Новости за 30.07.2017

Despite a week of blunders, big and small, in the fight to handle the fallout from the failed Conference on Cyprus at Crans-Montana earlier this month, the government is gearing up for a return to the process with the framework drafted by United Nations’ Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the table, a government source has told […]

Sebastian Vettel won a tense Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday in a Ferrari one-two that stretched his Formula One championship lead over Mercedes rival Lewis Hamilton to 14 points. The German, taking his fourth win of the season, took the chequered flag 0.9 seconds ahead of Kimi Raikkonen with Hamilton finishing fourth after sportingly surrendering […]

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister called Qatar’s demands for an internationalization of the Muslim hajj pilgrimage a declaration of war against the kingdom, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television said on Sunday, although it was unclear whether Qatar had actually made any such demand. “Qatar’s demands to internationalize the holy sites is aggressive and a declaration of war […]

Every communal building must have a management committee, which is elected in a general meeting of the owners and constitutes a legally established entity responsible for the management and administration of communal areas. The management committee (MC) has the rights, duties and powers provided in the Immovable Property Law. The MC acts for and on behalf […]

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday urged Republican senators not to give up trying to pass a healthcare bill, after they failed last week to muster enough votes to repeal and replace parts of Obamacare. For the second day running Trump tweeted his impatience with Congress’ inability to accomplish its seven-year goal of replacing the […]

Police said on Sunday that with two road deaths in the past two days, and a total of five this month, plus two more people critically injured, that it did not seem the ongoing loss of life was impacting drivers to change their ways. “This is unfortunately the conclusion we can draw from the statistics. In […]

For over a year, Turkish Cypriot courts and northern Cyprus’ environment protection office have been working in tandem to close down the wooden chalet sites that beckon tourists to stay overnight by the iconic Golden Beach in the Karpas peninsula. This culminated last week when the authorities sent in heavy earth moving machinery to knock […]

The Greek Cypriot side is ready to discuss the opening of Varosha under the auspices of the UN, Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said on Sunday. During an event to mark 40 years since the death of Archbishop Makarios on August 3, 1977, Kasoulides was asked about the reports from the north that the Turkish side […]

Allowing free movement of people after Britain leaves the European Union would not “keep faith” with the Brexit vote, the international trade secretary said, underling divisions in the government over the issue. Liam Fox told the Sunday Times that senior government ministers had not reached a consensus on retaining free movement of people for a […]

A strong typhoon swept across Taiwan on Sunday, injuring more than 80 people, forcing the capital to shut down essential services and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of homes. Forty people were trapped in the southern parts of the island, mainly due to floodwaters, the government said. Typhoon Nesat, a medium strength typhoon […]

A car bomb explosion in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday killed six and wounded 20 others and the death toll was likely to rise, a police officer said. The bomb went off on the busy Maka al Mukaram road, police said, while a Reuters witness said the blast was followed by big clouds of […]

The government is preparing very specific actions in relation to the issue of Varosha, spokesman Nicos Christodoulides said on Sunday. He was responding information in the Turkish Cypriot press that the fenced-off area of Famagusta would be returned to UN control. Christodoulides said there is no ‘official’ information on the reports and that it wasn’t […]

A 19-year-old was in critical condition at the Nicosia general hospital on Sunday after being involved in a traffic accident in the early hours. The accident occurred around 4.30am on Grivas Dighenis Avenue, when the 19-year-old lost control of the car he was driving and hit a wall. He was taken by ambulance to the […]

A 34-year-old man opened fire in a nightclub in the southern German city of Konstanz on Sunday, killing one person and seriously injuring three others, police said. The suspect suffered life-threatening injuries in a gunfight with police officers outside the music venue after they had rushed to the scene shortly after the incident around 0230 […]

More than 22,000 people were evacuated from an electronic music festival in Barcelona on Saturday night after a huge fire broke out on one of the stages during a sequence of the show involving fireworks, emergency services said. They said no one was injured. Footage circulated on social media showed big flames leaping from the […]

A British soldier from Dhekelia, 33, was killed on Saturday night in a hit-and-run. According to police, the incident happened around 8.30pm on the Famagusta-Larnaca road, 100 metres from a petrol station in Dhekelia. The unidentified driver was heading towards Larnaca. Under circumstances being examined by police, the car hit and fatally injured the solider […]

Security has been tightened at Australian airports after police foiled “Islamic-inspired” plans for a bomb attack on an aircraft during counter-terrorism raids in which four men were arrested, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said on Sunday. The increased security presence caused minor delays for some air transport operators on Sunday and authorities warned travellers to […]

By James Pearson The United States flew two B-1B bombers over the Korean peninsula in a show of force after recent North Korean missile tests, the U.S. Air Force said in a statement on Sunday. North Korea said it conducted another successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Friday that proved its ability […]

Venezuelans on Sunday vote for a constitutional super-body expected to hand sweeping new powers to ruling Socialist Party officials and potentially extend their unpopular rule in the convulsed OPEC nation. President Nicolas Maduro, widely disliked for overseeing an unraveling of Venezuela’s economy, has promised the assembly will bring peace after four months of opposition protests […]

Barcelona drew first blood against Real Madrid ahead of the new season with a 3-2 victory in a pulsating Clasico friendly on Saturday in Miami. The historic rivals will meet again twice in August in the Spanish Super Cup and this International Champions Cup match set the entertainment bar high, with Barcelona maintaining their 100 […]

Following the successful introduction of the Lotus Evora 400 and Evora Sport 410 to global markets, Lotus has unveiled its most powerful road-going model ever – the Evora GT430. Claiming ‘a pure combination of elegance and power’, Lotus has lavished attention on hand-crafted carbon-fibre components to endow the Evora with “a level of precision engineering […]

RESPONDING to the decision by the Turkish side to allow Maronites to return to their villages in the north, government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides said this was part of Turkey’s plan to prevent these villages from being placed under Greek Cypriot administration after a solution. But what solution was Christodoulides actually talking about? Is a solution […]

PREZ NIK, I hear, has returned to his ashtray-throwing days, even though there are not always ashtrays available when he loses his rag, which reportedly has been happening frequently since his triumphant return from Crans-Montana, where Turkish intransigence was 100 per cent to blame for the failure. Although the explosions of anger and the temper […]

Limassol’s status as a lively cosmopolitan seaside business centre which is home to a large, mostly wealthy expat community is having a huge impact on rents and pricing locals out of the market. Property experts say rents in Limassol far surpass those in any other city across Cyprus. An unremarkable average two-bedroom flat can rent […]

A British expat in Peyia is urging the minister of health to grant him access to essential cancer treatment before it is too late. Alan McIntyre, 58, turned to the Sunday Mail to publicise his plight after his increasingly desperate pleas to the authorities went unheeded. He is in urgent need of chemotherapy to save […]