Новости за 22.07.2018

Lewis Hamilton went from 14th to first to seize a “miracle” German Grand Prix victory for Mercedes on Sunday and retake the Formula One championship lead from Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel, who crashed. Vettel, now 17 points behind the Briton after starting eight ahead, led from pole position until rain caused chaos in the closing laps, […]

By Charles Ellinas Another year, another drought, reservoirs less than a quarter full, water being rationed. This is not a one off. Due to climate change it is a process that has become quite frequent around the East Med and in Cyprus. The recent climate change conference organised by the Cyprus Institute in Nicosia in […]

By Farid Mirbagheri Recep Tayyip Erdogan won last month’s Turkish presidential elections whereby he secured his place at the helm in his country’s politics for another five years at least. His Justice and Development party, AKP, also managed to triumph in the country’s parliamentary elections, held on the same day, with nearly 43 per cent […]

Finance ministers and central bankers from the world’s largest economies meeting in Argentina said heightened trade and geopolitical tensions pose an increased risk to global growth and have called for greater dialogue, according to a draft communique from the meeting. The draft reviewed by Reuters, which is still subject to possible revisions, also noted that […]

A fire that broke out at around 1pm on Sunday in Paphos between the villages of Kallepia, Letymbou, Houlou and Lemona, was brought under control shortly after 5.30pm, the fire service said. It said personnel would remain in the area to monitor the situation in case the fire re-ignited. The fire and forestry departments worked […]

A fire broke out at around 1pm on Sunday in Paphos between the villages of Kallepia, Letymbou, Houlou and Lemona, the fire service said. The fire and forestry departments are working to extinguish the blaze but by later afternoon it had burned five hectares of dry grass, trees and vines. Firefighters were being hampered by […]

By Costas Apostolides With the imminent arrival of Jane Holl Lute, the UN secretary-general’s envoy, all those active in furthering the peace settlement should get involved, including civil society. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his latest report on Cyprus to the UN Security Council last month stressed the importance of including civil society in the process. […]

If you’re a woman born on June 12, 1951, Australian university researcher professor Linda Gilmore would like to hear from you. What started as the idea for a book – to gather a small group of women all born on her birthdate and write about their contrasting life experiences – quickly turned into a unique […]

By Gavin Jones One Monday morning recently, my wife had gone to the hairdresser’s and parked the car in front of the shop. As this area is a municipal car park, there’s a ticket machine nearby and being a law-abiding soul, she tried to purchase a ticket. However, the machine was out of order, so she left the car where […]

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake hit western Iran on Sunday, injuring at least 128 people, hours after two quakes struck Hormozgan province in the south, state television reported. Houshang Bazvand, governor of the western province of Kermanshah, said that most of the 128 who received treatment did not require hospitalisation, the television station added. State media […]

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake hit western Iran on Sunday, injuring at least 25 people, hours after two quakes struck Hormozgan province in the south, state television reported. “Up to now we have had reports of 25 injured and fortunately no fatalities,” Houshang Bazvand, governor of the western province of Kermanshah, told the TV station, adding […]

Education Minister, Costas Hambiaouris said on Sunday he believed teachers’ unions would show up at a meeting planned for Tuesday to discuss a dispute over streamlining schools that includes teaching hours. The minister was responding to reports that the union representatives would not show up. Teachers oppose plans to stop the practice of reducing the […]

Education Minister, Costas Hambiaouris said on Sunday he believed teachers’ unions would show up at a meeting planned for Tuesday to discuss a dispute over streamlining schools that includes teaching hours. The minister was responding to reports that the union representatives would not show up. Teachers oppose plans to stop the practice of reducing the […]

Typhoon Ampil hit Chinese financial hub Shanghai around midday on Sunday, bringing heavy rainfall and disrupting transport and shipping. More than 600 flights from the city’s two airports were cancelled and high-speed rail services also impacted, said state broadcaster CCTV. The typhoon first hit the island of Chongming, 45 km (28 miles) east of the […]

Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans to leave the European Union are overwhelmingly opposed by the British public and more than a third of voters would support a new right-wing political party committed to quitting the bloc, according to a new poll. May’s political vulnerability was exposed by the survey which found voters would prefer Boris […]

Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans to leave the European Union are overwhelmingly opposed by the British public and more than a third of voters would support a new right-wing political party committed to quitting the bloc, according to a new poll. May’s political vulnerability was exposed by the survey which found voters would prefer Boris […]

Cyprus is taking all necessary measures to ensure that US energy giant, ExxonMobil’s exploratory programme in the island’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) proceeds smoothly, Energy Minister Yiorgos Lakkotrypis said on Sunday. He also reiterated that developments on the Cyprus problem should not affect the country’s energy programme. ExxonMobil, which along with Qatar Petroleum has been awarded […]

By Stelios Orphanides Foreign investors applying for a Cypriot ‘golden visa’ may be exposed to malpractice and fraud if the government decides to grant companies or individuals selling investments the right to operate as licensed advisors, a stakeholder said this week. “This is like allowing the producers of medicines to act as doctors as well,” […]

A Pakistani candidate from the party of prime ministerial hopeful and former cricket star Imran Khan was killed in a suicide attack that wounded four others, a police official said, just days ahead of Wednesday’s general elections. The attack in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa follows a spate of bombings at political rallies before […]

Japanese state minister for foreign affairs Kazuyuki Nakane will be in Cyprus o Monday on an official visit during which he will meet his Cypriot counterpart Nicos Christodoulides. At the meeting, which will take place at 5pm at the foreign ministry, the two are expected to discuss, among other things, bilateral relations and ways of strengthening […]

By Antonis Loizou F.R.I.C.S. – Antonis Loizou & Associates Ltd – Real Estate Valuers & Estate Agents We wonder whether there are people in this country who are trying to destroy Cyprus’ ailing economy just as it starts to recover. To this we must consider the dangerous path that this government is following with various […]

Russia’s military said it had shot down two unidentified drones that attacked its Syrian air base at Hmeimim on Saturday and Sunday, Russian agencies reported. The attacks caused no casualties or damage and the Hmeimim air base is operating as normal, Interfax said

Israel’s LGBT community launched a one-day strike on Sunday, blocking a main thoroughfare in Tel Aviv, in protest over the exclusion of gay men from surrogacy legislation passed last week. Demonstrators held protests in Israeli cities, including a rally near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem. Single women and women unable to become pregnant […]

Between Friday and Sunday morning police booked 1,117 people for various traffic offences they said. This included 117 bookings for driving under the influence of alcohol and 362 cases of speeding. Late Saturday in Ayia Napa, while signalling a biker to pull over for a check, police said he tried avoid the stop by attempting to […]

By George Coucounis A competent town planning authority may impose certain terms on a town planning permit issued, such as the granting of part of the land to be developed in order to be registered as a public road and the owner in such a case is obliged to comply. Otherwise, the competent authority may […]