Новости за 21.07.2017

The UN Security Council’s meeting for the renewal of UNFICYP’s mandate will eventually take place on Thursday, 27 July, it emerged on Friday. on Thursday, the five permanent members of the Security Council failed to agree on the final text of a resolution and agreed to meet again Friday after receiving instructions from their governments. The outcome […]

Akel’s politburo met on Friday to discuss the party’s position in the upcoming presidential election. Reports said however, that the party’s central committee will hold a decisive session on Saturday where it could decide on whom to back in February’s poll. Akel had selected businessman Mike Spanos but quickly dropped him after it transpired that […]

European Union Competition Commissioner Margethe Vestager on Friday welcomed steps taken by the Cypriot authorities to make the legislative framework on the tax treatment of financing companies more stringent. “Financing companies provide financial services intra-group and their profit is the remuneration for their financing activities,” Vestager said. “This remuneration has to be in line with […]

White House spokesman Sean Spicer resigned on Friday, ending a brief, turbulent tenure that gained global notoriety, after President Donald Trump named adviser and Wall Street financier Anthony Scaramucci as his top communications official. A White House official said Spicer, 45, had resigned. Spicer‘s departure reflected turmoil within Trump’s legal and communication teams amid a widening investigation into […]

A 36-year-old man has been found guilty of sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl – the daughter of his wife’s first cousin — in the space of one year. The man was found guilty in 22 counts relating to sexual offences committed between May 2015 and May 2016. His defence will plead for leniency on July […]

The European Capital of Culture Pafos2017 may bring music to us from all over the world, but it still stays true to the island’s roots with a performance that takes a new approach to Cyprus folk poetry, adding theatrical and musical elements. The people to bring us this show of passion for our roots are […]

The Russian lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr after his father won the Republican nomination for the 2016 US presidential election counted Russia’s FSB security service among her clients for years, Russian court documents seen by Reuters show. The documents show that the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, successfully represented the FSB’s interests in a legal wrangle over ownership […]

  Turkey’s European prospects go through a just, viable solution of the Cyprus problem and termination of military violations in the Aegean Sea, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was reported as saying on Friday. The Greek PM met with top EU diplomat Federica Mogherini with whom he discussed Turkey’s relations with the EU and the […]

The government’s decision to reimburse 75 per cent of provident funds seized during the 2013 meltdown and cap reimbursements at €100,000 was known all along and is fully justified, Finance Minister Harris Georgiades said on Friday. Speaking to state radio, Georgiades addressed complaints voiced by various trade unions, including bankers’ union Etyk, Edek’s union arm […]

The government has decided to use around €185m of taxpayer money to bail out indebted local authorities, it emerged on Friday. The decision was made by the cabinet on Wednesday, President Nicos Anastasiades tweeted. “Municipalities and communities are freed from the burden of debt instalments,” he said. The money spent on debt servicing each year […]

The United Arab Emirates on Friday welcomed Qatar‘s decision to amend its anti-terrorism laws, in one of the first positive signs from the UAE and three other Arab countries since they imposed sanctions on Doha last month. In a move to counter their accusations of supporting terrorism, which it denies, Qatar has set rules for defining terrorism, freezing […]

Formula One’s decision to introduce a ‘halo’ cockpit protection device next year is a mistake, according to former champion Niki Lauda. The Austrian, who is non-executive chairman of world champions Mercedes, told Germany’s Auto, Motor und Sport on Thursday that he recognised safety had to be improved where possible. However a convincing solution had yet to […]

Officials were given a tour of Paphos airport on Friday as operator Hermes enters its second decade of operations and with total passenger traffic amounting to 4.1 million, or an increase of 17.8 per cent in the first half of this year. Honorary-Lifetime Chairman and founder of the consortium, Nicos Shacolas, together with the Chairman […]

An Indian musician who strummed a guitar during brain surgery to treat painful muscle spasms in his hand says he hopes to release his first album next year. Abhishek Prasad, an IT worker turned musician in the southern city of Bengaluru, suffered from a disorder called musician’s dystonia, which causes involuntary muscle contractions. In Prasad’s case, three […]

The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Friday expressed its thanks to Ireland for its donation of €25,000. This brings the Irish financial assistance to the CMP to a total of €325,000 over the past ten years. “This donation to the CMP Project on the Exhumation, Identification, and Return of Remains of Missing Persons in […]

Activists belonging to Solidarity reunification group in the north, were removed by security on Thursday after they unfurled a banner against the celebration of the Turkish invasion during a reception organised by Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci. “There can be no celebration of pain. Face your past,” the banner said. The members of the group also wanted […]

A number of protests and other events were held in Nicosia on the evening of July 20, to mark the 43rd anniversary of the Turkish invasion – made all the more painful and poignant by the failure of the recent talks at Crans-Montana. We visited the protest at the Ledra Street checkpoint organised by Adouloti […]

At least three cars were damaged extensively during Thursday’s event organised by far-right Elam at the Ledra Palace in Nicosia to mark the events of July 20, 1974, the Cyprus Mail learned on Friday. Although police said that no injuries or damage to property were reported, two car owners informed the Mail that their vehicles, […]

President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday announced new projects for Larnaca worth over €70m, saying the coastal town could no longer be called “the poor relation”. He announced the projects during a meeting with ministers, mayors and officials and also evaluated ongoing development. Total state funding for Larnaka between 2013 and 2017 had reached € 228m, […]

Manchester United cannot be content with a top-four finish and must target the Premier League title next season, captain Michael Carrick has said. The 35-year-old won three league titles in his first three seasons at United and collected two more before long-serving manager Alex Ferguson retired in 2013. “It’s all about winning things,” Carrick told […]

Poland‘s senate was expected to back new powers letting politicians appoint supreme court judges, defying protesters massed in the streets overnight against what they see as a move towards authoritarian rule. Prime Minister Beata Szydlo said he would not give into pressure at home or abroad on the judicial reform bill, setting up a confrontation […]

The Beatles icon signed the ‘Double Fantasy’ record for Chapman a matter of hours before he was shot dead by the crazed fan in Manhattan, New York, in December 1980. Chapman stored the album in a large plant pot at the entrance to the Dakota apartments, before waiting for John and Yoko Ono to return to the building to […]

The parents of Efi Herodotou who was found guilty last month of killing 17-year-old Emilios Ioannou when she ran a red light in December 2007, were found guilty on Friday of perjury. The mitigation hearing was scheduled for July 28. In late June the court found Herodotou guilty on two counts – causing death due to […]

Turkey’s economy minister sought to stem the economic fall-out from a growing diplomatic crisis with NATO ally Germany, saying that German investments in Turkey were fully guaranteed by both the Ankara government and its laws. In an interview with Reuters, Nihat Zeybekci also denied reports that Turkey gave Berlin a list of companies it was […]

Two tour agencies that arrange trips to North Korea said on Friday the US government will soon ban its citizens from travelling there, after the death of a US student arrested there while on a tour. Koryo Tours said the ban would be announced on July 27 and would go into effect 30 days later. It said the […]