Новости за 29.10.2017

U.S. Senator Susan Collins, a Republican member of the Intelligence Committee, said Democrats should be called again to testify about reports that their party and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign paid for parts of a dossier that detailed accusations about President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. The Washington Post reported last week that Marc Elias, a […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was due to meet with possible coalition partners on Sunday to kickstart the process of forming a government after talks got off to a rocky start last week, media reported. Merkel, whose conservative alliance came first but lost seats in the Sept. 24 national election, is trying to forge a three-way […]

By Agnieszka Rakoczy WITH the Cyprus talks now in suspension for a potentially long period, Turkish Cypriot main opposition parties will focus their campaigns in the early parliamentary election on domestic issues, according to experts. Their primary focus will be to target the ruling UBP-DP coalition for what they claim has been 18 months of […]

President Nicos Anastasiades reiterated on Sunday that Cyprus could not accept guarantees and intervention rights, or troops to remain on the island indefinitely. Speaking at a memorial service for Eoka fighters in Neo Chorio Paphos, Anastasiade said: “We cannot accept guarantees and intervention rights and troops to remain in place forever as this is against […]

The government will step up its efforts to pressure Turkey to cooperate on the issue of missing persons in Cyprus, a statement said on Sunday on the occasion of the Missing Persons day, October 29. The statement said the government would intensify efforts in all directions, with the main objective of persuading Turkey to assume […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May has ordered an investigation into a report that one of her ministers asked a female secretary to buy sex toys for him, as she tries to tackle a culture of sexual harassment in politics. Mark Garnier, a junior international trade minister, asked secretary Caroline Edmondson to buy two sex toys […]

The finance ministry has not acted as he should and in a way that would secure the interests of the state in relation to the Intergovernmental Agreement allowing OPAP lottery games to operate in Cyprus, Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides wrote in a letter to the president, which he made public on Sunday. The letter was sent […]

Strong winds battered northern and central Europe on Sunday, killing two people in Poland, two in the Czech Republic and one in Germany, with rail traffic in large sections of Germany to remain suspended until Monday. The victims in Poland and the Czech Republic were killed by falling trees. The storm also knocked out power […]

Strong winds battered central Europe on Sunday, killing two people in Poland and two in the Czech Republic, where the gales reached. All four people were killed by falling trees. The storm also knocked out power to thousands of Czechs and Poles. Winds reached more than 100 km an hour in several parts of the […]

By Elias Hazou   The Anastasiades administration’s apparent intention to negotiate with Turkey the delineation of that part of the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) to the north of the island is arguably an exercise in futility given that Ankara does not even recognise the Republic, let alone parley with it. To a number of political […]

An Islamist attack on a hotel in Mogadishu ended on Sunday after 29 people were killed during a siege lasting nearly 12 hours, police said. The attack proved once again that insurgents can carry out deadly assaults in the heart of the Somali capital. Twin bombings in Mogadishu two weeks ago killed more than 350 […]

The wreckage of a Russian Mi-8 helicopter missing off Svalbard, Norway, since October 26 has been located, Norway’s rescue coordination centre said on Sunday. The wreckage was found offshore at a depth of 209 metres, it said. Eight Russian men – five crew and three passengers – are assumed dead and the search for them […]

By Annette Chrysostomou   The newly opened ‘Family House’ with its motto ‘Educating parents, inspiring families’ should best be seen in action. When I went to visit it this week, walking through all the rooms of this diverse and creative house – including a terrace and garden – triggered a series of happy surprises. With […]

Political parties opposing a split by Catalonia from Spain had a small lead in an opinion poll published on Sunday, the first since Madrid called a regional election to try to resolve the crisis over Catalan demands for independence. The poll of 1,000 people by Sigma Dos for newspaper El Mundo, which opposes independence for […]

Catalan independence parties are seen as losing their parliamentary majority in an election, according to a poll published on Sunday, though the wafer-thin margin between the two sides predicts a hard-fought campaign to December’s ballot. The poll was taken from last Monday to Thursday, just as Spain’s central government was preparing to take control of […]

Iran will continue to produce missiles for its defence and does not see it as a violation of international accords, President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday in a speech broadcast on state television. “We have built, are building and will continue to build missiles, and this violates no international agreements,” Rouhani said in a speech […]

Over 30 migrants, including women and children, were picked up in Larnaca in the early hours of Sunday, police said. They said at around 3.20am they had received information that a number of migrants were spotted in an area of Larnaca. In all, there were 33, police said, including three women, seven minors and 23 […]

AS iconic British car maker Lotus prepares for the 70th anniversary of when founder Colin Chapman built his first car in 1948, the company is unveiling what it calls “the ultimate Elise”. Rare and race-bred, the extreme limited-edition Lotus Elise Cup 260 packs Lotus’ passion for motorsport engineering into “one of the most accomplished cars […]

Icelanders voted in favour of a left-leaning four-party coalition in parliamentary elections, a final vote count showed Sunday, although it remained unclear who would get a mandate to form the next government. The left-leaning coalition of the Left-Green Movement, the Social Democrats, the Progressive Party and the Pirate Party won 32 seats in the 63-member […]

Icelanders, angry over a string of political scandals, ousted the centre-right government in an election that could pave the way for a young charismatic opposition leader to form a left-leaning coalition, vote counts indicated on Sunday. With the defeat of incumbent Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson’s coalition government likely, his main opponent, The Left-Green Movement’s Katrin […]

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who met President Nicos Anastasiades late Saturday, said he would like to see stronger economic and trade cooperation, noting that Beirut values its relations with Nicosia, which he described as “our closest European neighbour.” Hariri stressed his support for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Cyprus, reiterating his support to […]

By Stelios Orphanides THREE days after Interpol dismissed for the fifth time a Russian arrest warrant against Hermitage Capital founder Bill Browder, a group of European Parliament deputies urged Cyprus, the single EU state cooperating with Russia on the matter, to reconsider its cooperation and to instead clamp down on illicit Russian funds. “We write […]

THE CYPRUS problem was at the centre of the presidential election campaign again last week exposing our barren political landscape and the intellectual limitations of the candidates who feel comfortable only when talking about how they would end the Turkish occupation. It is an indication of the absurdity of Cyprus politics, that candidates are most […]

PREZ NIK was glowing, wearing a broader grin than we have ever seen before, as he was welcomed by President Putin to his Moscow palace. He extended both arms as he approached Putin so that the handshake would be even more cordial, grabbing his host’s elbow as they shook hands. The stone-faced Putin attempted a […]

By Alper Ali Riza   R D Laing was a famous Scottish psychiatrist from Glasgow who wrote The Divided Self about the two selves that inhabit troubled souls: one, the real tormented self and the other, its false face presented to the world outside. According to Dr Laing when the real self breaks down the […]