Новости за 14.09.2018

By Peter Michael PARENTS’ organisations attempted on Friday to mediate two-month long crisis between teachers and the state, but failed to quell the brewing strike expected to be held by educators on Tuesday and Wednesday next week. The parents’ organisations of higher, primary, and nursery education met with the representatives of the teachers’ unions Poed, […]

Hurricane Florence crashed into the Carolinas on Friday, knocking down trees, swamping streets and causing four deaths before slowing to a pace that will lead to a dayslong deluge for the region. The storm’s first casualties, which included a mother and her baby killed when a tree fell on their brick house in Wilmington, North […]

A mother and infant were killed in Wilmington when a tree fell on their house as Hurricane Florence crashed into North Carolina on Friday, swamping streets with torrential rain and a powerful storm surge. Police said they were the first confirmed deaths directly related to storm, while the child’s father was taken to the hospital. […]

Limassol municipality announced on Friday it was organising welcome events at the port to greet the thousands of cruise ship passengers expected to visit the cosmopolitan resort during the fall. During a press conference at the Municipal Palace, the Mayor of Limassol, Nicos Nicolaides, said that around 13,000 tourists are expected to participate in these […]

By Evie Andreou Proper preparation is imperative before the launch of a new round of settlement talks in order to have a positive outcome, but the Turkish side must also be responsive, Greek Foreign Minister Nicos Kotzias said on Friday. Kotzias was in Cyprus to sign a deal on behalf of Greece with the Bishop […]

Turkey said on Friday it was talking to all parties in the Syrian conflict to prevent a government offensive on Idlib ahead of talks between Russian and Turkish leaders, who support rival sides in the looming battle for the rebel-held region. Ankara failed last week to win agreement for a ceasefire from Russia and Iran, […]

By Bejay Browne The father of a baby that underwent a life-saving operation in Israel in 2013 after the minister of health stepped in, is still being held at Menoyia detention centre in Nicosia, almost two months since his arrest at Paphos immigration in July. John (Sanjeev) Dhull, 36, visited immigration at their request to […]

Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinians and wounded at least 30 others taking part on Friday in weekly protests at the fortified Gaza Strip border, Palestinian medical officials said. The Israeli military said it used force necessary to prevent border breaches by some 12,000 Palestinians who massed at several points near the fence, some of them […]

A story about parents who do not have enough food to feed their family so they leave their two children out in the forest to starve doesn’t seem to be the premise for a great bedtime story, and yet parents have been reading it to their children for years. The story, as you may have […]

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola believes owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan’s impact on the club has not just been down to his continued financial support but also smart decision-making in bringing success to the Etihad Stadium. City’s annual report this week showed Sheikh Mansour of the Abu Dhabi ruling family spent more than 1.3 […]

By Evie Andreou Religious leaders, representatives of the government and of 10 other countries, and members of the Jewish community came together in Larnaca this week for the official opening of the Jewish community centre and the ground-breaking for the new Jewish Museum of Cyprus. After the grand opening of the Jewish community centre in […]

By George Psyllides A special audit into the procedures that led to the approval and construction of expensive villas and a hotel in an environmentally sensitive area in Peyia, Paphos, has uncovered a litany of irregularities, according to a report published on Friday. The audit had been requested after a public outcry over the construction […]

The decisions concerning the Cyprus Cooperative Bank (CCB) were difficult for Cyprus but enabled positive developments for the island’s economy, EU Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager said on Friday. Vestager, who is visiting Cyprus, met Finance Minister Harris Georgiades with whom she discussed the developments after the Commission approved the state-aid to facilitate the CCB’s […]

  By Doris Christodoulou The Cycling Promotion Council an advisory body to the ministry of transport, and the Environment Commissioner Ioanna Panayiotou, are organising an information campaign on bicycle use. The campaign entitled ‘Move Smart’ aims to inform both cyclists and drivers about the new regulations on cycling laws which will come into effect on October […]

Authorities in the north are trying to verify the identity of four men they arrested last month who are believed to be among the suspects involved in the assassination in Limassol last February of 47-year-old Ernesto Leonides, it was reported on Friday. The four men – who look like some of the men suspected of […]

By Evie Andreou Former president Demetris Christofias entered the fray over the early release of paedophiles from prison on presidential pardons, denying that he had granted any as Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou had said the previous day. Christofias accused the Nicos Anastasiades administration of turning cheap propaganda into a science and seeking to put the […]

Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort will cooperate with the federal investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, prosecutors said on Friday, a dramatic turnaround that deals the U.S. president a political setback. After months of refusing to assist Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry into Russian interference and possible coordination between Trump campaign […]

US President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has agreed to plead guilty to two criminal counts as part of a deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, according to federal court documents released on Friday. Manafort will plead guilty to one count of conspiracy against the United States and one count of conspiracy to […]

Real Madrid and Barcelona’s flying starts to the La Liga season will be put to the test on Saturday when they both travel to the Basque country. Real play Athletic Bilbao while Barcelona visit Real Sociedad in fixtures that have often proved to be among their hardest away trips over the last decade. Real were […]

The overwhelming majority of employees in Cyprus manage to reconcile work and family life without adapting their working conditions, figures released by the Statistical Service for the period between April and June 2018, showed on Friday. The figures reveal that 67.8 per cent do not encounter any obstacles in reconciling work and family life, whereas 94.8 […]

Salvini, who heads the League party, has led a popular crackdown against immigration since Italy’s coalition government took office in June. He was speaking at a closed-door session of a conference on migration and security hosted by Austria, which holds the rotating European Union presidency. “I heard someone say we need immigration because the population […]

By Stelios Orphanides The chairwoman of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) Daniele Nouy will not testify at the committee probing the failure of the state-owned Cyprus Cooperative Bank and is instead ready to reply in writing to a questionnaire, the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) reported on Friday. The committee, appointed by Attorney-general […]

Britain’s opposition Labour Party is set to vote against any Brexit deal reached by Prime Minister Theresa May and the lack of a viable exit from the European Union will force May from office before Christmas, a senior Labour lawmaker told the Financial Times. The United Kingdom is due to leave the European Union on March 29 and yet […]

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: Road tax may rise after a public consultation on new measures that take environmental factors into account; Author Dimis […]

Thousands of British prison officers walked out of their jobs on Friday, gathering outside jails to protest against what their union called unprecedented levels of violence and the failure of the government to make prisons safe. The government called on them to return to work, describing the protest as unlawful and the Prisons Officers’ Association […]