Новости за 06.04.2017

CYPRUS is to receive more than €7m in aid from the EU to restore areas damaged by extended droughts and last year’s fires in Solea and Argaka. The aid comes from the EU Solidarity Fund (EUSF) and is part of the more than €71.5m budget MEPs approved earlier in the week to assist in repairing […]

US President Donald Trump flew to Florida on Thursday to hold his first meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, facing pressure to deliver trade concessions for some of his most fervent supporters and prevent a crisis with North Korea from spiralling out of control. The leaders of the world’s two biggest economies are to greet […]

The Pentagon and the White House are in detailed discussions on military options to respond to a poison gas attack in Syria that killed scores of civilians, and which Washington has blamed on the Syrian government, a US official said on Thursday. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will presumably discuss the options when he meets with […]

World number one Dustin Johnson pulled out of the US Masters on Thursday after sustaining a back injury in a freak fall. The American, favourite to win the title after victories in his last three tournaments, slipped on stairs in his rental house on Wednesday. He hit balls on the driving range on Thursday morning […]

Documenta, one of Europe’s most important modern art exhibitions, opens in Athens on Saturday, the first time in its history it is being held outside the German city of Kassel. Documenta 14 – ‘Learning from Athens’ – will run in the Greek capital until July 16, extending over more than 40 landmark locations including squares, […]

THE Christodoula’s march campaign in aid of cancer awareness kicked off its fundraising campaign on Thursday with the participation of hundreds of volunteers collecting contributions at more than 40 kiosks in all towns. The 42nd annual campaign, organised by the Anticancer Society, aims to support the two palliative centres for cancer patients in Nicosia and […]

STATE revenues from the privatisation of commercial operations at the port of Limassol will increase by more than 50 per cent compared to under the previous regime, the transport ministry said on Thursday, defending the concession agreements it signed with private companies. “And this, without taking into account any estimate of increased turnover,” the ministry […]

Senate Republicans on Thursday crushed a Democratic blockade of President Donald Trump’s US supreme court nominee in a fierce partisan brawl, approving a rule change dubbed the “nuclear option” to allow for conservative judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation by Friday. With ideological control of the nation’s highest court at stake, the Republican-led Senate voted 52-48 along […]

In this day and age, where things change at the click of a refresh button, where news from around the world reaches our ears in seconds and the cities we call home change year by year, can we say that anything stays the same? This is the question that a number of international and local […]

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan cast Europe as a “centre of Nazism” on Thursday, entering the final 10 days of campaigning for a historic referendum on a wave of nationalism, the latest poll suggesting support is swinging in his favour. Pollster Gezici, whose research has tended to overestimate opposition support, put the “yes” vote ahead for […]

Arnie’s Army was out in force one more time on Thursday, storming the first tee at the U.S. Masters in a final salute to Arnold Palmer, their fallen leader. There have been many tributes since the man known as ‘The King’ passed away at the age of 87 last September but none could match the […]

Dozens of Dutch citizens of Turkish descent, many linked to the opposition Gulen movement, are being prevented from leaving Turkey, a Dutch foreign ministry spokeswoman said on Thursday, confirming an earlier television report. Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan has led a crackdown on people suspected of involvement with the movement led by exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen, […]

DISCUSSION has concluded on the bill that will allow the authorities to ask people whether they want to become organ donors when they apply for their driver’s licence, and it will be tabled to the plenum for a vote after Easter, the head of the House health committee Costas Constantinou said on Thursday. The move is […]

Dutch men around the world are holding hands to campaign against homophobic violence, days after a married gay couple was beaten up in the Netherlands for walking together hand-in-hand. Using the Twitter hashtag #allmenhandinhand, Dutch men from Britain, Cuba and Australia posted photos and videos of themselves on social media holding hands with other men […]

LESS than ten per cent of Cypriots take part in volunteering, but the fact that young people make up the biggest group of volunteers is encouraging and may mean things are improving, the volunteer office announced on Thursday. “Despite the fact that in recent years there has been an increase of volunteer activity, either through […]

The head of the European Union’s executive said on Thursday he did not like what was going on in Hungary, where the right-wing, populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban is trying to shut down a liberal university founded by US financier George Soros. Budapest this week approved a new law that could force the Central European […]

The Israeli military said a car driven by a Palestinian deliberately rammed two Israeli soldiers, killing one and injuring the other, in the occupied West Bank on Thursday. The death brings to 39 the number of Israelis killed in a wave of Palestinian street attacks that began in October 2015, while at least 242 Palestinians […]

THE Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) has lost twice in court against the owner of a coffeeshop in Mosphiloti, which it had claimed was being run as a catering establishment without the required licence. The CTO lost the case both at district court level and at the Supreme Court after suing the owner of “Mango Vania […]

A tender competition is to be announced in the summer for the construction of a new desalination plant in Paphos, acting head of the Water Development Department (WDD) Andreas Manoli said on Thursday. The Cabinet gave the go-ahead on Wednesday for the construction of a desalination unit with a daily capacity of 15,000 cubic metres. The unit […]

The Republican head of a congressional inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election said he would temporarily step aside from the probe on Thursday because he is under investigation for disclosing classified information. Devin Nunes, chairman of the House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and an ally of Republican […]

Centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen still hold a firm lead over the pack in France’s presidential election, polls show, with a surging left-winger becoming a wild card in the race. An Opinionway poll on Thursday showed Le Pen and Macron taking 25 and 24 per cent of the first round vote […]

THE Paphos Criminal Court sentenced on Thursday a 25-year-old man to seven years in prison after being found guilty for the kidnap, robbery and rape in 2015 of a 23-year-old Dutch female tourist. The incident occurred on October 4, 2015 in Paphos. The woman had reported that while walking along Poseidonos Avenue on that day […]

The 64-year-old television personality has sympathised with the former Spice Girls singer after she made allegations of abuse against her estranged husband Stephen Belafonte, whom she filed for divorce from last month after 10 years of marriage. Speaking on US television show ‘The Talk’ on Wednesday (05.04.17), Sharon – who was a judge alongside Mel […]

As attorney-general Costas Clerides declined to assess the constitutionality of a legislative proposal tabled by Disy, which would effectively transfer decision-making on school commemorations from parliament to the government, escalating tension resulted in a fiery row between Diko leader Nicolas Papadopoulos and Disy MP Nicos Tornaritis. The proposal, designed to overturn a parliament decision in […]

Prime Minister Theresa May unleashed a scathing attack on Britain’s main opposition party on Thursday, launching a campaign for local elections next month that will be the biggest electoral test so far of her leadership and her plan to leave the EU. Pressing home her advantage over Labour in opinion polls, she told voters to […]