Новости за 08.02.2017

Prime Minister Theresa May won approval from parliament’s lower chamber on Wednesday to trigger Britain’s exit from the European Union, defeating attempts by pro-EU lawmakers to attach extra conditions to her plan to start divorce talks by March 31. Lawmakers (MPs) voted 494 to 122 in favour of legislation giving May the right to trigger […]

A witness in a trial of four people accused of orchestrating a gangland hit with four dead told the court on Wednesday that he had seen the two shooters with three of the defendants at a holiday home in Protaras before the incident. Businessman Phanos Kalopsidiotis, police officer Elias Hadjiefthymiou, 46, and his wife Skevi, […]

Apollon and Doxa qualified for the quarter finals of the Cyprus cup after beating Aez and Anagenisi respectively on Wednesday evening. Apollon beat Aez 2-0 (4-0 agg) away while Doxa also qualified with a second win away to Anagenisi, 3-0 (5-1 agg). The draw will take place on Thursday.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday criticised Nordstrom Inc for what he said was its unfair treatment of his daughter Ivanka after its decision to not purchase her clothing line for this upcoming season. Shares of the retailer fell 0.7 percent after the president’s criticism but recovered to trade up 1.3 percent at $43.34 on […]

Chief negotiator Andreas Mavroyiannis attended a meeting at the presidential palace on Wednesday at a technocratic level to discuss four freedoms issue concerning the status of Turkish nationals post-settlement. The meeting was chaired by government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides and attended by officials of the ministries of foreign affairs, interior, trade and agriculture, and the state’s […]

Last week artist Lara Sophie Benjamin presented her first solo exhibition under the name Reverberations at Apocalypse Gallery in Nicosia to a crowd of art enthusiasts. The gallery was packed but surely there are still some art lovers out there that have yet to get lost in Benjamin’s art. And get lost you shall until […]

Professional groups affected by changes in the running of the container terminal at the port of Limassol, received further assurances on Wednesday that their grievances were being addressed. During his third visit to the port since Sunday, transport minister Marios Demetriades held a meeting with Povek – a group representing smaller enterprises and professionals of […]

Former Turkish Cypriot ‘minister of finance’ Birikim Özgür said Turkish Cypriot authorities cannot afford paying the due interest on public debt amounting 5.5bn Turkish lira (€1.4bn) borrowed locally. The ‘government’ will need a total of 200bn Turkish lira to pay this year’s interest payment and only has 100m Turkish lira available, the Turkish Cypriot politician […]

Romania‘s Social Democrat-led government easily survived a no-confidence motion in parliament on Wednesday, three days after mass street protests forced it into an embarrassing U-turn over a graft decree. Critics said the decree, which also drew rebukes from Romania‘s Western allies, would have turned back the clock on the fight against corruption in the ex-communist […]

Central Bank of Cyprus governor Chrystalla Georghadji said that the sale of the remaining assets of the defunct Cyprus Popular Bank, or Laiki, is dragging on partly due to regulatory requirements abroad. Difficulties related to meeting regulatory requirements abroad are delaying the implementation of three agreements for the sale of an equal number of subsidiaries […]

A meeting of competent authorities, which convened on Wednesday decided on a series of actions abroad to help raise awareness about the issue of missing persons. The meeting was attended by all relevant services and representatives of organisations of relatives of missing persons, under the presidency of the Presidential Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs Fotis Fotiou. […]

English Football Association chairman Greg Clarke will step down if the government does not support his proposals to reform the under-fire governing body, he said ahead of a parliamentary debate on Thursday. The Culture, Media and Sport Committee will discuss a motion of no confidence in the FA which, in October, was given six months […]

President Nicos Anastasiades on Wednesday briefed Russian Ambassador Stanislav Osadchiy on the latest developments on the Cyprus problem during a meeting at the presidential palace. During the meeting, Anastasiades thanked Russia for its principled position on the Cyprus problem, as well as for its readiness to contribute positively to efforts to achieve a solution without […]

The 35-year-old singer is facing legal action over her hit song ‘Formation’, which Messy’s family claim used samples taken from videos made by the rising YouTube star who was shot dead in 2010. Beyonce is being sued for as much as $20 million, according to Forbes, which claims that Sony Music and Jay Z – […]

The Nicosia Criminal Court is delivering its verdict in the corruption trial of former deputy attorney-general Rikkos Erotokritou, two lawyers and a law firm, accused of conspiring to pervert the course of justice, among other things. The hearing kicked off at around 11.30am with the three-member court reading the hefty decision concerning Erotokritou, Andreas Kyprizoglou, […]

Suspected Islamic State gunmen killed at least six Afghan employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Wednesday as they carried supplies in the north of the country to areas hit by deadly snow storms, government officials said. Another two employees were unaccounted for after the attack in Jowzjan province, ICRC spokesman […]

By Stelios Orphanides President Nicos Ananastasiades said that as part of the government’s plans to set up a separate under-secretariat for tourism, it signed an agreement with the two big unions. “We signed, following an extensive dialogue with SEK and PEO an agreement regulating labour issues (emerging) from the transformation of the Cyprus Tourism Organisation […]

By Stelios Orphanides The government sold a €300 million, seven-year bond to an undisclosed domestic investor via private placement on January 24, the Public Debt Management Office, a division of the finance ministry, said. The undisclosed investor will receive an annual interest of 3.25 per cent on his investment, the PDMO said in a statement […]

By Stelios Orphanides The chairman of the Cyprus Union of Shipowners Andreas Hadjiyiannis said that Cyprus could attract shipping companies, seeking a new base in the European Union following the Brexit vote last June, and thus become a shipping and financial centre. “The necessary contacts have to be made to show that Cyprus has a […]

Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri backed his team of “warriors” to arrest their poor run of form and avoid relegation from the Premier League despite winning just twice in their last 15 top-flight games. Following their stunning title triumph last season, Leicester have continued to produce the unexpected this season, this time by tumbling down […]

A Russian judge said on Wednesday that opposition leader Alexei Navalny was guilty of embezzlement, Interfax news agency reported, a decision that may force the activist to drop his plan to run in next year’s presidential election. The judge at the court in the city of Kirov was still reading his verdict, but it was […]

Conservative French presidential candidate Francois Fillon appealed to voters on Wednesday via a newspaper column to back his campaign, after losing his place as frontrunner over accusations of fake jobs for members of his family. The scandal has forced Fillon to apologise and his popularity ratings have plunged. Opinion polls show independent centrist Emmanuel Macron […]

The Cyprus Women’s Lobby will continue to work towards gender equality and promote women’s human rights on Saturday during the event One Billion Rising. From noon until 3pm at Eleftheria square in Nicosia, the organisation and a number of NGOs will come together to fight against the sexual exploitation of women. One in three women […]

Somali lawmakers gathered behind the blast walls of the capital’s airport on Wednesday to elect their president, after months of delays and threats from Islamist insurgents bent on derailing the process. The protracted vote began with 14,000 elders and prominent regional figures choosing 275 members of parliament and 54 senators, who in turn now choose […]

It’s all about all the women this week: one billion of them. Because under the auspices of the Cyprus Women’s Lobby, the people of Cyprus are rising to end violence against women, in a global movement known as One Billion Rising. The event itself, which takes place on February 11 and involves an awareness-raising march […]