Новости за 06.01.2017

A shooter killed “multiple people” at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Friday before being taken into custody, officials said. CNN quoted an official as saying five people died in the shooting, and MSNBC said at least nine were shot, citing unnamed law enforcement sources. The Broward County Sheriff’s office tweeted “multiple people” had died and […]

The Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol is considered to be one of Gogol’s greatest short stories. This great story will be the subject matter at the Anti-Logos Reading Club on Tuesday. The story revolves around Arksenty Ivanovich Poprishchin, a low ranking civil servant during the repressive era of Nicholas I – the Emperor […]

A 24-hour strike by rail workers is set to close most underground stations in central London on Monday, transport bosses said, causing travel chaos for millions of commuters. Transport for London (TfL), which operates the “Tube” network, warned it would only be able to run a severely restricted service and there will be no underground […]

Disgruntled soldiers demanding salary increases and the payment of bonuses seized control of Ivory Coast’s second-largest city, Bouake, on Friday, according to the defence minister. Ivory Coast – French-speaking West Africa’s largest economy – has emerged from a 2002-2011 political crisis as one of the continent’s rising economic stars. However, the army, thrown together at […]

Christmas maybe over, but it seems that a few of us just can’t get enough of it. So much so that, due to popular demand, there will be a second screening of the ballet The Nutcracker as performed by the Bolshoi ballet tomorrow at K-Cineplex in Limassol, Larnaca, Nicosia and Paphos. The ballet, with music […]

“Today I can confirm that the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, will lead the EU mission in Geneva,” European Commission Chief Spokesperson Margaritis Schinas has told CNA invited to clarify whether EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini and other EU delegates will travel to Geneva with Juncker. Schinas […]

TWO big games this weekend for round 18 of the championship as Apollon take on top of the table AEL in the big Limassol derby, while in Larnaca the sleeping giants of Cyprus football, Anorthosis, have a chance to resurrect their season as they face championship challengers AEK at the Antonis Papadopoulos stadium. Since Sofronis […]

By Michael Nienaber Economic sentiment in the euro zone surged to a post-crisis record in December and German industrial orders pointed to a busy final quarter for factories in Europe’s powerhouse with the government expecting the upswing to carry into 2017. The overall strong data, released on Friday by the European Commission in Brussels and […]

Snowstorms paralysed traffic and cut electricity to hundreds of thousands of people in Bulgaria on Friday while forcing atomic energy producer Nuclearelectrica in neighbouring Romania to shut down its No. 1 reactor. Blizzards caused power blackouts in more than 770 Bulgarian towns, authorities said. It also closed parts of the Trakiya motorway in southeastern Bulgaria, […]

By Pedro Fonseca At last 33 inmates have been killed in a new prison riot in the Amazon region of Brazil, officials said on Friday, just five days after 56 inmates were slaughtered in the country’s worst prison massacre in more than two decades. Few details were available about the latest uprising early on Friday […]

THEO PANAYIDES meets a leukaemia survivor who now wants to spread the word that cancer is not always a death sentence and can be a life changer in more ways than one Most of the time, you interview a person to find out who they are and instead end up talking about what they’ve done. […]

Bilateral ties, security and defence, the situation in the wider region and the Cyprus problem, were among the issues discussed during Thursday`s meeting between Minister of Defence Christoforos Fokaides and Ambassador of Jordan to Cyprus, Mohamad Sharari El-Bakhit El-Fayez. According to an official press release, during the meeting they discussed bilateral relations, cooperation between the […]

By Syed Raza Hassan A train in Pakistan crashed into a motorised rickshaw on Friday, killing six children on their way to school and the rickshaw driver, the country’s third deadly train crash in four months. The children killed in the crash, in the south of Punjab province, were aged six to 10, said police […]

Turkish police detained 18 people in connection with Thursday’s gun and bomb attack which killed two people in the city of Izmir and Ankara has no doubt Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants were responsible, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Friday. The car bombing and gunfire outside the main courthouse in Turkey’s third largest city, […]

The meeting between the UNSG Antonio Guterres and the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was very good, according to Secretary-General`s Special Adviser on Cyprus Espen Barth Eide. Guterres and Cavusoglu met on Thursday for an hour, in a meeting that was described by the UN as a lead-up to the Geneva talks for the Cyprus […]

 The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in international and local news – in audio form. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this week: The UN Global Open Day on Women Peace and Security: women the world over have the same desires As […]

By Neil Robinson WHILE the FA Cup’s third round was always littered with unfamiliar names, these days they often play for the big teams as well. Expect Premier League managers to reach deep into their squads to pack out their sides with hopefuls and has-beens as what used to be the most exciting day of […]

The holidays are nearly over, today being Epiphany day or Theophany as it is called locally, it is always a good idea to round off any celebratory season with a bit of music. And music there more certainly will be. A number of Greek and local artists will take to stages all over the island […]

HELLENIC Copper Mines, the only mining company operating in Cyprus, plans to extract gold from ore reserves amassed over the two decades the company has been mining copper, it emerged on Thursday. The company is in the process of building a new gold-extraction unit within the Skouriotissa mine, where it plans to transport gold-bearing ore […]

EVERY once in a while we hear about a government decision to tackle the abuses of sick leave in the public sector. Despite these decisions, the abuses, which cause serious problems to the operation of public services, at significant cost to the taxpayer, the problem seem to persist. They are the reason for the need […]

THERE are a number of ways to win an African election. The simplest, obviously, is to win the most votes, but this is sometimes hard to achieve, especially if you have been the president for a long time and people are getting fed up with your rule. If your country’s constitution only allows two terms […]