Новости за 21.12.2017

You’re on the web, you’re in the cloud. But don’t neglect good old-fashioned paper. That’s the advice from internet pioneer Vint Cerf, who is afraid that all our digital memories could be lost as technology moves on. “People say: ‘What should I do about my photographs?’ The ones you really care about? Find some really […]

Results from Cyprus championship games on Thursday night: Nea Salamina 0 – 1 Doxa Aris 0 – 0 Alki Oroklini Ermis 0 – 6 Apollon Omonia 3 – 0 Pafos FC

The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on 13 “serious human rights abusers and corrupt actors” including Myanmar general Maung Maung Soe, who oversaw this year’s brutal crackdown against the Rohingya Muslim minority. The US government, applying penalties for the first time under a law passed last year, also targeted 39 other individuals and entities with sanctions […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May is paying a flash visit to Cyprus on Friday, reports said. May will be visiting the Sovereign Base Areas for a Christmas meet-and-greet with personnel. According to government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides, the British Prime Minister will not have any contacts with Cypriot officials during her brief stay.  

Pro-independence parties in Spain’s economic powerhouse Catalonia were seen in a position to keep their absolute majority of seats in regional elections on Thursday based on an exit poll. No official results have yet been published and it was unclear if final results would match the poll, published by La Vanguardia newspaper as polling stations […]

Pro-independence parties in Catalonia are seen in a position to keep their absolute majority of seats in regional elections on Thursday, according to an exit poll published by La Vanguardia newspaper as polling stations closed. The separatist parties were seen getting 67-71 seats in the 135-seat assembly, the poll showed. No official results have yet […]

The state-owned Cyprus Cooperative Bank is increasing its efforts to reduce its delinquent loan portfolio and so maximise the potential inflow from the capital increase scheduled next year as investors maintain a wait-and-see stance, two sources said. “Our official goal is to raise €200m but we will aim for €300m,” a co-op source familiar with […]

More than 220,000 women were sexually harassed on public transport in France over two years, the national crime statistics agency said in its first report on the subject, describing it as a “conservative estimate”. The Harvey Weinstein scandal in the United States has accelerated a rethink of attitudes toward sexual harassment in France, a country […]

More than 100 countries defied President Donald Trump on Thursday and voted in favour of a United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for the United States to drop its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Trump had threatened to cut off financial aid to countries that voted in favour. A total of 128 countries backed the resolution, nine […]

Turkish Cypriot and Turkish coast guard boats rescued 43 migrants, including children, off the coast of north Cyprus on 18 December after their vessel broke down. The incident was only reported in the Turkish Cypriot press on Thursday. Turkey’s Mersin governor’s office said the Turkish Cypriot coast guard teams got information on a boat experiencing […]

The European Capital of Culture Pafos2017 will take a bow on December 30, after a year of wowing the whole of Europe with its line-up of cultural events. We saw musicians from different cultures and traditions come together in the name of art, we saw artists from different backgrounds give us their insight into contemporary […]

Voting at polling stations on January 28 will take place from 7am to 6pm, with a one-hour break from noon to 1pm, the Elections Commissioner has announced ahead of the presidential elections. Officers at polling stations may at their discretion extend voting hours to 9pm if a large number of people are still gathered waiting […]

Mothballed politician Nicos Katsourides may soon be fully reinstated into Akel, in a move that is hoped will give the party’s candidate a crucial boost ahead of January’s presidential elections. Reports say Katsourides, a veteran Akel cadre who was expelled from Akel’s collective organs in May 2015, has been in talks with his party over […]

The UN war crimes court that prosecuted atrocities committed during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, and put former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic on trial, closed its doors on Thursday after two decades. “Today it’s common for the UN Security Council to call for perpetrators of the worst crimes be held responsible. …. Accountability […]

The state health services urged members of the public to consult the updated list of products that were recalled by the French dairy giant Lactalis as a precaution after salmonella bacteria were detected in some of the brand’s products in France. Authorities are already doing checks to investigate whether more of these products are in […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May gave Poland a rare dose of big power support on Thursday by saying that its constitution was its own affair, a sharply different tone to that of the European Union which has scolded Warsaw over judicial reforms. The EU executive launched an unprecedented action against Poland on Wednesday, calling on […]

Α 52-year-old telecoms worker was killed on Thursday after he fell from a pole he had been working on in the Kampos area of the British base of Akrotiri. Demetris Demetriou, a technician at CyTA, fell several metres to the ground under circumstances that are being investigated. Bases medics scrambled to the scene and Demetriou […]

  Main opposition Akel on Thursday accused President Nicos Anastasiades of driving the health sector to the brink of collapse while boasting about appointing the board which will oversee the operation of public hospitals under the national health scheme (Gesy). Akel MP Giorgos Loukaides said that the cabinet’s appointment on Tuesday of the eight-member board […]

Paul Clement became the sixth Premier League manager sacked this season when bottom club Swansea City ended his one-year tenure on Wednesday but any upswing in results the Swans enjoy will be largely down to luck, according to a leading analyst. The so-called ‘new manager bounce’ often accompanies a club parting ways with a manager […]

A fire in an eight-storey fitness centre in the scenic South Korean city of Jecheon on Thursday killed at least 29 people, most of them as they were taking a sauna, officials said. The blaze began in a car parked on the first floor and spread, one official told Reuters. The local fire station said […]

Turkey told US President Donald Trump on Thursday he could not buy its support in a United Nations vote on Jerusalem, and said the world should teach the United States a “very good lesson” by resisting US pressure. Trump has threatened to cut aid to countries that support a draft UN resolution calling for the […]

  Prosecutors on Thursday filed charges in Nicosia against former senior co-operative bank officials in connection with wrongdoings relating to loans worth around €3.6m. According to the Cyprus News Agency, The charge sheet names seven individuals and two companies, including former co-op boss Erotokritos Chlorakiotis, former Strovolos co-op boss Demetrakis Stavrou, and former co-op development […]

Prosecutors on Thursday filed charges in Nicosia against former senior co-operative bank officials in connection with wrongdoings relating to loans worth around €3.6m. According to the Cyprus News Agency, The charge sheet names seven individuals and two companies, including former co-op boss Erotokritos Chlorakiotis, former Strovolos co-op boss Demetrakis Stavrou, and former co-op development commissioner […]

Turkish police said on Thursday they had rescued thousands of artefacts dating back to Anatolian, Greek and Egyptian civilizations in the largest operation to combat smuggling of ancient treasures in the country’s history. Among the items recovered were a golden queen’s crown with an inscription of the Hellenistic god, Helios, a bust dedicated to Alexander […]

Huddersfield Town defender Mathias Jorgensen has offered to buy every Terriers supporter who makes the trip to Southampton for Saturday’s Premier League game a Christmas drink. The Denmark international, fondly known as Zanka, said in a post on Twitter that his gesture was to thank fans for their “amazing” support throughout the season. “Your support […]