Новости за 24.09.2018

By Jessica Resnick-Ault Global Benchmark Brent crude jumped more than three percent on Monday to a four-year high above $80 a barrel after Saudi Arabia and Russia ruled out any immediate increase in production despite calls by U.S. President Donald Trump for action to raise global supply. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and […]

Despite the recent surge in Greek Cypriot and Turkish visitors to northern Cyprus, fewer foreign tourists are choosing the north as a holiday destination, Turkish Cypriot daily Halkin Sesi reported on Monday. Turkish Cypriot ‘minister of tourism’, Fikri Ataoglu, claimed that the reason behind the declining numbers of foreign tourists coming is that they do […]

Real Madrid’s Croatia midfielder Luka Modric was named Best Fifa Men’s Player of the Year for 2018 at an awards ceremony on Monday. Modric won the Champions League with Real and then played a major role in Croatia’s run to the World Cup final where they were beaten by France.

Denis Edward Scott, a 93-year-old British World War II veteran who lives permanently in Cyprus was appointed as a chevalier or knight of the Legion of Honour by France’s ambassador to Cyprus, Rene Troccaz, in recognition of his service on French soil during the war. The ceremony took place on board the French frigate Auvergne […]

By Catarina Demony Archaeologists searching Portugal’s coast have found a 400-year-old shipwreck believed to have sunk near Lisbon after returning from India laden with spices, specialists said on Monday. “From a heritage perspective, this is the discovery of the decade,” project director Jorge Freire said. “In Portugal, this is the most important find of all […]

By Nerijus Adomaitis and Maria Tsvetkova Russia’s foreign ministry summoned Norway’s ambassador on Monday to protest against the arrest of a Russian citizen in Oslo on suspicion of spying while Norwegian authorities sealed off what was described as a “compromised room” in parliament. The Russian, identified as M.A.Bochkaryov, was detained on Friday at Oslo’s airport […]

The head of primary teaching union Poed, Phylios Phylactou warned on Monday that “tragic” consequences would follow after a ruling by the personal data commissioner that the education minister would be reprimanded by her office for sending emails to the personal accounts of teachers earlier in the month. Phylactou wrote on his Facebook profile that […]

Local band The Crew-Vintage Cover Trio recently celebrated two years since their debut on the local music scene. Continuing the celebrations the boys will perform at the Aphrodite Hills Resort Beer Garden in Paphos for two nights this week. The trio – Alexandros Tsangarides on piano and vocals, Christodoulos Dimitriou on double bass and Alex […]

Brexit minister Dominic Raab said on Monday that Britain would not flinch in an impasse with the European Union after European leaders rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans for leaving the bloc last week. Raab was speaking to the BBC after a cabinet meeting as May battled to save Brexit blueprint. “We had a good […]

Teacher unions on Monday evening requested a meeting with the three-member ministerial committee on education to explain their decisions on whether to accept any of three recent proposals seeking to end the crisis in public education. The three main teacher unions, primary education’s Poed and secondary education’s Oelmek and Oltek, have had three proposals before […]

The Nicosia criminal court on Monday dismissed all of the defence’s latest objections to the submission of certain evidentiary material in the Focus corruption case, allowing the start-stop trial to move forward again. The court rejected one by one a series of objections raised by one of the defendants, Marfin Investment Group, who had argued […]

Scientists have succeeded in wiping out a population of caged mosquitoes in laboratory experiments using a type of genetic engineering known as a gene drive, which spread a modification blocking female reproduction. The researchers, whose work was published on Monday in the journal Nature Biotechnology, managed to eliminate the population in less than 11 generations, […]

Very rarely do we get to be a tourist in our own country. This is why the Nicosia Tourism Board’s celebration for World Tourism Day aims for people in the capital to get to know the place they live in better with a series of activities in the city. On Saturday, discover the capital as […]

On orders from the attorney-general, prosecutors on Monday stayed proceedings in a case involving a plot to murder local gangland figure Alexis Mavromichalis or Alexoui. The court ordered a stay of prosecution against three Serb nationals, suspected of conspiring to murder Mavromichalis in 2016. Two of the men – believed to have been the hired […]

Rod Rosenstein has not resigned and is still serving as U.S. deputy attorney general, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday. Rosenstein had a previously scheduled meeting at the White House at noon on Monday, according to a person familiar with the matter. He is still the deputy attorney general and he […]

Cyprus Casinos “C2”, the first licensed casino in the Republic of Cyprus, will host two events this week to celebrate its official opening, it was announced on Monday. “While the two-day festivities will serve as the ceremonial grand opening, the events are more of a celebration of the past three months and the C2 way […]

A recently proposed bill allowing the mandatory informing of a victim prior to the release from prison of the perpetrator found little support at the House of Representatives on Monday. The House human rights committee convened to discuss the bill proposed by Greens MP Giorgos Perdikis, which seeks to make obligatory by law the informing […]

Italy’s  government on Monday escalated its clampdown on irregular immigration with a decree aimed at slashing the number of people awarded asylum and doubling the time irregular migrants can be detained. The legislation promoted by Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who leads the League party, comes as the minister refuses to allow charity ships carrying rescued […]

British residents of Pissouri village whose homes haves been destroyed by disastrous land slippage will feature on the BBC’s ‘Inside Out South’ programme on Monday evening. Retirees Kayt and her husband Peter Field, a former army colonel, contacted the BBC in desperation after six years years of toing and froing, bounced between the government and […]

British residents of Pissouri village whose homes haves been destroyed by disastrous land slippage will feature on the BBC’s ‘Inside Out South’ programme on Monday evening. Retirees Kayt and her husband Peter Field, a former army colonel, contacted the BBC in desperation after six years years of toing and froing, bounced between the government and […]

Large companies would be forced to transfer as much as 10 per cent of their shares to their workers under plans set out by Britain’s opposition Labour Party on Monday. Labour, which under socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn has shifted from a centrist pro-business platform to a more interventionist left-wing pitch, is using its annual conference […]

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lovfen is on course to lose power in a confidence vote in parliament on Tuesday, with no clear indication who would replace him after an inconclusive election that saw a surge for the far right. Voters delivered a hung parliament in the Sept 9 election, with Social Democrat Lofven’s centre-left bloc […]

The embassy of Egypt in Nicosia is coordinating with the Cyprus foreign ministry over the arrest of five Egyptian fishermen last Friday who are being detained in the north, ambassador Mai Taha Khalil said on Monday. The five-member crew of a Greek Cypriot fishing vessel were arrested last Friday while fishing some seven nautical miles […]

Prosecutors on Monday dropped charges including conspiracy to murder against a group of men, including two Serbs who were extradited to Cyprus, following orders from the attorney-general. Sources at the court said the case collapsed due to the unwillingness of witnesses to testify in the case which centred on contracts to kill Alexis Mavromichalis, alias […]

Liverpool made it six wins out of six and with Chelsea held to a draw at West Ham United, moved two points clear at the top. Manchester City, who romped to a 5-0 win at Cardiff, are level with Chelsea on 16 points. Manchester United were held to a 1-1 draw by promoted Wolves at […]