Новости за 15.03.2017

The Netherlands’ centre-right Prime Minister Mark Rutte roundly saw off a challenge by the anti-Islam, anti-EU Geert Wilders in an election on Wednesday, exit polls said, a huge relief to other EU governments facing a wave of nationalism. Rutte’s VVD Party was projected to win 31 of parliament’s 150 seats, down from 41 at the […]

The US Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Wednesday for the second time in three months, a move spurred by steady economic growth, strong job gains and confidence that inflation is rising to the central bank’s target. The decision to lift the target overnight interest rate by 25 basis points to a range of 0.75 […]

A UN agency published a report on Wednesday accusing Israel of imposing an “apartheid regime” of racial discrimination on the Palestinian people, and said it was the first time a UN body had clearly made the charge. The report commissioned by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (Escwa) concluded “Israel has established an […]

  Two siblings, aged seven and twelve, were not only left unprotected but forced to pay the price of a dispute between the French-Cypriot school in Nicosia and their parents, according to a report by Commissioner for Children’s Rights Leda Koursoumba, released on Wednesday. The children’s father lodged a complaint with Koursoumba’s office in November […]

After the Cyprus Chamber Orchestra (CCO) performed its first event in December, it will be back at the Pallas theatre in Nicosia on Saturday to celebrate International Women’s Day. Following the hugely successful first official concert of the orchestra, 26 Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot musicians now prepare to light up the stage again with a […]

Less than half the tickets for this season’s Europa League final in Stockholm will to go the two teams taking part according to figures published by European football’s governing body UEFA on Wednesday. UEFA said in a statement that 48,000 tickets would be put on sale for the match at the Friends Arena on May […]

Liverpool have submitted plans to renovate Anfield to provide more facilities for disabled fans and their famous stand nicknamed ‘The Kop’ is set to expand by 470 seats as a result. The capacity of the stadium will remain at 54,000 but the number of wheelchair bays will increase by more than 250. The proposal, submitted […]

The leaderships of Diko and socialists Edek agreed on Wednesday to kick-start an effort to field an agreed presidential candidate from among the five so-called centre parties. Following a meeting of party chiefs Nicolas Papadopoulos and Marinos Sizopoulos, the two said they aimed to arrive at a joint political decision for cooperation, initiating a dialogue […]

Fanos Kalopsidiotis’ bodyguard Loy Dejan seemed unafraid and calm after the Ayia Napa shooting last June that killed his boss, two police officers and one of the shooters, a waiter at the Stone Garden restaurant told the court on Wednesday. At the time of the shooting Dejan had been in the toilet. Four individuals are […]

  Interior minister Socratis Hasikos on Wednesday insisted that he can see no impropriety in a company partly owned by him bidding to rent office space to a government department under his own ministry. The case was reported to the Conflict of Interest committee, a government-appointed body tasked with reviewing such dubious, both ethically and […]

The U.S. government on Wednesday unsealed charges against two Russian spies and two criminal hackers for allegedly pilfering 500 million Yahoo user accounts in 2014. The indictments, announced at a news conference in Washington, represent the first time the US government has criminally charged Russian officials for cyber offences. The contents of at least 30 […]

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday attacked a music video in which rapper Snoop Dogg points a fake gun at a clown-like Trump figure. “Can you imagine what the outcry would be if @SnoopDogg, failing career and all, had aimed and fired the gun at President Obama? Jail time!,” Trump wrote on his Twitter account. […]

  The seemingly endless debate over shop opening hours continued on Wednesday with Akel saying that although extended hours had increased the numbers of jobs, overall expenditure on salaries had fallen. MPs and the government in consultation with stakeholders are trying to find a final solution on shop hours that has long proved elusive. Speaking […]

When the government decided to withdraw its draft bill on the privatisation of state-telecom Cyta last year, the company lost more ground to its competitors, the telecommunications regulator said on Wednesday. The Cyprus Telecommunications Authority, as the government owned corporation is officially known, saw its market share in the number of mobile phone users fall […]

Two suicide bomb attacks killed at least 31 people and wounded dozens more in Damascus on Wednesday, state media reported, in the second such spate of bombings in the Syrian capital in five days. The first suicide bomber targeted the Palace of Justice, the main courthouse in central Damascus near the Old City. Justice Minister […]

MPs on Wednesday agreed to update terminology in three laws dating back decades, two of which refer to ‘stupid women with reduced mental levels’. MPs sitting on the House legal committee agreed with three drafts submitted by Disy MP Stella Kyriakidou. She suggested replacing ‘stupid women with reduced mental levels’ in two laws with the […]

A French freelance photographer apologised on Wednesday for any offence caused by a mock road sign he placed in a Jewish neighbourhood of London. The red triangular warning sign, featuring a silhouetted image of a man in Orthodox Jewish clothing and hat, was seen near a synagogue in Stamford Hill. Photographer Franck Allais told Reuters […]

The historic Pancyprian Gymnasium defended a school art project on Wednesday which had replicas of ancient Greek statues on the school grounds dressed up in sexy underwear. The bra and suspender clad statues have been criticised on social media and outraged the head of Oelmek secondary education teachers’ union, Demetris Taliadoros. The issue emerged on Tuesday […]

A 30-year-old man was jailed for three years in Limassol on Wednesday for possession of child pornography. The man was arrested in February 2016 after a search of his home in Limassol found files containing child pornography on his computer. Police said they found 23 picture archives on his computer.  

  The Nicosia criminal court jailed a 46-year-old Romanian man for 16 years on Wednesday for killing a woman in an acid attack last October in what the judges accepted was a crime of passion. The attack on 53-year-old Galina Glavan, also a Romanian national, took place in the early hours of October 15. She […]

  Cypriots would be better served to manage their expectations of a gas bonanza, an energy analyst told the fourth Eastern Mediterranean Gas Conference on Wednesday. “We need to be realistic,” said Charles Ellinas, CEO of E-C Natural Hydrocarbons Company Ltd. Addressing the conference, Ellinas broke down why development and monetisation of Cypriot offshore gas reserves is problematic […]

The 30-year-old TV presenter, who shares boys Kai, seven, Klay, three, and 15-month-old Kit with her Manchester United soccer star husband Wayne Rooney, is seeking to find mothers who go above and beyond the call of duty so that their children can experience the fun of soccer. Coleen, who serves as a McDonald’s Football Mum […]

About 310 new lung cancer cases are reported each year, and 80 to 90 per cent of patients are smokers, Health Minister Giorgos Pamborides said on Wednesday. At a press conference announcing the campaign White Ribbons for Lung Cancer which has been organised for the first time in Cyprus the minister noted lung cancer is […]

President Nicos Anastasiades called on Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots on Wednesday to drop their rhetoric and focus on finding a solution that would yield a functional, modern state. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a meeting with the leadership of a labour union, Anastasiades repeated his readiness to immediately resume the talks, stalled […]

Just like his father nearly two decades ago, Kasper Schmeichel proved a formidable last line of defence on Tuesday with a crucial penalty save against Sevilla to help Leicester City through to the Champions League quarter-finals. A performance reminiscent of his those given by his dad Peter, Manchester United’s 1999 Champions league winner, reached a […]