Новости за 27.01.2017

By Steve Holland and Elizabeth Piper U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he wanted to have good relations with Russia and declined to say whether he was ready to lift sanctions on Moscow, which visiting British Prime Minister Theresa May said must stay in place. Speaking at a news conference after his first meeting […]

Vice President Mike Pence fired up tens of thousands of anti-abortion activists gathered in Washington on Friday for the 44th March for Life, celebrating a political shift in their favor with the election of President Donald Trump. “Life is winning again in America,” Pence told the demonstrators on the National Mall, near where Trump was […]

The House of Representatives paid tribute on Friday, to the millions of victims of the Nazi Holocaust, on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Speaking before the plenary, House President Demetris Syllouris said that the annual remembrance offered the opportunity to send a strong message denouncing antisemitism and intolerance, fanaticism and racist behaviours. Syllouris welcomed […]

The Persona Theatre Company will present the play The Little Pony by Spanish dramatist Paco Bezerra on Friday in Limassol. The play, that had its premier last February in Madrid, may sound like a theatrical performance for children but is far from it. It revolves around the issues of family, diversity, school and social bullying […]

Apothiki 79 in Laranca will host a week-long solo exhibition by Francisco Mitre Zamba as of Friday. Zamba was born in Bielefeld, Germany to a Cypriot mother and has lived in Larnaca since he was three-years-old. At 18 he studied at the art workshop of Petros Ptochopoulos and continued his studies at Irma Voulgari’s workshop. […]

THE Cyprus Shipping Association has voiced concern over the operation of the Limassol port, after it is taken over by a private company at midnight Saturday. The association was also worried about what appeared to be increases in fees announced by the new operators. Its director, Lefteris Kouzapas, said it did not look like ship […]

Energy Minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis made clear on Friday that that solving the Cyprus problem was never a prerequisite for the government when deciding whether to move forward with its energy plans. He said the negotiating process for the third licensing round for oil and gas exploration within Cyprus` Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ ) was going […]

Parliament on Friday passed legislation affording people the opportunity to repay overdue taxes in monthly instalments. The law concerns debts to VAT, immovable property, income tax, temporary defence contribution, capital gains tax, inheritance tax, stamp duty, and the temporary contribution in the public and private sectors. Overdue debts under €100,000 can be paid in 54 […]

An Australian Open electrified by the revivals of seasoned champions will bathe in the warm glow of nostalgia on Saturday when the Williams sisters contest the women’s final at Rod Laver Arena. Melbourne Park was where Venus and Serena Williams first clashed in a tour match in 1998 and nearly 20 years on, the Americans […]

The Akrotiri Environmental and Education Centre has been named runner-up in Environmental Projects category during the prestigious Sanctuary Magazine Awards ceremony, the British bases said on Friday. The annual awards, which are presented in London to honour the work carried out to promote environmental protection on Defence Estates, saw the Environmental Centre acknowledged for the […]

Chelsea defender Gary Cahill will be in the right frame of mind for Saturday’s FA Cup clash against Brentford after he was involved in the incident that left Hull City’s Ryan Mason with a fractured skull, his manager Antonio Conte said on Friday. Cahill was distraught after the sickening clash of heads with Mason on […]

Order of play on day 13 of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Saturday (play begins at 0200 GMT; prefix denotes seeding): ROD LAVER ARENA Not before 0830: Women’s singles – Final 13-Venus Williams (U.S.) v 2-Serena Williams (U.S.) Men’s doubles – Final 4-Henri Kontinen (Finland)/John Peers (Australia) v 3-Bob Bryan (U.S.)/Mike Bryan (U.S.)

A water main burst on Thursday night in the village of Agglisides, Larnaca, releasing some 1,100 tonnes of water into the streets and damaging a van that was swept into a crater created by the force of the water. Community leader Stavros Nicolaou said the incident happened just after 10pm. Residents heard a loud explosion-like […]

Main opposition Akel has gone back on its agreement with President Nicos Anastasiades to back the national health scheme because it has entered campaign mode for presidential elections in 2018 a bit early, Health Minister Giorgos Pamboridis charged on Friday. Speaking after a cabinet session, Pamboridis said he fully appreciates that “some have entered the […]

Τhe Youth Board of Cyprus, the Council of Europe Partial Agreement on Youth Mobility Through the Youth Card and the European Youth Card Association (EYCA) will be organising a seminar on Countering violent extremism and youth radicalisation: using the European Youth Card to promote peaceful communities, between January 30 and 31, in Nicosia. The event […]

Israeli police questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday for the third time this month as part of a criminal investigation into abuse of office, Israeli media reported. A police source confirmed the questioning took place but would not provide further details. A Reuters cameraman at Netanyahu’s official residence, where the questioning took place, said […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump will speak by telephone on Saturday, the Kremlin said, a first step towards what Trump has billed as a normalisation of relations after three years of tensions sparked by the conflict in Ukraine. Trump will also have a telephone conversation the same day with German Chancellor […]

Rafa Nadal had to be at his battling best to outlast Grigor Dimitrov 6-3 5-7 7-6(5) 6-7(4) 6-4 at the Australian Open on Friday and set up a mouth-watering ninth grand slam final meeting with his great rival Roger Federer. The 30-year-old Spaniard looked every inch a 14-times grand slam champion as he slugged it […]

The Central Bank of Cyprus said that a total of 284 counterfeited banknotes had been withdrawn in Cyprus in the second half of 2016 compared to 302 in January to June. “The €50 banknote was the one counterfeited the most, with 52 per cent of total,” the central bank said in a statement on its […]

Turkey has demanded the retrial of eight soldiers who fled to Greece after a failed coup last year and said it may take measures, including scrapping a migration deal with Athens, after a Greek court rejected an extradition request. Greece‘s Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against extraditing the soldiers, who have sought political asylum, saying they […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande underscored the need for European unity in the face of growing internal and external threats, including the rise of populism across Europe and US threats to abandon free trade. “Europe faces big internal and external challenges which we … can only master by working together,” Merkel […]

Italy‘s three biggest parties are pushing for a national election this year, nine months ahead of schedule, but simulations published on Friday show no clear winner would emerge if the current voting system is used. On Wednesday the Constitutional Court scrapped part of the lower house election law and left in its place a proportional […]

Holders Barcelona were drawn with 10-times winners Atletico Madrid in the King’s Cup semi-finals on Friday and Celta Vigo will play Alaves in the other tie. Atletico host Barcelona in the first leg on Feb. 1 with the second leg at the Nou Camp on Feb. 8. Barcelona have won the cup a record 28 […]

The opening weekend of the European Capital of Culture Pafos2017 has a little something for everyone but one event stands out in the exhibition section: an intergenerational, bicommunal audio-video installation called Far-Off Lands. The exhibition focuses on the far-off land of childhood and its embodied memories as well as the far-off land of shared hopes […]

With climate-change skeptic Donald Trump in the White House, some would speculate the timing is not right for developing sources of power not derived from coal or oil. But, far from turning off investment in alternative energy, a fundamental change in electricity generation has occurred to the point that a full reversal of this trend […]