Новости за 17.01.2017

The foreign ministry on Tuesday said efforts were being made to improve the situation after the island’s embassy in Brussels seemingly shut down on the quiet. Although the embassy’s website carried a notification that it would no longer operate as of December 31, no other announcements seem to have been made. “An official announcement has […]

Fugitive Efi Irodotou, 29, and her parents, 61 and 57, will be extradited to Cyprus on the strength of a European arrest warrant issued against them by Cyprus, a Greek court ordered on Tuesday. The three were arrested on January 8 in Athens in connection with a 2007 fatal car crash caused by Irodotou. According […]

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to promote a former army commander as he shuffles senior officials to help handle ties with the Trump administration, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Chief whip Andrew Leslie, who helps oversee members of the ruling Liberal Party in the House of Commons, will be made […]

Cyprus is ranked 12th out of 26 countries when it comes to where the gender pay gap will close most quickly, a study published by research and publishing organisation Expert Market said. The gender pay gap between men and women across the EU currently stands at around 17 per cent although this figure varies by […]

Tenor Antonis Koutroupis, violinist Andreas Constantinou and pianist Natalia Lezedova will perform a selection of classical music by Russian composers on Sunday in Paphos. The performance, at 6pm at Technopolis 20 Cultural Centre, will include pieces by Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Liadov, Glier, Scriabin and Rachmaninov. Koutroupis is a graduate of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory with […]

Many of the problems state hospitals face could be solved through better programming and coordination, head of the Patients and Friends association Marios Kouloumas said on Tuesday. The group, set on visiting state hospitals to record and codify all problems so that it can present its proposals to the health ministry, visited Limassol hospital earlier […]

An air strike by the Nigerian Air Force killed 50 people and wounded 120 at a refugee camp on Tuesday, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said. MSF said the incident took place in Rann, in northeast Nigeria, on Tuesday. The Nigerian air force said it accidentally killed an unknown number of civilians in an […]

An administrative probe into how 42-year-old Arthur Garybian (Kuznetsov) managed to flee from the Nicosia court on Monday where he was about to appear for an extradition hearing to Russia was launched on Tuesday by police chief Zacharias Chrysostomou. The probe aims at determining whether any responsibilities are attributable, and if this is the case, […]

Iran’s foreign minister said on Tuesday Tehran opposed a U.S. presence at peace talks on Syria in the Kazakh capital next week, after a decision by Russia and Turkey to invite Washington. “We have not invited them, and we are against their presence,” Iran’s Tasnim news agency quoted Mohammad Javad Zarif as saying. The United […]

In an extraordinary finding, the University of Cyprus has said there is no rockets-and-feathers effect in Cyprus where fuel prices are concerned. In the fuel industry, when oil prices rise after being steady for some time, petrol prices shoot up quickly. Conversely, when oil prices fall after being steady for some time, petrol prices retreat […]

The findings at an archeological dig in the Ayios Sozomenos area, outside Nicosia, confirmed that pottery was one of the inhabitants’ vocations, the antiquities department said on Tuesday. The project, that started three years ago, aims at investigating the socio-economic organisation of central Cyprus and its role in the overall development of the island in […]

The British government’s plan for leaving the European Union is “economically catastrophic” and Scotland must have the option of voting for independence if its views on Brexit are rejected, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Tuesday. Sturgeon, who leads the pro-independence devolved government, was speaking after British Prime Minister Theresa May signalled Britain would […]

President-elect Donald Trump extended his war of words with American civil rights leader John Lewis on Tuesday, accusing the Democratic congressman of lying when he said Trump’s inauguration would be the first that he would miss, according to Reuters. “John Lewis said about my inauguration, ‘It will be the first one that I’ve missed.’ WRONG […]

President Nicos Anastasiades will address the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg next Tuesday. Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasolides will also be present, while a day earlier he will deliver a speech at the Assembly in the context of the Cypriot Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers. According to a Council of […]

A topless activist from the feminist group FEMEN attacked a life-size wax statue of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump during an unveiling ceremony at Madrid’s wax museum on Tuesday. Reuters journalists at the scene saw the woman push past security ropes and place her hand on the statue’s crotch while screaming “grab patriarchy by the balls.” […]

Italian conservative Antonio Tajani established a strong lead on Tuesday in voting for the next president of the European Parliament, which can block or amend EU laws and will have the final say on whether to approve a Brexit deal with Britain. Tajani won 287 of the 691 valid votes in a second ballot, following […]

Britain will still leave the European Union even if parliament votes against the final terms of the deal, Brexit minister David Davis told parliament on Tuesday. During a speech setting out her Brexit priorities earlier on Tuesday, Prime Minister Theresa May said she would put the final agreement on Britain’s exit from the European Union […]

Order of play on the main showcourts on day three of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Wednesday (play begins at 0000 GMT; prefix denotes seeding): ROD LAVER ARENA Stefanie Voegele (Switzerland) v 13-Venus Williams (U.S.) 1-Angelique Kerber (Germany) v Carina Witthoeft (Germany) Noah Rubin (U.S.) vs 17-Roger Federer (Switzerland) Not before 0800 GMT: […]

Despite talks to resolve the decades-long conflict in Cyprus ending without an agreement, the head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) remains optimistic Cypriot leaders on both sides will strike a deal this summer. EBRD chief Suma Chakrabarti told the Global Markets Forum on Tuesday he believed President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish […]

Ivo Karlovic fired down 75 aces in a record Australian Open marathon against Argentina’s Horacio Zeballos which lasted five hours, 15 minutes and finished in a 6-7(6) 3-6 7-5 6-2 22-20 first-round victory for the Croatian on Tuesday. The 37-year-old 20th seed threw his hands in the air in delight after Zeballos ballooned an attempted […]

Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday Britain could not remain a member of the EU single market after leaving the European Union, but would seek an agreement to allow for the freest possible trade in goods and services. She said the government would put the final deal to a vote in both houses of […]

The Greek Cypriot delegation that will take part in talks on security and guarantees that are scheduled to start on Wednesday met with President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday ahead of their departure for Switzerland. According to the Cyprus News Agency, chief negotiator Andreas Mavroyiannis, will be accompanied by negotiating team member Toumazos Tselepis, lieutenant colonel […]

Sterling jumped on Tuesday by the most since June’s Brexit referendum as Prime Minister Teresa May promised a parliamentary vote on Britain’s deal to leave the European Union and stressed it would seek to stay a key European partner. The pound, already up more than 1 percent as May began to deliver a keenly-awaited speech […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday she would put the final agreement on Britain’s exit from the European Union to a vote in parliament. May said there would have to compromises in the negotiations but it was important to provide “as much certainty as possible” and there would be proper scrutiny. “When it […]

Two very different plays will be staged this week. The first, Shut Up, takes on the theme of bullying while the second, the monologue A Woman Alone, takes on a political form. Shut Up, directed by Andrey Krupa, is a performance about the difficulties of human relationships, about bullying, the indifference of society, diversity and […]