Новости за 13.03.2017

AROUND 2,000 unemployed beneficiaries of the Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) who turn down the six-month job post offered  to help them acquire working experience will lose their benefits, it was announced on Monday. According to the new scheme to be launched next week, some 2,000 unemployed beneficiaries of the GMI, aged between 28 and 40, […]

Madrid‘s city government announced plans on Monday to ban the oldest and most polluting vehicles from the city centre by 2025 in a bid to crackdown on air pollution. The local government will prohibit the use within the city’s limits of gasoline cars registered before 2000 and diesel-powered cars registered before 2006, which at the […]

The Paphos district court sentenced a 21-year-old man to two years in prison on Monday after being found guilty for a robbery attempt and injuring a person in 2014. The offence took place on February 2014 when the 21-year-old entered the house of a 73-year-old man in Paphos, and asked the owner at gunpoint to […]

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) will determine on Tuesday whether an employer can prohibit staff from wearing the Islamic headscarf in the first case of its kind before the EU’s top court. The ECJ will rule on the cases of two female employees in Belgium and in France, who were dismissed for refusing to […]

Antonakis Music Hall in Nicosia will welcome back local band Tri Levante on Saturday. Their performance this time has a bit of a twist, with Greek singer Areti Ketime bringing a female touch to the musical affair. Trio Levante was formed in November 2014 and is comprised of Petros Kouloumis on vocals and the lute, […]

MPs are hoping that a bill reducing sewerage rates will go to the plenum by the end of the month. The proposal aims to recalibrate the applicable sewerage rates because, as the rates now stand, the amount payable to local authorities would shoot through the roof due to the updating of property values. Sewerage rates […]

  The backing of their leader, Giorgos Lillikas, as a presidential candidate in 2018 by the Citizens Alliance with 114 votes to 20, has sowed some dissent within the party and complicated possibilities for the centre, which is hoping to field an agreed nominee in the race. A defiant Lillikas on Monday, a day after […]

Morphou resident Tamay Goktepe, 38, suffered a fatal heart attack on Sunday, four days after losing her husband in a car accident. Goktepe collapsed in her home and was rushed to the hospital in northern Nicosia but died there despite doctors’ efforts to save her. The couple left behind an eight-year-old daughter and a 40-day-old […]

Previously undisclosed video of Michael Brown, recorded hours before the unarmed black 18-year-old was fatally shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, has raised new questions about his final hours. The footage shows Brown – whose death in 2014 prompted national protests and kindled a debate about how US police treat minorities – […]

UN Special Adviser Espen Barth Eide met in Nicosia on Monday with European Investment Bank (EIB) president Werner Hoyer to discuss the potential for infrastructure projects if a solution is reached in the Cyprus problem. Eide tweeted later: “A meeting of minds w/ European Investment Bank President Werner Hoyer on strategies 4 investment & financing in post-settlement […]

The Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC) has initiated a probe into the proposed formation of a new corporation, which it says raises concerns over the creation of a monopoly in the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) market. On December 2, 2016, the CPC received a notification of a proposed joint venture by the companies […]

England turned in a long overdue performance to demolish Scotland and win the Six Nations title on Saturday, but have a lot of hard work ahead if they are to beat Ireland and secure a second grand slam in a row, former coach Clive Woodward said. Eddie Jones’ men were ruthless during their 61-21 home […]

A 34-year-old male foreign national was remanded on Monday for four days for allegedly collecting around €15,500 in down payments from unsuspecting car buyers to arrange the import of vehicles from abroad which never arrived. According to the head of the Limassol CID, Ioannis Soteriades, police have received five reports in recent months against the […]

A 27-year-old man accused of being the instigator of a burglary that led to the death of a Moldovan woman, 36, in Larnaca in 2015 claimed in court on Monday that he was innocent and the person who implicated him was lying. Panayiotis Alexandrou opted to read a statement from the dock without being cross-examined […]

Carlos the Jackal, once one of the world’s most wanted criminals, was back in a French court on Monday, charged with a grenade attack on a Paris shop more than 40 years ago that killed two people. The Venezuelan, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, has been held in France for 23 years since […]

When Virgilio Bento’s brother had to go to Cuba 20 years ago to receive cheap physiotherapy as he recovered from a life-threatening car crash back home in Portugal, he did not know it would inspire an innovation. Now, after developing technology that uses body sensors and artificial intelligence for his doctorate in electronic engineering, Bento […]

U.S. chipmaker Intel agreed to buy driverless technology firm Mobileye for $15.3 billion on Monday, positioning itself for a dominant role in the autonomous-driving sector after missing the market for mobile phones. The $63.54 per share cash deal is the biggest technology takeover in Israel’s history and the largest purchase of a company solely focused […]

The weather is picking up and so is our desire to get out of the house. Three events on Saturday in Nicosia will surely do the trick and perhaps set you on a path to a new hobby, a new quest for further information or simply further on your way to learning. The Loukia and […]

Have you seen a strange bright light criss-crossing it’s way across the night sky or a mysterious orange disk hovering over the trees in the distance? If you have, then you’re not alone! According to the National UFO Reporting Center in the US, sightings of UFOs are reaching record heights. Back in 1990, the organization […]

Cyprus’s trade deficit widened 44 per cent in January to €317.9m compared with the respective month of 2016, the statistical service said. The wider trade shortfall in January, the month before private sector companies assumed responsibility for the commercial operations of Cyprus’s main port in Limassol, which led to chaos, was mainly on increased imports […]

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Hungarian lawmakers comfortably re-elected ruling Fidesz party veteran Janos Ader as President for another five years on Monday, a sign of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s firm grip on power just over a year before a parliamentary election. The 57-year-old Ader, a lawyer and long-time member of Orban’s Fidesz party, has been a strong ally of […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May could clear the final hurdle standing between her and the start of Brexit negotiations on Monday when lawmakers will thrash out the final wording of a bill giving her the power to start the EU exit process. In a debate due to begin later on Monday the government will call […]

The family of the ‘Careless Whisper’ hitmaker – who passed away from natural causes on Christmas Day (25.12.16) aged 53 – are reportedly fearful of people stealing tributes left by friends and relatives at Highgate Cemetery, north London, and have therefore decided to increase security around the burial site. The family have also remained tight-lipped […]

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Monday demanded a new independence referendum in late 2018 or early 2019, once the terms of Britain’s exit from the European Union have become clearer. A vote that could rip apart the United Kingdom just months before Brexit would deepen the uncertainty surrounding the two-year process of leaving the […]