Новости за 02.03.2018

By Scott Malone Seawater poured onto coastal streets in Boston where businesses were surrounded with flood barriers and sandbags, and waves pounded homes along Massachusetts’s shore as a storm packing heavy winds hit the U.S. East Coast from Maine to Virginia. Almost 1.7 million homes and businesses were without power in the Northeast and Midwest, […]

By Jeff Mason and Greg Lacour   U.S. evangelist Billy Graham, who preached to millions and counseled presidents in his 70-year career, was remembered as a man who loved his family and the Bible at a funeral on Friday attended by President Donald Trump in Graham’s native North Carolina. The service at his religious center […]

By Caroline Valetkevitch The Dow and S&P 500 fell on Friday and were on track for weekly losses as investor anxiety built over a possible global trade war following President Donald Trump’s threat to impose import tariffs on steel and aluminum. Europe has drawn up a list of U.S. products from bourbon to Harley Davidson […]

By Lucy Fielder When actor and director Asia Argento accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, she helped inspire the #MeToo movement. But in her native Italy, Argento met with considerable scorn. “They were doing every day, on TV shows, kind of discussing whether I was raped or not, people I didn’t know,” she told Reuters […]

Police said on Friday they were searching for the whereabouts of a 24-year-old woman from Somalia and her two children, who were reported missing from their Nicosia home since Tuesday. The woman was named as  Warda Hassan Waaberi who was with her six-year-old son and three-year-old daughter at the time they disappeared. The 24-year-old is […]

A 24-year-old Cypriot woman is earning thousands of euros by selling her breast milk to men online who want to build their muscles, it was reported on Friday. Rafaela Lamprou, 24, who gave birth to her second child seven months ago, found herself producing excess milk that she had no room to store, so she […]

What does it take to make a good story? It used to be a great imagination, a compelling narrative, fascinating characters and plot twists along with a few cliff-hangers. Pictures were once part of the story but now the visual side of things has taken over. This is why the fourth annual Graphic Stories Cyprus […]

A towboat that set off from a Cypriot port en route to Spain was stopped by Greek authorities off the island of Crete after a tip off that it was carrying explosives it was reported on Friday. According to media reports, the vessel, that set off from Larnaca and was heading to the Spanish port […]

By Staff Reporter Whatever the Turkish side says about hydrocarbons exploration is overridden by the convergences already reached on the issue during negotiations, government spokesman Prodromos Prodromou on Friday. He said it had been agreed during previous talks that the exploitation of natural resources would be the responsibility of a federal state in reunited Cyprus. […]

MPs on gave Friday the transport ministry two weeks to make the necessary arrangements to avoid the clash between penalties provided in local government regulations and the bill regulating bicycles or they will press ahead and table the bill to the plenum for a vote. The House transport committee, which discussed the bill on Friday, […]

As of Monday, saloon cars will be banned during the daytime from a mountain road in the north where serious accidents happen regularly, it was announced on Friday. According to the ‘official gazette’ of the breakaway regime in the north, as per a ‘cabinet’ decision, from Monday, vehicles carrying less than nine passengers will be […]

A two-hour stoppage by Limassol port workers scheduled on Monday has been cancelled, trade unions said on Friday after procedures were set in motion to satisfy the workers’ safety concerns. Port workers at Limassol had announced a two-hour work for Monday over safety concerns after an accident last week in which one of their colleagues […]

Larnaca-based Cobalt Air became a member of the International Air Transport Association (Iata) on Friday. At a ceremony held at Larnaca airport, Andrew Madar, executive director of the airline received the relevant certificate from Iata’s director of public relations Nicholas Bousiotis. “It is an honour for us to become a member of IATA. We were […]

Every runner, including the world’s fastest man this year, was disqualified in a bizarre 400 metres heat that made athletics history on the second day of the world indoor championships in Birmingham on Friday. Bralon Taplin was among the casualties after appearing to qualify for the semi-finals later on Friday by winning the third heat comfortably in […]

By Stelios Orphanides Government spokesman Prodromos Prodromou said that the ongoing improvement in economic conditions in Cyprus has allowed the jobless rate to drop below the psychological number of 10 per cent bringing full employment within reach. “The continuous increase in employment and the subsequent reduction of unemployment shows that the Cypriot economy’s growth is not circumstantial […]

A man who admitted to causing the death of Nicholas Dimopoulos, 50, last year by driving recklessly while he was drunk was sentenced to a year in prison by the Larnaca district court on Friday. The fatal crash happened late on March 11, 2017 on the Mosfiloti to Psevda road, when Nicholas Soufta, 35, who […]

Prime Minister Theresa May urged the European Union on Friday to show more flexibility in talks on a future relationship, saying Britain was ready to swallow the “hard facts” of Brexit but did not believe they prevented a successful trade deal. In a much-anticipated speech, May mixed a gentler tone, jettisoning an earlier strident tone thatBritain would walk […]

Ivan Savvidi, a Russian businessman of Greek descent, is considering investing in Cyprus, including in the area of mass media which he disclosed during a recent visit, Alithia reported on Friday. Savvidi, who according to his personal website is operating in Russia in the area of production and trading of food, beverage, and tobacco products, chairing the […]

Attackers in Burkina Faso’s capital killed seven people and wounded some fifty others in a coordinated assault on the army headquarters and French embassy that a French ambassador said was a terrorist attack. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which is the third major assault on Ouagadougou in just over two years. Previous […]

Former Diko chairman Marios Garoyian accused the current chairman, Nicolas Papadopoulos, of winning the leadership by rigging the vote during the party’s electoral congress in December 2013. Garoyian, who was ousted from the party immediately after last month’s presidential poll in which Papadopoulos failed to make the runoff, said there had been “widespread vote rigging […]

The world-famous film studio – which was co-founded by disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein – looked set to file for bankruptcy earlier this week, but an organisation headed by Maria Contreras-Sweet and billionaire Ron Burkle have struck a deal to purchase the company’s assets. Maria – a former US Small Business Administration head – said […]

Armenia‘s parliament chose Armen Sarkissian as the country’s new president on Friday in a vote that is meant to herald the start of a power shift to the country’s prime minister and parliament. Sarkissian, 64, a former prime minister who once served as the country’s ambassador to Britain, was elected to serve a seven-year term. […]

At least three aid workers have been killed in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Rann during an attack by militants on a military facility, a United Nations spokeswoman said on Friday. A fourth aid worker may also have been killed and another was feared abducted, the spokeswoman said. A separate UN source said the attack in […]

The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in international and local news – in audio form. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this week: Demonstrators gather at Parliament to protest against illegal building in protected areas and their call for action is echoed […]

Syrian government forces have gained ground from rebels at the edge of the eastern Ghouta region near Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday, in a ground assault that has continued despite a Russian plan for daily ceasefires. The Syrian army and rebel sources could not immediately be reached for comment. Observatory Director Rami […]