Новости за 15.06.2017

The Greek coast guard was late on Thursday evening evacuating the crew of a Cyprus-flagged cargo ship that caught fire off the coast of Rhodes, reports said. The Med Star was located some two nautical miles northeast of Rhodes, headed for the island of Santorini. Reports said a fire broke out in the engine room, […]

Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos welcomed a decision by eurozone finance ministers to disburse additional bailout cash and offer further clarity on debt reprofiling. “Its a big step forward from what was on the table at the last Eurogroup meeting,” he told Reuters. “It gives much greater clarity to the markets and the Greek people.”

Facebook on Thursday offered new insight into its efforts to remove terrorism content, a response to political pressure in Europe to militant groups using the social network for propaganda and recruiting. Facebook has ramped up use of artificial intelligence such as image matching and language understanding to identify and remove content quickly, Monika Bickert, Facebook’s […]

The UN is readying for the long haul once the new Conference on Cyprus gets underway, the Secretary General’s Special Adviser Espen Barth Eide said on Thursday.     The UN is readying for the long haul once the new Conference on Cyprus gets underway, the Secretary General’s Special Adviser Espen Barth Eide said on […]

Non-performing loans in the Cypriot banking system fell by a mere €30.6m in February to well above €23.8bn in a month, mainly on increased compliance by households, the central bank said. From the introduction of the current definition of non-performing loans in December 2014 to February this year, total non-performing loans dropped by €3.5bn, the […]

Washington police have obtained arrest warrants for members of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s security team, who attacked peaceful protesters during the leader’s visit to the US capital last month, officials said on Thursday. Nine people were injured outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence in Washington during a May 16 brawl, which strained US-Turkish relations. A video […]

A concert will take place on Sunday with dance and music, in the context of the travelling exhibition Archaeomusica which brings together ancient European musical instruments. The concert will start at 6pm with a performance by the Ayioi Omoloyiton Cultural Workshop, followed by a performance by Italian group Dissoi Logoi at 7.30pm. As the exhibition […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday promised a public inquiry into a fire that gutted a 24-storey apartment block killing at least 17 people, as the government faced questions about how such a devastating blaze could have occurred. Smoke was still wafting out of the blackened shell of the Grenfell Tower on Thursday where […]

India cruised into the final of the Champions Trophy after a nine-wicket victory over Bangladesh on Thursday, setting up a clash with old rivals Pakistan on Sunday. A masterful unbeaten 123 from Rohit Sharma steered defending champions India to victory with nearly 10 overs to spare after they were set a target of 265 by […]

The jurors at comedian Bill Cosby‘s sexual assault trial said on Thursday they were deadlocked after more than 30 hours of deliberations. “We cannot come to a unanimous consensus on any of the counts,” said the jury’s note to Judge Steven O’Neill in Norristown, Pennsylvania. Jurors began discussing the charges late on Monday and worked […]

Britain’s Brexit minister David Davis and the European Union’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier will start talks over Britain’s departure from the EU on Monday, Britain’s Department for Exiting the European Union and the European Commission said on Thursday in a joint statement. “David Davis, Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, and Michel Barnier, […]

  A government bill allowing the consumption at restaurants of songbirds, provided they have been cooked in advance by the hunters who killed them, is nothing but mockery that will no longer be tolerated, the association of food and beverage establishments charged on Thursday. In a statement, the association protested clauses in the bill that […]

An American university student, who was detained for 17 months in North Korea and had fallen into a coma during that time, has a “severe” neurological injury, a hospital official said on Thursday. Otto Warmbier, 22, is stable and receiving treatment at the University of Cincinnati Medical Centre, center spokeswoman Kelly Martin said at a […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May plans to put her programme to parliament next week, a sign of confidence that talks on propping up her government will conclude in a deal and end days of uncertainty since she lost her majority. The prime minister has been holding talks with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party, keen to […]

The United Nations urged Russia, Iran and Turkey on Thursday to open up areas of Syria to the delivery of humanitarian aid in “de-escalation” zones whose parameters the three are meant to finalise. The three countries brokered a deal in the Kazakh capital, Astana, in May to create four de-escalation zones in Syria. Russia said […]

  Cyprus, Greece and Israel said on Thursday they would speed up plans for the development of a pipeline channelling gas to Europe from newly discovered east Mediterranean reserves. European governments and Israel agreed in April to move forward with a Mediterranean pipeline project to carry natural gas from Israel to Europe, setting a target date […]

One and a half months since little Marie-Eleni Grimsrud was abducted by her father on April 27 outside her kindergarten in Dasoupolis in Nicosia, police seem incapable of solving the case, the mother’s lawyer said on Thursday. Laris Vrachimis said that no progress had been made in the efforts for locating the girl and no […]

Roaming charges for using mobile phones when travelling within the European Union mostly disappeared on Thursday, capping a decade-long battle by Brussels to show increasingly sceptical Europeans it can make their lives better. Yet for all the excitement it is generating within European Union institutions, opt-outs secured by major telecoms firms and member states’ refusal […]

Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides described the land consolidation department on Thursday as a monument of systemic corruption and announced its integration with the land registry. Speaking before the House watchdog committee, Petrides said the initial decision in 2013 was to incorporate the department into the land registry, adding that the state could no longer maintain […]

The card game of bridge is a sport and its players should not be charged value-added tax on competition entry fees in Britain, the European Court of Justice’s top adviser said on Thursday in an opinion challenging British revenue rules. While the advocate general’s comments are not binding, judges follow them in most cases. The […]

  Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Thursday he would have something concrete to present regarding trapped property buyers in the next few days, following consultations with the Legal Service. “An intensive consultation is taking place between the interior ministry and the attorney-general so that a lawful arrangement can be found that would free the […]

The ‘Django Unchained’ star hits the important milestone in December this year, and has said he’s going to host a party on an entire island to celebrate. He said: “I’m going to … I can’t say that on camera. I’m going to go crazy. There’s an island. It’ll be a progression. You know, and down […]

MORE than 4,000 applications have been submitted for the second call-up for professional soldiers, many from holders of university degrees, Defence Minister Christoforos Fokaides said on Thursday. The deadline for the second annual call to hire professional soldiers in the National Guard expired on Wednesday. “Just like last year’s competition, the expressed interest is extremely […]

By Angelos Anastasiou Evidence of possible instances of conflicts of interest and favouritism in state-owned telecoms company Cyta was identified by auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides, according to the Audit Service’s annual report, published on Thursday. The first suspicious case reported by the auditor-general related to a study commissioned by Cyta on a new cash-reserves administration policy. […]

Access Info Europe and seven Cypriot civil society organisations have raised concerns with the Cyprus government that a future access to information law would violate European standards if adopted in its current form, as it blocked access to unclassified information. The organisations warned the exceptions to transparency were seriously out of line with the Council […]