Новости за 21.05.2018

  By Estelle Shirbon Survivors of London’s deadly Grenfell Tower fire wept on Monday as they listened to a bereaved father pay tribute to his baby son and heard a recording of another victim making his last phone call from the burning building. Those were among many heartbreaking moments on the first day of oral […]

A Saudi Arabian activist jailed for daring to drive said on Monday she had received fresh death threats after the arrest of fellow campaigners, which she called an “alarming” tactic aimed at silencing dissent in the conservative kingdom. Manal al-Sharif hit world headlines in 2011 when she was jailed for filming a video of herself […]

Ayia Napa may be thought to be the party city on the island, but Limassol always has something up its sleeve to get the party animal in us out and about. This week helping us get our freak on will be Russian singer, songwriter, record producer and actor Timati, on Sunday at Dolce Club. Timati […]

Outspoken Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos claimed on Monday that drones were being used by criminals to smuggle mobile phones and drugs into prison. In what has become a frequent occurrence in recent days, Phedonos took to the media to accuse the authorities of knowingly allowing convicts to use mobile phones to organise criminal acts outside. […]

Police said on Monday they are investigating unnatural death in connection with a labour accident earlier in the month when a 25-year-old woman was killed after shelves fell on her in a storeroom at her workplace in Nicosia. “Concerning the labour accident that caused the death of Odyssea Iacovou, police are investigating unnatural death, while […]

“Dirty” Russian money hidden in British assets and laundered through City of London financial institutions undermines the government’s efforts to take a tougher stance against Moscow’s “aggressive foreign policy”, UK lawmakers said on Monday. Britain’s financial centre has been a big beneficiary of the massive flight of Russian cash since the 1991 fall of the […]

A former Laiki Bank executive on trial for the lender’s collapse in 2013 said on Monday he was not responsible for issues relating to the value of the bank’s goodwill. Panayiotis Kounnis, the bank’s deputy managing director at the time, rejected the proposition that he ought to have weighed in on the matter of the […]

Limassol mayor, Nicos Nicolaides, pledged to ensure a clean sea for his city on Monday, the first day sea patrols were launched to prevent and combat pollution. Sea and land patrols is the new measure Limassol local authorities are taking to avoid recent incidents past when bathers complained of swimming in filthy waters and even […]

Greek authorities are working with their Cypriot counterparts to determine whether an elderly couple are the leaders of an organisation which operated one of the biggest factories of illicit cigarettes busted by police in Mesoyia Attikis on Saturday. The couple, a man aged 82 and his 76-year-old wife, are of Cypriot descent and are so […]

The council of ministers decided on Monday to limit the number of naturalisations of investors to 700 a year, starting this year. The citizenship-by-investment scheme will also be renamed the “Cypriot Investment Scheme”, the Press and Information Office (PIO) said in an announcement after the cabinet meeting. Every application will also be subjected to an […]

A Swedish city is advising girls who fear being taken abroad for forced marriage or female genital mutilation (FGM) to tuck a spoon in their underwear before going through airport security. Airport staff in Gothenburg have been told how to respond in such circumstances, said Katarina Idegard, who is in charge of tackling honour-based violence […]

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of Stelios Philanthropic Foundation, easyJet and easy family of brands on Monday announced the launch of the Stelios Bi-Communal Awards 2018, to be held for the 10th consecutive year in Cyprus. The objective is to strengthen the socio-economic ties between the two communities on the island and to encourage cooperation between […]

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has officially applied for Zimbabwe to re-join the Commonwealth it left in 2003 and has invited the grouping of former British colonies to send observers to its general elections set for July. The southern African nation formally quit the Commonwealth after then leader Robert Mugabe, who had ruled Zimbabwe from its independence […]

The House finance committee on Monday said it would for the time being sit on a bill proposing that mortgages granted prior to passage of the foreclosures law on September 9, 2014 be exempted from foreclosure proceedings. The legislative proposal was tabled by independent MP Anna Theologou. It is co-sponsored by Edek’s Marinos Sizopoulos and […]

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday threatened to impose the “strongest sanctions in history” against Iran if the country’s leadership did not change the course of its foreign and domestic policy. Weeks after the United States pulled out of an international nuclear deal with Iran, Pompeo spelled out a hardline approach towards the […]

Four applications from transgender people who want to change their identification papers because of a sex change have been pending before the interior ministry since last November as Cyprus lacks the necessary legislation to make that possible, MPs heard on Monday. House human rights committee chairwoman Stella Kyriakidou said it was an important issue relating […]

Liverpool’s German international midfielder Emre Can, who has missed the past two months with injury, returned to training ahead of Saturday’s Champions League final against Real Madrid. Can trained with the Liverpool squad on Monday and his return to fitness is a boost for Klopp whose midfield options have been restricted by injury to Alex […]

Sunday night will be set for music in Paphos when the Charalambous Trio will be joined by guitar duet Polis Charalambous and Andreas Savva to raise funds for the Cancer Patients Support Group. The musicians will perform pieces by JS Bach, LV Beethoven, L Mozart, D Scarlatti, A Corelli and more, plus the famous piece […]

Venezuela’s socialist President Nicolas Maduro faced international condemnation on Monday after his re-election in a vote foes denounced as a farce that cemented autocracy in the crisis-stricken oil-producing nation. Maduro, 55, hailed his win in Sunday’s vote as a victory against “imperialism,” but his main rival alleged irregularities and refused to recognize the result. Venezuela’s […]

Spain coach Julen Lopetegui named his 23-man World Cup squad on Monday with a rich blend of youth and experience, as well as some high-profile absentees. Chelsea striker Alvaro Morata was left out after a disappointing season in England, as was his team-mate Marcos Alonso, with Arsenal’s Nacho Monreal picked as back-up for left back […]

Germany’s Angela Merkel faces a delicate diplomatic balancing act when she travels to China this week on a visit clouded by U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade threats and his decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal. Germany and China, two exporting nations that run large trade surpluses with the United States, have found […]

More than 61 per cent of Nicosians believe their city is clean, according to a Eurostat report published on Monday. The results place Nicosia just ahead of Amsterdam and behind Warsaw. Residents from 109 European capitals and other cities were asked how satisfied they were with the cleanliness in their hometown. Among these, Ventspils in […]

Cans For Kids on Monday donated medical equipment worth over €13,000 to the children’s ward at Makarios hospital in memory of the charity’s long-standing president, the late Olga Demetriades. Present president Evie Lanitis thanked the Demetriades family for their generosity in nominating the association as the beneficiary of donations made at Olga Demetriades’ funeral as […]

As part of the campaign ‘Xamogelase’ (Smile) against bullying, Hellenic Bank and ‘Hope For Children’ CRC Policy Centre have joined forces to sensitise the local community over dealing with violence and bullying at schools. The programme ‘Peer Support Groups’ has started expanding in more schools, due to Hellenic Bank’s sponsorship. During this period, the programme […]

Spain acted to maintain direct rule on Catalonia on Monday after the government objected to the choice of councillors by fervent separatist leader Quim Torra who has vowed to recreate the administration fired by Madrid for declaring independence. Madrid and Barcelona are engaged in a stand-off after regional elections called by the government in December […]