Новости за 28.10.2016

The Chiaki Kamikawa Contemporary Art Gallery in Paphos continues to present the solo exhibition entitled Artist Books by Danish artist Ditte Lyngkaer until November 11. Pedersen is a multi-disciplinary artist and her work examines the various ways in which we understand our identity and make sense of our surroundings. Her practice often revisits themes from […]

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Friday said his government may submit a bill revoking his country’s support for the treaty establishing closer ties between the European Union and Ukraine. Rutte has said rejection of the association agreement would be a mistake and would weaken European unity, but that if efforts to find a compromise […]

CYPRUS will again be an economic top performer in 2016 and will not veer from its prudent fiscal course, Finance Minister Harris Georgiades told the European Commission. The minister was responding to a letter from the Commission suggesting that Cyprus needed additional fiscal consolidation measures. Georgiades, who already rejected the Commission’s suggestion, wrote a three-page […]

An explosive device detonated along a main road in Cairo on Friday as security forces passed by, killing at least one civilian passerby and injuring another, the interior ministry said on Facebook. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Egypt faces an Islamist insurgency led by Islamic State’s branch in North Sinai, where hundreds of […]

Hooliganism is not a problem in English football, according to Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, despite a week in which disturbances at West Ham United’s League Cup tie against Chelsea tarnished the game’s glossy image. West Ham are threatening to ban 200 fans after studying video of the ugly scenes which marred their victory at their […]

CONCERNS of political parties as regards the settlement negotiations are mostly baseless and unjustified, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday. Speaking to reporters following the service in St John’s Cathedral in Nicosia to mark the anniversary of the Greek resistance against the Axis powers during WWII, the president said that this day should serve as […]

Islamic State forces in Iraq have abducted tens of thousands of men, women and children from areas around Mosul and are using them as ‘human shields’ in the city as Iraqi government troops advance, the UN human rights office said on Friday. The hardline Sunni militants, known as IS, killed at least 232 people on Wednesday, including […]

Ayoung man who died in the early hours of Friday in Argaka, Paphos district, after crashing his car into a wall was speeding and not wearing a seatbelt, according to the police. Twenty-four-year-old Andreas Andreou from Anadiou who was driving on the Pomos to Polis Chrysochous road, lost control of his double cabin vehicle mounting […]

CYPRUS has the biggest proportion of highly educated second generation immigrants among EU member states with 62.3 per cent, according to an EU-wide survey Furthermore, native-born descendants of immigrants perform extremely well in contrast to first generation immigrants, of whom 39 per cent are highly educated. The difference in percentage points is 23.3, whereas the […]

The head of Austria’s opposition far right Freedom Party (FPO) has posted online a text by a writer whose poem was used by the Nazis, causing an outcry only weeks before his party’s candidate fights a neck-and-neck presidential election. FPO chief Heinz-Christian Strache posted the excerpt from Ottokar Kernstock’s poem ‘Be blessed without end’, which served as […]

Pakistani police on Friday fired tear gas at stone-throwing supporters of opposition leader Imran Khan who defied a ban on public gatherings, adding to political deadlock ahead of his plans to shut down the capital next week. There was no immediate report of injuries but TV stations carried footage of police charging with batons, as […]

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will open the intensive week of negotiations between the leaders of Cyprus’ divided communities in Switzerland on November 7, it was announced on Friday. In a written statement, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on Cyprus Espen Barth Eide said: “The Secretary-General has been closely following the Cyprus negotiations throughout his tenure, […]

Northern Ireland’s High Court on Friday ruled that the law of the province did not restrict the British prime minister’s ability to trigger an exit from the European Union, and that the consent of the regional parliament was not required. But it said that it would defer to English courts on the wider issue of […]

Technopolis 20 Cultural Centre in Paphos is showing no signs of slowing down now that is has passed the two-year mark of operation. The centre will go full steam ahead next Friday with a four-hand piano recital at 8pm with Leoni Hadjithoma and Borislav Alexandrov. For all those who are as interested in learning about […]

Both sides in Cyprus will need to show courage and make compromises to reach a solution, the UK believes, urging the two leaders to seize the current opportunity. The comment came from Lord Whip, Baroness Goldie, during a House of Lords debate on the Cyprus issue on Thursday, in which she was answering questions on […]

A couple have been remanded in custody for five days in Nicosia in connection with the illegal importation and possession with intent to supply of cannabis. The couple, a 33-year-old woman and her 23-year-old Bulgarian boyfriend, appear to have ordered 92 grammes of the drug online from the Czech Republic. An envelope containing the substance […]

Geert Wilders, the Dutch anti-Islam opposition leader, said on Friday that he refuses to attend his trial next week and that he sees it as politically motivated. Wilders is accused of discrimination and inciting racism in remarks made on live television in 2014 when he led a roomful of people chanting that they wanted fewer […]

Being able to write something is something you are born with says a local poet who has just launched a new collection. THEO PANAYIDES meets her   I open the book to page 39, and read the following: My mother cried I heard her and cried too. Those are the opening lines of ‘What Happened […]

Hungary will sue the European Commission and resist mandatory migrant resettlement quotas if Brussels does not take them off the agenda, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday. Orban said his government would use a recent referendum in Hungary, in which the overwhelming majority of those who voted rejected the EU quotas, to challenge Brussels. […]

Images taken by a NASA Mars orbiter indicate that Europe’s ill-fated Mars lander left a small crater on the Red Planet’s surface, backing up scientists’ theory that the craft hit the ground at high speed. The disc-shaped, 577-kg (1,272 lb) Schiaparelli probe, part of the Russian-European ExoMars programme to search for evidence of life on […]

Five days into a French operation to clear the Calais ‘Jungle’ France has lashed out at apparent British criticism of the way children are being treated while thousands of migrants are resettled across France and the camp is destroyed. France‘s home office minister Bernard Cazeneuve expressed “surprise” in a late Thursday statement about comments by his British […]

Iranian-backed Iraqi Shi’ite paramilitary groups are about to launch an offensive on Islamic State positions west of Mosul, assisting in the military campaign to take back the city, a spokesman said on Friday. The operation will target an area close to Turkey and where a sizeable ethnic Turkmen population lives, likely causing alarm in Ankara. […]

US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump criticized Democrat Hillary Clinton on Thursday over her trade policies, saying she would handle trade deals so badly that the country should “just cancel the election” and name him the victor. Speaking to supporters in Toledo, Ohio, Trump said the North American Free Trade Agreement signed by Clinton’s husband, […]

The Rio Olympics anti-doping programme was successful despite a lack of trained staff and resources, the International Olympic Committee said on Friday following a World Anti Doping Agency report noting “serious failings” in the process. Doping was at top of the agenda well before the first South American Olympics in August after dozens of Russian […]

British consumers turned less optimistic this month as sterling’s slump began to eat into their disposable income, according to two surveys on Friday which will raise concerns about the strength of future spending growth. Britain’s economy has performed better than most forecasts since June’s referendum decision to leave the European Union, in large part thanks […]