Новости за 01.10.2018

President Anastasiades promised Cypriot citizens that he will never stop working for the country`s progress and prosperity, noting that his vision encompasses the entire sovereign state of the Republic of Cyprus, through reaching a solution of the Cyprus problem. In a televised address to mark the 58th anniversary of the Independence of Cyprus, President Anastasiades […]

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday touted the newly reached trade deal with Canada and Mexico that will replace NAFTA as a massive job engine, creating positions across the manufacturing, agriculture, technology and financial services sectors. “These measures will support many – hundreds of thousands – American jobs,” he said at a news conference at […]

“We have a very clear set of rules in the European economic governance”, stressed Cyprus Minister of Finance Harris Georgiades, called by CNA to comment on the deviation of the Italian budget from its structural fiscal target – an issue not on the Eurogroup agenda, but very persistant on the sidelines of today`s meeting in […]

The UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said that the Cyprus issue is “not insoluble” and that a federal solution would be better for all Cypriots than the “unacceptable” status quo. Addressing a ‘Conservative Friends of Cyprus’ fringe event at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham on Sunday evening, Hunt said that the UK has […]

A festival in Limassol this coming weekend will demonstrate how rubbish can be recycled. The Limassol Recycling and Environment Festival, which will take place on Saturday, will give people the chance to visit a number of kiosks where various organisations will give information about all sorts of environmental issues. There will also be a fun […]

Bang. Clang. Clash. Ping ting… The onomatopoeia of contemporary music for the uninformed! Yes, those who haven’t given the genre a fair hearing are often surprised to find its unexpected beauty eminently rewarding. But then contemporary music is merely an extension of the classical genre; at one time, according to the Artistic Director of the […]

UN Secretary General’s Special Representative in Cyprus and Deputy Special Adviser on the Cyprus issue Elizabeth Spehar will be meeting with senior UN officials in New York this week, UN peace keeping force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) Spokesperson Aleem Siddique has told CNA. “The Special Representative and Deputy Special Adviser will be at the UN headquarters […]

French singer Charles Aznavour has died at the age of 94, French media reported on Monday, citing his spokesman. Aznavour, who was born Shahnour Varinag Aznavourian in Paris to Armenian parents, sold more than 100 million records in 80 countries. He was often described as France’s Frank Sinatra. Aznavour began his career peddling his music […]

Cyprus registered, once again, the largest annual decrease in unemployment for August 2018, according to Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. Unemployment in Cyprus dropped from 10.5% in August 2017 to 7.5% (7.0% in males and 7.9% in females) for August 2018 (or from 45 000 to 33 000 individuals), further down form […]

By Preston Wilder First comes the blue-sky wallpaper of a PC running Windows XP, with a glimpse of Norton antivirus (Norton! whatever happened to Norton?), then eventually YouTube and Facebook and iPhones and Google Maps. The opening montage of Searching makes a point often forgotten by middle-aged Luddites (like me) who still divide our lives […]

Internationally acclaimed singer and songwriter Vakia Stavrou will present her new project full of romance and love in Nicosia on Friday. With Stavrou on vocals and guitar, Marios Takoushis on piano and Gabriel Karapatakis on bass, the audience will be taken on a journey through 70 years of songs all about love. Stavrou studied at […]

President Anastasiades has called on the Turkish Cypriots to recognise the rights of all Cypriots, and stressed the need for mutual respect. In a statement after the military parade that took place in Nicosia, to celebrate Cyprus Independence Day, President Anastasiades said that while it is a day to be proud of, at the same […]

Today is a bank holiday so we should take advantage of the fact and have a party, and what better way than to let the woman who got us to second place at the Eurovision Song Contest Eleni Foureira entertain us. Foureira, who was born in Albania but grew-up in Athens, knew that she would […]

Someone’s been reading Stephen Hawking, or at least the opening page of A Brief History of Time – the one with the anecdote about the old lady who believed the world was carried on the back of a giant tortoise, and it was “turtles all the way down”. A riff on that line (only with […]

The Republic of Cyprus celebrates the 58th anniversary since the declaration of its Independence with a military parade in Nicosia. Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades will receive the salute of the parade, in the presence of the country`s political, religious and military leadership. The Greek government will be represented by Minister of National Defence Panos Kammenos, […]

Indonesian authorities scrambled on Monday to get aid and rescue equipment into quake-hit Sulawesi island, and prepared to bury some of the at least 832 dead, while the government said it would accept international help for disaster relief. The confirmed toll of 832 dead looked certain to rise as rescuers slowly reached devastated outlying communities […]

Macedonia’s prime minister pledged on Sunday to press on with a vote in parliament to change the country’s name to resolve a decades-old dispute with Greece, despite failing to secure the 50 percent turnout at a referendum required to make it valid. The proposed name change is part of an agreement reached in June by […]

The most ambitious project for Chlorakas in more than a decade is set to change all that THE creation of a new beach, breakwaters and leisure facilities is earmarked for Chlorakas in Paphos, and at a cost of around €4 million, is being hailed as the most ambitious and important project for the area in […]