Новости за 22.12.2016

The storm over legislation seen as targeting transgender people is set to intensify in 2017 with several U.S. states proposing measures similar to a bathroom restriction statute in North Carolina that has prompted protests, lawsuits and economic boycotts. Four states have legislation limiting transgender bathroom rights that will be on the agenda when lawmakers convene […]

Police were on Thursday evening advising motorists to be extra careful due to slippery driving conditions on the Nicosia-Limassol and Nicosia-Larnaca highways. Heavy rains caused a significant water accumulation along certain stretches, making driving dangerous. The flagged stretches included a section of the Nicosia-Larnaca motorway, near the Athienou exit, and on the Limassol-Nicosia highway close […]

A team of independent investigators are due to conclude their probe into the possible involvement of police in a gangland style shooting, in an Ayia Napa restaurant in June this year, with reports pointing to officers having had prior knowledge of the contract killing. Reports say the investigators found that police displayed “a large degree […]

A passenger was removed from a JetBlue Airways Corp plane at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Thursday after verbally accosting Ivanka Trump, the website TMZ reported. Airline personnel escorted the man off the plane after he railed at US President-elect Donald Trump’s daughter, TMZ said. Ivanka Trump was en route to Hawaii for […]

Greek national Michalis Zolotas, who for months had eluded Cypriot authorities, was taken into custody on Thursday. The businessman arrived on the island after Greece’s high court issued a final decision granting a request for his extradition to Cyprus, where he faces bribery charges along with other individuals. Zolotas, 42, will appear before the Nicosia […]

Workers’ unions and the groups making up the Social Alliance initiative who want to see the National Health Scheme(NHS) implemented, will not accept any deviations from the framework agreed between the president and political parties, the head of SEK union Andreas Matsas said on Thursday. The group, which is consists of Disy affiliated SEK union, […]

Alan Pardew has been sacked as Crystal Palace manager, the Premier League club said on Thursday, with former England boss Sam Allardyce appearing poised to take over. Pardew has paid the price for a dreadful start to the season – eight defeats in 10 games have left the team in 17th place, just one point […]

US President-elect Donald Trump called on Thursday for the country to expand its nuclear weapons capabilities until the world “comes to its senses” – a signal he may support costly efforts to modernise the ageing US nuclear arsenal. During the next decade, US ballistic missile submarines, bombers, and land-based missiles – the three legs of […]

AEL missed the chance to join AEK at the top of the table when they could only draw 2-2 in Achna against Ethnikos. But things could have been even worse for the Limassol side as they fought back from 2-0 down, with Lucas Souza hitting an 88th minute equaliser to grab a point. AEL join […]

The justice minister on Thursday denied there were €246m in uncollected warrants, arguing that the figure also included cases were payment arrangements had been made. Ionas Nicolaou was responding to a reference in the auditor-general’s report for 2015, which said there were €246m worth of outstanding warrants, including, €21.7m concerning traffic violations. “This figure is […]

Is it really “the most wonderful time of the year”, as it says in the song? Or just a day like any other? Armed only with a camera and some goofy-looking Santa caps, our reporters went out on the streets of Nicosia asking people one simple question: “What are you doing for Christmas?”. Accosting random […]

A Senegalese migrant was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Thursday for the murder of Ashley Olsen, a US woman who was killed in the Tuscan city of Florence in January. Diaw Cheik Tidianee, 27, was arrested by police on Jan 14, five days after Olsen’s body was found dead in her apartment. An […]

Egypt postponed a UN Security Council vote on Thursday on a resolution it proposed demanding an end to Israeli settlement building, diplomats said, after Israel’s prime minister and US president-elect Donald Trump urged Washington to veto it. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told Egypt’s UN mission to postpone the vote, which would have forced US […]

As the candidate who lost the municipal elections in Limassol is not interested in a vote recount, Akel will not pursues it, the party’s spokesman Stefanos Stefanou said on Thursday. Following the election outcome on Sunday, when former Limassol mayor Andreas Christou, who was running for a third term, lost to Nicos Nicolaides by nine […]

Greek composer and conductor Stavros Xarchakos will lead three performances just after Christmas, with his own compositions as well as songs by Manos Hatzidakis and Mikis Theodorakis. Music will be provided by a 10-member orchestra, while Greek singers Eleonora Zouganeli and Miltiades Pashalidis will be doing the singing. Xarchakos studied at the Athens Conservatoire and […]

A deputy dean at the Limassol-base technical university (Tepak) resigned on Thursday saying a professor had threatened him with physical harm during a meeting at the rector’s office the previous day. In his resignation letter to the rector of Tepak, Photis Panayides said Antonis Theoharous had barged in the office, interrupted the meeting, and verbally […]

Tottenham Hotspur’s France goalkeeper Hugo Lloris has signed a new contract that will take him through to 2022, the Premier League club said on Thursday. The 29-year-old, who captains club and country, has made 189 appearances for Spurs since joining from Olympique Lyonnais in 2012 for a fee of about 12 million pounds. “I’m very […]

Airbus signed a firm contract on Thursday for the sale of 100 aircraft to Iran Air, as Tehran and Western companies race to re-open trade almost a year after sanctions against Iran were lifted. Airbus said the contract, which Iran flagged earlier this week, covered 46 Airbus A320 planes, 38 A330 planes and 16 A350 […]

Progress has been achieved in certain issues during the reunification talks, but there were also outstanding matters, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Thursday. Speaking after his meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci, Anastasiades said they agreed to meet again on January 4 and possibly on the 7th. “A wide range of issues has been […]

By Stelios Orphanides The Central Bank of Cyprus said that it expects the Cypriot economy to expand at an annual rate of around 3 per cent over 2017 until 2019 and upgraded its 2016 projection marginally upwards to 2.8 per cent, as inflation is expected to pick up. The Cypriot economy is forecast to grow […]

Pope Francis decried “malevolent” internal resistance to his campaign to reform the Vatican bureaucracy on Thursday and said lay men and women should get top jobs if they are more qualified than clerics. For the third year running, Francis used his annual Christmas greetings to the Roman Catholic Church’s central bureaucracy, or Curia, to lecture […]

Bolivar missed out on winning the Bolivian league after they conceded a goal in the 10th minute of injury time and lost 3-2 at Sport Boys Warnes after five players had been sent off. Bolivar, who were playing against eight men when they let in the third goal, finished level on points with The Strongest […]

The Cooperative Central Bank said that the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission approved on Thursday the government-owned lender’s prospectus ahead of its intended listing on the Cyprus Stock Exchange. “The prospectus in question does not constitute an invitation to the public to invest in the bank’s share,” the bank, which received almost €1.7bn in taxpayer’s […]

The value of trade from the northern part of Cyprus to the government controlled areas rose 14 per cent, to around €4.3mln, in 2016, from €3.7mln last year, the Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce (Ktto) said. The figures cover the period until August; figures for the rest of the year were based on the chamber’s […]

Investigators found fingerprints of a Tunisian suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack on the door of the truck that ploughed through the crowds, killing 12, German media said on Thursday, as a nationwide manhunt for the migrant was underway. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack in which a truck smashed through wooden huts […]