Новости за 27.10.2016

Global warming is on track to disrupt the Mediterranean region more than any droughts or heatwaves in the past 10,000 years, turning parts of southern Europe into desert by the end of the century, scientists said on Thursday. Average temperatures in the region have already risen by 1.3 degrees Celsius since the late 19th century, […]

Authorities in the north on Thursday handed over to Greek Cypriot police three Greek Cypriots and an Albanian national suspected of involvement in the alleged kidnapping of a 17-month-old baby. Arrangements were made by the United Nations to transfer the four into the custody of police in the south, at a location near the Ledra […]

Five members of Turkey’s security forces and five Kurdish militants were killed on Thursday in clashes in the south-east, where unrest has flared since the arrest this week of two popular mayors. Two soldiers were killed in a clash near Hani, a town outside Diyarbakir, the region’s biggest city, security sources said. A third died […]

Apple unveiled a revamped MacBook Pro on Thursday, adding a fingerprint reader, replacing function keys with a small touch screen and slimming down the workhorse of its computer notebook line. The first redesign in several years is a sign Apple still sees a role for the product that launched the company, even though its iPhones […]

Large commercial and industrial consumers stand to benefit the most, and household consumers the least, from the planned introduction of a new electricity pricing system by the state power company. The Electricity Authority of Cyprus (ESC) intends to overhaul its tariffs system, based on a recently completed study. Currently the EAC has some 30 different […]

Twitter Inc announced Thursday that it would discontinue the video-sharing mobile app Vine, as it moves to cut 9 percent of its workforce worldwide to keep costs down after beating Wall Street quarterly earnings expectations. The decision comes on the heels of a failed attempt to sell Twitter as it fights against stagnant user growth […]

Eurozone ministers will be informed on the findings of the first post-programme surveillance mission to Cyprus, which took place at the end of September, and on the findings of the 6th post-programme surveillance mission to Spain, which took place mid-October 2016, according to the official Eurogroup agenda disclosed on Thursday in Brussels. The 19 eurozone […]

Paphos will be swinging and moving to the sounds of the Papageorgio String Quartet and the voice of jazz singer Sarah Fenwick on Saturday, while Nicosians won’t be left wondering, as they can also enjoy the musical sounds on Sunday. While the quartet will get us all bopping to the sounds of some very well-known […]

Spending on infrastructure will rise 11 per cent in 2017, MPs were told on Thursday, amid criticism over the low rate of completion of development works in 2016, which only reached 40 per cent by October. Presenting the transport ministry’s budget, Minister Marios Demetriades said infrastructure spending for 2017 will be 11.6 per cent higher, […]

November is the month of the German language, and for the sixth consecutive year the German Cyprus language teachers association, the education ministry, the Goethe Institute and the embassies of Austria, Germany and Switzerland have organised a cultural programme. “Various events related to the German languages are planned for the entire month of November, thereby […]

Britain’s decision to leave the European Union will also mean leaving the EU single market, one of Prime Minister Theresa May’s cabinet ministers said on Thursday. “If we are leaving the EU, we are leaving the single market,” Secretary of State for Scotland David Mundell told Scottish lawmakers at a special hearing on the implications […]

A private school for children with special needs has suspended a member of their managerial staff over an incident that took place earlier in the week. In a statement on Thursday, the Prosvasis school said it was cooperating with police and social welfare services in a bid to get to the bottom of the incident […]

The Cyprus Football Association (CFA) has received a fresh notification about suspicious betting activity related to a fixture played on last Monday. According to the CFA, the notification concerns the Apoel Nicosia versus Ethinkos Ahnas game, which the home team won 2-0. The CFA said a lot of bets were placed just before kick-off, but […]

Air strikes by Syrian or Russian warplanes on Wednesday killed at least 26 people, most of them schoolchildren, in a village in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province, rescue workers and a monitoring group said. The raids hit a residential area and a school in Haas village, the Syrian Civil Defence rescue workers’ network said on its […]

Austria’s central banker Ewald Nowotny said that the European Central Bank is likely to communicate its intentions to raise again interest rates when the inflation rate in the euro area picks up – something that is not expected to happen before 2018- as such a step could affect the banks’ loan portfolio quality. Nowotny, who […]

Spain’s Socialists will not allow incoming conservative leader Mariano Rajoy a free hand to govern despite allowing him a second term, one of their leaders told parliament on Thursday during a heated debate before a first confidence vote. Rajoy is expected to lose the first vote that starts at around 1800 GMT, but the Socialists, […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday American politicians were whipping up hysteria about a mythical Russian threat in the US presidential campaign as a ploy to distract voters from their own failings. Putin, addressing an audience of foreign policy experts gathered in southern Russia, said he found it hard to believe that anyone seriously […]

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci has said the upcoming talks in Switzerland would be a turning point in the Cyprus negotiations. The leaders are due to meet in Mont Pelerin, Switzerland between November 7 and 11 to discuss territory, it was announced late Wednesday. Speaking after the five-hour meeting with President Nicos Anastasiades, Akinci said […]

Bulldozers cleared mounds of debris and tore down makeshift shelters at the ‘Jungle’ migrant camp on Thursday, and authorities said 6,000 people had been evacuated from the squalid site. Charities said however hundreds of migrants might have fled the camp rather than take part in a government programme to rehouse them across the country. The […]

Earthquakes caused widespread damage and terrified residents in central Italy overnight but killed no one, two months after a strong quake left nearly 300 dead and razed villages in the same area. Several people were slightly injured, but only a few needed hospital treatment, the Civil Protection Agency said. In Visso, one of the larger […]

Twitter Inc said Thursday it would cut 9 per cent of its global workforce to keep costs down even as quarterly results beat Wall Street expectations, lifting shares that had fallen in recent weeks after a failed effort to sell the company. Third-quarter revenue growth slowed sharply but topped analysts’ expectations. Its stock was up […]

Jose Mourinho has been charged with misconduct in the wake of his comments about referee Anthony Taylor before Manchester United’s goalless draw with Liverpool last week, the Football Association said on Thursday. United manager Mourinho said it would be “difficult” for Taylor, who is from the Greater Manchester area, to have “a very good performance” […]

UN Secretary General’s Special Adviser on Cyprus Espen Barth Eide has said talks in Switzerland in November would provide better clarity on whether the goal to achieve a solution this year was achievable. The UN-led Cyprus peace talks will continue in Mont Pelerin, Switzerland, between November 7 – 11, it was announced on Wednesday evening, […]

Worldwide populations of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles have plunged by almost 60 per cent since 1970 as human activities overwhelm the environment, the WWF conservation group said on Thursday. An index compiled with data from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) to measure the abundance of biodiversity was down 58 per cent from […]

Britain’s economy slowed only slightly in the three months after the Brexit vote and carmaker Nissan said it would build more cars in the country, tempering fears about the immediate economic impact of the decision to leave the European Union. The stronger-than-expected growth figures published on Thursday further diminished the likelihood of the Bank of […]