Новости за 07.11.2017

The Cyprus Insurance Association announced on Tuesday they do not tape record their meetings after Diko leader and presidential candidate Nicolas Papadopoulos said he has the health minister on tape promising insurance agents that he would push for a multi-insurance National Health Scheme (Gesy). “Following recent events, the Insurance Association of Cyprus states that it […]

Some two-and-a-half thousand refugees eligible for interest-rate subsidies on loans from the Central Agency for Equal Distribution of Burdens (Caedb) have been left in the lurch because they cannot obtain loan approval from the banks in the first place, the House refugees committee heard on Tuesday. A public-law entity established in 1995, the agency operates […]

Cyprus and France appear to be upping ties in the area of defence as high-ranking officials of the French defence ministry are due in Cyprus in the coming days to visit the naval base at Mari as part of moves to strengthen cooperation. Following President Nicos Anastasiades’ meeting with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in […]

  In a post-Harvey Weinstein world, logic would dictate that Silvio Berlusconi, who hosted wild parties with young women and brags about his sexual prowess, would not have a ghost of a chance at political resurrection. But logic and Italian politics have never been synonymous. On Monday, the four-time former prime minister’s right-wing bloc relished […]

Main opposition Akel has tabled a bill aimed at relaxing the conditions under which incapacitated persons are eligible for disability allowance. Speaking at the House labour committee on Tuesday, committee chair Andreas Fakondis (Akel) said current regulations are too strict and, in some cases, unfair. He cited the example of a person who had contributed […]

An Israeli startup has sued Apple Inc , accusing the iPhone maker of copying its patented smartphone camera technology. Tel Aviv-based Corephotonics Ltd filed its patent infringement case against Apple in federal court in San Jose, California, on Monday. Corephotonics, which has raised $50 million from several high-profile venture capital firms and other investors, said […]

The Nicosia Sewerage Board on Monday approved the reduction of sewerage fees by 27 per cent, following a House vote to this effect last week. In a statement, the board announced the suspension of receiving payment for 2017 sewerage fees until November 17, at either the board’s tills or through banks or the internet. During […]

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s sacking of his deputy Emmerson Mnangagwa was part of a wider purge, state media said on Tuesday, in a clear out analysts say is meant to neutralise any resistance to the political rise of his wife, Grace. Mugabe sacked his long-time ally Mnangagwa on Monday for showing “traits of disloyalty”, abruptly […]

The five exams for those wishing to become state school teachers that were postponed on Monday after the questions were inadvertently posted on the education ministry’s website will be held on November 17 and 18, Education Minister Costas Kadis announced on Tuesday. In a statement, the ministry said the Physics and Religious Studies exams will […]

As we live on an island, and we pretty much have nine months of summer, water is a very important factor in our everyday lives. But on Friday – Worldwide Aquathon Day – water will steal the show in 77 countries all over the world. For the fifth year in a row, an aqua fitness […]

Scotland’s devolved government issued an apology on Tuesday to men convicted in the past for same-sex activity and passed a new law which will allow them to clear their names. “It is only right that we address this historic wrong,” First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told the Scottish parliament. “Discriminatory laws, although abolished, continue to have […]

Vulnerable categories of consumers will from now on be means-tested to ensure they are eligible for reduced domestic electricity tariffs, the government has telegraphed to parliament. Opposition MPs had raised the matter that people suffering from certain conditions – such as kidney disease or multiple sclerosis – had been left out of the power utility’s […]

European Union finance ministers called on Tuesday for a blacklist of tax havens to be drawn up for approval next month as part of kick back against what it sees as tax dodging by the rich and famous. Underlining the difficulty of such an approach, however, they were divided over how to impose sanctions on […]

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri visited the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, his first trip outside Saudi Arabia, as regional tensions aggravated by his surprise resignation escalated into a domestic crisis. Hariri, an ally of Saudi Arabia, flew to Abu Dhabi and then returned to Riyadh, his office said. His Future TV channel said he […]

The defence ministers of Cyprus, Greece and Israel met in Athens on Tuesday to discuss strengthening cooperation to promote security, stability and peace in the Eastern Mediterranean. Defence Minister Christoforos Fokaides, after attending the first tripartite meeting with his counterparts, said: “Our vision is to gradually turn the wider region from a conflict zone to […]

Britain’s University of Oxford said one of its professors, the prominent Swiss Muslim intellectual Tariq Ramadan, had taken a leave of absence from the university, after two women filed complaints against him in France over allegations of rape. “The University has consistently acknowledged the gravity of the allegations against Professor Ramadan, while emphasising the importance […]

The 33-year-old woman who abandoned her new-born baby boy last week outside the old Limassol hospital has asked to take him back but the decision now lies with the social welfare services, authorities said on Tuesday. The baby, found last Friday by a nurse on a chair outside the ambulance staff’s station wrapped in a […]

Tottenham Hotspur full-back Danny Rose is determined to book a place in England’s World Cup squad and has thanked manager Gareth Southgate for giving him another chance after missing nine months with injury. Rose last played for England a year ago and has since undergone a knee surgery, lost a regular place at Spurs and […]

Syria plans to join the 2015 Paris agreement for slowing global warming, isolating the United States as the only country opposed to the pact, delegates said at UN climate negotiations in Germany. Syria and Nicaragua were the only two nations outside the 195-nation pact when it was agreed in 2015. US President Donald Trump announced in June that […]

Liverpool midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain will keep pushing for a regular starting spot at the Premier League club, the 24-year-old has said. Oxlade-Chamberlain, who started his first game for Liverpool in their League Cup defeat by Leicester City in September, made his first league start during Saturday’s 4-1 win at West Ham United. The England international […]

Non-performing loans in the Cypriot banking system fell by €57.8m in July compared with the month before to €22.4bn as the pace of restructurings dropped, the Central Bank of Cyprus said. The reduction in non-performing loans in July was mainly on a €65.3m monthly decline in delinquent loans of corporation to €10.1bn accompanied by a […]

Fifty-year-old Ioannis Kyriakides, who was found guilty of manslaughter by Limassol criminal court after ramming his car while high on drugs two years ago into the rear of the vehicle of 25-year-old Stefanos Georgiou causing his death, was sentenced to six years in prison on Tuesday. Kyriakides – a taxi driver – was found guilty […]

Fifty-year-old Ioannis Kyriakides, who was found guilty of manslaughter by the Limassol criminal court after ramming his car while high on drugs two years ago into the rear of the vehicle of 25-year-old Stefanos Georgiou causing his death, was sentenced to six years in prison on Tuesday. Kyriakides – a taxi driver – was found […]

The Scottish devolved parliament in Edinburgh was evacuated on Tuesday after a suspicious package was found, police said, while a source working in the building said a Conservative lawmaker had been sent an envelope containing white powder. “It’s a white powder incident, there were a couple of suspicious packages sent to a Tory (Conservative) MSP,” […]

Scottish police responded to an incident at the Scottish parliament building in the capital Edinburgh on Tuesday following the discovery of a suspicious package, they said. “Police in Edinburgh responded to the Scottish Parliament at around 11.35am on Tuesday 7th November following the discovery of a suspicious package,” police said in a statement. “The building […]