Новости за 05.09.2017

Britain will end the free movement of labour immediately after Brexit and introduce measures to drive down the number of lower-skilled EU migrants, a leaked government document published by the Guardian newspaper said on Tuesday. Reducing net migration to Britain was one of the main reasons behind last year’s vote to leave the European Union, […]

A row over how much money Britain should pay the European Union when it leaves the bloc will probably go on for the full duration of the EU exit talks, Brexit minister David Davis said on Tuesday. The Brexit bill is a contentious issue both in Britain, where eurosceptics are keen to see as little […]

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides is investigating whether staff in the Turkish Cypriot property administration service were related to people who were granted the land. Speaking at the House refugee committee on Tuesday, Michaelides said that in three cases where Greek and Turkish Cypriot land had been exchanged, the go-ahead had been given by female staff of […]

Consumers will experience a drop of around 6 per cent on average in their electricity bills as a result of the new tariffs, state power company EAC said on Tuesday. The new tariffs, effective as of September 1 and until the end of 2017, abolish the staggered charges currently in force, whereby the charge increases […]

Environmental department inspectors were on scene at an Akamas beach on Tuesday to investigate how the Paphos district office had granted permission to an individual to host a private party without liaising with the relevant state departments to ensure the protection of turtles. The party, organised by a guest at the Anassa hotel in Latchi, […]

North Korea is ready to send “more gift packages” to the United States, one of its top diplomats said on Tuesday, dismissing the international uproar over his country’s latest and biggest nuclear weapons test. Han Tae Song, ambassador of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to the United Nations in Geneva, was addressing the […]

President Donald Trump on Tuesday scrapped a programme that protects from deportation almost 800,000 young men and women who were brought into the United States illegally as children, giving a gridlocked Congress six months to decide their fate. Trump’s action, announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, rescinds a program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals […]

Prices of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) are 43 per cent higher in Cyprus than in other EU countries, the House commerce committee heard on Tuesday, only a month after supply became available to the local market. While EU average prices are €0.55 per litre, the selling price in Cyprus is €0.78 per litre, head of […]

The autumn season of the Pharos Arts Foundation will open on Saturday with a performance by the highly acclaimed jazz duo Takoushis-Karapatakis and renowned German percussion virtuoso Udo Demandtm at the Shoe Factory in Nicosia. The Takoushis-Karapatakis Project is a contemporary jazz ensemble from Cyprus, formed in 2008 when pianist and composer Marios Takoushis and […]

Singer Beyonce and actor George Clooney will topline an array of celebrities coming together to raise funds for the victims of Hurricane Harvey, which has displaced more than 1 million people in Texas. The “Hand in Hand” benefit will air live on Sept. 12 from Los Angeles, New York and Nashville on major broadcast networks […]

President Nicos Anastasiades set out to defend his handling of the talks in Crans-Montana again on Tuesday, saying that Turkey had not been willing to turn words into actions during the last stages of the Swiss negotiations. Anastasiades, who has come under fire from various quarters since the talks broke down on July 6, was […]

Operations to root out supporters of US-based Turkish cleric Fetullah Gulen in the north are due to begin in earnest now that the Muslim holiday of Bayram is over, Turkish Cypriot press reported on Tuesday. Turkey has labelled Gulen supporters terrorists under the name Feto. Ankara has accused Gulen of being behind the failed July […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday that Turkey was fast abandoning the rule of law and vowed to push her EU partners to consider suspending or ending its accession talks at a meeting in October. Less than three weeks before a German national election, she spelled out her intentions clearly to the Bundestag lower […]

Chelsea playmaker Eden Hazard relishes playing with striker Diego Costa and is keen for the Spaniard to resolve his stand-off with the Premier League champions and return to action. Costa, who was Chelsea’s top scorer in their title-winning campaign, was eager to rejoin former club Atletico Madrid in the transfer window after Chelsea manager Antonio […]

A Scottish mother who says her ex-boyfriend has had their five-year-old daughter banned from leaving Cyprus protested outside the Presidential Palace and the attorney general’s office on Tuesday. Ayia Napa resident Paula Clifford said someone inside the palace listened to her complaints on Friday but failed to take any action, telling her to go to […]

Europe’s biggest clubs do not want any more changes to the Champions League in the next few years, they said on Tuesday, promising to avoid a repetition of the ‘soap opera’ which surrounded the competition last year. UEFA last year announced significant changes to the competition for the 2018-21 cycle, rearranging the group-stage slots in […]

Britain’s main opposition Labour Party said on Tuesday it could not vote for the government’s legislation to sever ties with the European Union unless it was amended to prevent ministers from grabbing powers from parliament. Parliament will begin debating the EU withdrawal bill on Thursday and there will be a vote on Monday, testing Prime […]

The on-again, off-again couple were spotted paddle-boarding together in Santa Barbara, California, over the Labor Day weekend and a source close to the duo has now revealed they’ve rekindled their high-profile romance. The insider told E! News: “Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom are back together. “They never stopped loving each other. They are both working […]

A French court ruled on Tuesday that celebrity magazine Closer invaded the privacy of Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, when it published topless photos of her in 2012. The court handed the maximum fine of €45,000 to both Laurence Pieau, an editor of Closer’s French edition, and Ernesto Mauri, chief executive of Italian publisher […]

Police on Tuesday were still seeking a suspect who evaded arrest the previous night during a drug bust involving gunshots on Nicosia’s Tseri Avenue. Drug squad officers arrested a 25-year-old Paphos man and seized three kilos of cannabis during the operation involving the police firing shots to stop two suspects in a car. It happened […]

Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu has reassured his club’s supporters that Lionel Messi’s new contract has been signed, albeit by the player’s father. The Catalan side announced an agreement with Messi, their all-time leading goalscorer, in July to extend his stay to 2021 but the Argentine has not yet put pen to paper, prompting fears […]

Prospects for a Cyprus settlement, and what has been achieved during the latest round of the UN-led peace talks must not be lost, Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said on Tuesday. If the dialogue resumes on the basis of the framework set out by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the timeframe for a solution would be short, […]

Atletico Madrid’s inspirational coach Diego Simeone has renewed his contract until 2020, the club said on Tuesday. The popular Argentine manager was appointed in 2011 and helped Atletico to win the league in 2014, as well as reaching two Champions League finals, both of which ended in defeats by rivals Real Madrid. “He started his […]

Germany striker Timo Werner’s enviable scoring record after only eight internationals has earned him a starting spot in attack with fellow forward Mario Gomez bowing to the talented 21-year-old less than a year before the World Cup. Werner burst onto the international scene in the past year and has so far netted six times for […]

Hurricane Irma, a powerful Category 4 storm, plowed toward the Caribbean and the southern United States on Tuesday as islands in its path braced for possible life-threatening winds, storm surges and flooding. Hurricane warnings and watches were in effect for parts of the Leeward Islands, the British and U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, in […]