Новости за 17.12.2017

The remains of Victor Emmanuel III, who reigned as Italy’s king through two world wars and died in exile in 1947, were flown back from Egypt on Sunday for reburial at a family mausoleum near Turin. The remains of his wife, Queen Elena, also returned to Italy on Friday for reburial with those of the […]

President Nicos Anastasiades on Sunday opened the first university speech rehabilitation clinic in Cyprus operated by the Limassol-based University of Technology (Tepak). The rehabilitation clinic, Anastasiades said, was a pioneering project as it was the first public clinic of its kind. “The clinic will offer services to the public and, in particular, diagnostic and therapeutic […]

Graham Shackleton,43, was welcomed on Sunday afternoon in Paphos after walking non-stop for around 36 hours from Cape Greco in the Famagusta district, to raise funds for animal welfare. Shackleton, a volunteer at the Rescue and Rehome Cyprus shelter, set off on Saturday morning – at sunset – from Cape Greco along with a friend, on […]

At least 26 people were killed while several residents were missing in an island province in central Philippines after tropical storm Kai-tak brought heavy rains that triggered landslides, local authorities and media said on Sunday. Kai-tak cut power supplies in many areas, forced the cancellation of several flights, stranded more than 15,000 people in various […]

Venezuela has awarded licences to a unit of Russian oil major Rosneft to develop two offshore gas fields, Rosneft said in a statement. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro signed the deal during a visit to Venezuela by Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin, it said. During the visit, Sechin also discussed Rosneft’s cooperation with Venezuelan state energy company […]

Tens of thousands of people, many of them children, serenaded Pope Francis on his 81st birthday on Sunday, as the pontiff appealed for the release of Catholic nuns kidnapped last month in Nigeria. The crowd sang Happy Birthday in Italian as the pontiff appeared at the window of the Apostolic Palace overlooking St. Peter’s Square […]

The head of the Amateur Sports Federation (Koeas), Antonis Drakos, called on Sunday for the slashing of the Cyprus Sports Organisation’s (KOA) operational costs as it absorbed a big chunk of the state funding that could have gone to sports. In his address at the Koeas annual general meeting, Drakos said that the state spending […]

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday that only after all sides realise that a settlement of the Cyprus problem would benefit everyone, there could be prospects for a viable solution. Speaking at a memorial service in Polemidia, in Limassol, Anastasiades called for unity and collective action toward achieving a settlement. He said that contrary to […]

Turkey intends to open an embassy in East Jerusalem, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, days after leading calls at a summit of Muslim leaders for the world to recognise it as the capital of Palestine. It was not clear how he would carry out the move, as Israel controls all of Jerusalem and calls […]

By William James   Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday she would not be derailed from leaving the European Union, laying the groundwork for difficult meetings this week in which she will try to unite a divided cabinet behind her vision for post-Brexit Britain. May was applauded by European Union leaders in Brussels on […]

By Andria Kades Where the ancient ruins of Amathus lie in Limassol, there stems a land dispute over compensation dating back so long that sons have grown up and taken over the fight from their fathers. Some 300 families were affected when the Amathus area was designated an archaeological site in 1964, head of the […]

A trio of U.S. and Japanese astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut blasted off from Kazakhstan on Sunday for a two-day trip to the International Space Station, a NASA TV broadcast showed. Commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos and flight engineers Norishige Kanai of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Scott Tingle of NASA lifted off from the […]

A 57-year-old Russian man died in prison on Saturday, most probably from a heart attack, the Nicosia Central Prisons announced. The man was transferred to the Nicosia general hospital after collapsing in his cell and his death was confirmed by a doctor. The 57-year-old, who was sent to the central prisons last month, was suffering […]

Nicosia and Larnaca taxi drivers announced on Sunday they will stage a two-hour work stoppage on Wednesday outside Larnaca airport. The work stoppage will be between 8.30 am and 10.30 am on Wednesday in protest against “the illegal activities of companies at the Larnaca airport” that affected the cab profession island wide. The taxi drivers’ […]

By Michelle Nichols   The United Nations Security Council is considering a draft resolution that would insist any decisions on the status of Jerusalem have no legal effect and must be rescinded after U.S. President Donald Trump recognized the city as Israel’s capital. The one-page Egyptian-drafted text, which was circulated to the 15-member council on Saturday and […]

 Australian police said on Sunday they had arrested a man accused of working on the black market to sell missile components and coal on behalf of North Korea, the first charges ever brought in Australia over the sale of weapons of mass destruction. The man had been charged with two counts under an act preventing the proliferation […]

Saudi Arabia has high hopes that a campaign of arrests to crack down on corruption will improve its chances of joining the Financial Action Task Force, a global body dedicated to combatting illicit money flows. The kingdom, one of only two G20 nations along with Indonesia which is not a FATF member, has tried for […]

A poll has found that 51 percent of Britons would now keep European Union membership while 41 percent want to leave the bloc, a near reversal of last year’s referendum result. The BMG poll of 1,400 people for The Independent published on the newspaper’s website on Saturday came as Britain moves into a second phase […]

The raging California wildfire powered by fierce winds grew into the third-largest in state history on Saturday as forced evacuations turned neighborhoods into ghost towns and ash fell in some areas like heavy snow. High winds and dry conditions were expected to remain through the weekend to power the so-called Thomas Fire in Southern California. […]

Britain is in the grip of a cold snap, with up to 30 centimetres of snow falling last Sunday alone, and we probably all saw the pictures of drivers struggling with the adverse weather conditions which made many roads treacherous. Although Cypriot motorists rarely have to deal with extensive snow-covered roads, quite a few will […]

A new era started for the Volvo Cars plant in Ghent, Belgium last week as the first customer-bound XC40 small SUV rolled off the production line. The new XC40, for which the company has already received more than 13,000 orders, is Volvo Cars’ first ever small premium SUV. The first customers can expect to take […]

In the Sunday Mail (December 10) yet another letter regarding animal mistreatment took up space in the Letters page. Patricia Radnor Kyriacou commented on the shallow perceptions of journalists with regard to what transpires in interviews when they speak with relevant people in the know about what happens to unfortunate creatures here in Cyprus. She […]

THERE is no country in the world apart from Kyproulla in which workers on annual salaries of 50, 60 and 100 grand, who have free healthcare, are entitled to low interest loans, work until 3pm and receive retirement bonuses of hundreds of thousands of euro go on street protests with money demands. Our basket-case midget […]

Four of the five former members of the Bank of Cyprus top brass who were facing criminal charges for market manipulation, concealing the capital requirements of the bank at an AGM and of misleading shareholders at the same AGM, were cleared on Thursday. The court found the bank’s former CEO Andreas Eliades as well as […]

Rights of man, individual or national, are not gifts to be granted. They are won, typically by blood and violence, on the battlefield or by violent revolution. Magna Carta emerged from the Battle of Hastings. The French Revolution created the Rights of Man. Greeks in 1821-29 and Turks in 1919-22 won independence first with guns […]