Новости за 19.11.2017

President Robert Mugabe stunned Zimbabwe on Sunday by making no mention of resignation in a television address, defying his own ZANU-PF party, which had sacked him hours earlier, and hundreds of thousands of protesters who had already hailed his downfall. Two sources – one a senior member of the government, the other familiar with talks […]

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe defied expectations he would resign on Sunday, pledging to preside over a ZANU-PF congress next month even though the ruling party had removed him as its leader hours earlier. ZANU-PF had given the 93-year-old less than 24 hours to quit as head of state or face impeachment, an attempt to secure […]

By Annette Chrysostomou Can you name the born and bred Cypriot who is on first name terms with these Hollywood royals – Ken, Cate and Meryl? If you’re struggling, here are their surnames, respectively – Branagh, Blanchett and Streep. Still no closer to the answer? Here it is – Haris Zambarloukas. You’ll have seen that […]

By Serajul Quadir   Bangladesh is in negotiations with Myanmar aimed at a deal to repatriate displaced Rohingya and Dhaka’s foreign minister will address the matter at talks in Myanmar this week, the Bangladeshi foreign ministry said on Sunday. More than 600,000 Muslim Rohingya have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh since late August, driven out by […]

Saad al-Hariri, who announced his resignation as Lebanese prime minister from Saudi Arabia on November 4, will visit Egypt on Monday, a leader in Hariri’s Future Movement said. Hariri has since Saturday been in Paris, where he met French President Emmanuel Macron, and has said he will return to Lebanon by Wednesday for its Independence […]

The Egyptian government has already informed Cyprus that it would like the vessel depicting Ramses II dating back to the 13th century BC to be returned through the normal procedure followed for the return of antiquities.  The item had been stolen from Egypt and was recently found in Cyprus. According to a report in Kathimerini, […]

By Philip Pullella   Pope Francis welcomed the poor, homeless and unemployed as guests of honour for a Mass and gourmet meal in the Vatican on Sunday, saying that helping the needy was one way of obtaining a “passport to paradise”. Francis celebrated a Mass marking the Roman Catholic Church’s first yearly World Day of […]

The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) is to visit a former landfill in Dikomo in the north, where the remains of around 70 people from Assia, who were murdered by Turkish soldiers during the 1974 invasion, are believed to be buried. According to the Greek Cypriot member of the CMP, Nestoras Nestoros, the Turkish Cypriot side […]

By Bejay Browne   PAWS dog shelter shop in Chlorakas has fast established itself as the number one charity and second-hand furniture shop on the island, through the efforts of one Paphos woman who has galvanised staff and turned fortunes around in a matter of months. The shop, on a main road in Chlorakas, Paphos, […]

By William James   Britain will submit proposals on how to settle its divorce bill with the European Union before an EU summit next month and is expected to negotiate hard, finance minister Philip Hammond said on Sunday. The EU told Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday that there was more work to be done […]

Just imagine that we lived in a better world for a moment, imagine that we could all accept our differences in a world where we could make something beautiful out of our togetherness. This is what the play Just Imagine aims to evoke on Saturday. The play without words by Catherine Beger came about after […]

By Andria Kades   While the EU tempts member states with generous funding for roadwork projects that increase sustainable mobility such as bicycles, buses and walking, Cyprus seems to trip over itself with its determination to put cars first. The two latest projects that have hit the headlines on just this issue have been the […]

By William Schomberg and William James   British finance minister Philip Hammond, under pressure to help weakened Prime Minister Theresa May in this week’s budget, promised to speed up house building and said he had some room to help voters despite his squeeze on public finances. Aware that to some her government looks overwhelmed by […]

The condemnation of Apoel football fans, for claiming the uprising of Athens Polytechnic students against the Greek Junta in November 1973 did not take place, continued over the weekend with media in Greece also slamming the denial of the event. A group of Apoel fans hoisted a banner with the slogan, ‘’Polytechnio 1973-2017, 44 years […]

By MacDonald Dzirutwe and Joe Brock   Zimbabwe’s ruling party fired Robert Mugabe as its leader on Sunday and gave the 93-year-old less than 24 hours to quit as head of state or face impeachment, an attempt to force a peaceful end to his 37 years in power after a de facto coup. Mugabe, the […]

By MacDonald Dzirutwe and Joe Brock   Zimbabwe’s ruling party will dismiss President Robert Mugabe as its leader on Sunday to force him to call an end to his 37 years in power peacefully following a de facto military coup, the head of the liberation war veterans said. Speaking to Reuters as he walked into […]

By Marcos Brindicci and Maximiliano Rizzi   Hopes that 44 crew members of a missing Argentine navy submarine may be found alive rose after the defense ministry said the vessel likely tried to communicate via satellite on Saturday as an international search mission was underway in the stormy South Atlantic. The ministry said seven failed […]

By George Koumoullis THE anti-British sentiment prevalent among a very broad section of the Greek Cypriot population is astonishing and raises several questions. Britain is considered the source of all our woes. In a Facebook post, SP, a well-known economist, describes the Englishman as a “killer, colonialist, corrupter, dishonest, filthy and devious”. Yet most Cypriots […]

By Patrick Markey   Saudi Arabia and other Arab foreign ministers held an emergency meeting in Cairo on Sunday to discuss ways to confront Iran and its Lebanese Shi’ite ally Hezbollah, who the Arab allies say are interfering in their internal affairs. Regional tensions have risen in recent weeks between Sunni monarchy Saudi Arabia and […]

Tributes poured in on Sunday for Malcolm Young, co-founder of the Australian rock band AC/DC, a day after he died at the age 64 after suffering from dementia for several years. Malcolm Young and his brother Angus Young founded AC/DC in 1973. Their hits included “Highway to Hell” from 1979 and “Back in Black” and […]

Ford has teamed up with British national road safety charity Brake to launch a new campaign to tackle one of the biggest killers on the roads: mobile phone misuse. In a move to prevent phones from becoming a fatal distraction, Ford and Brake are campaigning to banish handsets from the driver’s sight – and place […]

It was hailed as the greatest road race of its age and attracted such star driving legends as Juan Manuel Fangio and the Galvez brothers to compete for the glory of winning ‘The Grand Prix of South America’. The rally covered nearly 10,000km, through Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela and attracted crowds of […]

Despite President Nicos Anastasiades’ insistence that he is simply working through his five-year term as normal, the evidence seems to suggest he is in full campaign mode and wooing as many special-interest groups as possible. Anastasiades and his cabinet have come under heavy fire from opposition parties and sectors of the public for what has […]

The public debate and squabbling of the last two weeks sparked by the blunder in the teachers’ exams highlighted two things. Cyprus has a totally dysfunctional public education system that has been short-changing children for years and, worse still, none of the politicians has the desire to do anything about it. The presidential candidates, that […]

GONE ARE the days when people loyally supported a party or a political leader for life and beyond. In this presidential election campaign, there have been more desertions and switching of allegiances than all the previous ones put together and the weird thing is there are no real differences in the positions of the candidates. […]