a suicide bomber. Jean Charles de Menezes was shot seven times in the head by specialist firearms officers as he boarded an underground […]

This year seems to mark the death of many great playwrights. In addition to 400 years since Shakespeare’s death it is 60 since that of German playwright Bertolt Brecht and Technohoros ETHAL in Limassol will present his play The Exception and the Rule until April 17. The play, translated and adapted by Giorgos Neofytou and […]

Yesterday’s hijacking of an EgyptAir flight from Cairo to Alexandria was a rare event. Between 1968 and 1972, airliner hijackings were commonplace around the world, occurring almost weekly in the United States alone. Since then, however, heightened airport security measures including x-ray machines and metal detectors have dramatically reduced the number of hijackings. Even when […]

The Cabinet on Wednesday approved new criteria for hiring police officers, with the new system expected to begin sometime after May’s legislative elections and the regulations approved by parliament on Thursday. Speaking after a cabinet session, Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou said that the new criteria introduce objectivity and meritocracy as the key screening element and […]

President Bashar al-Assad called on the United Nations and other international organisations on Wednesday to help Syria to restore Palmyra after government forces drove Islamic State militants out of the ancient city. State news agency SANA said Assad made the appeal in a message to Ban Ki-moon, in which he also thanked the United Nations […]